Left 4 Dead 2 x Resident Evil 6 has been announced by Capcom and Valve(!). This DLC will be launched with the PC Resident Evil 6 on March 22nd. Basically characters from Left 4 Dead 2 will be added to Resident Evil 6’s online multiplayer, and characters from Resident Evil 6 will be added to Left 4 Dead 2!
Here is the news article from EGMnow with the details:
The upcoming PC edition of Resident Evil 6 will arrive with a splash of Valve in that tall drink of Capcom, the two companies revealed today.
Resident Evil 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 will add Left 4 Dead 2 survivors Coach, Nick, Ellis, and Rochelle to the Resident Evil 6 PC-exclusive mode The Mercenaries No Mercy. Two Left 4 Dead infested, the Witch and a mini-Tank, will also be among the game’s enemies. The crossover content will be free, and available for download April 5.
Sometime this spring, Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 will gain three of Resident Evil 6′s enemies—Lepotitsa, Napad, and Ogroman.
The official Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 cover art for DS featuring White Kyurem and Black Kyurem.
Pokemon White 2 and Pokemon Black 2 will be launched this Fall 2012 and mark the final big-name titles for the regular DS from Nintendo, before the 3DS takes it over completely. And what better way than to send the great lil DS off than with all-new Pokemon RPG adventures, eh?
At the Nintendo Direct June 2012 conference, Nintendo revealed the first English trailer, although its more of a teaser, for Pokemon White Version 2 and Pokemon Black Version 2, which includes some brief gameplay video of the duo in action.
If you play the games on a 3DS, you will gain access to a few new features, namely two corresponding new Apps called “Pokemon Dream Radar”, which allows you to use Augmented Reality to catch Pokemon in your real-world environment, and transfer hard to catch Pokemon into your Pokemon Black 2 or White 2 game…. and Pokedex 3D Pro, which allows you to get detailed information on every known Pokemon and keep track of those you’ve collected.
Pokemon White 2 and Pokemon Black 2 feature a number of new features and additions over the previous versions of the game. They mark the first time Nintendo has released a bonafide sequel to a previous core Pokemon game, although these games are similar to the additional 1-year-later updated versions of previous games such as Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Emerald, and Pokemon Platinum.
The all-new Pokemon looks like this in gameplay.
Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 feature an evolved Unova region that has been covered in a mysterious ice. New Gyms and Gym Leaders have appeared, along with new cities and modified old cities. One of the biggest new changes to Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 are the re-introduction of old and beloved Pokemon, over 300 of them, that are available to catch from the very beginning. Unlike the original Pokemon White and Pokemon Black, which only featured 150 ALL-NEW Pokemon. Returning favorites include Psyduck, Mareep, Metagross and Riolu.
Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 also feature two new playable characters, a new rival, and a mysterious new Pokemon researcher named Achroma. And of course, each version features a new legendary Pokemon, as seen on the covers, called Black Kyurem and White Kyurem.
Skip to 18:00 in this Nintendo Direct June Conference Video to see Nintendo of America President Reggie discuss Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 for DS.
Use the Wii U Controller as a TV Remote! Change channels, change volume, power on and off, etc.!
TV Remote Wii U Controller? YUP. That is not a typo. You can use the Wii U Controller to change your TV’s channels, interact with your cable box, turn the volume to your TV up and down, etc.!
The Wii U will include a Television mode (activated by pressing the “TV” button on the bottom of the Wii U Controller) that allows the Wii U Controller to be programmed to control your TV just like a Universal Remote! All of these features will appear on the Wii U’s touchscreen, with onscreen buttons to press to change the volume, change the channels, turn the TV off, etc.
Very, VERY cool!
This video shows off the new Wii U Universal TV Remote mode at 6:15 into the Nintendo Direct E3 2012 Pre-E3 Conference video.
The Wii U controller now has clickable thumbsticks or control sticks! As revealed in the Nintendo Direct E3 2012 video.
The Wii U Controller has been updated to turn the previously revealed Circle Pads into full-on Thumb Sticks. These control sticks are similar to what every single game system since the PlayStation One has included (or the N64, but the two-stick design started with PS1’s Dual Shock Controller).
