Double Fine's upcoming game called Broken Age was featured during this year's VGX, talking about what to expect from it as well as revealing Elijah Wood, Wil Wheaton, and Jack Black to voice the characters in the game. Oh, and a friendly warning - Joel Mchale is quite annoying as a host.
Broken Age will be released in two parts, with the first part planned for a January 2014 release.
A new bar just opened the other day and no, it's not just any bar. It's the country's first ever eSports bar! Known as "Imperium eSports bar and Video Game Lounge" or just Imperium, it is what it says it is. A bar that's also a video game lounge.
Aside from a selection of drinks, snacks, and a few alcoholic beverages, you can partake in a few video games as well. From PC games, to consoles, and even the newest next gen consoles, it's the perfect place to spark a few competetive matches while having a few rounds of beer all in one convenient location.
Their menus are stuffed in Xbox 360 games cases like game manuals and they even have a few items on the menu named after a few video game references. I remember one in particular called "The Captain Price" which had the description "Whiskey. Lots of whiskey.".
From what I saw, they have a total of 12 gaming PCs setup, a projector in the center showing what I think was a DotA2 livestream, 4 consoles (I think it was 2 or 3 PS3s and maybe 1 Xbox 360) setup near the entrance by the couch area, and 5 more consoles hooked up to TVs above the bar counter that I think were running 3 PS3s, 1 PS4, and 1 Wii U.
The inside of the bar has a Tron blue light thing going on and were blaring from club/dubstep/bloc party/dance music through their sound system.
I met up with a few friends to check the place out and played a few rounds of Injustice with them. Will definitely go back soon, especially once they get their Xbox One's running Killer Instinct. Ccccombo breaker!
You can find Imperium at Unit 6B 2nd Floor Metrowalk Commercial Complex Meralco Avenue, 1600 Pasig or contact them at 571-9534 or 09062487476. They are open from 5:00pm to 2:00am. Also check out their new Facebook page and follow them on Twitter.
[UPDATE]
Taken from the Imperium Facebook page.
ON THE CONSUMABLE ENTRANCE FEE:
Imperium e-Sports Bar and Video Game Lounge charges a 100 peso consumable entrance fee for people entering the bar. This fee is 100% consumale, and thus will be deducted from your bill the moment you bill out. As soon as you pay the entrance fee, you will be stamped signifying your payment. After you are stamped, you'll be allowed to leave and enter the bar within the same day without having to pay the fee again.
ON PC AND CONSOLE RATES:
Our rates for the PCs are 60 pesos per hour. For Open Time rentals, you will be charged an additional hour for every 15 minutes you consume after the previous. For example, if you use a PC for 1 hour and 10 minutes, you'll be charged 60 pesos, but if you use a PC for 1 hour and 15 minutes, you'll be charged 120 pesos, and if you use a PC for 2 hours and 15 minutes, you will be charged 180 pesos.
Our rates for the consoles are as follows:
For the Xbox 360 and PS3, it's 100 pesos per hour. For the Xbox One and PS4, it;s 120 pesos per hour.
At the present time here are the games we have available per console:
XBox 360 and PS3 - Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 NBA 2K14 FIFA 14 Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition Madden 25 Need For Speed WWE 2k14 Battlefield 4 Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Call of Duty: Ghosts Street Fighter x Tekken Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition
Xbox One - NBA 2K14 FIFA 14 Call of Duty: Ghosts Madden 25 Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
PS4 - NBA 2K14 Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Killzone: Shadow Fall Call of Duty: Ghosts FIFA 14
ON OUR PC GAMES:
All our PCs currently have the following games:
Dota 2 Heroes of Newerth League of Legends Smite Starcraft 2
Aside from these games, we will continue to install new games every few days to update our selection.
After seeing one of the latest trailers for the PS3 version of Kidou Senshi Gundam Extreme VS Full Boost and seeing some of the new additions, we took a look at some of the new burst attacks that are present in the arcade version of the game.
Here's the trailer that got us super hyped.
Now that we survived the waves of games that came out in November, we enter December, another month that will most likely burn another hole in our wallets. But just in case you need to save up at the same time need to have another game to stack up your ever-growing backlog of games, Xbox Live and PS+ just announced the free games coming to subscribers of both services next month.
Gears of War
Shoot Many Robots
Borderlands 2
Grid 2
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (PS Vita)
Urban Trial Freestyle (PS Vita)
Quite a handful of free games for those subscribed. We are still recovering from all the games released a few weeks ago, not to mention the release of the PS4 and Xbox One hitting stores. Now, we all know how great the free games are in the PS+ service, and getting Borderlands 2 for free along two free Vita games and Grid 2 makes the December Games with Gold worth laughing about. But you have to remember these services have a gap of more than a year. PS+ was not appealing in the first few months as well since they were also releasing weak titles to push anybody to subscribe. With Xbox Live members case, we get the service to play online, and Games with Gold comes as a bonus, free games are still free.
Microsoft did announce they will continue this service in 2014 so it will definitely get better as we move forward. But if they continue to give us tower defense games in the coming months, it's going to be a different story. My only gripe with the service is their region lock policy. Why provide the same titles to each country when its region-locked to the US only? So yes, pray that Gears of War will be downloadable if you are in the other side of the globe.
Games with Gold source: EuroGamer
PlayStation Plus source: PlayStation BlogUS
The next generation of console gaming is now officially in full swing with the release of the Xbox One. How did it do on its first day? Oh, just one million in the first 24 hours.
The day one sale was announced by Microsoft just recently. The Xbox One was launched in 13 markets: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Microsoft is also reporting this to be the biggest Xbox launch in history.
With the PS4 also hitting the one million mark, this shows that the gaming industry is growing bigger and bigger despite it's short-comings as a whole.
Microsoft also shared a few stats on their exclusive titles:
Bought the Xbox One on day one? Share us your impression on the comments below.
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