Part of Sony’s push for the Playstation Vita is to expand its downloadable line-up with some cheaper fare, making it more competitive with the mobile phone platforms out there. Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is an early highlight of that approach, being the least expensive launch title clocking in at just under the $10 price point. However, it is anything but the least fun game on the handheld, being a highly original platfomer that does some of the same tricks phone games do while still taking advantage of the buttons and analog sticks a dedicated gaming system provides.

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Men of War: Condemned Heroes tells the story of one of the infamous Soviet penal battalions during the WWII. These battalions are famous for being formed under Stalin’s “No step back!” order #227. They consisted of court-martialed officers that were given a chance to redeem their crimes, or incompetence, in blood by serving as the lowest enlisted rank in a battalion that was assigned the most dangerous tasks. These battalions’ images are surrounded by many myths, and this game tells the truth about these regiments based on real evidence from their former members.

Take command of one of these notorious companies and lead it to victory against all odds through most of the war on the Eastern front. Fight from desperate battles in 1942 in the area of Volyn in the Ukraine, to the massive operation “Bagration” in the Brest area, as well as Magnush bridgehead and the Warsaw area in Poland and finally to attacks on the German Altdam and Stettin near the end of the war. The game is due out on April 12 on Steam for Windows PC.

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The official website of the game – http://www.menofwargame.com/games/condemnedheroes

Ubisoft recently released the action intensive survival game I Am Alive. The game features a bleak outlook for a large city following a catastrophic “event” about which the player initially knows very little. I Am Alive, while available for the reasonable price of $15 on Xbox Live Arcade, is a classic case of a decent idea with middling execution. Here’s why.

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A couple years ago, when the Nintendo 3DS was first announced, Konami put out a little tech demo of Metal Gear Solid 3 running on the system. This was just meant to show off the graphical prowess of the system, with no real plans to turn it into a full game. That quickly changed a few months later at Nintendo World 2011 when Konami announced Snake Eater 3D would be released within a year, with special treatment towards the handheld’s features. At the same time, however, Metal Gear Solid has also been rereleased in HD form on the home consoles, so is this really the port worth getting, and does it do justice to the original anyway? In the end, Konami has done the best they could to play to the Nintendo 3DS’s strengths, but it still doesn’t come across as a game totally fit for the small screen. It’s really up to what you’re willing to trade off.

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Today Ubisoft announced the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier multiplayer beta will run from April 19th until May 2nd for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.

Ghost Recon Beta Trailer:

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BioWare, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. announced Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download on the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and PC for no extra charge.

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In 1991 Capcom’s Street Fighter II was released in arcades. With Subsequent upgrades and an addition of 4 new characters in 1993 (Super Street Fighter II), Street Fighter II was a large reason that fighting games became very popular in the 90s. The popularity of fighting games gave way to an influx of fighting games being made in the early to mid 90s, one of which was the Namco made Tekken.

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Today Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier for Microsoft Windows PC will be available in stores and for digital download on June 12th. They also released the minimum system requirements and the box shot for Ghost Recon Future Soldier for Windows PC.

PC version features:
– PC high standard visuals (DX11 renderer, new high-quality assets, new post process effects, multi monitor solutions support, TriDef stereoscopic support).
– DirectX11 enhanced: tessellation (for soft 3D models), compute shaders-based realistic lighting (for global illumination), volumetric fog.
– Online widget: Party, Friends and Ghost Feed functionality can be accessed at any moment from any screen
– Extended party functionality: simplified and more flexible invitation system
– Party text chat
– Uplay Friends system
– Fully customizable controls for the localized keyboards

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is the upcoming stand-alone expansion to the award-winning 2008 hit real-time strategy game, Sins of a Solar Empire. Developed by Ironclad and published by Stardock, this is space-strategy gaming at its finest.

Trailer:

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What’s a handheld without a good platformer? As Nintendo found out with its 3DS, until a flagship Mario platformer was finally released, not much. So here comes Rayman to save the day in the Vita’s launch window, care of Ubisoft.

Rayman Origins came out to lots of critical acclaim last fall in the home console front, but can that translate to success on the small screen? Considering how faithful this port is, there is no reason why not.

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