Even so, this is definitely welcome news, it means that the Wii U Controller will feel much more comfortable and more like an actual videogame console controller rather than a handheld.
If you are wondering what the difference is, play a game on Wii and use the stick, or on Xbox 360 or PS3, and then play on the 3DS and use the 3DS’ “Circle Pad”. That is what Nintendo was going to include on the Wii U controller instead of standard thumbsticks. Thankfully they changed their minds! Additionally, both sticks can now be pressed-in and clicked, adding two additional buttons to the controller! This is something that the Wii lacked, but the PS3 and Xbox 360 have always had. The PS2 controller was the first to have clickable control sticks. You can also see how Nintendo slightly changed the button layout and made the controller more comfortable overall.
This video shows off the new Wii U Controller Sticks at 5:33 into the Nintendo Direct E3 2012 Pre-E3 Conference video.
The Wii U and 3DS are going full digital download-enabled very soon.
Full game downloads for Wii U and 3DS? Will Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U next-generation system (that will replace the original Wii) this year offer players the ability to simply download full copies of the latest retail releases digitally the day they hit stores?
That looks to be the case, Nintendo has announced. As any multiplatform gamer who owns more than just a Nintendo Wii well-knows, digitally downloading the latest retail releases is becoming more common these days, although having every full game available to download the same day it hits stores is still something of a rarity… and has not been fully integrated into the current-gen of systems completely; outside of the PlayStation Vita (Sony’s next-generation handheld that replaced the PSP, and competitor to the 3DS).
However the Xbox 360 and PS3 do offer a smaller, select number of full retail games that you can download and have offered them for quite some time now. With new digital titles hitting every week.
PC gamers meanwhile have been downloading virtually every game released digitally for years now; pushed in many ways by the online platform Steam (run by game developer Valve). Either way you slice it, full digital distribution is now considered normal (not just with games, also with the movie, book and music industries), and that participation from manufacturers and publishers of making everything (all titles released) available to download digitally on the day the game releases is definitely on the horizon. One would expect that the Xbox 720 and PS4 will surely offer every single game for full digital download.
Since the Wii U is coming out first, it looks like Nintendo (wisely) decided to jump the gun and offer digital downloads as well. In fact, Nintendo announced that it will first head into “full digital distribution” on the Nintendo 3DS with New Super Mario Bros. 2 (releasing this summer, in August) and will continue with an upcoming all-new Brain Age game for 3DS. One assumes other new games and the rest of their upcoming titles will also be available via digital distribution on the 3DS eShop. Of course, this will be more difficult (full digital downloads of retail releases) on the portable 3DS due to the fact that space to save the game files via SD cards is limited, and the files will be large if they are full retail titles.
Of course, all of this begs the obvious question… It is hard to go fully digital if your game system does NOT have a hard drive. Does this little fact mean that the Wii U will FINALLY have a hard drive? You’d think it would have to in this day and age, especially given that hard drives in consoles started with the original Xbox released all the way back in 2001, and continued on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2005 and 2006 (respectively).
So in addition to all upcoming first-party games being available in both digital and physical varieties day-and-date with their release, Nintendo also announced that gamers will be able to buy digital titles at brick-and-mortar retailers like GameStop; at which point they’ll receive a 16-digit download code that gives them access to the game (this essentially allows you to buy a digital game physically, as you can do right now with at videogame retailers for select downloadable titles from Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, WiiWare or Nintendo eShop. Although these games simply come on a card, and don’t come in a box or case or include a paper instruction manual). Other downsides of “going digital” include the fact that you can’t lend your game to friends, and the games will be restricted to only the system you downloaded it on. Nintendo also confirmed that downloading games digitally will not be much cheaper, if any cheaper, than buying games physically (although hopefully Nintendo will realize the savyness of offering games for super cheap in sales like Steam does… but I doubt it).
Either way, the digital revolution is coming soon. Get ready. We’ll find out much more solid details on the Wii U at E3 2012 from June 5-7th.
Here’s an awesome guy with a mega sinful videogame collection behind him (I am coveting) discussing the new Nintendo digital download strategy, one that not many Nintendo fans saw coming… given Nintendo’s outright defiance of fully embracing the Internet age to the degree that other platform manufacturers have… something that seems to be changing. Which is definitely a net-positive.
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