Before you get excited, no, it doesn’t contain some magical pre-release copy of Fallout 3. The “triple” of the pack is Fallout: Tactics, and while not as tasty as the other games included – Fallout and Fallout 2 if you had yet to guess – it’s not a bad deal for $14.90.
According to the Atomic forum member who spotted the deal at EB at Bondi Junction, it’s part of the retailer’s half-yearly sale.
Fallout triple pack cheap @ EB [Atomic forums]
More from the “marketing leaks”. And more Activision stuff. There are several listings on the site for what is probably the next “current-gen” Tony Hawk title, which has three working titles: Amplitude, Adrenaline and, awesomely, Tony Hawk’s Huck Jam. The game is slated to appear on 360, PS3 and PC, and will make use of motion controls via a custom board controller/peripheral (maybe this one?). Great, more hunks of plastic for the living room floor! Can’t wait.
Here’s the second title I’m working on for Game A Week. It’s called Zafehouse, and demands the player keep a bunch of survivors alive for 120 hours (five days) from zombie attacks, while hunting for weapons, ammo, food and other people. It will be primarily event driven, requiring the player to deal with infections, supply shortages and freak accidents. Securing buildings will be an important part of play, as not everyone can fit in the starting house!
I’d say I’m about 15% done at this point, so a lot of work to do before Friday.
Start thinking of game ideas guys! I still have a few ones I’d like to try, but I’m keen to see what you can come up with. Remember – seven days of development time only!
Update: I didn’t even notice the game’s random name generator had spat out “John Romero” for this particular run-through. To put this in perspective, there’s a 1 in 4418 chance of this happening.
Courtesy of the same leak that’s spilled everything else today, there’s a little more information to be had on the rumoured introduction of Microsoft’s Avatar system. Some of the marketing material mentions that, like Miis are in stuff like Wii Sports, the Avatars will be implemented into “various arcade and retail games” as playable characters. Also mentioned are “hundreds of clothing options”, a feature which is interesting when you look at the sample pic attached to the leak (above) and – provided it’s real – see one of the characters is wearing an Incredibles shirt, suggesting that unlike Nintendo’s offering, there’ll be the option of clothing your Avatar in various licenced outfits. Maybe, and this is total conjecture, even a little Master Chief costume?
Wizkill Source Code, By Popular Demand: There’s been quite a few requests for the VB.NET 2005 source to Kotaku AU’s quick and dirty roguelike Wizkill. If you’d like to take a look at how it was done, you can grab the V1.1 code from here. If you’d like to try out the game, check out the announcement post.
We already knew it was coming, but amongst yesterday’s MS/Acti marketing leaks were some further details on the upcoming Marvel: Ultimate Alliance II. The game will be set during Marvel’s recent “Civil War” story arc, with players forced to choose sides in the conflict. There’ll supposedly be “over 20″ playable Marvel characters, including the Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Venom and the Human Torch, and players will be able to “fuse” two character’s powers together to give one character hybrid abilities. The release mentions the game will be appearing on 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, PSP & DS.
I say “probably” because, yes, this is from the same marketing leak we’ve been having so much fun with today. A new title listed on the site is called Powers & Titans, and is apparently for the PS3, 360 and PC. Described only as an “action game”, you’re a super hero able to choose your own powers (no mention of licenced characters), and have to employ the right powers for the right fight/situation. While a singleplayer element is described, it sounds like the focus is on multiplayer, with players able to form “super teams” online and then perform missions, like “invading a city” or “protecting a convoy”. A little like City of Heroes for the trigger-happy, then.
Caution: this comes from the same place as all the other leaks we’ve posted on tonight, so now’s a good time to remind you they come from a marketing company. Performing surveys for not only Microsoft, but other companies (ie Activision) as well. Which means that while some of this news seems genuine – and imminent – other stuff may just be pie-in-the-sky (like this). Got it? Great, let’s continue. Something popping up on the site is called “Trioxide”, and claims it will introduce “the ability to play the latest console games (ie Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, etc) on your PC”. How? Don’t know. Why? Don’t know. Is this even legal/doable? Probably not! We don’t have much more than the name and the mission statement. But there’s two prices listed: $AU 52.11 and $AU 317.96, with the more expensive price and boasted controller use seeming to imply that – if this is real, and not, as seems more probable, a figment of some marketers imagination – it’d be a kind of actual device, and not just standalone software.
Quiet week for consoles, but the DS has seven titles dropping in the coming week, and Secret Agent Clank for the PSP also hits the street. Also, if this Deadliest Catch game doesn’t go out this week, I am de-listing it. So, spending your coin on handheld toys this week? Let us know in the jump, or tell us what you’re playing instead. My guess is it rhymes with Shmetal Shmear Shmolid.
Monday (June 16) The Political Machine 2008 (PC) Requiem: Bloodymare (PC) 1701 A.D. Gold Edition (PC)
Tuesday (June 17) Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm (360, PC) Secret Agent Clank (PSP) Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (DS) Space Invaders Extreme (PSP, DS) Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A. (DS) Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (Wii, DS) Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 (DS) Arkanoid DS (DS) Imagine Rock Star (DS)
