Final Fantasy XIII-2's Tokyo Game Show Trailers Posted

The game developer Square Enix began streaming two Tokyo Game Show trailers for its upcoming role-playing game sequel Final Fantasy XIII-2 on Tuesday. (The Xbox 360 version of the trailer cannot be embedded, but can be viewed on YouTube's website.)

Square Enix will release the game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in Japan on December 15, along with a limited-edition PlayStation 3 Final Fantasy XIII-2 Lightning Edition Ver.2 bundle. The United States will then receive the game on January 31, and Europe will receive it on February 3.


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Brainlink lets you control your toy robots, Roombas, before they control you

Let's be frank for a minute -- we need to gain control of our robots before they get control of us, so why not start with the robots you've already got taking up space on your shelves at home? At this year's Maker Faire in New York, BirdBrain Technologies showcased a way to hijack your toy robots, Roombasand other bits of home electronics: the Brainlink System. The forthcoming little triangle hooks up to your existing technology, letting you program commands, add sensors to the device and generally teach it new tricks. The company's chief robot designer, Tom Lauwers, showcased the technology on aRobosapien, a TV and a Roomba, the latter of which you can see in the video after the break.

Source: Engadget

Skrillex on "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is the second EP by electro house/dance artist Skrillex.

The EP was released for purchase on Beatport on October 22, 2010, and is his first major release since being signed to Deadmau5's label mau5trap Recordings. The EP was an immediate success taking over 8 of the top ten positions on the Beatport home page. Skrillex has revealed in interview that he made this EP in his apartment using a laptop.

A sound clip of Rachael Nedrow's aka speedstackinggirl exclamations are used in the songs "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" and "Rock n' Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain).

The song "Kill EVERYBODY (Bare Noize Remix)" was used in the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta trailer.

A remix companion & follow-up EP was announced on June 2, 2011, entitled More Monsters and Sprites. It was released on June 7, 2011.

The song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" was used in a TV Ad for the GoPro Action Camera featuring a Kayak going over a waterfall. The title is a reference to David Bowie's album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

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Coming from the dubstep genius Skrillex a.k.a. Sonny Moore. Sonny came from post-hardcore band From First To Last then became a solo artist name Sonny up to the point he changed his name into Skrillex. When I listened to his album that had been released last year, He's evolved from a Techno Electro artist into a Dubstep genre he's very creative and dedicated on music composition. I love the way he drops the bass in each and every song in his album. My most favorite song from the album is "All I Ask of You" this one of a kind house music with a little sip of bass-lines is just so epic, the rest of the song in the album was also good. You will never regret spending money on buying his album.

Gintama

Genre: Comedy, parody, humor, sci-fi, historical, drama, action.

Episodes: 200+ (On going)



Plot:



The story of Gin Tama takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of its name change in 1868), Japan, which was conquered by aliens called "Amanto" (天人?, "Sky People") in the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan fought the aliens,
but after their defeat the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The plot is focused on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata who helps a teenager named Shinpachi Shimura save his sister Tae from a group of aliens who want to make her part of a brothel. Impressed with Gintoki, Shinpachi becomes his apprentice and works with him as a freelancer in order to pay the monthly rent where Gintoki lives, as well as to know more about him. The two of them rescue a teenage alien girl named Kagura from a group of Yakuza who wanted to use her superhuman strength to kill people. Kagura joins Shinpachi and Gintoki to work as freelancers and the three become known as "Yorozuya" (万屋?, "Jack of All Trades"). While doing their job they encounter the police force Shinsengumi several times, who normally ally with Odd Jobs Gin in their work since they commonly involve dangerous criminals. They also come to meet Gintoki's former comrades during the Amanto's invasion, including the terrorist Kotaro Katsura who maintains a friendly relationship with them despite his ambitions to destroy the bakufu. On the other hand, Shinsuke Takasugi acts as a major antagonist throughout the series, as he wants to destroy the bakufu in a more violent way than Katsura does.

Source: Wikipedia

Review:

For those who are depressed watching the same old plot style of anime, here's a good anime for you. Gintama is a hilarious gag show that had a lot of parodies taken from different sorts of anime/manga. The first episodes are quite boring due to the fact that they're just introducing every characters, but just wait until you watch the later episodes.

