Last Week

Morning folks,

It’s been a while since I’ve really last posted on here but the last few months have been chaos for me. It was coming to the point getting spare time to write out a blog post was becoming impossible. It’s even made it a struggle to get game time in the last few weeks as well. 

Anyway good news I will try harder to at least get one post done each week to keep you folks up to date, plus I really do enjoy talking about games here.

So I’m not sure what to cover in this post or where to start since there has been a ton of new announcements since the last time we spoke. In the end I’ve decided to focus on what my thoughts have been this week concerning my gaming life and go from there.

Of course this week is all about GAMESCON which has pretty much all I’ve been talking about this week with the new announcements. Started off with the Tomb Raider 2 announcement about it being exclusive to the Xbox next holiday season. That really shocked me and I was floored by the news, of course with the wording “holiday exclusive” it was crystal clear that it was a timed exclusive but still shocking. Keep hearing Crystal Dynamics was scared of Uncharted being released so it does make sense to target the Xbox market while Uncharted comes out then do a second release later on for the PlayStation fans.

Also on that day another item was added to my buy list and that was the amazing limited edition Xbox One console in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare theme. I love the three colour scheme with the gold trim and to be honest it doesn’t really look like a Call of Duty theme which is probably why I like it so much. Plus the added bonus of a 1TB hard drive is a must since I found out the day that my Xbox One hard drive is at 41% full. I’ve barely got anything on it and with so many games coming out in the next few months I think I will need the upgrade.

I’ve put the order down anyway and I can decide closer to the date if I need to cancel but right now I want to upgrade. After Tomb Raider and the Xbox One the last thing on my mind this week was the World of Warcraft announcement. Think every fan has been awaiting for the announcement for the release date and finally on Thursday we had it. 13^th November we will see the release of Warlords of Draenor along with the awesome looking cinematic trailer for the expansion.

All through the video I was shouting “you cannot do that”, so many questions to be answers and could we be seeing a full alternate timeline to play around with. Blizzard could go full force with this and bring the Burning Legion into it in the next expansion, messing around with time opens up so much stuff to play with for the future expansions I just cannot wait to see what happens.

Shortly after announcing all this the physical collector’s edition was put up finally after months of waiting, everyone knew it was coming but of course we had to wait. Although we did have to wait nearly a day to confirm that collector’s box matches the rest in the series. Check it out below but I will be picking this up on day of launch.

That’s it for me today folks so have a good one folks,

Iznic

Looking Good

Evening folks,
Currently suffering from Hay fever and a cold so what a way to spend the weekend. Anyway did any of you catch the Star Wars Old Republic stream the other night which was showing off Stronghold footage?

I feel in love with it soon as they started and I cannot believe how big the Nar Shaddaa living space is and that's going to be offered free to people who already subscribed. In fact if you was subscribed before a certain day in May you get five rooms unlocked as well which is awesome.

If you missed the video but do want to know check out the full information page which is linked here. They meant to be archiving the video they did but so far I cannot seem to find anything yet but once I do will put it but for now all the information is on that page I've just linked. At the end of the video they showed off one of the biggest strongholds that is on Tatooine, check out the teaser trailer below.



Cannot wait for the early access in August so i can start playing this, I'm amazed how much this expansion has brought me back to this game. I think its because it reminds me slightly of Star Wars Galaxies but only a little.

Thing I like about MMO's is collecting and crafting so I love the idea of having a base where I can store/display my collections. Shame the customisation is not huge like being able to put things on desks and shelves but they have done an excellent job. I'm looking forward to seeing what else this expansion will bring and there should be another stream this Wednesday, each stream will cover a different topic on the expansion so this should be good.
~Iznic

Star Wars The Old Republic Expansion Preview Today

Just seen on the Star Wars website that starting today they will be doing a weekly stream on Twitch showing off the new strongholds for the upcoming expansion. All the details are below but if you into the game and want to see what you can do with your own places then it looks to be worth a watch. Will be checking out myself since I want to see how the strongholds look in game.

Where: www.twitch.tv/swtor
Time: 8.30pm GMT / 1.30pm PDT - 2nd July 2014
Star Wars Website Announcement: http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20140701

The new expansion is what got me interested back into the game, I loved having my own place in Star Wars Galaxies where I could store all my stuff on display. In fact I had multiple houses and made small museums using the rare loot I found. Really interested to see this stream tonight to see what kind of housing we getting plus how much freedom we have with the decorating. If you want details on the new expansion check out the video below and the official page for it after that.

