UBISOFT® INVITES PLAYERS TO HAVE A “BLOODY GOOD TIME™” ON XBOX LIVE ARCADE AND STEAM®

SAN FRANCISCO— September 2, 2010 — Today, Ubisoft® announced that Bloody Good Time™, a new intellectual property being developed by Outerlight, will be released on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and on Steam® for Windows PC this Fall.

Bloody Good Time takes a new and irreverent approach to multiplayer shooters and will run on Valve’s Source engine, a well-known specialized 3D game engine for classic multiplayer shooters. Bloody Good Time puts players on a Hollywood set, where they get to choose their thrill. From a spring-break beach house, to a horrifying Vegas hotel, players will discover the merciless world of movie studios where anyone can star in a scary Hollywood blockbuster film. There is an option link up to eight players online in this first-person shooter and to have a multiplayer experience like no other.

In Bloody Good Time, players can be as devious as possible by killing other competitors in nasty and unexpected ways. Players can use an arsenal of wacky weapons including guns, a frying pan and even an exploding remote-controlled rat to transform the movie set into real mayhem. In addition, players will be able to choose from a variety of stereotypical B-movie characters, such as the bikini beach babe, the creepy clown and the super jock.

For more information, please visit http://bloody-good-time.ubi.com/

About Ubisoft:
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 26 countries and has sales in more than 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. For the 2009-10 fiscal year Ubisoft generated sales of € 871 million.

© 2010 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Bloody Good Time, Ubisoft, Ubi.com and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Developed by Outerlight.

© 2010 Valve Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries.

So people understand that flying is fun again, right? So why can’t we get a  Wing Commander reboot? Starcraft II showed us the ship scenario still works great… ah well. Games looks pretty cool. Give it a look!

Press release and video below:

Today Ubisoft has released the launch trailer for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2, an air combat action game developed by Ubisoft Romania. Available in North America for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system on September 7, 2010, H.A.W.X 2 is rated “T” for TEEN.

In H.A.W.X 2, a player’s ability to master every nuance of the world’s finest combat aircraft as a member of the ultra-secret squadron will determine their success. Featuring head-to-head dogfights, target tracking with silent UAV’s, precision night bombing and carrier take-off and landing, players can test their strategic skills with up to eight players at a time.

UBISOFT® ANNOUNCES OUTLAND™

An epic action-adventure game of light and darkness for PlayStation®Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade

SAN FRANCISCO – September 3, 2010 – Today, Ubisoft announces Outland, a new platformer inspired by epic adventures such as the Prince of Persia® series. Outland is developed by Housemarque, the award-winning development team and creators of Super Stardust HD.  The game will be available for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system in early 2011.

Outland puts players in the middle of a world of balance and chaos where their efforts allow them to bridge the ancient divide, or doom the world to destruction. Each player’s adventure will take them between light and darkness and force them to adapt to an ever-changing world. This light versus dark core gameplay is inspired by the arcade classic Ikaruga.

Immersed in a beautiful world doomed by chaos, players will test their swordplay by running, jumping and climbing to dodge the deadly traps of a world on the brink of collapse. Outland will feature unique high-definition graphics and an immersive soundtrack composed by Ari Pulkkinen, acknowledged for his work on the award-winning Trine project.

Outland will be on display for the first time at PAX in Seattle from September 3–5, 2010 at Ubisoft’s booth.

For more information on Outland visit: www.facebook.com/outlandgame

About Ubisoft:

Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 26 countries and has sales in more than 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. For the 2009–10 fiscal year Ubisoft generated sales of 871 million euros. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

© 2010 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Outland, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.”PlayStation” is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies and are used under license from Microsoft

COSMO2389!!

Thanks everyone for entering our contest! Happy holidays and keep reading Kennedy New Media in 2010 for more contests, reviews, and general game awesomeness! Here’s a pic of a happy Cosmo2389 who is now playing Batman: Arkham Asylum free of charge thanks to Kennedy New Media. Here’s our winner sporting a rogue-ish smile with his new game. Congrats!

A Happy Comso2389 with his FREE copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum from KNM!

As a rule, I remain unaware of most of the big game award shows, because they are mostly hype above substance. HOWEVER, Mark Hamill is up for the “Best Voice” award and this dude deserves to win. Not only is he THE Joker, but he’s a really cool guy to boot.

As I was made aware of this by my friend Mark Walters of Bigfanboy.com, I am linking both to his article as well as the voting page directly. Feel free to vote anywhere else you choose, but make sure you put Hamill on top for voice.

