Por: Juan Carlos Delgado

¡Llegó el jueves! Lo que significa que llega otra semana más de nuevo contenido en el PlayStation Store. Esta vez con nuevo contenido adicional para Batman: Arkham Asylum y el tan esperado BrokenSteel para Fallout 3. También llega el demo de Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 y una reducción de precio en los juegos Brain Challenge y Droplitz. Además, no podían faltar nuevas canciones para Rock Band y Guitar Hero. Para la lista completa del nuevo contenido en la tienda, presiona aquí.

Juegos

• Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge ($9.99)
• Zombie Apocalypse ($9.99)

Juegos a nuevos precios

• Brain Challenge (ahora: $4.99)
• Brain Challenge Expansion Pack (ahora: $1.99)
• Droplitz (ahora: $4.99)

Venta Especial

• Canciones de Guitar Hero World Tour a $1.50 por canción, 25 a escoger.

Demos (GRATIS)

• Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Demo
• Zombie Apocalypse Demo
• Lost Planet 2 Co-Op Campaign Demo
• Wolfenstein Demo
• Punisher: No Mercy Demo

Contenido Adicional

• Batman: Arkham Asylum Prey In The Darkness Map Pack (GRATIS)
• Fallout 3: Broken Steel ($9.99)
• Madden NFL 10 AFL Legacy Pack ($6.99)
• Midnight Club LA Police Car Pack (GRATIS)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Sheshan Golf Course ($7.50)

Guitar Hero

• “Munich” by Editors ($1.99)
• “The Geeks Were Right” by The Faint ($1.99)
• “Dull Life” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs ($1.99)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs/The Faint/Editors Track Pack ($5.49)

Rock Band

• “Amongst the Waves”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Force of Nature”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Got Some”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Johnny Guitar”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Just Breathe”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Speed of Sound”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Gonna See My Friend”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “The End”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “The Fixer”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Unthought Known”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• “Supersonic”— Pearl Jam ($1.99)
• Backspacer (Album) — Pearl Jam ($17.99)

Vídeos (GRATIS)

• Pulse 9/24 Edition
• PS3 TV Spot Desperate Dad
• PS3 TV Spot Rumor Monger
• Motion Controller Update Part I
• NBA 2K10: Draft Combine Trailer
• Fallout 3: Broken Steel Trailer
• Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage Trailer
• Fallout 3: The Pitt Trailer
• WET Official Trailer
• Shatter Trailer
• FIFA Soccer 10 Virtual Pro Tutorial
• Demon’s Souls Intense Action Trailer

Temas visuales para el PS3

• B17 Flying Fortress ($1.99)
• Globulars Theme ($1.99)

Imágenes de fondo (GRATIS)

• Fate/Unlimited Codes Wallpaper 2

Y… seguimos en este sprint de publicar juegos sin parar. Ahora llega el turno de Más Reto Mental, la segunda parte de Reto Mental que fue uno de los primeros juegos que apareció en el App Store en sus inicios el año pasado. Así que, por 3.99€ estrújate las neuronas de una vez que tanto veranito y tanta vacación te han dejado la cabeza hueca. Comienza a centrarte que hay que volver al insti, a la uni y al trabajo y más te vale estar despejado y con el cerebro en marcha si quieres llegar a alguna parte.

Aquí tienes unas pantallas y la descripción oficial de este juego de gimnástica neuronal que te ayudará a mejorar tus habilidades en atención, mates, visión, memoria, lógica y control de estrés -como lo oyes, control de estrés sin que tengas que aprenderte ningún mantra.

BÁJATE MÁS RETO MENTAL AQUÍ y demuéstra quién es el más listo, forastero. Te espero para un duelo al amanecer.

“¿Crees que lo sabes todo sobre el cerebro? ¡Vuelve a pensar!

“Ojalá que la educación real fuera tan divertida como este entrenador cerebral.” – PockerGamer.co.uk (8/10 & Silver Award)

Reto Mental 2: ¡Vuelve a pensar! es la última versión de la franquicia de juegos mentales para iPhone y iPod touch y ofrece un entrenamiento mental completo. Entrena tu cerebro en las categorías clásicas: Memoria, Visual, Lógica, y Mates, además de las categorías innovadoras y exclusivas de la franquicia Reto Mental (Brain Challenge) de Gameloft: Estrés, Atención y la categoría exclusiva para iPhone, la práctica de Visión.

