Injustice

NetherRealm is still trying to sweeten the pot for all of you pre-order enthusiasts. The game maker announced today via Crave's gaming site PlayStation Lifestyle a $14.99 Season Pass for the highly anticipated Injustice: Gods Among Us fighting game. 

Injustice lets you take control of every major DC superhero and villian and use their awesome array of powers to pummel your opponents into submission.

The Season Pass gets you access to four future characters and a skin pack for Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Deathstroke on release day.

So who will the new characters be? With less than a month to the release of Injustice: Gods Among Us, Crave Online will make sure you are ready for every piece of DLC and strategy!
 

Sonic Lost World launched on both the Wii U and 3DS

Sonic Lost World launched on both the Wii U and 3DS with some problems persisting between both versions. Difficulty spikes caused some frustration among the Lost World community, which Sega wants to address with a free update.

The update tries to balance difficulty by bumping the starting lives to 10 from five when continuing after a game over screen. Players can more quickly accumulate lives by collection 100 rings. Collect 100 rings and like in most Mario titles, players receive an extra life.

Significance Of Hotel Property Management System

By Tiffany Gill

Technology keeps on improving in recent times. This is because of the growing needs of people and the need to solve new problems. A recent development in technology is hotel property management system. This is software that is used in the lodging industry. Its development has helped make are manual activities become automated. This software is very handy because it helps users perform many functions.

People who install and use these programs are assured of enjoying many advantages. Managers who are keen on having efficiency in their operations should install such programs. Time observation is improved with such software in place. Time is crucial in this industry because clients require work to be done on time. Using a computer for monitoring helps keep time, as opposed to using personnel.

These types of software help the owners of a hotel to cut on cost. A downsize on the number of employees the management reduce the cost of doing things manually. The cost of hiring many supervisors is reduced these programs easily do monitoring. Congestion around the premises is also reduced because fewer workers are required in the places of work.

Data and information monitoring are improved with the use of programs for managing operations. The software allows an area to store information in good order. A manager may be in charge of several operations hence involving a lot of data handling. The software can help a manager be hands on all data. The data can be easy pulled out in case it is required as opposed to using manual files.

Fourthly, a program reduces workload. The operation is computerized hence able to perform some of the tasks. The usage of a program makes work easier. It also reduces the number of staff that can be required to perform a task.

Lastly but certainly not the least, the customized program increases efficiency. Manual observation of property causes a lot of mistakes being done. The use of computers ensures that the making of errors is reduced. That is one reason why individuals are encouraged to initiate the using of the program in their businesses.

The software is an essential part of hotel observation in the world of today. The programs are available for all business sizes. It does not matter whether the business is big or small. A program is vital because it helps staff and managers in the day-to-day running of any business. It is therefore, recommended that this customized program should be installed by any business owner who wishes to maximize profits.

A hotel property management system is very effective and has many advantages of use. This industry is very lucrative and with the use of such programs profits can be maximized. The spans of work they operate in include accounting, records and marketing. The programs are fit for any motel or lodge.

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Watch Metal Slug Remade in 'Black Ops 2'

There's much you can do in Black Ops 2 that comes with the game right out of the box. With a variety of competitive online modes, a campaign, and a zombie mode for co-op play, the game has plenty to offer.

That said, it's not really possible to make the game something it isn't, which is to turn it into a game from another genre entirely—unless you've an extreme amount of time and the willingness to be creative. With that in mind, Youtuber byViruzz put together a video of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in which he turned the game (albeit with the help of video editing skills) into something akin to Metal Slug.


He calls the video "Metal Slug en Black Ops 2", and describes his project as a labor of love for his viewers on YouTube. He says that the video took dozens of hours to complete on the PC. From the looks of it, it'd be fantastic if someone actually modded this into the game.

The video was produced with the help of his friends, who portrayed the roles of the various enemy soldiers killed by the main character. Interestingly enough, they run out of parts of the map and walk along a two dimensional axis to create the impression of a 2D game like Metal Slug.

The Amazing Spider-Man Review

Gameloft’s 2010 title Spider-Man Total Mayhem was an excellent game, but it was level-based–you moved from one enclosed environment to the next, climbing walls and bruising bad guys along the way. But what makes the character Spider-Man unique is his web-slinging ability, and there’s only so much room to swing in boxed-in levels. To truly exercise his abilities, Spidey needs an open world, and that’s exactly what Gameloft delivers in The Amazing Spider-Man. Does the rest of the game live up to the Spider-Man name?
First off, The Amazing Spider-Man is hugely ambitious, pulling much of its inspiration from Batman Arkham City on consoles and PC. You control Spider-Man in an impressively large, dynamic, open-world version of Manhattan. You can go just about anywhere, from dead-end alleys to the towering apexes of skyscrapers, and everywhere in between. The massive environment is full of stuff to see, and when you’re ready to make some progress, you can check your mini-map to locate the next story mission, or a nearby crime in progress if you’re feeling frisky.

Spider-Man, the original swinger.

