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Next week gamers who took it upon themselves to snag up a ticket for the Queen Zenobia’s one way ticket to the bottom of the sea can rejoice. Capcom will be bringing a heaping helping of downloadable content to the game starting with two new downloadable characters to be used in the game’s Raid mode. The most interesting of the two new characters by far is Lady Hunk, who just happens to be sporting some lady lump hugging hotpants, the perfect accessory to go with the trademark flak jacket and gas mask that Hunk has donned since his original appearance in Resident Evil 2. Players hoping to show off those silky smooth legs while laying waste to hordes of undead ghouls will find Lady Hunk…

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Konami and MercurySteam’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow did an admirable job of bringing armchair vampire hunters a more modern feeling excursion to the gloomy Transylvanian countryside when it was released back in 2010. Today Konami has shed some light on the thick shadows that had been enveloping the sequel to that well regarded re-imagining of the Castlevania legend. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 takes place after the events of the original Lords of Shadow. Players play as Dracula, who while weakened, was saved from eternal destruction by his own cursed immortality. The sulking shell of a vampire lord wishes for nothing more than to be put out of his misery. Luckily for our favorite bloodsucking baddie, Death is more than happy to grant him his…

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Dragon’s Crown’s six playable champions are all high fantasy weapons of mass destruction in their own right, but the fearsome Amazon just might be the most devastating brawler of the bunch. Sporting an axe the size of Buick and hips that spell doom to any Thigh Master foolish enough to enter their grasp, this wall of fury and muscle is enough to make any ghoul or goblin drop a brick in their chain mail trousers, making her a fine addition to any party looking to put a hurting on any entire bestiary’s worth of monsters. Prepare to unleash the Amazonian Apocalypse on August 6th when Dragon’s Crown makes its way to the Playstation 3 and Vita.

Sony locks and loads a brand-new game play trailer of their upcoming massively multiplayer first person shooter Planetside 2 for the Playstation 4. Take part in the fierce and fiery battles across the world of Auraxis as you and thousands of other players engage in an epic battle in pursuit of enemy territories and personal glory in this brutal blitzkrieg of massively multiplayer FPS supremacy.

Today Publisher Square Enix has announced the latest entry in the Deus Ex series titled Deus Ex: The Fall, which is headed to the Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices this Summer. The Fall takes place in 2027, after the events of James Swallow’s novel Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect. The world is in a state of unrest as powerful corporations have wrested control from the governments of the world, and with it control of a drug that is the only hope for keeping the augmented populace alive. Players control Ben Saxon, a former SAS commando who himself is augmented, attempts to uncover the conspiracy surrnounding the drug  when his former employers, the corrupt PMC called The Tyrants, betray him. Now Saxon himself is hunted by…

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Some say that after you die you open up your eyes and find those  big, white pearly gates.  Detective Ronan O’connor isn’t so lucky. Rather than glimpse the heavenly afterlife, the unfortunate fellow witnesses his own violent death at the hands of an enigmatic killer on the rain-slick city streets. Now a specter, Ronan must use his new found supernatural abilities to read the minds of the living and influence their actions from beyond the grave to help uncover the identity of his own murderer and bring him to justice. This is the premise of Square Enix’s new supernatural mystery Murdered: Soul Suspect. Sounding more than a bit like a fusion of Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire and Capcom’s Ghost Trick, this haunting thriller definitely has…

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Netherealm Studios’ Creative Director and Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Ed Boon pairs with renowned comic artist, writer, and DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Jim Lee to talk about their new take on fan favorite Kombatant, Scorpion. The Scorpion DLC will be released soon and will be cost 400 Microsoft Space Bucks and $4.99 on PSN.

Freakin’ delicious. This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, Frank opens himself up a sacred cow bistro. Fully staffed with chefs Burt, Trevor, Jay and Andrew, Frank sets out to tenderly cook and serve some of the most revered titles in gaming history. These chefs may have some disagreements on the choice of this evening’s cuts, the dishes are guaranteed to satisfy. After hours the staff heads to the bar upstairs from the restaurant to have a friendly chat about what they’ve been playing. Check us out at HeyPoorPlayer.com and Mushroomtomatoes.com, on Twitter @HeyPoorPlayer, on Facebook in the Hey Poor Player group, on YouTube at Noiseless Mound, on Tumblr at hppofficial.tumblr.com, and on reddit at reddit.com/r/heypoorplayer. Music for this week’s episode comes from The Hero by Nostalgia and Lost Woods…

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The latest trailer for Atlus’ upcoming fourth entry in the titular Shin Megami Tensei series is upon us. In this brief minute-long snippet we get a glimpse at the fundamentals of being a spirit fusing samurai on the mean streets of Mikado. The game play features the usual SMT fare fans have grown to love. Demon fusing, negotiation, and tactical turn-based RPG combat are all hallmarks of the series, and they are back in full force in SMTIV. One thing that does stand out, however, are the lush and detailed visuals of the new game which seem to put the 3DS’ hardware to good use. Atlus has come out swinging on Nintendo’s handheld the past few months, releasing the excellent Etrian Odyssey IV in March,…

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This week Frank, Trevor, Jay, Andrew and Marius take a look at the recent unveiling of Microsoft’s new Xbox console, the Xbox One. We cover the entire conference and the various rumors that came out after the fact, and our general thoughts on the system. We also have a new round table and a whole batch of whatcha playin’. This week’s round table (for those playing at home): -Frank: Preacher comic series by Garth Ennis -Trevor: Any game in the Timesplitters series -Jay: Mushi-Shi anime -Andrew: Pokemon tower defense game (Marius didn’t have anything because he’s silly) heck us out at HeyPoorPlayer.com and Mushroomtomatoes.com, on Twitter @HeyPoorPlayer, on Facebook in the Hey Poor Player group, on Tumblr at hppofficial.tumblr.com, and on reddit at reddit.com/r/heypoorplayer. Subscribe to our podcast on YouTube, Stitcher, iTunes or using RSS.