Star Wars The Old Republic Galactic Strongholds Website

~Iznic

Summer Time

Good morning gamers,
It's been a while since I've done a post and in fact it was before E3 the last time. The words busy cannot describe what's been going on and I won't go into the details but I'm hoping to get back to posting again. There has been a lot of changes since the last time we spoke and I really do not know where to begin with all this.

Biggest changes would probably be the best place to start I guess so let's start with the fact I hit over 160,000 gamer score finally last week. Clocked it without realising thanks to Valiant Hearts which by the way is amazing, graphics style is beautiful and the story gets to you. I'm about half way but I've had a few days off from playing video games since of work and being tired. Anyway back to the gamer score and it has been a long time earned, should have hit this months ago if not a year ago. Still hoping to hit a great score by the end of the year, will it be 200,000? doubt it but that would be awesome on so many scales.

Second biggest thing to happen would have to be me owning a Wii U, yes folks I did buy one in the end and it was just after E3 has well. Mario Kart 8 was calling to me and I did want to get Monster Hunter later on as well, the free game with Mario Kart was a nice bonus. E3 was not that bad either for the Wii U and I did like the look of Zelda and Splattoon, still think there could be more made for the console. But yes it was look appealling but what made me get it in the end was the fact HMV knocked the price down to £130 when I went in. I've seen preowned units going for £190 so that was a bargain and it included Nintendoland as well so yeah bought it straight away. Picked up Mario Kart 8 a day later and got Monster Hunter for free using the promo code.

So am I enjoying it? yes and no, not put that much time on it due to fact the last two weeks have been crazy, think I've clocked two hours on it so far but from what I've played I love it. Mario Kart 8 is awesome and would recommend it to anyone, my girlfriend has taken over it right now and clocked more time on it then me. I love the fact we can put the game onto the pad so we can watch TV still while playing, just makes life so much easier.

So other than those two there has been a few things but I won't cover those in this post today. I will promise to get some more posts done soon, it's just getting the time and not having writers block. Also really want to do some work on the layout and change the blog a bit to make it bit more appealing, so fingers crossed while we in the summer where there is less games coming out I can get all this done.

Until then my readers have a good day and I will catch you later.
~Iznic

What a nightmare

Morning folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts this week with E3 being on at the start I was pretty much glued to the screen watching all the nice trailers being shown. I did plan to write some posts yesterday but then I realised my Xbox One had stopped earning achievements altogether. On Monday I noticed a problem with Tomb Raider and thought it was just the game bugging out. But yesterday I was missing about eight achievements across two different games. So spent the evening/night chatting on twitter with the Xbox support trying to find the problem.

Got to say they was helpful but in the end I found the problem, seemed my achievement app had broken. Everyone thought it was a delay since it can take up to 48 hours for an achievement to pop which shocked me since up to this week it's always been instant for me. I looked into it and there are few cases where people would have 100% requirements listed under the achievement but still unlocked. It would then unlock randomly days after at any point, mine did not have that. The requirement bar did not budge from 50% even though I did the requirements more then once. Anyway I got it working again this morning by doing a full factory reset, pain in the ass since I now have to reinstall everything again. Hopefully I've not lost too much in the ways of progression as well but achievements are working again.

Down side is though I got to re-earn them all again since they did not unlock and that's annoying because I got two luck achievements yesterday in Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare that I had been trying for months for. Argh!! such a pain! oh well hopefully my next matches will turn out great again.

So folks I will be doing some E3 stuff hopefully this afternoon/evening once I've caught on my jobs that I missed yesterday, until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Few days left

Afternoon folks,
I cannot believe we only have about what two maybe three days before it's E3. Time has really flown by this year and I cannot wait to see what exciting announcements will happen this year. But of course it's not all happening Monday, it's the lead up to E3 so there is usually announcements and leaks so I want to get this post in with a few new things that has happened over the last few days.

First up Witcher 3 had it's own conference where you got to see some amazing gameplay and a really nice collectors edition was announced as well. Check out the full conference below...



So what do you think? I never really sat down with the Witcher series in the past but I have heard some really amazing things about them. I think this one I will have to give it a shot and I am tempted for that nice collectors edition, little expensive though is the problem. I just love the amazing artwork on the steelbook and the huge figurine, not sure where it would go though since my shelves are full right now with mostly Assassin's Creed. Still got work out where the new Assassin's Creed figurines will go this year.