Bigfanboy.com Article

Spike Awards – “Best Voice” in a Video Game

For those of you who check KNM on a regular basis, you know that I really don’t post a lot of press releases. This site is (mostly) about game reviews and my ramblings. However, every once in a while something jumps out at me because of its awesomeness, and this is one of those times. NVIDIA has built a ri-dic-u-lous rig and are auctioning it off for charity as of the time I’m posting this, its up around $4,000 with only about 18 bids. The auction ends in 4 days (Monday night/Tuesday morning around Midnight) so if you’ve got some cash you wanted to donate to a good cause, get in there and throw some bids down. I’ve lost family members to cancer, and this is a plague that can’t be eradicated fast enough!

Full Press Release below…

Ultimate NVIDIA Themed Gaming System for Auction on eBay – 100% of proceeds going to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!

One of the fastest and most tricked out PCs ever built is up for auction on eBay

What:

One of the fastest, most tricked out PCs ever built has just been put up for auction on eBay. With a one of a kind NVIDIA themed paint job created by Smooth Creations, the system features two watercooled GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards in SLI, NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses and Samsung 2233RZ 3D Vision Ready Display, an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU, 12GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3 Memory, an ASUS Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard, two 256GB Crucial SSD Hard Drives in Raid 0, two 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives, and more.

The system was hand built by world renowned case modder Richard “Darth Beavis” Surroz, and is valued at over $10,000. 100% of the proceeds from the auction are going directly to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. All of the services and parts used to create the system were donated by the 11 main sponsors of the project.

Who:

NVIDIA employee (and former hardware editor) Paul Jastrzebski put together this project as a way to raise money for blood cancer research after a close friend of his was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a devastating blood cancer.

Every company Paul mentioned the project to enthusiastically donated some of their best PC components or their unique services – and after only a few weeks, one of the fastest and coolest looking PCs ever built was created.

Where:

The system is up for auction on eBay at the following address:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultimate-NVIDIA-3D-Vision-Gaming-PC-Charity-Auction_W0QQitemZ250532613398QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDesktop_PCs?hash=item3a54e84d16

A blog dedicated to the project can be found at www.charitycasemod.com and features additional pictures, videos, and information on the system.

When:

The eBay auction is currently live and will end Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 8:03:56 Pacific Standard Time.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce graphics products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla^™ computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com.

© 2009 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, and GeForce are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

The title says it all – we’re looking for people to spread the word about KNM, and for doing so they will get a chance to receive this sealed retail copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC. Its as easy as that. I picked up an extra copy just to give  away to one of our awesome readers. We’d love to be able to cover more games for you, but those pesky jobs get in the way, ya know? So, in an effort to boost traffic to the site, we’re going to start having giveaways! This is the first of what is likely to be many more to follow.

To enter:
Link to us on your blog or retweet this post on twitter. Cool note, you can do both and be entered TWICE. So, if you create a blog just to link to us and also post on twitter will you get two entries? YES.

For twitter, you can even just click below or click the bird up top:

CLICK HERE TO RETWEET

To link to KNM from your blog, we need to be either in your blogroll or links section. It needs to be easily viewable wherever your links are kept. Link directly to the main website:

http://kennedynewmedia.com

TO HAVE YOUR ENTRY(S) COUNT:

Send an email to: tim@kennedynewmedia.com with the URL of your blog and where I will find the link. Also, link your twitter feed so I can see the RT.

That’s it, folks! We will be running this contest until 11/22/09. So you have 2 weeks to get those links and retweets going. KNM will cover shipping costs of mailing the game to you as long as you’re in the US. If you’re outside I’ll see what I can do. It will arrive for you to play or to gift to your favorite gamer in early December.

Good luck!

Get Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 free today @

www.talklikeapirate.com

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, Telltale Games is giving away episode 1 its reincarnation of LucasArts’ beloved Tales of Monkey Island franchise. Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal will be available for free from the above site until 12am PST tonight. So, go get your download on and enjoy a very good adventure game from one of the premiere studios doing episodic content today.

PLUS, Steam is offering 50% off of the Tales of Monkey Island Special edition for the weekend. Get caught up on the story for $5!

Check it out on steam, or click HERE.

In the mess of things that has been my life that has been the job hunt, school, web designing, and looking at the logistics of setting up my own business, I have been lax in my posting duties. However, I have not been lax in my game playing! I will be posting reviews soon of several games, including

• Mass Effect
• Prototype
• Mirror’s Edge
• Eternal Sonata
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
• Assassin’s Creed

You should see me back on a regular posting schedule, because I’ve missed writing about the games I so love Plus, I will be posting demos periodically of a game I’m working on for school. This is my first game design class and so its essentially me learning how to code, so please be gentle. The demo itself will be in another post.

Thanks for continuing to check the site and be patient while I got my life back in order after my untimely layoff. Good gaming!

Tim

Turns out they have at least one song on Transformers 2. Its freakin epic. Here’s the vid from MySpace.

Linkin Park – “New Divide”
 

I really need to get out and see them when they come back through TX. Good news is that their new album is coming out this year!