Bethesda (makers of games such as Skyrim, Fallout and Rage) took the wraps off their new game Dishonored, a new first person adventure game that looks like a mix of Bioshock and Assassin’s Creed.

"Dishonored puts you in the shoes of a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. You are the once-trusted bodyguard of the beloved Empress. Framed for her murder, you become an infamous assassin, known only by the disturbing mask that has become your calling card. In a time of uncertainty, when the city is being besieged by plague and ruled by an oppressive government armed with strange technologies, dark forces conspire to bestow upon you abilities beyond those of any common man.
In Dishonored, creatively eliminate your targets with the flexible combat system as you combine the numerous supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. Pursue your enemies under the cover of darkness or ruthlessly attack them head on with weapons drawn. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make."

Dishonored is scheduled for release by the end of 2012.

Being a gamer, I was thinking of getting the PS Vita ever since it was announced. But because of the underwhelming sales I thought I should hold out for a while anticipating a price cut just like what happened with the Nintendo 3DS. But I was caught of guard when I saw that XCITE were selling the 3G version for 105KD which was a very good price. The first thing you notice on any device these days is the screen. And the PS Vita’s 5″ 960×544 bright and crisp screen is just great.

The second analog stick is a godsend. People were asking for it ever since the release of the original PSP. Having it makes gaming much more natural especially if you are a console gamer since both XBOX and The Playstation both have dual analog sticks.

The console has just been released so the game library isn’t that big at the moment. You can play the games either via a physical game card or a digital download which is my favorite. The problem is the the PS Vita doesn’t come with any built-in memory so you would have to buy a memory card if you plan to download games, demos or even watch movies.

The battery is a problem with the device. During my gaming sessions I managed to get 3 hours max from a fully charge battery, that was with full brightness, wifi on and no sim card installed.

All in all I would say that the PS Vita is a pretty capable device that would be better if there was a bigger game selection but I’m sure that will be coming along on the near future.

With games like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 hailed as the best online multiplayer experience you can have if you are a FPS guy. But what about old school gamers? How about Mario multiplayer but with a twist?

I posted about Mari0 (that’s with a 0 not an O) about six months ago [here] when it was a work in progress. It got released a few weeks back with some few elements, namely multiplayer.

I really encourage trying out the game. Its available Windows, Mac and Linux.

StabYourself

Edit: The video contains explicit language.

The guy stuck his GoPro to a  customized backpack made for dogs. It gives a first umm dogs view of the trip they took in LA. Just throw in a couple of guns and the next installment of Call of Duty is set.

If you are a gamer, or have watch game based movies, You must have seen/played or even heard of Silent Hill before. Silent Hill is a very popular horror game series that was first introduced back in 1999 and still has new releases coming out.; where the spooky/misty unpopulated  town(except for monsters and a very small number of people) are all out to get you it seems.

Well, it seems that Silent Hill is not completely fictional. Centralia, Pennsylvania is where the Silent Hill movie writers actually visited before they made the movie. A fire is burning in the mines underneath the town started 50 years ago and is still burning to this day.

This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn’s. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers – David DeKok

There are people actually still living in Centralia, 10 people as of 2010 to be exact. I have no idea what the hell they are doing there. The town is scary as hell.

Chris Kamara must be the funniest guy in football. The Soccer Saturday presenter usually on the field and has some funny moments.

Other Funny moments.

Kamara also provided commentary and basic motion capture for Chris Kamara’s Street Soccer released on the PlayStation back in 2000. It was one stupid game.

After mentioning time and time again that I won’t be getting the new MMO game Star Wars: The Old Republic, I finally gave in and purchased the game a couple of days ago. Ever since I got the game working (I had to download the whole 12 GB’s twice due to and installation error) I couldn’t stop playing the game. This is my first MMO since the City of Heroes 7 years ago. The game is huge and I couldn’t comprehend the vastness and the effort that went into the voice acting until I started playing the game. This game is going to screw up my schedule in the coming months.

Even though Steam has a crazy sale going on at the moment, I’ve been persuaded by my brother to give LIMBO a try. I bought it a few months back when it was first available on Steam and didn’t manage to get any playing time on the game.

LIMBO is considered to be a puzzle/platform/adventure game but the puzzle part is where the game shines. It has one of the smartest puzzles I’ve played in a video game. You really enjoy solving them. Also the games art and style is wonderful and different than most other games and takes you back to the 2D era.

LIMBO is available on steam for $5 for Mac and PC. It is also available on the Mac App Sore for $10.

LIMBO

We have seen a lot of flash mobs before. All were about music and dancing, but not this one. This might be the most epic flash mob to date. Why? because its about a video game thats about Star Wars. EA is promoting their new MMO game Star Wars: The Old Republic by having a bunch of Sith lords battling Jedi Knights in the middle of Times Square. Damn you EA for not having this game on Steam.