• Un total de 43 minijuegos que aseguran horas de diversión y desafío para el cerebro.
• 30 minijuegos para desarrollar tus capacidades de mates, lógica, memoria y atención.
• 5 minijuegos para reducir tu estrés y ayudarte a relajarte.
• Nunca visto en el iPhone: minijuegos para entrenar tu vista y evitar la pérdida de visión.
• 3 minijuegos extras.
• 4 entrenadores y un sistema de gráficas que ofrecen el programa de desarrollo más personalizado.
• Una interfaz remodelada que muestra el avatar del jugador y el porcentage de uso del cerebro.
• Gráficos frescos que convierten a este juego en un regalo para los ojos.”

Do you play games on your cellphone? Chances are that if you do, you have played with Gameloft games.

This is a company that is 10 years old and was founded in Paris in 1999 by two brothers. Today the company has offices around the world, 4.000 employees and revenues of 110.000.000 Eur in 2008.

The company is riding the wave of mobile applications and games, so there is  still a lot of room for growth for a specialised player like Gameloft. Their business is about developing good games and striking deals with phone operators and phone manufacturers, but also about selling their games directly on their own website www.gameloft.com new platforms like Apple’s AppStore, Android’s Store (Google’s store for mobile applications), Ovi Store (Nokia’s store) etc…

So basically, this company should be particularly interesting if you are a programmer or a designer as they need talent to develop and improve games. Product managers probably have to handle technical people, creative people and business people.

Business people probably spend a lot of time organising the release of a new game. Marketing people work on communication (where to advertise, what to say, where to invest), on innovation (recommendations on new games, improvements etc…) and on daily business management like analysing and reporting results and setting up action plans. Sales are about establishing and maintaining relationships with the companies that make the mobile devices (AKA as OEMs, like Nokia, Blackberry, HTC, Sony, Apple) or the phone carriers like Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange etc…

It’s always useful to work at an industry leader that is growing really fast. You can work with the best talent, the best technology and the name of company will make it much easier to negotiate deals with manufacturers, phone companies, software companies. There must be plenty of opportunities to grow internally and possibly move to different countries on new assignments. Also, the work atmospheere is bound to be electric, with a lot of yound dynamic people doing pretty exciting stuff.

The company is listed on the Paris stock exchange so pressure is probably pretty high to meet the quarterly numbers and keep growing fast.

Examples of jobs:

• Global Key Account manager in Paris – http://www2.gameloft.com/corpo_jobs.php?job_country=73#2
• IPhone 3D Videogames Programmer in Barcelona   http://www2.gameloft.com/corpo_jobs.php?job_country=195

So do you kwow anybody who has worked at Gameloft? Do you have insights on how the mobile gaming industry works for those who are thinking of sending their CV?

StarFoxA can have his 100,000 wiki points. While he’s been contributing large amounts of quality information for a group of games, I’ve taken a slightly different route, contributing smaller amounts of data for many more games.

Today I decided to focus on WiiWare, uploading “box art” for the games and making sure the release info was up to snuff. Not particularly exciting, but I don’t do it for the excitement. I just went about this task for awhile, and then I decided to load up my contributions page. Scrolling through the list of pages I’ve contributed to, I eventually reached the bottom of the page and was greeted by this:

That’s 10,001 individual pages that I have at least 1 wiki point on, which is more than any other user. It’s even more than admin has, and admin gets a point every time a page is created with an image. admin was the user that came closest to beating me though.

I believe Brain Challenge was the page that brought the count to 10,000, but here are some of the other things that brought me to this point:

Genre – Block-Breaking
Breakout, Arkanoid, there’s a ton of ‘em. When the genre was added to the site the only game listed with the genre was Shatter. I spent a lot of time making sure other block-breaking games were accounted for, adding several to the database in the process.

Platform – PC
110 points, no actual page edits. Apparently I got all those points by attaching the platform to games. In most cases they were newly created pages. 100 new pages for PC games? I’m actually surprised.

Concept – Steam
Games distributed through Steam are common contributions, whether I’m helping write the article, attaching the concept to games, or creating new pages for Steam games. Perhaps that’s how I ended up creating so many new pages for PC games.

