Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Grand Theft Auto V Release Date

                                                             Grand Thedt Auto V Release Date



Grand Theft Auto has been announced by Asda & Blockbuster to be released on the 17th May 2013. It has been displayed on their website to be sold for £42.97. there is most likely to be different types of the game you can purchase i.e. DLCs. it is exactly 171 days to go till this blockbuster will be released.



The screen shot below is the cover for the New Grand theft Auto V game, there is mosy likely to be an update on this as every other Grand Theft Game in the serioues has cover art on the front of it.
Grand Theft Auto V - PS3 main view


                                                               



Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Star Wars The Old Republic


                                             Star Wars The Old Republic



Star Wars: The Old Republic is an MMORPG meaning Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. It
 is from Bio Ware and Lucas Arts, this MMORPG is published by EA. Star Wars The Old Republic was officially released on the 21st December 2011. To play Star Wars the Old republic it is a free download onto your computer. but then to subscribe to the game play the price range starts at £7.98 all the way up to £49.50. The Old Republic is set a thousand years ago before the stories in the movies. The player chooses to join either Galactic Republic or the Sith Empire. Every player takes the role of a star wars class such as Jedi Knight, sith warrior and bounty hunter.

Although Blizzards World Of Warcraft is the most dominate in the market for MMORPG games, this will still attract a large number of players due to the fact it has Star Wars printed all over the display of it. So people will be attracted to it because they may be huge fans of the Star Wars episodes. The game is rumoured to of taken $150m to $200m to be devoloped by Bio Ware makeing this th emoste xpensive game to ever be devoloped. 
Star Wars- The Old Republic cover.jpg

The photo above shows cover for Star Wars The Old Republic. There is some kind of battle taking place within the photo and it clearly shows what kind of characters you can expect to play when playing the game.

The photo above shows a fighting scene from the gameplay from Star Wars the Old Republic. this screen shot was used as an advert to publisise the game. it is clearly a fight between good and evil. this will attract more gamers to try and then subscribe to the game once they have seen there is action such as the one shown above.













Thursday, 15 November 2012

Grand Theft Auto 5

                      


              Grand Thedt Auto 5



Grand theft auto 5 will the latest game to the series of poular & highly successful Grand Theft Games. The game is being devoloped by Rockstar North in Scotland and published by Rockstar Games. GTA V will be the fifteenth game in the famous series. Grand Theft Auto 5 will be distrubuted by Take Two Interactive. GTA V is based in the city of Los Santos in the state of San Andreas, This was an extremely popular map from GTA San Andreas.

Rockstar have announced they plan to release this blockbuster in spring 2013. according to Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V is destined to be the biggest open world game to date. the second trailer was released yesterday and was a huge hit on the Rockstar website. it has been anticipated for weeks now. the trailer shows the main 3 characters throughout the amazing graphics and backdrp of SanAndreas.

Monday, 12 November 2012

MCV Top 20 Games Chart

                                                               MCV Top 20 Games chart


The Games chart for 2012 has a wide variety of games. within the top few games of thsi chart are dominated by sports games like fifa 13, football manager 2013, WWE 2013 and Need for Sped most wanted.  The market is also dominated by well known games. this shows in the chart that they have a higher demand then say new IPs, there is only one new IP in this chart  called Dishonoured. The number one game of this chart is Assassins Creed 3, this is mostly to do because its an established franchise and popular with its market.