With the celebration of the 10th billion Android Market download, Google is offering a deal by putting 10 top rated apps for 10 cents each that will change daily for a period of 10 days.

So if you haven’t purchased any of the apps before purchasing them now will coast you a total of just a little over 250 fils.

Android Market

This video is pretty amazing. If you thing the beginning if the video is cool, watch around the 3 min mark when the speed gets a little bumped up and then watch just past the 5 min mark to watch TGM HOLiC, the world’s best Tetris player, play the game in freaking invisible mode.

Easy -> Medium -> Hard -> Asian

This is a gorgeous time-lapse video shot inside Bethesda’s  Skyrim game. I can’t get enough of this game.

It has been more than 2 years since I last put together my own PC build. WIth the amount of gaming that I’m doing on the PC I thought I should upgrade to enjoy the games even more.

I initially wanted to upgrade my existing PC but the CPU upgrade path was out of the question. So I had to buy a new motherboard to accommodate the new processor. I should tryout an SSD as my boot/OS disk for better performance. And of course a new graphic card. I also wanted a new case with USB 3.0 support and more room inside and better cooling solutions. Wanted also to replace my Razer Mamba mouse, its a great mouse but after playing for a few hours non-stop and the battery runs out, you get screwed. So I decided to get the Cyborg R.A.T. 9 wireless mouse that come  with 2 batteries. After looking at all of that I was only short of RAM and a power supply and I would have a fully functioning PC. I got 16GB of RAM bundle for almost $100. but decided to stay with my power supply and get a new less powerful one for my old build.

Part List:

• Intel CPU core i7 2700K 3.5Ghz (Link)
• Asus Republic of Gamers Maximus IV Extreme-Z motherboard (Link)
• EVGA GTX 570 superclocked GPU (Link)
• 4x4GB (16GB) GSkill 1600 RAM (Link)
• Samsung 830 series SSD 128GB (Link)
• Cyborg R.A.T 9 wireless mouse (Link)
• Thermaltake Chasar MK-I case (bought from Kuwait for KD85) (Link)

Now I just have to have time to put it all together.

I’ve been waiting for the rest of my PC components to arrive so that I can really enjoy the gaming frenzy that is currently going on. But my packages have been piling up in customs since before eid and they are still there 4 working days later. I am really frustrated.

I’ve had my original PC without modifications ever since I built it a couple of years ago. But with all the PC gaming I’m currently doing, I thought an upgrade was needed to cope with the newer, high-end games. The most important part of the PC hardware when it comes to gaming might be the GPU, my old card was a GTX 285. Back in its day, it was top of the line, but it is still considered a capable card.

The time of the upgrade was very awkward as the current generation of GPU have been in the market for more than year now, and the next generation (Nvidia’s 600 series) is rumored to be just around the corner. So I decided not to spend a lot of money on the high-end card and get a more than adequate GTX 570 that can get me through this influx of games with flying colors.

I got a significant jump in frame rates in Battlefield 3 as I got on my GTX 285 40fps on the medium setting, and 20-25fps on the ultra setting. But with the GTX 570 I got an average of 72fps on medium setting and 45fps on ultra setting.

I also set up my GTX 285 to be a dedicated PhysX card.

A am now waiting for the rest of the PC parts to arrive and start installing them.

These couple of weeks are pretty hectic for gamers. Games like Uncharted 3 and Battlefield 3 were released a few days ago and games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Skyrim are soon to be released (Nov. 8th and 11th respectively).

I am not planning to leave my gaming station a lot.  I’ve got a good amount of snacks and junk food at arm’s length and plenty of sugar drinks in the fridge. This is going to be a pretty entertaining week.

UK’s The Gadget Show manages to put together the ultimate FPS simulator by stitching together a number of different technologies that are already available. I wonder how much does this cost?

The highly anticipated third installment of Blizzard’s hack and slash RPG game Diablo 3 had a new trailer released. The game is at the beta stage at the moment and is scheduled for release sometime in Q1 2012. The third installment of the Diablo series comes more than 11 years after the Diablo 2 was released back in June 2000.

The annual Blizzard conference (Blizzcon) just concluded and this video shows all the major announcement in just about 5 minutes which makes it more convenient than going there myself or watching the live stream.

Blizzcon

The Uncharted franchise is one of the most successful PS3 original franchises, and its third installment of the series is scheduled for release on November 1st.

Too many games, too little time.

I just managed to complete the campaign of Gears of War 3, were you conclude the trilogy that started on the Xbox 360 5 years ago. Emphasizing the use of cover, this 3rd person shooter is one of the best franchises on the 360.

The cool thing in GoW3 is the 4 player Co-Op campaign and of course the online “Horde” mode.

Thats another game off my list.

This cool flash based shoot’em’Up where you have to type to destroy your enemies. Z-Type reminds me of an old Sega game called The Typing of the Dead that was released on the Dreamcast back in 1999.