Luckily though it's not coming out until 2015 so plenty of time to decided on if I want to get it or not, probably the only time I will say I'm happy about a game coming out next year.

Onto the next game which is Battlefield Hardline which has pretty much been confirmed now, launch trailer was posted up by EA the other day giving a taste of whats to come. They did put in though its coming this October so I was a bit shocked about that, I thought we would not see another Battlefield this year. Anyway check out the trailer below to get an idea of things to come but so far all the rumours about the game is coming true.



Will I get it? not sure right now, it does look like a cool upgraded Payday game but I really want to see more of it before I say I will buy it. Not sure about tagging the Battlefield name to it though? why not just stick with the Hardline title.

That's it for this post and I will try for another post or two tomorrow if I can get the time, if not then it will be on Monday. Until then have fun folks and I will see you all soon.
~Iznic

Sequel Shock

I was not expecting to see this at all but earlier on a online retailer accidentally leaked a new Homefront game. It's one thing that makes me wonder is why the hell do publishers give their upcoming unannounced games information to retailers so early. So they can get the pre-order ready to go live on the minute of announcement? why not send the information has the game gets announced, does a day or two after for pre-orders to start really matter that much?. Save your game getting accidentally leaked all the bloody time, most leaks now are thanks to retailers and their staff. Amazes me really but anyway so yes there was a leak saying Homefront 2 was to be announced at E3.

I played and completed the first game which was just average in my books, gameplay was ok but the story I could not fully get into. Concept was good but there was something that annoyed me about it but not going into the debate about it. Anyway the game was traded in and to be honest I was not going to give the series another look unless something amazing happened.

Well of course THQ is gone and Crytek/Deepsilver are now running the show and got to say the trailer for this one looks amazing.



So Homefront: The Revolution is set four years after and will be open world, information posted up says you can do co-op to work as your own resistance cell to fight back and the world reacts to your actions. If all this is true and is done right it could be amazing! imagine running hit and run missions to weaken certain points. Supply attacks to weaken their bases then going in for the final push. Never thought I be excited to see a sequel to Homefront but I cannot wait for next week to find out more about this game.

What do you think readers? will this be a buy for you or a to watch?
~Iznic

Monday Thoughts

Morning folks,
Time for an update on what I've been up to in the world of gaming and that of course is all Watch_Dogs. Actually that's a lie I did play some Star Wars Old Republic yesterday for a few hours but yes Watch_Dogs took up most of my week. Have I finished the story campaign? no course not! been too distracted with the side missions and collectibles. Yesterday I finally completed Act 1 of the story after completing all the QR codes around the city. I will be working on the story more now that the rest of the collectible stuff cannot be finished without making progress into the story.

Night time drive

So what do I think of the game so far? I love it and give it a solid 9 out of 10 right now. Would I say game of the year? not yet and reason for that is I need to give it more time before giving it my final verdict. The game is stunning and graphics wise very impressive, check out some of my screen shots on this page that I took on the PS4 to see what I mean.

City view

City day

Game story is still too early to say and it's ok right now but I don't know, it's just not gripping me straight away. But then again if you look at Assassin's Creed with the first one, I love the game but it wasn't until mid/end game that I got sucked into the story. I think this will be the same and in fact I look forward to seeing where they take this new IP and hope to see a full series.

Lake view

So far though I'm really enjoying the game and as I said I will come back to it with my final thoughts once the story is completed. I did also pick up the Season Pass as well so I will talk about the content for that as well once I've tried it.

Causing chaos

Other than Watch_Dogs I don't really have much to talk about concerning what I've played since it took most of my week up. I will confirm that I unlocked the May 2014 card back in Hearthstone, I only hit rank 20 this month and did not play as much as I wanted to. Bit gutted about not making any progress since I really want to attempt to work my way up the ladder. I would like to try this month but it could be a interesting month. 

May Unlock

We might actually be seeing the new singleplayer expansion being added. It's listed for summer time release which of course could be July/August as well but we could see it this month. If this happens I can see the arena plays being pushed to the side while I do the raid story. I will be going for rank 20 again since there has been another backing listed for unlocking this month. Check out the very colourful and unique rainbow card, no theme on World of Warcraft this time around.

