Plus, two months worth of Vita thoughts and where Sony is in terms of changing their persona. Oh…and Persona! Hori’s 6-button Persona 4 stick is slick, but will it come stateside?

True Performance Skating and Hockey I.Q. Create Innovative New Gameplay Experience

GM Connected and NHL Moments Live Provide All-New Experiences that Connect Hockey Fans to Their Friends and the Real-World of the NHL

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 18, 2012 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced today the key features for EA SPORTSTM NHL®13, promising the biggest change to the franchise since the introduction of the Skill Stick in NHL® 07. Headlined by all-new True Performance Skating, and supported by an innovative new A.I. system dubbed EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q., NHL 13 will deliver a revamped gameplay experience that accurately captures the speed, creativity and strategy of NHL hockey. In addition, NHL 13 will also deliver new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and the real world of hockey with the all-new GM Connected and NHL Moments Live modes. NHL 13 will be available on September 11, 2012 in North America and September 14, 2012 in Europe.

“The NHL team has been a leader when it comes to innovation in the sports videogame category on this console generation by redefining player control with the introduction of the Skill Stick, creating connected experiences such as the EA SPORTS Hockey League and introducing real world physics to the team sports category,” says Dean Richards, General Manager, NHL, EA SPORTS. “With our feature set in NHL 13, hockey fans and sports gamers have a lot to be excited about as we are again going to deliver major innovations that will change the way you play the game”

NHL 13 delivers an innovative new gameplay experience, accurately capturing the speed, creativity and strategy of today’s NHL through:

· True Performance Skating – A game-changing innovation for the franchise that adds physics-driven skating and over 1000 new animations. True Performance Skating authentically replicates the explosiveness, momentum and top end speed displayed by today’s NHL players. True Performance Skating combined with the Skill Stick, finally gives gamers access to the entire toolset of an NHL player, delivering unprecedented control and unlocking a level of creativity never before possible in a hockey videogame.

· EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q. – An innovative new A.I. system that governs the behaviors of players, goalies and team systems. In previous NHL games, players were only aware of skaters in their immediate proximity and goalies could only react to the player in control of the puck. With EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q., all players are now fully aware of every other player on the ice, resulting in quicker, smarter and more true-to-life decision-making. EA SPORTS Hockey IQ also delivers the deepest and most customizable set of real-world hockey systems and strategies ever for the franchise.

NHL 13 will deliver new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and to NHL hockey with:

· GM Connected – The ultimate fantasy league with friends. GM Connected takes the franchise’s most popular offline mode, Be a GM, and allows you to play with and against your friends in your own 30-team NHL. Whether you are a hardcore sports gamer or a hockey fan that moonlights as an armchair general manager, the mode offers unrivaled accessibility and depth by allowing players to manage, play or coach on the road to building your team’s legacy. GM’s can also take their experience with them with a mobile companion app, ensuring that they never miss a single moment.*

· NHL Moments Live – Rewrite or relive history as you replay some of the most thrilling moments from today’s NHL. NHL 13 evolves the concept introduced by other sports games, introducing each scenario with real-world NHL footage to bring players closer to the intensity of the moment. Moments from the 2011-12 NHL season will ship on disc and new moments from the 2012-13 NHL season will be added as and when available throughout the season.

Fans of the franchise can expect several other improvements and innovations in NHL 13, such as:

· Team-First Presentation, which customizes your NHL 13 experience based on your favorite NHL team

· The addition of Customizable EA SPORTS Hockey IQ allowing players to create and record their own player and team strategies to a level never before seen in the franchise.

· Improvements to core offline and online modes, including Hockey Ultimate Team, Be a Pro, EA SPORTS Hockey League, a refined on-ice presentation, and more.

If you’d like more information on both WayForward and Adventure Time, please check out our Ep49 – Extended for where we provide  our thoughts and praise on one of, if not the, best 2-D, hand-drawn, sprite-based development companies in gaming today.

Expect great things come this fall and get your pre-orders in now  (seriously, WayForward’s track record alone should warrant $5 down from any self-respecting DS or 3DS owner).

Series creator Pendleton Ward is working with the developer WayForward on designing a new storyline and quests for the game in which Finn and Jake wake up to find their trash stolen was stolen during the night by the Ice King in order to construct a Garbage Princess.  Deciding the King needs to learn a lesson, the duo journey through the Land of Ooo into dungeons filled with “unimaginable” treasures.  Players will take on the role of both Finn and Jake in a “unique action-adventure experience.

If you are a fan of the Adventure Time series, there is no better news for you than hearing that WayForward is in control of the property.  WayForward, as many of you may remember, took both Neal and Anthony’s developer of the year awards in 2011 for their efforts on Aliens Infestation and Thor: God of Thunder (Nintendo DS), as well as their work on BloodRayne: Betrayal (XBLA).

If you’d like more information on both WayForward and Adventure Time, please check out our Ep49 – Extended for where we provide  our thoughts and praise on one of, if not the, best 2-D, hand-drawn, sprite-based development companies in gaming today.

Expect great things come this fall and get your pre-orders in now.  Seriously, WayForward’s track record alone should warrant $5 down from any self-respecting DS or 3DS owner.

I cannot wait for this future classic by Platinum Games / Konami!!

Steel has acted in several independent films, LA theater productions, and web series. She appears on the popular YouTube web series “Fresh Hell”, which stars Brent Spiner. As a voice actress, Steel is best known for her work as Ibuki in Super Street Fighter IVand Tsuruhime in Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes.

About Fresh Hell

Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Brent Spiner will enjoy his latest comedy web project, “Fresh Hell”, now available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/freshhellseries.  In Fresh Hell, Spiner plays the part of a celebrity who has fallen from grace after committing some unmentioned atrocity, referred to as “The Incident.”

Spiner wants nothing more than to return to acting and to earn back respect, but both “The Incident” and his most famous role as Data keep getting in the way of that goal. Kat Steel stars alongside Spiner as she plays Dakota, Spiner’s “doe-eyed, eager-to-please” porn star neighbor.