One important thing in any game with this big of a world is your character’s movement, and here it’s mostly up to the task. To explore the city, you have a D-pad that lets you run, climb buildings, and direct your swings, as well as a jump button that shoots a web if you hold it down. When you let go of the button, you let go of the web. You can build up a steady rhythm as you swoop between buildings, tapping and releasing to keep your momentum.
The city is big, so we’re happy to report that you move fast. In fact, if you run on the ground for a few seconds, you’ll start sprinting at a ridiculous speed– so fast that you outrun cars on the street. Swinging through the air is also speedy. However, we’d often sling a web only to see it break for no apparent reason, making us lose altitude and often crash into a building or plummet to the ground. On the plus side, there’s no penalty for falling– even from hilariously suicidal heights– so it’s not a huge issue. Still, random breaks in your forward momentum shouldn’t happen at all.
Story missions are initiated when you walk into the glowing webs indicated on your mini-map. Most missions involve waves of thugs coming at you and begging for beat-downs, but they do a decent job of mixing it up with chase or stealth missions peppered throughout. They’re all pretty standard Gameloft mission types that you’ll be familiar with if you’ve played games like Spider-Man Total Mayhem or N.O.V.A. 3. We should also warn you that a small handful of the missions are poorly explained, poorly executed, or contain frustrating difficulty spikes.

Kick to da groin.

Combat is very button-mashy, so mostly you’ll spam the attack button and watch Spidey to do all kinds of cool-looking combos. There’s also a ranged attack button that spurts webbing at distant bad guys and can be used in very basic combos, as well as a dodge button that feels less responsive than it should. Overall, combat is somewhat disappointing, but rarely outright bad– at least until the latter portion of the game, when they introduce enemies with shields and rocket launchers.
All that fighting results in experience points that you can put to good use. For a mobile action game, The Amazing Spider-Man takes RPG elements to a near-OCD level. As you level up you can feed the points you earn into five separate skill trees, each with several branching pathways and at least a dozen upgrades. It’s all a bit much. It would have been nice if they’d cut down on the skills but made their effects more apparent. As you progress through the game, Spidey definitely becomes more powerful, but the pace is so slow that it’s almost unnoticeable on an upgrade-by-upgrade basis.
Aside from bolstering your stats, completing missions, and stopping street crimes, you can scour the gameworld for scattered spider currency (yes, the currency in this game is spiders), or you can complete challenges. They’ve taken a page from Jetpack Joyride by giving you a long list of challenges to complete, with three available at any time. This is a pleasant addition, even if many of the challenges ask you to do dopey stuff like jump five times, or swing for 15 seconds.

Don’t do it, Spider-Man, you have so much to live for!

But that’s not all; there’s more! There’s an in-game store where you can spend spiders to buy items like health tonics and invincibility balm to use during gameplay. If you run your coffers dry, you can purchase additional spiders using real money. You can also spend real money to buy points for your skill trees, which might make the game’s difficulty spikes seem a little sinister if you’re the paranoid sort. For the record, this isn’t the first Gameloft game to toss in a crazy challenge every now and then, and we never felt the need to spend additional money on anything.
Graphically, the game doesn’t look as good as Gameloft’s non-open-world games, but that’s to be expected. We played on a third-gen iPad, and the colors were a little washed-out and graphical pop-in was noticeable as we swung through the city, but the game ran smoothly. Other things Gameloft is famous for are bad scripts and voice acting, and here both are atrocious. But by now we’ve come to expect this, so at least they’re good for a laugh (until you start skipping cutscenes when the hilarity wears off).
For all the knocks we have against The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s still a big, enjoyable, ambitious game. Any time we can explore such a vibrant open-world setting on our iOS devices– and in such a fun way as web-slinging– is impressive. This is an ambitious game that does an admirable job of making you feel like a superhero. However, we can’t gloss over the mashy fighting, occasional glitchy gameplay, and rote missions that might keep you from becoming fully absorbed into the comic book game world. In any case, The Amazing Spider-Man offers an impressive– but nowhere near perfect– experience.

WWE 2K14 Review (PS3)

Last year when THQ went under, the future of their gaming franchises were up in the air, including the WWE franchise. 2K Sports ended up getting the rights to the series, resulting in a lot of excitement considering the popularity of the NBA 2K series. Last year’s entry focusing on the legendary Attitude Era, WWE 2K14 takes it to the next level by focusing on the biggest event of the year for the world of wrestling, WrestleMania. This year marks WrestleMania XXX, so there is a lot of information to cover within the game. The real question is does WWE 2K14 do the epic event justice? Read on to find out.

The game has many modes to choose from, but the biggest addition would without a doubt the 30 Years of WrestleMania mode. You will find yourself playing matches from every single WrestleMania event, with the option of meeting the historical objectives being up to you. Should you choose to meet the objectives it will unlock wrestlers, attires, arenas, etc. This is a great mode for those that would love to relive the moments that made WrestleMania as amazing as it has always been. Looking to replay the Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon ladder match, or even the Bret Hart and Yokozuna match? These are all available to play through and they are accurately represented how they happened in the past.