June Unlock

Think that's it folks for my gaming, I do have some thoughts on upcoming games I want to talk about but I really could do with some lunch so I'm off to cook some Tomato soup.
~Iznic

Pre-E3 Announcements Part Two

Afternoon gamers,
It's time for another update although I will warn you that I am really tired right now, lack of sleep and having to get up early for yesterdays expo (UK Games Expo - Board/Card/Dice Games) has left me needing some sleep. So I thought before I try to do some gaming today that it would be a good idea to do a blog post or two, catch you up with my gaming and of course talk about the latest announcements.

So welcome to the second part of my Pre-E3 Announcements posts, in the first one I talked about Batman Arkham Knight, Farcry 4, Halo 5 and a possible HD collection for the Halo series (post can be found here). To start this post off I thought I would begin with the latest announcement and go with the new Lego Batman 3 game. We all knew there would be a new Lego game this year and possibly be even two but it was a guessing game. I'm still holding out that they will do a Lego Simpsons game which would be my game of the year if they did it (please please please make it!!!) but anyway last week the Lego Batman twitter account started teasing some pictures. Didn't take too long to work out it would be a new Lego Batman game but the real question was what would the story be. Still early days but check out the trailer below and it seems to be we going into space and if you listen careful you can hear the Joker laughing, really thought we would have the Lantern Corp. storyline or something but oh well still going to be great.



Guess we should expect to see more at this E3 which is only a week away now! seriously shocked how fast time does fly. So with Lego out of the way let's talk about the latest leaked game and that's Battlefield Hardline. It's a shame this got leaked because I don't think anyone would had seem this game coming. Hardline is cops vs. robbers with the Battlefield engine, it will have a singleplayer campaign that will act like a TV episode show with cliff hangers at the end of levels. Multiplayer looks intense with bank robbies, hostage rescue and a lot more. This could do really well if it's pulled off right and not just a general standard shooter.

Well this information was from the leaked game play trailer that had been taken down so I cannot link it to let you watch, the trailer was for internal and several months old so it could be all changed by now. Either way if it's done right it will be on my want list this year and hopefully I can rope a few friends in to play. Let's end this post with one more game that was announced a few weeks back and of course that was the new Pokemon games.

Although they technically not really new since it's the remake of Ruby and Sapphire, no game play has been shown just yet though. Going to have to wait until E3 I'm guessing for that along with any information of the game since Nintendo have only shown the cover art and that the release is November 2014 worldwide. I really thought we would be seeing the third instalment for X and Y since every other game set has one, well technically Black/White had a third instalment split but it was still the the third for that series.

So there we have it for this post, two great games lined up for this year and a possible new type of Battlefield from EA this year that could be amazing if it's done right. Could be a great E3 this year!! just hope no more push backs to 2015's with the game launches.
~Iznic

One Day to Go

Morning gamers,
Tomorrow is the big day and we finally get to play Watch_Dogs!! I cannot explain how excited I am to get my hands on it. I will be picking up the DEDSEC edition so expect a unboxing soon after, well that's it I can stop myself from playing the game.

Will be doing my best to try and go for the Platinum trophy but not checked the trophy list yet since I don't want any spoilers. Anyway I will be talking about Watch_Dogs more in the week but now it's going to have to wait. Onto my gaming news I've fully clocked Battleship on the Xbox 360 so that's another 1,000 gamer score to my goal. May has been a really good for month me with Lego Hobbit PS4 Platinum, Lego Movie Xbox One 1,000g, Walking with Dinosaurs PS3 Platinum and South Park Stick of Truth Xbox 360 1,000g. Six games fullly clocked that has to be a new record for me and in fact I'm only just under 800g from hitting 160,000 which was my goal before Watch_Dogs comes out.

Not a bad run to say I nearly hit 4,000g in two weeks so I'm very proud of myself, even more prouder to have some more games completed on my list. Next month is going to be taken up with Watch_Dogs and after that I'm not sure, there are two games coming out next month that I kinda want but thinking I will hold off to save some money (Last of Us Remasted and Sniper Elite 3).

Over the weekend I've been playing Star Wars Old Republic and I've started a new character, got myself a Sith Warrior that's currently about to hit level 8. Loving the story so far with this character and I'm really starting to get back into the game. I have promised myself to give some more time to the MMO scene since I keep waisting my credit for them. Need to make some time for Warcraft todya since I did start levelling up a Horde Shaman. So much to do! got a list a mile long to play and I got plenty of other things to do.

