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New York Comic Con and GIGA Geek Magazine – Galactus Challenge

Galactus Challenge – For those of you at New York Comic Con
October 11th – 12th

Where’s Hawk Girl and Where’s Galactus!? –
Find our new publisher, Stephanae Turner in her god-like awesomeness walking around the convention floor.  When you spot Stephanae Turner in Galactus cosplay, walk up to her and yell loudly like a Goat in heat and say “I love GIGA: Geek Magazine and all things Stephanae, now give me my shwag” and win a raffle entry for one of our awesome prizes in our booty chest! (YES, I SAID BOOTY CHEST).  Also, Galactus may ask you a few geek trivia questions for instant wins and possible selection for the new Geek Game Show on GIGAnet! Galactus--screenshot_large

Schwag Mania
Prizes include:
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Portal Game Schwag
Arcade Gamer Schwag
Mass Effect Schwag
Star Wars Schwag
Doctor Who Schwag
Gamer themed Schwag
Collectible figures Schwag
Plush Schwag
Random Silly Schwag

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Batman Arkham Bundle

Warner Bros. will be releasing a bundle containing Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.  The Batman Arkham bundle will cost $49.99, and will be released 9/23/13. Arkham Asylum will be coming with four additional challenge maps, while Arkham City will be accompanied by Harley Quinn’s Revenge mission, Catwoman Pack, Nightwing Bundle Pack, Robin Bundle Pack, Challenge Map Pack and Arkham City Skins Pack.

 

With Warner Bros. preparing to release Batman: Arkham Origins October 25, 2013 worldwide, fans will have some time to get caught up on The Dark Knight’s crazy time in Arkham. There is a superb chance, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City are the best two superhero games ever made. Even with Warner Bros. Montréal working on Origins, it will likely be another epic escapade, with incredible fighting mechanics.

 

Currently, we can only find the game on the United States GameStop site, but we will keep you posted on a worldwide release of the Batman Arkham Bundle!

Atlus Being Bought-Out by SEGA?

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Atlus’ parent company, Index Corporation, recently filed for civil rehabilitation (basically filing for bankruptcy in United States terms). Somewhere in the ballpark of 20 companies have placed bids to purchase Index Corporation, but according to Bloomberg, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. (SEGA’s parent company) has won an auction to purchase Index for ¥14 billion (around $141 million US).

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Atlus may not be a huge publisher here in the states, but they put out some quality titles. These titles do sell best in China and Japan, but the Shin Megami Tensei series (along with its Persona spin-off series) have garnered much love here in North America over the past few years. Atlus also publishes beloved games like Etrian Odyssey and Trauma Center and even some cult-classics like CatherineDemon’s SoulsMetal Slug XXGame of Thrones (the game), The Testament of Sherlock Holmes and most recently Dragon’s Crown.

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With many Japanese publishers struggling to sell games on a global scale, maybe SEGA’s acquisition of Atlus is for the best. Atlus put out some spectacular games, but failed to achieve the sales needed to keep the company afloat. Maybe with the SEGA branding, Persona can finally become as big as it should be.

Stay tuned to all your gaming news here at GIGAGeekMagazine.

Pokemon X/Y: What’s New

Once again, back, it is the incredible! In less than one month, 3DS and 2DS owners will be able to get their hands on Pokémon X/Y stateside. In preparation for this joyous release (October 12, 2013 for those counting down), I have compiled some of the bigger changes to the mechanics, graphics and overall gameplay of the up coming 6th generation titles.

  • NEW POKÉMON TYPE: FAIRY


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Not since the olden days of Pokémon Gold/Silver on the Gameboy Color, have fans seen a new type classification in the Pokémon world. X/Y will introduce the Fairy-type. This will not only include new Pokémon to the series (like the new Eevee evolution, Sylveon and Pokémon X’s cover creature, Xerneas), but even old favorites will be retyped to be included in the Fairy class (like Jigglypuff and Marill). What is most interesting about the new Fairy-types is where they sit in type match-ups. Fairy-type attacks are only the third Pokémon type that is super-effective against Dragons. They are also super-effective on Fighting and Dark types. On the flip side, Fairy-type attacks only dish out half damage to Fire, Poison and Steel -types. As far as defense goes, Fairy-types take half damage from Fighting, Bug and Dark-types and take super-effective hits from Poison and Steel-types. The kicker though, Dragon-type attacks are completely ineffective against Fairy-types. Game changer? I think so.

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  • MEGA EVOLUTIONS

Once upon a time, way back in the Pokémon Red/Blue days, there was a rumor of God-Pokémon. They were to be an evolution of the final stages for the Kanto starters: Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur. Back then, this was of course, a lie. Now, it is truth. Along with those starters, other favorites including Lucario and Hoenn starter, Blaziken, will have mega evolutions. These powered up forms increase stats and may even grant your Pokémon a new in-battle ability; however, these effects do not last. There are two things that will keep players from spamming these unique evolutions: each Pokémon will require a specific mega evolution item in order to evolve and these transformations can only take place during battle. For those of you, like myself, that have a couple of Kanto starters in your box, you cannot just spam a fleet of Mega Blastoises (assuming that is the plural of it). Also, in keeping with the theme of version specific Pokémon, the legendary Mewtwo returns with a mega evolution that is dependent on which version of the game you are playing.

  • TRAINING IMPROVEMENTS

For those who are not aware of the depths of Pokémon, allow me to put you on game. There are three types of stats in Pokémon: the stats you see (Attack, Special Attack, Defense, Special Defense, HP and Speed), the stats you do not see (Effort Values) and the stats you almost do not believe exist (Individual Values). The first comes as simple numeric values. You can have a 100 for Special Attack, which determines how effective your special attacks (i.e. flamethrower or water gun) will be against your opponent’s Special Defense. Savvy? Excellent. What a lot of people do not know about are Effort Values or EVs. To put it simply, every Pokémon has a particular stat tied to it (i.e. Pikachu is worth two Speed EVs). For every four points you accumulate towards a stat, your stat will go up by one (if you knock out two Pikachus at two Speed EVs each, your Speed will go up by one). Originally, you would not be able to see these values in any concrete way. X/Y will not only give you an easier way to earn these points, but also allow you to watch your Pokémon grow through the use of mini games. Though they have yet to show the full list of games, the basic premise will be play the game, earn Training Bags and then use Training Bags to raise your stats. Far easier than having to hunt down a particular Pokémon and battle it ad nauseam, until you achieve the desired effect. The final stat, Individual Values or IVs, deals with a Pokémon’s most basic statistical levels and determines what the highest level of a particular stat may be. This is a completely different level of depth, which does not seem to have changed much in this new generation. Just remember it is indeed there.

  • AND SO MUCH MORE

Honestly, there are a lot of new minor details, which may not stand out until your average players are hours into their adventure. You will be able to customize your character’s look to a fair extent (hair style and color, skin color and even style of clothes as you get further into the game).

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Play with your Pokémon to increase friendliness:

Battles in the skies for Flying-types and Pokémon with the Levitate ability:

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Horde battles against multiple Pokémon:

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And, you can even ride some of the Pokémon!!

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Long story short, this is going to be one for the books. If you have been sleeping on the phenomenon that is Pokémon, this is an awesome time to make your 3DS useful again. Hopefully, this will help get you ready for greatness. October 12, 2013, it is going down.

~the Ace of Spades

Source: Serebii.net, Pokémon.com