Following the great time we had at E3 with Slang and their live Lucha Libre event we recently got a chance to interview Mateo Rojas, Immersion´s Project Designer.

FBG: What inspired you to create a Lucha Libre style wrestling game with all those WWE games out there?

Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game FINAL FANTASY XIV is set for global release on September 30, 2010 for Windows PC.

In advance of the September 30 release, FINAL FANTASY XIV PC Collector’s Edition will offer early access to adventurers eager to embark on this new chapter in the FINAL FANTASY series. In addition, the Beta phase for the Windows PC version will begin in early July 2010.

High Moon Studios, award-winning developer of Transformers: War for Cybertron, will be hosting a double XP multiplayer weekend starting this Friday, July 2^nd at 6:00pm PST through Sunday, July 4^th.  Anyone playing in multiplayer matches on the Xbox 360, PS3 or PC versions of the game will earn double XP rewards and level up faster than ever.

DJ Hero 2 will transform living rooms into nightclubs letting budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends fire up two turntables and a microphone to experience their favorite music together as they’ve never heard it before.  The follow-up to the award-winning, #1 new videogame IP of 2009, DJ Hero 2 delivers the ultimate way for gamers to come together with a host of new multiplayer modes that pit DJ against DJ in unique Battle Mixes, invite vocalists into the spotlight with scoring based on pitch and range detection and bring the party to life with jump-in/jump-out Party Play gameplay.  Featuring the biggest dance, pop and hip-hop hits by the hottest artists everyone knows and loves remixed by world-class DJ’s in an all-new way, the game’s soundtrack delivers over 70 unique mashups only available in DJ Hero 2.  Further immersing players into the music,  the game offers a heightened level of creative input and allows everyone to add their own touch, directly impacting the beats they’re spinning with Freestyle scratching, cross-fading and sampling, performed at set points in the mix.

SEGA of America, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing) today announced that the second downloadable content pack for Aliens vs Predator will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360, PlayStation Store for the PlayStation3 computer and PC. This first newly designed Map Pack, including 4 brand new maps and new weather types will be available on July 7 2010, allowing players to prove their skills on the killing grounds of BG-386.

Axe shredding rockaholics, virtual mix maestros and all of their friends will come together and party this holiday weekend with new downloadable content for Activision  Guitar Hero and DJ Hero.  Available today and featuring some of the biggest hits from global pop sensations such as Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, Duran Duran and  Maroon 5, the Pop 1 Track Pack for the Guitar Hero Music Library and the DJ Hero Dance Party Mix Pack will provide hours of nonstop, party rockin’, beat blastin’ entertainment for the whole crew to enjoy.

Games & Demos for PlayStation 3
inFamous ($29.99)
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 demo

Games & Demos for PSP
Midway Arcade Treasures Extended Play ($9.99)
Hot Shots Tennis: Get A Grip ($19.99)
Bejeweled 2 PSP ($9.99)
LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival Bundle ($9.99)
PSP minis: Mahjonng Solitaire ($2.99)
PSP minis: Arcade Darts ($3.99)
PSP minis: Stellar Attack ($4.49)
PSP minis: Egypt Engineering An Empire ($3.99)
PSP minis: Hello Flowerz! ($4.99)

Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., today announced N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights for the XBOX 360 is now available in retail stores nationwide. Priced at $59.99, N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights offers gamers extreme hack-and-slash combat plus online co-operative play via XBOX Live.

N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights brings familiar characters and gameplay elements while also exploring new plotlines and characters. Set in a distant world of feudal empires, light and magic, the world is turned up-side down as the Lord of the Night shattered the peace within the regions. The story campaign picks up on the 92nd night of the Lord of the Night’s attempt to overthrow the land with his shadow Armies of Night. The epic story campaign is played throughout the final seven nights, and across five different playable characters, all with unique weapons, skills and storyline, including;

Miner Wars is a video game featuring: 6DOF, Fully Destructible Environment, Single Player Story & MMO

Dear Space Shooter fans,

today is the another special day for us. We have decided to start the single-player closed beta testing phase. We are inviting all our loyal fans that received any medal award and all the players that have won our best 24 pilots competition. In addition to that we will continue inviting every person that will receive a medal for any contribution to the game. Every person invited to this beta test will receive a veteran badge in the final game and some special treats such as a special ingame veteran ship or ship pimping and other very interesting stuff. We are very grateful to all that are helping us finish this project.

If you didn’t have the chance to sing along to your favorite bands at summer festivals, Xbox LIVE has you covered with LIVEapalooza. From July 6 through July 12, start a dance party on Xbox LIVE where you, your Avatar and your friends from around the globe can rally for a limited time sale on top music game add-ons.  We’re discounting albums, track packs and songs for “Rock Band” (MTV Games), “Guitar Hero” 5” and “Band Hero” and “Lips” (Microsoft Game Studios). From Green Day to The Rolling Stones, the stage is yours.

PC patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the DLC comes with a lot  of fixes and changes.  the Patch will start tomorrow night at 12 EST , by 4AM The updated should be done, the size of the update is 890MB, it will be an auto-update.

Patch Details:

*Slightly increased the damage of the UZI at long range.

*The AKs74u now has more felt recoil when aiming.

*The G3, VSS, and all SemiAutomatic rifles now settle slightly faster between shots when aiming.

*The PKM, Type 88LMG, G3, An94, and 40mm shotgun have returned to their former glory.