Speaking of things to do I have a couple of blog changes that will be happening over the next few days, some new pages I want to add and few to edit. I will post up a update once they done along with what I've done so keep an eye out for that. On that note I'm going to shoot since I want to get some game time in before I need to rush off. Have a good one folks and don't forget Watch_Dogs tomorrow!!!! woot!!!

~Iznic

Pre-E3 Announcements Part One

Morning folks,
With E3 just around corner it's that time of the year where everyone starts announcing new games, show off trailers and of course good old rumours/leaks. So to catch up I decided to do a post series on everything so far and then I should be caught up (fingers crossed). Going to start off with Ubisoft announcing the Farcry sequel, Farcry 4 of course.

Few of my friends was shocked this got announced before E3 but to me it was a brilliant idea, stops people leaking it just before the event. They confirmed it existed and will be present at the conference with all the details, stops a troll from doing a big leak and trying to get a little fame for leaking a big announcement.

Anyway so yes we have a sequel which I will admit I was shocked to see, did not think there be another Farcry just yet. I still not played the third one yet and I do own it thanks to PlayStation Plus, think it's going to be one of those games I need to make time for this summer. Feel like I'm missing out but I got some time before this one comes out since it's slated for start of next year. There are some rumours about leaked story details etc. but I'm not holding my breath about them, wait until the E3 trailer.

So that's one announcement done so what's next? hmm so much to choose from so how about the new Batman Arkham trailer.



How good does that look? I'm talking a serious Game of the Year contender for 2014. Batmobile gameplay looks amazing and Arkham Knight at the end? badass. This is on the top of my list to buy for day one and I cannot wait to see more at this E3, hopefully some very cool limited editions as well will be shown. Would love a Batmobile figurine this time around oh man that would be amazing.

Right I need to continue on and going to end this part of the series with Halo of course, like Farcry they did a small announcement. The image below was put up confirming the full title Halo 5 Guardians and that the game is slated for Fall 2015.

If you remember my old posts I did say I was worried that a lot of the announcements would be for 2015/2016. So having both Farcry and Halo saying 2015 I was really worried, I really do not want to go a full year with only a few games. Don't get me wrong there are good amount of games coming out but it has been months since the launch of the new consoles and the releases have been quiet. Don't want to wait another year to get a good line up of stuff to play.

Anyway shortly after this a rumour started appearing which could explain why this is slated for next year. Halo HD remastered edition, the rumour slates that Halo 1/2/3 and 4 was coming to Xbox One. Now it's just a rumour right now but that would make a ton of sense, the Halo series is spread across two consoles and some people might had not played the first two. So releasing the full set for the new Xbox to allow everyone to try it out and catch up before they release 5 would make a lot of sense. Have to wait and see what E3 will reveal but I would be shocked if they didn't because Microsoft do not have that many exclusive for this year. Especially with their big guns like Gears of War only just been started and Halo 5 next year.

I will be adding Halo to my list to get since I'm fan of the series although I don't remember finishing number two, I do own it for the PC but just cannot remember getting to the end. I know I've done everything else though, have to fix that.

Well that's it for part one folks and are you guys looking forward to these games? all of them are on my want list except Farcry which is on my watch list. Probably will be added to my want list once I've started 3 or seen a trailer.

~Iznic 

The Results

Morning folks,
Had a brilliant week off and yes I did spend a ton of hours gaming, just a shame it went so quickly. Good news though I did finish the three games that I had set has a goal in my last post. Finished off my rental game Lego Movie (Xbox One) and got the full 1,000 gamer score. Then I started and finished South Park Stick of Truth (Xbox 360) for the 1,000 gamer score has well. That was my third play through of that game and I got to say it's one of the best games I've had the pleasure to play. Finally I sat down and finished off the last four trophies for Walking With Dinosaurs (PS3) and now have the platinum trophy. It was a bit of a grind but the 2-3 hour mark that I thought it would take was spot on, so not massively long but still a pain.

Very pleased with myself with the fact I'm starting to get some games clocked again, I was doing really well at the start of the year then suddenly in March/April it just seemed to stop. Anyway that was my week goal completed and it does put me on a better standing with my goal before Watch_Dogs. I said 4,000 gamer score (target 160,000) and 2 platinum trophies would be nice. Well I've done the two platinum trophies now and half the gamer score. Could be possible to get the last 2,000 gamer score but all depends on how much gaming time I can get this week before next Tuesday.

