Assassin’s Creed III Season Pass announced

Ubisoft just announced a Season Pass for Assassin's Creed 3. The Season Pass will cost $29.99, and will give you access to the first five DLC's of the game.  

Instead of buying the first five DLC's one by one, grabbing this pass lets you save 25%, and you get to play the content a week before anybody else.

Also, details on the first DLC planned for the game was also announced.

The first DLC that will be included in this Season Pass is called "The Tyranny of King George".  It's a whole new single player campaign that's divided into three episodes releasing one by one. It's an altered history, with George Washington as a Tyrant king, and Conner tasked to dethrone Washington and bring back freedom to the land.

The Season Pass will also include multiplayer map and characters as DLC in the future. The pass will be available for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Assassin's Creed 3 hits stores on October 30 on Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. The PC version will be released a bit later on November 20. The Wii U version will be available on November 18, the console's launch day.

[Source: Gematsu, Gamespot]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombies details emerge, trailer also out

You into zombie slaying? Yea sure you are! Why do you think there's tons of zombie games out now. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 comes out on November, and just like the first game, it will have its very own zombies mode. Treyarch has finally spilled the beans on the changes to Zombies, plus a trailer featuring one of the three game modes for zombies.

Above is a game mode called Tranzit, a campaign mode that lets you and three friends ride a bus heading to location after location picking up supplies and killing zombies. When reaching each location, you are tasked to hold off the incoming zombie horde until you are allowed to move on to the next area. To travel to the next area, you can go by bus or by foot, and the zombies won't stop coming, so holding the horde off continue even as you go forward.

It's a good change, but just in case you want the traditional horde-like mode seen in the first game, they have that too. Survival mode is all about survival. Building defenses and pretty much see how long you guys can last.  No word yet on the changes done, but its good to know they didn't scrap the old for the new.

Were not done yet, there's still one more mode to be introduced, and this one is a bit more in the competitive side. The last mode is called Grief. It's a 4 versus 4 match where you try to outlive your competition. You can't kill each other the conventional way, what you can do though is make the zombies do the killing for you. Of course, they haven't went into much detail on how you get to do that. I can already imagine hilarious moments coming out of Grief mode.

Looks like Treyarch put a lot of thought into Zombies this time around. Three game modes for zombies? Sounds good to me.

I have pretty high expectations for Black Ops 2. I bought the first game mainly because of Zombies, but to my surprise it turned out to be one of the best Call of Duty games I've ever played. I Was not feeling the whole futuristic setting for the sequel, but the changes in Zombies got me back into the hype. Oh and multiplayer?  Been there, done that.

[Source: IGN, Machinima]

Video game release dates: October - December

A couple of highly anticipated titles have already been released in the past two months, but more are on the way that could leave a bigger hole in your wallet if you're not careful. October is up in a few days, and just in case you forgot the release date of one of your most highly anticipated title, here's a list from October to December to remind you. 

Take note(For viewers in the Philippines): Games without a pre-order option could possibly be in stores at a later date. I've experienced it too many times so double-check your local store before taking the trip.

Here are the confirmed dates.

October

Resident Evil 6 – October 2 NBA 2K13 – October 2 Pokémon Black & White 2 – October 7 XCOM: Enemy Unknown – October 9 Code of Princess -- October 9 Dishonored – October 9 Dance Central 3 – October 16 Skylanders: Giants – October 21 Medal of Honor: Warfighter – October 23 Street Fighter X Tekkan (Vita) – October 23 Forza Horizon – October 23 Killzone Trilogy -- October 23 Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask – October 28 Assassin's Creed III – October 30 Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – October 30 Need for Speed: Most Wanted – October 30 Nike+ Kinect Training – October 30 Sports Champions 2 – October 30 Zone of the Enders HD Collection -- October 30 WWE 13 – October 30

November

Halo 4 – November 6 LittleBigPlanet Karting – November 6 NASCAR The Game: Inside Line – November 6 Paper Mario: Sticker Star – November 11 Call of Duty: Black Ops II – November 13 Wonderbook: Book of Spells -- November 13 Wii U Launch – November 18 Disney's Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – November 18 Disney's Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion – November 18 Hitman: Absolution – November 20 PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royal – November 20 Persona 4 Golden -- November 20 Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – November 20

December

Far Cry 3 – December 4

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Dishonored,and surprisingly Black Ops 2(That Zombie Mode) are on my day 1 buy list. Resident Evil 6 was supposed to be on the list, but I have this feeling to not jump the gun on this one. I played the public demo a couple of days ago and it actually gave me second thoughts about getting it.

What about you? What are you planning to get on the day it gets released?

Mass Effect Trilogy coming this November

Bioware just announced Mass Effect Trilogy, which is pretty much all Mass Effect games wrapped up in one neat package. It's out on November and it will be available on Xbox 360, and PC. For PS3 though, the trilogy will be released on a later date.

It will be released on November 6, 2012 for Xbox 360, and PC. It will be priced at $59.99.

The first Mass Effect is finally heading to Playstation 3. I'm pretty sure they are currently working on porting the game to the PS3, which is why the PS3 version of the trilogy is planned for a later date. I didn't think they would bother to bring Mass Effect 1 to the PS3, but I guess they had to because of this package. Wouldn't be much of a trilogy without the first, now would it?

as you can see above, it will include all three games, and an exclusive artbook, all wrapped up in a premium foil box.

[Source: Bioware official website, Joystiq]

The Walking Dead Game Season 1 releasing on December 4

Telltale Games just announced that season 1 of The Walking Dead Game will be released as a full game on December 4 on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. This means that season 1 will be definitely wrap up before December 4 hits. 

The announcement was made on Telltale Games official Twitter account  revealing that the entire season will be released on disc.

Now, if you have not played any of the episodes, I highly suggest you do. I've played the first and second episodes of the first season and it's one of the most well-crafted stories in a video game this year. You will care for these bunch of characters trying to survive, and at the end of each episode, you just can't wait to play the next one, just like any good series.

The third episode is now out on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. The last two episodes, "Around Every Corner", and "No Time Left", has no release date at the moment, but thanks to this bit of news, at least we know this season will wrap up this year.

[Source: VG247, Telltale Games Twitter]