Gintama is so funny in a random way because they all act stupid and ignorant. Every character of Gintama had its uniqueness in terms of personality which was why some fans that watched the show were kind of idolizing them.Gintama sometimes had vulgar and harsh scenes but this was one of the reasons why the show became unique.

There are also short story arcs that will proceed to the real plot which is VERY appealing to us watchers.

Look! I made a wallpaper of Gintama! XD




Best ways to watch:

If you have watched a lot of mainstream anime or can relate to humor and comedy genre.

Rating: 8.5/10

Terraria Review

Terraria is an action-adventure/RPG indie game released by independent game studio Re-Logic. The game features exploration, crafting, building structures and combat with a variety of creatures. The game's slogan was previously "Shut Up and Dig Gaiden", a reference to another indie game, Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Released on May 16, 2011, the game is estimated to have sold about 50,000 copies during its first day of release, with over 17,000 players online at the same time during the first day's peak. Over the course of a week, 200,000 copies of the game were sold, making it the top selling game on Steam for the week, "ahead of games like The Witcher 2 and Portal 2." It remained number one on Steam for the first six days of its release before it eventually dropped to the number two slot.

Source: Wikipedia

Review:

The game was only 5mb when it was first released; the graphic was a 2D 8-bit Super Nintendo Style when I started playing Terraria. To be honest, I was not intrigued by how it looked since 8-bit era extincted nowadays.

I got bored when I played it alone. I started out on the middle of nowhere with a red moon on the background and got pawned by a huge bunch of zombie with flying eyes, and whenever I got killed, my character spawned on the same spot repeatedly!

So what I did was, I pressed Alt+f4 and then played another game. After a few days, my friend asked me to play Terraria with him using Multiplayer mode via Hamachi. So I created a new character and thank god it's not midnight, because it's the time when monster spawns.

We played for a few hours and finally! I'm starting to understand why it became top on the list, "It was good" - I said to myself. After all I haven't even played the whole game yet, though my friend explained the mechanics of the game that's why I made some ideas to my head or should I call it prediction that's why I felt that it was going to be a great game.

He also told me why every character starts out with an axe and a pickaxe which I only used for killing zombies when I first played the game. Axes are used to farm wood by cutting trees required on building a house to fend off monsters during the night, while Pickaxes are used for digging.

Building a house is your first important objective in order to survive. So after we built my wooden shelter, we dug downwards below the surface of my house to find ores that we can use in order to make an anvil which is another essential tool throughout the game.

What's exciting about it is you can explore below the ground. There are treasures, monsters, and different kind of ores to forge items such as weapons and armors using the anvil. It's like there's another world when we explored the underground. My friend finally left me alone playing when I learned the basics of the game.

I played non-stop for like 12 hours and got addicted to it and I was right on my prediction after all. The first treasure I got was a Cloud Bottle accessory, which allows you to gain the ability double jump when equipped, it was a similar ability from other 2D platformer games like Megaman and Castlevania.

There are also weapons that had different abilities, for ex: A sword that had the ability to summon shooting stars and damage monsters on an open area. There are also long ranged weapons like a Hand gun for example that fires bouncing bullets. My favorite item was the Rocket Boots, which allows you to fly but drains your mana slowly while you are using the ability. Unfortunately the developers changed the ability of Rocket Boots after a couple of patches, even so, there's a lot of Item to hunt and to forge with different cool abilities and that's one of the biggest factor why I loved the game.

If you think land and underground exploration is the only thing this game can offer, then you are wrong, because you can dig all the way down to find hell, it's where you can find the rarest ore to make weapons and armors. If you are starting from the land, you make a ladder all the way up and say hello to the sky world where you can find the sky islands with rare treasures on every one of those. You can also build up your secondary headquarters in mid air just for fun.

The gameplay was very enjoyable despite of how the graphics looked. In my opinion, Terraria is very fun game to play, there's a lot of things you can do, specially the multiplayer mode where you can help your friends on their own world, you can also do PvP with other players.

Rating: 8.5/10