Guardian Force UK

Well E3 has been and gone and things have changed on the Guardian force MMO front.

We’ve got news on several new MMO’s as well as one being released recently. Lets take a look at the important information.

APB

First up is the new world we are playing in, APB: All Points Bulliten.

APB is being (fairly accurately) described as a kind of Grand theft Auto MMO, it’s Enforcers vs. Criminals in a sprawling city full of potential victims and everyone’s packing heat and jacking cars.  It’s a great game and the multi player experience is worth a lot and it has quite a good pay structure where you can either pay per hour or purchase unlimited monthly time. (more…)

A few weeks ago I decided we need something a little new in the GFUK circle so I went out and purchased the highly recommended Fantasty Flight board game of “Arkham Horror”

I am a massive HP Lovecraft fan so the though of a multilayer co-operative board game sounded really appealing. It doesn’t come cheap (around £40-50) for the starter however it’s got a lot of pieces and it’s very high quality build.

How Does Arkham Horror Work?

Essentially Arkham Horror is a scaled down version of a tabletop roleplay game, there are preset characters and equipment, events, monsters and locations all represented either on the board or by tokens, you make skill checks with D6 and different effects come out of passing or failing them.

When the game starts an “Ancient One” is selected, these monsters are typical Lovecraftien gods or Great Old Ones such as Cuthhullu and Azathoth. Each Ancient One has different on going effects, monster modifiers and combat powers so the Ancient One chosen at the start can massively change how the game plays out offering large variety.

Each Ancient One has a Doom track which fill up as the game goes on, if it fills up the monster awakens and you have to face it in (a usually very difficult) combat session so your usually aiming to win the game before this happens. Winning the game is done by closing and/or sealing gates to other dimensions which open each turn, essentially it’s a race to shut the gates as they’re opening. (more…)

Along with probably a million other people I was watching the live coverage of the latest Apple keynote speech.

So what are the hard facts for us UK peeps;

• New design is nicer (IMO) and metal
• Much better camera and additional one on front
• WiFi Video Calling
• Much better (4x in fact) screen (although not quite 720 HD Apple)
• Pre Orders next week for June 24th release date in UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan
• No UK Prices YET

OK a more in-depth look below

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Since i’m a good old 80′s gaming geek Scott Pilgrim is literally right up my street, when I heard they were doing a film it was mixed feelings because the book’s so insane I thought they would struggle but if anyone can pull this off it’s the epic Mr Edgar Write (of Shaun of the Dead fame).

See what you think of the full length trailer.

This is definitely going to be a love it or hate it style movie, it’s not supposed to make sense or be intelligent but I am sure its going to be funny and effective which is really all it needs. Oh and obviously OTT fight scenes.

As far as casting goes there looks to be some pretty good choices in there, I like Cera anyway, he is a bit “one role” but he is an ace young actor and I’m sure he’s going to get better, most of the female cast I’m unfamiliar with but the style all looks great and we also have Chris “soon to be Captain America” Evans in there too who has always been a decent one in my books.

One thing I love about the gaming industry is that it seems to have an almost infinite amount of space to take this piss out of itself. Gamers are happy to laugh at each other, dress up as characters and mess around or generally have fun singing and playing air guitar with our mates. Unless of course you are a “serious” gamer or a “fanboy” in which case you’re still really funny because we’re [real gamers] laughing at you.

Anyway one of my Twitter Fellows, good web chap called Rhys Wynne, put me onto a little gem of a “professional” gaming reviewer who goes by the handle of Yahtzee and writes in a column he calls Zero Punctuation. (more…)