Today Activison announced they are hooking up with Logitech to create new premium controllers for Guitar Hero: World Tour. These premium controllers will allow the players to use some of GH: World Tour’s advanced features. This news comes shortly after the Rock Band team announced that they will be offering a premium drum kit that doubles as a fully featured electronic drum kit. However, none of these advanced features have been detailed by the developers. As soon as these details surface you can be sure to find them right here on 360Sync. 

Today Ubisoft announced a new survival-adventure game called I Am Alive. In the game you are forced to make important decisions that will help you survive after the city of Chicago is left in ruins. How the city became this way is unclear. However, these decisions directly affect you and everyone else around you. The title features immense scale and a great range of emotions. The game is expected to be released in the spring of 2009. You can find the debut trailer of I Am Alive down below.

 

 

 

Events:

 

SF IV Tournaments every morning at 11am, register early as soon as the show starts to get a berth to compete.

 

SFIV Tournaments at 3pm on FRI, SAT and SUN afternoons.

 

Grand Tournament at 3pm on SUN

 

Prize: Exclusive limited edition SFIV Chun-Li action figure

 

Daily “Making of SFIV” presentation by Ono-san

 

Calling ALL SF cosplayers! SF Cosplay parade and contest on Friday at 2:30pm – winner personally chosen by Ono-san. Prize = Chun-Li statue

 

 

Panels:

 

THU 7/24, 3:15-4:15, Room 6 CDEF

The Making of Street Fighter IV featuring Ono-san, Crislip.

 

FRI 7/25, 2-3pm, Room 2

Capcom Presents: How to Get a Job in the Video Game Industry with Capcom insiders as well as industry vets.

 

SAT 7/26, 6-7pm, Room 2

The Making of Bionic Commando and Bionic Commando: Rearmed featuring Ben Judd, Andy Diggle, Justin Marks, and meet the BC himself!

 

Cool Giveaways when you Demo Capcom Games:

 

Exclusive SFIV Ryu headband

SFIV poster

Bionic Commando poster

Dark Void frisbee flyer

Capcom lanyards

Capcom mints

Capcom character tattoos

 

The graphics are notably good for a family title. Character models look great and the environments pop out at you. One thing that impressed me was the glistening water. Gamers of all ages will appreciate the visuals of this title. 

 

Kung Fu Panda is filled with plenty of boss battles and minigames. At key points of the game you take control of other characters to complete different missions that tie in to the movie’s plot. Throughout the game your collecting coins to purchase upgrades to your moves and costume. Your moves consist of either quick moves or power moves. You can also use combinations of buttons for specialized moves. The games combo system works beautifully, moves that may result from a well executed combo make it an incentive to not resort to button mashing.

 

A few downsides to the game is that your restricted to local play only. There is no online multiplayer whatsoever. Another downside is that the seemingly addictive game can get repetitive after a while. All in all, this is still a great family title for gamers young and old. If you enjoyed the movie, you will definitely enjoy the video game adaption of Kung Fu Panda. 

 

Today marks the first day that gamers can battle it out in EndWar’s multiplayer. At midnight Ubisoft turned on their servers and started a staggered release of redemption codes to those who applied for the beta. Gamers have been reporting that the staggered release has been causing nothing but trouble as they have had a hard time finding games all day. All accepted entrants should receive their codes by the end of the night. Up until the date of July 7th, gamers can duke it out in 1v1 or 2v2 matches over Xbox Live. So, be sure to check your inbox if you applied and head to the marketplace to download your 2.98 GB piece of action.

Oh, and if you made it in… we would like to hear your thoughts! Please remember to honor the NDA and not talk about the game outside the official forums!

In the 20th installment of EA’s Madden NFL Football, EA is promising over 85 new features and enhancements over Madden ’08. Two of these features has EA Sports really pumped about this years release of Madden ’09. “BackTrack” is a new feature that will most definitely be praised by gamers as it will find mistakes you made from your plays and show you what you should do next time. Hardcore sports fans will be happy to know that there is an advanced version of this that will give more information including play calls and success rates.

Another one of the games new features is the Virtual Training Center, a new tutorial mode set in a holographic environment. This is great for casual gamers that can use a few pointers when it comes to football strategy and concepts. The games difficulty settings will be set based on the players strengths and weaknesses after completing the tutorial.

You can also expect the game to include the detail and quality of previous madden games when it hits store shelves on August 12.