Upcoming downloadable pack dubbed the “Trials of St. Lucia” to include a co-op mode, fully customizable level editor, and online community to share creations for Visceral’s upcoming hack ‘n slash action game.
Thanks to a apparently leaked video appearing on French video game site Playscope, details of a planned downloadable content pack for Dante’s Inferno have emerged, revealing cooperative multiplayer and customizable content creation for the game, set for release on April 29. According to senior producer Hans ten Cate in the video, “you can custom create trials adding waves of enemies from the core game as well as enemies like The Summoner which are exclusive to the Trials of St. Lucia.” These levels will then exist on the game’s servers and will be able to be shared with other players who can rate and rank the creations.
The co-op play allows players to play as Dante or St. Lucia. So…who is St. Lucia? “St. Lucia of Syracuse is a third century Christian martyr who has her eyes plucked out because she refuses to marry her pagan suitor,” says Jonathan Knight, the executive producer on the game. “She’s mentioned in The Divine Comedy a couple of times, including at the beginning of Inferno and she’s kind of Dante’s guardian angel.”
GameStop’s got an exclusive Pikachu-colored Pichu for your Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum Version. The Pichu holds a secret for the upcoming Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Version games.
Pokémon fans with a copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum have 12 more days to get in on GameStop’s Pikachu-colored Pichu giveaway.
The promotional freebie lets players add the level 30 Pichu to their Pokédex at GameStops across American (and in Puerto Rico) when they bring in their Game Cards and DS consoles. The Pikachu-colored Pichu comes with attacks like Charge and Endure, and special moves Volt Tackle and Endeavor. Also, he comes with the Held Item Everstone and his Poké Ball is actually the Cherish Ball – a special item only distributed at Pokémon events.
Obtaining Pichu provides gamers with a sneak peek at the upcoming Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games. By trading the freebie into one of the new games, players get to meet Spiky-eared Pichu from the movie, Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
The Pikachu-colored Pichu giveaway event ends February 14.
The United States Air Force Research Laboratory has ordered 2,000 PlayStation 3s, with the intention of creating a supercomputer by harnessing the processing power of the collective group.
1UP has come across a report from the US Department of Defense-owned news source Stars and Stripes stating that the US Air Force has commissioned a supercomputer comprised of 2,000 PlayStation 3s. The $2 million project will also utilize an “off-the-shelf” graphics processor to create a supercomputer “nearly 100,000 times faster than high-end computer processors sold today,” according to Stars and Stripes.
This isn’t the first time that a Sony video game console has been linked to a military power. About ten years ago, Sony’s PlayStation 2 was rumored to have been purchased en masse by the Iraq in order to build a supercomputer for military purposes. And you wonder why we couldn’t find “weapons of mass destruction” over there…