Speaking of goals and targets that was my number 8 platinum for the year so I'm doing pretty good towards my 20 goal for the year. I do have possible two more lined up but not sure when I will get around to them just yet, currently playing the new Wolfenstein that I picked up yesterday and Battleship. Both are good games and I will talk about them in another post once I've put some more time into them and got a better opinion.

So that's it folks for me on my gaming for the week, I do have some plans for the blog and I've got a ton of posts I want to put up about all the new stuff that's been announced. I want to sit down later for an hour or two to plan everything out before I start posting. Expect a post later since I'm hoping to have something for then, until that time have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Week Off

Morning gamers,
Great news for me! its a week off from work!!! joy!! and its a chill week so I do have a few day plans but other than that I'm free to play games all week. I've set my plan for this week to finish three games that I've got sitting on my shelf.

First up is Walking with Dinosaurs for the PlayStation 3, the game is already finished but I have three trophies to get which is just doing several actions multiple times without a mistake. Bit of a grind but I'm thinking a hour or two make which would then net me a Platinum Trophy for my time. Also it will add to the little challenge I set for myself before Watch_Dogs comes out, clock two platinum trophies and hit 160,000 gamerscore.

Think that challenge might I had been a little too high and especially with only only two weeks to go roughly. Good news though is I did finish Lego Hobbit last week and clocked the Platinum Trophy, so if I can do Walking with Dinosaurs this week that would be the two Platinum Trophies done.

So that's my first game for this week and the second is of course Lego Movie for the Xbox One. It's my rental game that I've had for like a month since Lego Hobbit took over my time. I'm two levels shy from completing the story then it's all the collectibles to do. That is the longest part but it does help I think this game is the shortest and easiest of all the Lego games so far. I really think I can clock this game by the end of the week without worry. Should also net me around 500+ gamerscore so it goes towards my Watch_Dogs challenge as well.

Final game that I would love to get done this week is South Park Stick of Truth on the Xbox 360. Yes I picked it up again on a different format, even though I've clocked the game twice on the PlayStation 3 (platinum trophy) I still want to play it again. Cannot tell you how good this game is but you probably realise that if I'm playing it again the third time this year. Good news is though it will be a 1,000 gamerscore to the challenge so that 160,000 will be a lot closer just not sure what to do after these three games yet.

Well that's a lie since I've picked up quite a few games this week out of the bargains so I could work on them, plus I got a ton of Live for Windows PC games to work on that will give me some gamerscore. Anyway folks I'm going to head off and get some gaming done, expect some more posts soon since I've got plenty I want to chat about but until then have a good one.
~Iznic

Only a month to go

E3 2014 is just around the corner and I cannot wait to see what happens. I will admit this year I'm a little worried that we will see lots of great games only to be told next year or 2016. Disappointed will not describe me if that happens, the line up since the release of the new consoles has been a bit quiet so it needs a good boost soon, glad that in twenty days we have Watch_Dogs to dig into.

Right now for me I have three games I really want to see this year and they are, Uncharted 4, Battlefront and Mass Effect 4.

EA confirmed yesterday that Battlefront will be making appearance this year at the show, really hoping it will be their shooter this year since Battlefield only came out last Christmas and Medal of Honor was shelved. I loved the first two games and I really hope they can bring that greatness to their version.

Uncharted 4, you don't need me to describe why I want to see this game! the series is awesome and to be honest I was shocked we did not get this game in the launch window for the PlayStation 4. It would had done really well but I'm guessing the time factor got in the way plus all the employees that left didn't help. So I'm hoping we will see this game finally at E3 and get a date for it, again I would love to see it this year.

Finally Mass Effect 4 which just needs to come out! another one of my favourite games series up there with Assassin's Creed. Over the last year we have seen plenty of teasers pictures and I think it's time we saw a trailer and a date.

Come on folks make this Quarter 4/Christmas one of the best gaming launches ever!
~Iznic

P.S. Expect some more posts about E3 leading up to the event

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Announcement

Morning folks,
Yesterday they finally announced the next Call of Duty game and so take a few minutes first to check out the reveal trailer.



Before I go into the trailer there is a website counting down to the 4th May where it's meant to be all revealed so expect to see a lot more on Sunday with hopefully plenty of details. Anyway back to the teaser trailer and what we know. Release date is going to be the 4th November 2014 which is unsurprising.

We have a Private Military corporation that has decided to go evil and his now taking over. Plenty of new gadgets and we have one pretty good game from the looks. I prefer my Call of Duty games for the Single player and the co-op modes. Ghosts was a good story but not great, this though looks pretty amazing I just hope it keeps hooked all the way through.