Game – Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
I’ve contributed various things to many aspects of this game. Most characters, Personas, locations, nearly every person listed in the credits. It’s a great game and it deserves the attention.

Game – Scribblenauts
There’s so much stuff in this game. I could keep adding characters, objects, and concepts for some time. Be sure to buy the game this September because it looks pretty sweet.

Theme – Adult
Giant Bomb has a lot of pages for adult games, many of them with impressive articles. I’m one of the sick people responsible for this. But I’m not alone, so don’t be hatin’ on me exclusively.

Theme – Anime
A very popular theme, found in many Japanese games. Many of them were added by yours truly.

Companies no one likes – Particularly Data Design Interactive
I make sure Giant Bomb covers such games as Billy the Wizard and Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures. Why? Why not!

People
These are the guys making those games for companies no one likes. Adding hundreds of person pages isn’t fun, but it’s something that needs to be done. Or not. I’m not sure if anyone really cares what games Bill Alexander was credited in, but I make sure people know anyway.

Releases
Every release added counts separately. I add a lot of releases, and it adds up. A lot of people forget about this feature, but it really is an important feature of any video game database. If we had more help in this area, it would be great.
Maybe it could even help you beat me. 

View this blog on Giant Bomb

Tras los lanzamientos de Real Football, Asphalt 4 y  Pop Superstar: Entra en la Academia para la tienda virtual de la pequeña de Nintendo, llega para nosotros Reto Mental Dsiware. Estrújate las neuronas hasta ser el más listo de la clase por sólo 800 puntos Dsi. ¡Todo en castellano por supuesto!

Ahí van unas características:

“Igual que tu cuerpo, tu cerebro necesita hacer ejercicio para mantenerse en forma. Estos ejercicios cerebrales deberían aliviar tu dolor, estrés y aburrimiento. ¡Es una como una inyección de vitaminas para tu cerebro! Reto Mental es más que un simple juego o programa, es tu entrenador personal y una manera fácil y divertida de mantener tu cerebro alerta. Además, ¡puedes personalizar tu perfil y algunos ejercicios con tu foto!

¡Entrénate donde y cuando quieras con tu consola Nintendo DSi!

o Reto Mental es una solución sencilla y entretenida para mantener la actividad cerebral que va más allá de los tests de lógica e incrementa tu porcentage real de uso cerebral.
o Gracias a una gama completa de 48 minijuegos divididos en 7 categorías, Reto Mental te proporciona un entrenamiento cerebral inigualable, sin necesidad de tener que repetir el mismo ejercicio dos veces.
o Elige entre la doctora Hurley o el profesor Stevens para que se convierta en tu entrenador personal y establece una relación única con ella/él: Reto Mental no es solo un juego cerebral, es una experiencia interactiva completa.
o Un exclusivo modo de estrés, en el que te enfrentarás a desafíos de autoridad y multitarea, te ayudará a mejorar la capacidad de tu cerebro para enfrentarse al estrés de la vida diaria.
o Niveles de dificultad autoajustables, seguimiento personal de tu entrenador y la posibilidad de personalizar tu perfil y ejercicios con tus propias fotos. Todo esto hace de Reto Mental un juego único para cada usuario.
o Los controles simples e intuitivos, para una experiencia fácil y accesible, proporcionan al usuario una interfaz sencilla: ¡controles sencillos con el lápiz táctil, y agradables y coloridos gráficos optimizados para el uso diario de todo el mundo! “

You know what time it is, right? Of course you do since your an avid visitor to our humble abode in this corner of the web. But if your not then we welcome you to our weekly feature called What to Play. Its where we plainly lay out all of the playable content that was released this past week for the PS3. If you would like other consoles listed let us know in the comments below. Also if you would like to check out previous weeks or bookmark a page for future releases just click here. So, without further a do… Enjoy!

If there is anything else you would like to see included or have any feedback regarding this feature please feel free to leave us a comment below. We look forward to hear what you have to say.

Brain Challenge just joined the short list of Xbox Live Arcade games that support Avatars, as confirmed by Major Nelson’s recent Tweet. Avatar support is installed into Brain Challenge via a new title update, automatically downloaded the next time you launch the game online. While we’ll take our cameos wherever we can get ‘em, Brain Challenge wasn’t exactly the next destination we had in mind for our cartoon likenesses. Street Fighter II HD on the other hand … now that’s the kind of game we could really see ourselves in!