I just found my new Time-waster game.

Z-Type

It took me a while, but I finally managed to complete the game earlier today. It was one of my top 10 games for what is left of 2011 a month ago.

The game is fantastic, it is a mixture of Metal Gear, Splinter Cell and a little bit of Mass Effect with it’s RPG elements. I highly recommend the game, but also there are a ton of other games being released in the next few days that makes getting just one new game to damn confusing.

I just hope this crap isn’t in the final version.

1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

(Released)

Set in the year 2027, a prequel to the original Deus Ex (set in the year 2052 and was released almost 10 years ago). It is an FPS game with some RPG elements, has a great storyline and very good voice acting. Edios Montreal did an amazing job with this game, it is highly recommended.

2. Dead Island

(Released)

I posted the trailer when this game was first announced, I was commited to buying this game just because of the awesome trailer. It is a zombie FPS game, where you wakeup in a hotel room in an island were it becomes infested with zombies overnight. It reminds me of the original Resident Evil games when they were scary and got you on the edge of your seat.

3. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

(Released)

Not to be confused with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War the awesome RTS series, WH4K: Space Marine takes the Warhammer series to a new genre, the 3rd person shooter genre. The game looks really good and looking forward to it.

4. Gears of War 3

(Sept 20th)

The conclusion to the trilogy and highly anticipated XBOX 360 exclusive, GoW3 is a must for every Xbox 360 owner and 3rd person shooter lover. They always had weird and awesome trailers for GoW, this is no different but not as awesome as the original GoW trailer.

5. Rage

(Oct. 4th)

Another First Person Shooter, but this one is developed by id Software, the creators of the FPS genre with games like Quake and Doom. These guys are promising a new engine for this game and from what was released so far it looks really interesting.

6. Batman: Arkham City

(Oct. 18th)

A sequel to my 2009 game of the year, Batman Arkham City looks like to match if not exceed expectations. It is by far my most anticipated game in this list.

7. Battlefield 3

(Oct 25th)

A modern warfare FPS game.

8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

(Nov. 8th)

Yet another modern warfare FPS game.

9. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

(Nov. 11th)

The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim is the the fifth installment of the highly popular The Elders Scrolls action role-playing video game series. it will also offer  a ton of playing time.

10. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

(Nov. 15th)

This will be the 4th game in the Assasin’s Creed series and the last game to be set in the Renaissance era also it will be the last game to feature bothe Atair and Ezio.

The game will be set in Ottoman Constantinople in 1511 AD and Ezio will still be fighting Templars.

I was notified by Marzouq yesterday that the GulfRun team had spent the last 5 months fine tuning/developing a racing simulator and it was setup in Baroue in the Avenues’s 1st floor. Of course I immediately agreed for 2 reasons. 1) me being a gaming enthusiast. 2) because everything these guys do is professional and I still haven’t seen them do any half-assed job yet. just have a look at their events, videos, and all other stuff.

The sim was amazing, it is a 3 screen setup that any geek would love and appreciate. A full motion seat that makes turning every corner a thrill and an ultra realistic track-mapping. The track was actually scanned and produced with extreme detail, even the damn bumps in the straight are there.

The GulfRun Simulator is open to the public, the price of admission is KD2.5 and its located as I mentioned in Baroue’s upper level in the Avenues mall.

They were logging blogger lap times, I didn’t even think of asking whats my best time was. But they will be on the side screens for onlookers to enjoy and giggle at.

If I find the time, I might go back there again tomorrow. I think I just found something else to do at the Avenues other than eating Shake Shack burgers.

Picture is from Infiniti Driver

Top gear’s Jeremy Clarkson reads out the specifications of Halo’s Warthog Vehicle in a promo for the upcoming Forza 4 game that should be released this October on the XBOX 360.

They plan to release it as soon as its completed.

A short video showing the some concept art of the upcoming Halo 4 game. It looks like it’s going to be a new trilogy. The new game will be done by 343 Industries and not Bungie who did the previous trilogy.

If you are a PC gamer, you would definitely have heard of Razer before. They produce some high quality PC accessories form mouses and keyboards to gaming headsets.

But they seem to be getting into the PC manufacturing business. After all, HP will be leaving a huge gap with it leaving the consumer PC market. The laptop code named “Razer Blade” is the thinnest 17″ laptop in the market today and packs an impressive spec sheet, 2.8GHz Core i7 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M graphics 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM and a 17.3-inch LED 1920 x 1080 display. It also takes a cue from their own “SwitchBlade” concept they revealed at CES. Implementing a LCD trackpad that also can be used as a secondary display for game info and quick shortcuts.

With a price of $2800, just over KD750, I think it is an excellent gaming laptop considering that 17″ MacBook pros start at $2500/KD700 almost.