I do chuckle at the new gadgets though, exo suit? huge jumps? Crysis/Crackdown anyone? really hope the jumps and wall climbing are not just specific events that use for a few times and that's it for the entire game.

GAMEINFORMER Magazine Cover

Guess we will have to wait until Sunday to find out some more details but until then it looks good and I will be adding this game to the buy list.
~Iznic

Child of Light Deluxe Edition Unboxing

Afternoon folks,
Feels strange doing another post so close to the last ones, unlike me to be organised for once. Anyway I've picked up Child of Light earlier and it's currently installing so I thought it be a great time to do a unboxing post while I'm waiting. So let me introduce you to the Child of Light Deluxe Edition...

This is the PlayStation 4 version which does with the PlayStation 3, the main game of course is a digital game so it's just a code in the box with the extra goodies. Normally I would not go out of my way to get a special edition for a game I'm unsure about but the price was just too good, the game by it self is £11.99 while the deluxe was £15.99. So for an extra four pound for a keyring, DLC, artbook and a poster it was a bargain.

The poster is made of a better quality paper and the artwork is beautiful, but I do find the princess a bit freaky. Not something I would go out my way to put up to be honest but I will give credit on how well it was drawn and done.

The rest of the box is taken up with the packaging holding the light up keyring which is based on the companion in the game. Not tried the the light yet but it is cool, might hang it on my bag with my Elderscrolls Online key chain. Does remind me of the Dragon Quest slimes in one way when I look at it.

Finally we have the small artwork book is which only a few pages, I was not expecting much since the price was cheap. The cover is just normal card but the artwork inside was great, check out below for a photo of just two pages (my favourite images of course).

Of course I do have two DLC codes for the Dark Princess skin and the golem pack, not sure how they turn out yet since I'm still waiting for the game to install but I will get a screen shot up soon. Will give a shout when I add it to the post later. Anyway that's it for this special edition, not the biggest one but I would say it was worth the four pound in cost for it. Hopefully the game will turn out amazing and expect a post tomorrow or Friday from me about how amazing it is. Until then have a good one folks and hope you enjoy your night.
~Iznic

Evolve & Destiny

Morning folks,
Well I was planning to play a little of Hearthstone and World of Warcraft this morning but maintenance on the servers has cancelled that idea. So I thought instead to get a post I was going to do later sorted now. You see I wanted to talk about two upcoming games that have my interest and of course show you guys the new trailers in case you missed them.

What are the games you ask? well Destiny and Evolve of course!

So let's start with Destiny which everyone should know about now, if not its a first person shooter MMO without the fees that is coming out to consoles in early September. Bungie have made some huge statements about this game for the last year and it promises to be one hell of a game if they stick to what they say.

And that is where I have my doubts you see, so far from what I've seen it's just a generic shooter and nothing amazingly special at all. Don't get me wrong I like my shooters and I will probably pick it up but I just don't see any "OMG!" moments when I watch the trailers so far. Check out the newest trailer showing off the "Devils' Lair".



Looks good but I just don't see anything special that makes it greater than anything else. Graphics look good and the gameplay reminds me sort of Borderlands in some ways but other then that what's the big thing? where is the wow factor.

Hopefully we will see some amazing stuff very soon, no doubt at E3 in June and closer to the release. Think it will help if they showed off trailers where you can see more people playing because it looks quite empty right now, graphics are stunning but you got to get that wow factor to make people stick with it. But anyway this game is still on my list to buy and keep an eye on of course. In fact it was just announced that GAME in the UK is giving away a faster speeder in game when you pre-order and buy the game from them. You can see the upgraded sparrow in action below which is a nice little bonus, wonder how long until we will see some collectors editions.



So onto the second game and one that has really got me excited to play it and that is Evolve. It was announced quite a while back and if you don't remember then it's coming from the girls and boys that made Left 4 Dead (amazing game). This game is basically a online multiplayer game where it takes 4 vs 1, you have a hunter team chasing then a weird alien monster.

It had my attention straight away when they said they made Left 4 Dead, the concept sounded very interested. You have this monster that starts off slightly weak but can evolve into different phases making it stronger. Then you have a team of four players with different classes trying to hunt it down quickly before it gets too powerful. Sounds good and I put the game onto my list to be watched, now we have a trailer showing off gameplay in action. Check it out below but just watching it has one hundred percent sold this game to me.