Source;

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/03/11/brain-challenge-title-update-adds-avatar-support/

Brian Challenge down-loadable from the PSN… First impression? CHEEZY! Dig a little deeper though and it’s not a bad title.  Get my opinion on the other side…

This game is made up of mini games under the categories of logic, math, memory, visual, and focus.  Designed to simulate a mental gym you start off with a brain test that consists of a complete round of the categories listed above and the plastic looking girl in the lab jacket tells you what percentage of your brain your using.  Choose your coach, plastic girl or plastic boy and away you go. (Don’t worry, you can choose to change coaches later from the settings menu if you decide you don’t like the one you picked.)

You can then go to the training room and practice the individual categories or do the whole line up in the daily brain test as often as you like. There is a daily stress test.  The stress test is made up of the same mini games to which they have added a variety of visual and audio distractions.  The game will only save the first “Stress Test” that you do each calender day.  As your performance improves you unlock more mini games and gain higher rankings.

The mode I like best is the multiplayer card game.  Two to four players are dealt a hand of cards, each with a symbol corresponding to the categories I mentioned above.  There is a bomb in the top left corner of the screen and the fuse begins to burn as soon as your turn begins.  Once you choose the card you want to play your mini game begins and you must solve it before the bomb explodes to be rid of a card.  For every three challenges you complete you can earn a bonus card that allow you to place more cards in opponents hands, remove cards from your hand, or decrease the time your opponent has to finish their next turn.  Play ends when someone empties their hand of cards.  Remaining cards dock you points and the winner is who ever has the highest score at the end of the round.

I found the lack of instructions for some of the mini games frustrating and the campy graphics a bit childish but once I got in and played a bit I found myself enjoying the game.  I have a hard time believing the claim that I’ll be able to use 100% of my brain upon completion of the game and I have found some of the challenges actually increased my personal stress level.  I have managed to bring my brain usage percent up to 26% from 6% and now the kids are trying to pass me up.  I think the game is worth having just for the fact that it got my teenager to WANT to play a game that involves math.

I found this game available for PC, DS, X-Box 360, Wii, and the PS3 download.  I have also seen this available for download to a phone.  
Brain Challenge for PC

Så vad har PSN-tomten med sig den här veckan?


Jo, det ska jag berätta för er.
- Ett demo för Lego Batman
- Spelet Brain Challenge
- Spelet GTI Club+ Rally Côte d’Azu
- PS One-spelet Command & Conquer: Retaliation
- PS One-spelet Jet Rider
- I övrigt Smashing Pumpkins-paket till Guitar Hero World Tour, en gratis kostym till Little Big Planet (gjord av vinnaren i en japansk tävling) och Jedi Temple Mission Pack till Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.


Hela listan kan du som vanligt läsa på NeoGAF.

Gameloft Games for Mobile Internet Devices
Gameloft, a publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles, will support Intel Atom processor-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and netbooks. It has begun porting selected games to these devices and will showcase its flagship game “Brain Challenge” at Intel Developer Forum, Taipei.

http://www.takeongames.com/pcgame/brain-challenge/1137

• Visual, memory, logic game
• Stress management mode
• Manage your mental health

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So Phoenix Wright. I’m playing it. Trials and Tribulations. The third one. Yep, its definitely Phoenix Wright. Somehow I wish they added some new stuff to do though. First game had 3D clues, second game added Psych locks… third game? I don’t know yet. I’m a little less excited about the game, I don’t know why – maybe cause I couldn’t invest a huge chunk of time to playing it in a sitting these days…

Rubik’s cube – So I don’t know why, but I went and bought myself a rubik’s cube or two. First one was a keychain version costing 20PHP (50 cents), and I broke that one after learning how to solve it for the first time. The next day I bought a $4 one – much better. Spent the rest of the day memorizing the patterns and now I’m pretty decent at it. Why pick up a rubik’s cube? I guess I’ve always wanted to randomly find an unsolved one and just put it back together.

I won an XBLA game – Brain Challenge. Thanks to the active blogging of our friends Wuffy and scthyerage from http://thirdworldgamer.blogspot.com/, and Xbox Singapore.