Mom's Minute

Young  Justice: Legacy is an upcoming action Role Playing Game (RPG)  where you have the choice of multiple characters to explore, fight, gather experience and level up. Young  Justice: Legacy is based on the Warner Brothers television show that airs on the Cartoon network.

Scene from Young  Justice:  Legacy

If you are a fan of the Young  Justice television series, you may know that there is a five year gap between Season 1 and 2.  The next new offering of the Young  Justice video game will include via gameplay what happened during that five-year gap.

Young  Justice:  Legacy screenshot

Additionally, you can expect  about twelve characters in the game and possibly DLC when the game is released which may give you even more characters.

Young  Justice:  Legacy releases in February 2013, and will be playable on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Nintendo WII and DS.

Young Justice: Legacy Scheduled for 2013. Read more.

Will Orbis be the next PlayStation video game console?

An obvious omission at E3 2012 was news about the next generation video game consoles that will replace the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.  In fact, at Microsoft's press conference the announcer tooted that Xbox 360 was the biggest selling video game console worldwide, with no mention of what is ahead for the next Xbox. 

Will there be an Xbox 720 or a new Xbox?

Microsoft and Sony have vested interest in avoiding talk about their next generation of video game consoles.  The culprit? Money -- in the millions -- spent to market their current big blockbuster video games out for the Xbox 360 and the PS3.  Microsoft is preparing to launch its biggest video game ever, Halo 4.  With even a whisper about the next Xbox, sales of the video game could be scuttled.  Sony appears to be concentrating on getting out of its money crunch by profiting on the current PS 3 as much as possible.

WII U, only new hardware at E3

Instead of talking about the next generation of video consoles, attention was diverted to the video games coming out for the new WII U, which will be available holiday season, 2012.

Many gamers think the next generation of video game consoles will be introduced in 2013.  With Microsoft and Sony being mum about consoles at E3 2012, we will just have to wait and see.

WII U More the Offer than Xbox 360 and PS3 Read more.

Halo 4 Release Date is November 6, 2012

If you plan to purchase Halo 4, you may be happy to know that there are pre-order bonuses available, including money back credit on a future video game purchase.

Microsoft is offering $25.00 off your next video game purchase if you preorder Halo 4 from the Microsoft on-line store. The fine print states the $25.00 is not redeemable for cash.

Microsoft is the only company offering the $25.00 money back credit for Halo 4. The company other bonuses include artic battle rifle skins.   Pre-order bonuses from GameStop, Best Buy and Amazon.com include customizable armor skins.

Customizable armor skin available from GameStop with Halo 4 pre-orders

In addition to the armor skins, Best Buy's Halo 4 pre-order bonuses include a Halo 4 poster that's available right away if you pre-order at the store.  A Halo 4 poster will be included with your order when it ships if you order from Best Buy online. 

Halo 4 poster available from Best Buy for Halo 4 pre-orders

Halo 4 will be playable on the Xbox 360.

                         Halo 4 Trailer

E3 2012 June 5-7, 2012

As the video game industry professionals, participants, attendees and others bid farewell to E3 2012, now is a good time to take a look back over some of the biggest announcements.

Prior to E3 2012, a lot of the new video games were previewed as trailers.  As a result, during the show, there seemed to be few surprises. The exceptions included a new video game that was met with rave reviews -- Ubisoft's Watch Dogs. 

Ubisoft's Watch Dogs revealed at E3 2012

Microsoft introduced the Xbox Smart Glass  app which enables you to play video games across consoles and mobile devices.

Nintendo WII U appeared again at E3 2012 -- this time in final form with a release timeframe of holiday season, 2012.

New video games were introduced such as Assassin's Greed III, Far Cry 3 from Ubisoft and Beyond: 2 Souls, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider by Sony, plus many others.  Most of the games had pre-E3 trailers available prior to the convention.

Tomb Raider video game

Star Wars 1313 was at E3 2012. 

Another announcement was the reveal that Star Wars 1313 would be a mature rated game and the main character would be the bounty hunter.

No mentions were made of next generation consoles or when the systems are expected to go into production.  This omission  gave us an indirect message to probably get used to playing on the same consoles for a number of years, with longer intervals between hardware changes.

Street Fighter X Tekken:  May the best man (or woman) win!

Street Fighter X Tekken, also known as SFXTK is a Capcom video game that will test your battling skills whether you are a newbie in training or an experienced player. With 38  to choose from, you can have your pick of legendary Tekken as well as Street Fighter characters.

 Would you like to move up another notch almost effortless and start winning more fights?  Then you need to know about  gems on SFXTK.

Some of Streetfighter X Tekken characters

The gem system plays to your strengths and weaknees in the game.  There are six gem types: assist, attack, cross gauge, defense, speed and vitality. There are three slots per character with color coded crystals.

How do you use the gems?  If your guard is weak, toss in a gem to shore up your defense. If you are too slow in landing a blow, throw in a speed gem. Capcom has assured us gems balance out, rather than give players unfair advantages.

 Unfortunately, gems are not free.  If you can overlook the cost, gems provide a way for you to evaluate your game fighting skills with a layer of customization to build your ideal combatatant. Ideal fighting characters combined with your video game fighting skills will undoubtedly put you on a winning streak when playing Street Fighter X Tekken.

Of course adding gems alone will not guarantee you more wins, but as the saying goes, "Every little bit helps."