You can tell the players are doing things a little slow and scripted so people can see what is happening but you got to be excited for the game. I love the hunter traps that keep the beast down but even then you got to realise how powerful this creature is when it turns on them. Also I was amazed with the environment map working against everyone, that moment when the creature comes out the water and eats one of the team. I kid you not I was cheering and jumping out of my seat, plants as well trying to eat one of them. Amazing, simply amazing! this game is a must in my books and I'm very excited to get my hands on it. Some awesome different skins and a new monster for downloading later are being offered for pre-orders if you look around.

Well that's it for me folks and hope I've sold Evolve to you guys, it worth a pre-order in my books. Hopefully Destiny can wow me soon but it's not off my buy list just yet.
~Iznic

Watch_Dogs Season Pass

Plenty of details was announced earlier today for the season pass for the upcoming game Watch_Dogs. Check out the awesome trailer below to get a glimpse of what your money can buy you.



When I first heard about the season pass several weeks ago with the information that you would get a extra campaign to play with a different character, I was a bit wary about it. It's a brand new IP and already putting a new character to play has? I was a little unsure but held my tongue. Why complain when the game has not come out and who knows what cool character we would be playing.

Glad I did because T-Bone looks awesome and I can see the new story campaign turning out pretty sweet. The zombie cyborgs was a nice touch but at the same time...zombies again? come on! hopefully though it will be pretty sweet but I do feel like the zombie theme needs to be shelved for a while. Either way I will be forking out the money for this season pass, 25% savings and the content looks worth it.

Anyone else excited to play this game? less than a month to go now! on that note I'm off to go play some more games.
~Iznic

Random Update

Morning folks,
I've been rather busy with Lego Hobbit for the last week and in fact it's took over pretty much. Finally got all the story levels completed to 100% so now it's just exploring the map to finish finding the open world collectibles. After that then it's just earning the last few trophies for doing certain requirements. Of course with this game taking up most of my time everything else has been pretty much pushed to the side. I have doubt's of clocking any part of my challenge now (see the last post for full details) since I have less than a month to get 4,000 gamer score and two platinum's. Not giving up though I will still try but I have my doubts.

Anyway onto good news and Child of Light is out tomorrow in the UK, really looking forward to this and I just hope it turns out great like I hope. If you not seen anything about this game check out the trailer below.



Normally I probably would not take notice of this game but I don't know, the artwork looks amazing and the platform style game play looks awesome. Plus I'm hearing there is a turn based RPG combat system now, the more I hear the more I want to play it. I'm also thinking this will be one of those gems you was not expecting (like the Unfinished Swan for me). Guess we will find out tomorrow when I start it.

So back to the topic of games I've been playing which of course is mostly Lego Hobbit but I was able to fit some time onto Hearthstone. I kid you not this game is awesome and I would recommend to anyone, in fact I'm not sure what happened but I'm on a seven win streak in the ranked matches. Lady luck was really on my side (probably not any more now that I've told people) and I'm now on the Rank 20 mark which was my goal since I will now earn the Season One card backing.

The game is addictive and so simple yet so complex its just brilliant for a free to play trading card game. Seriously give it a try on the PC or iPad! and don't just take my word for it, give it a go and see what you think. There is a expansion pack already in the works that I'm looking forward to since it's adding a solo campaign that like a MMO Raid. Cannot wait! and I'm already testing out some improved decks that I've built that will hopefully help me get further in the ranked leader boards. Anyway I better head off and get ready for work but before I go I will leave a trailer for the game play for you guys to check out.



~Iznic

New PVZ DLC Zomboss Down

Morning folks,
Just currently enjoying my morning cup of tea and reading up on what I've missed in the gaming news lately when I discovered that Garden Warfare had a new DLC added the other day.

Bit shocked to see Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare has got it's second free dlc out already, been weeks since I've last played. Anyway Zomboss Down adds a wild west theme to the game with eight new characters along with a new map for Gardens and Graveyards (cheering about that one).

Looks pretty sweet and the Xbox 360 edition has had some new achievements added for it, hoping Xbox One has had the same done. Something else to add to the play list for the next week and if they added new achievements they could really help towards my challenge of hitting 160,000. Be nice to have a new map into the rotation for Garden and Graveyards, it's quite a small list and gets a little old now again when you do a marathon session. Anyway check out the trailer below to see the new stuff in action.



Pharaoh Sunflower looks awesome and probably be the first character I will want to unlock.
~Iznic