People keep asking Silva if Vampire Smile is an expansion or a remake of the original, always acting mildly surprised when he tells them it’s a full on sequel. Perhaps it’s because people don’t expect sequels from XBLA games, or perhaps it’s because the original’s plot didn’t resonate with people the way Silva might have hoped, but some people just can’t seem to understand why a second Dishwasher game exists.
EA and DICE are bringing this seasons hottest movie fodder into the World War 2 meets The Incredibles web-based free to play third person shooter. In the month long event, players can transform into either a Werewolf or Vampire depending on their affiliation with Royals becoming Werewolves and Nationals becoming Vampires. As well as the new character costumes, three of the games maps have been remade in an “eerie night setting” adding to the fun of playing with Vampires and Werewolves. Each of the characters are available to for 1800 points (Which from what I understand can either be earned in game as ‘Valor Points’ or purchased in the form ‘Battlefunds’)
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Michael McWhertor, of Kotaku.com, writes:
"Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is apparently a fan of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, opting in to judge a fan art contest themed around the second entry in the romantic vampire action series, New Moon.
That’s according to a release from Japanese artist network pixiv–pretty much the overseas equivalent of deviantArt–which has tapped Kojima, Evangelion character designer and manga creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and Twilight manga artist Ryuji Gotsubo to judge a Twilight: New Moon fan art contest.
Kojima, who I’d wager aligns himself with Team Jacob, is reportedly a "huge fan" of Twilight, according to the Anime News Network’s translation of the release. He’ll contribute his expert opinion as well as a signed copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, apparently, to the list of grand prizes."
Image by Kotaku commentor, LucasReis.
Luigi Fumero writes:
"I am Luigi Fumero, the managing director and founder of Impressionware. We are an independent games developer based in Italy. We started by developing mobile games for some of the biggest mobile games publishers and then moved to hand held consoles. We are extremely excited to be able to release a minis title for PSP on launch day especially as this is our first self published title and it is based on a design we have been thinking about for quite some time.
Our game is called VEMPIRE (vampire + empire) and is much more than a match 3 puzzle game. For a start it is a match-4 game!"
iTWire writes "The phenomenon that is Twilight was an inevitability to be brought to the video game world. Soon teenage girls everywhere can meet online and stare wistfully into the eyes of a vampire."
Kill Sebastian the easy way:
Sebastian is the 3rd vampire that you have to kill. You will meet him when you
are about to get the ‘nexus stone’. This boss is one of the hard ones and will take
a couple of deaths and f-words before you beat him. But if you want to beat him
the easy way….Just stand there. If you just stand there he will not attack you
and the steam around the room will kill him (you may have to die once).
Whenever he is about dead the steam may not hit him anymore. During this time
u can attack him becuase he will be kinda ‘frozen’. He once again will not be able
to attack you and the Nexus stone will soon be yours. Remember dont move!