While many would like to relive the earlier years of WrestleMania, there are plenty of other matches also. They are separated into different categories to choose from, but they must be unlocked in order to progress. One thing worth noting is the amazing detail they put into the cutscenes with the wrestlers. They are completely accurate, one of the best being the Randy Savage promo before his match against Hulk Hogan.

With the game using the catchphrase of Become Immortal, fans immediately know that this relates to The Phenom, The Deadman, The Undertaker. This man has remained undefeated at WrestleMania for over two decades, his current record is 21-0. WWE 2K14 chooses to put this milestone into the spotlight with its own mode. Players can choose to Defend The Streak or Defeat The Streak. In Defend The Streak you will take on the role of Taker and face as many opponents back to back until you are defeated. This challenge becomes increasingly difficult over time, and can have you face up to 100 opponents. Should you choose to attempt to Defeat The Streak you will find yourself in a very difficult scenario. In this mode, Taker is extremely difficult as you take him on in a No Holds Barred match, but even with anything allowed it is still a difficult task to complete.

The popular WWE Universe is once again in this entry with an addition of rivalries. Players can take control of any superstar, and manage any of the shows any way you see fit, including changing/creating shows. Adding in rivalries puts an entirely new dynamic into WWE Universe mode. It allows you to control who is having issues with who, including individual wrestlers and tag teams. These rivalries can be short, medium, or long in length, spanning up to 12 weeks. Over the course of the rivalries many different things can happen between the superstars, keeping things fresh.
The creation modes haven’t changed much between previous installments, which may bother many fans considering it has been quite some time since there has been a major overhaul of the mode. Yes, you can still create arenas, superstars, entrances, move-sets, and even finishers, but it would be nice if there was much more content available in the future. So hopefully in future games in the series we can see some change in this mode.

A huge addition is that there seems to be less issues with the online modes. In previous titles in the series there always seemed to be some issues with the servers at launch. This is huge for fans that love to take their skills online and challenge others in the ring. Players will now be able to play full matches, as well as level up their profiles based on their in ring performance. Just like in most fighting games you will also see how you compare to other players with the online leaderboards.

While some of the modes may not offer some of the changes that fans have been asking for, the gameplay is as fluid as ever. Going from grapple to strikes to reversals is as seamless as ever. As usual, all move-sets of your favorite superstars have been updated to what they were from when they began working on the game. You are able to once again target specific limbs to damage if you want to play it smart and decisively take out your opponent, or you can go at it Ryback style and demolish the opponent with devastating moves. The catching finishers that you have seen on live television from the likes of Randy Orton are better than ever, all it requires is you to launch your opponent into the air and have a finisher that is able to be executed as a catching finisher. The choice is yours, what kind of wrestler you would like to be?

The roster of WWE 2K14 is one of the best it has been in years. Last year had a great roster from The Attitude Era, but featured too many duplicates between the various superstars and divas. Yes there are some in WWE 2K14, but nowhere near the level of last year. You will find many additions that haven’t been included for years in a wrestling game including Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. There have also been additions of new superstars that recently debuted for the WWE, such as Big E Langston and Fandango. For fans of the series, yes they fixed Ryback’s character model from last year and it looks fantastic.

Graphically, the game has been tweaked for the better, but still remain similar to the graphics found in WWE 13. While they are by no means bad, this is just something else that fans have been asking for year after year. It should be interesting to see what is brought to the table with next year’s game. A nice touch is the addition of filters to the 30 Years Of WrestleMania. If it is set in a much older event a filter on the screen will represent that, and it will look as if you were watching older footage on your screen. Typically these bother me in games, but they work really well with the wrestling footage because that is how it is normally presented. The same can be said for the sounds of the game, which is easily the worst part of the game, and it has been for years. The main issue is hearing the same comments over and over from the ringside announcers. Hopefully this is something that will change in the future as well.

WWE 2K14 is well worthy of a purchase from wrestling fans, the fluid gameplay along with the 30 Years Of WrestleMania give you enough content that will keep you coming back to take out your would be opponents both offline and online. It will be interesting to see where the series will go now that 2K Sports will have a full year to work on the next game.

Hawken

Hawken is an upcoming first-person shooter that's different from every other game on this list. Instead of taking the role of a soldier or of a single man, players take on the role of a mech pilot who controls a giant, mechanized robot—not unlike the classic MechWarrior games from Activision. Unlike those relatively slow-paced games, Hawken will offer an intense, fast-paced experience while retaining the feeling of controlling a gigantic mech. Primarily developed for multiplayer, Hawken takes place in a dystopian human-colonized planet industrialized to the point of collapse, in which the hunt for resources has become a battle for survival.

 Four game modes are planned for release: team deathmatch, free-for-all deathmatch, "siege" and another yet-specified unique team game mode. Like the MechWarrior series, players will be able to control a mech from three mech classes; a heavy type, a light type, and a versatile all-rounder.

Platform: PC & Xbox 360.