Bioware’s Mass Effect 2 hits shelves today in Hong Kong and in celebration we’re doing a giveaway for a Commander Shepard limited edition statue.
This awesome, highly detailed, long since sold-out Commander Shepard Mass Effect statue was released when Mass Effect 1 came out, and now you can only get one of the 2,500 created worldwide by entering this contest.
The Commander Shepard statue is 9″ tall and is made of polyresin and comes with a numbered base. Photos are below:
The happiest-to-receive Christmas gift to Hong Kong gamers.
Even though we’ve passed Christmas, we’re still unwrapping more photos and coverage from the annual Asian Game Show X Online Game Show(December 24-26).
At the yearly event, tens of thousands of local gamers descend upon the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to play and buy games. Due to last year’s poor attendance, AGS organizers decided to team up with the Online Game Show in the hope that more people would be drawn to the double bill event.
Canto Pop idol and spokesmodel for the event, Joey Yung (容祖兒), was on hand at the AGS X OGS to start proceedings, in what looked like a cyber samurai outfit! Weilding a katanna, Joey posed for the paparrazi while screaming fans swooned behind the metal barricades.
Sony rolled out a few models of their own to add to the festivities:
The spiritual sequel to the infamous Baldur’s Gate comes in the form of Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins – a RPG title developed by the same company that made Mass Effect and were made famous by Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
The title is currently for PC (Windows) the Xbox 360 (release date Nov. 3rd) and the PS3 (release date Nov. 20th.) The company describes the game as a “dark heroic fantasy” story with mature themes. Mature is definitely correct as is evident by the blood (video below). The hook here is that the designers are integrating “origin” stories for each race and some classes – which means that rather everyone starting from the same point in the game – everyone will have their own “starting zone” which comprises unique events which are completely separate from each other class and race. This is one idea that has made WoW so popular – re-playability.
Key points in gameplay include a great deal of NPC’s to choose from. Combat will consist of you choosing two other NPC’s to join you similar to Knights of the Old Republic. To quote Bioware: “The spells in the game will interact with the effects of others. For example, a blizzard spell would put out the flames caused by hitting something with a grease spell and then a fire spell. The combat will be real-time, with the option to pause the game to queue up attacks to be performed when unpaused. This is similar to the combat in the Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gate games.” We can see what they mean in the gameplay video below:
The release date is November 3, 2009. For more information, check out the official website and get ready to pick it up at Toys R Us, 188 Mall, HMV and the other usual Hong Kong outlets in the next 3 weeks.
The end of the world is coming to consoles and PC next month.
An upcoming science fiction, first-person shooter with various RPG elements and outlandish, cartoony graphics appear to be overrunning us on the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms this October with Borderlands. In a hell-torn wasteland similar to Doom or Fallout 3, Borderlands gets you to deal with the trash. Think of a game like Diablo where demons are coming after you but instead of an isometric view…you’re dealing with it in first-person. With amazing graphics. That’s terrifying.
The game will feature four player online co-op (think Left 4 Dead) allowing your friends in arms to conveniently come and go as they please. Players will have access to customizable vehicles and can customize their character. Similar to RPG’s like Diablo, slaughtered enemies will drop equipment which you can then equip yourself with… and fast. There will be 160 different quests with 30 being part of the story line and the rest being side quests.
Other things that will be randomly generated are things like bunkers, towers, caves and enemies hopefully making it truly worth your spending money as the fun might never stop.
This version of King of Fighters brings an RPG element to your PC featuring the KoF characters and is schedule for release early next year. This is the first piece of publicity for the game and it’s already got us excited for the good ol’ KoF characters and SNK!
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