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"Seduce Me" puts players in the role of one lucky young man that gets whisked away to a private party resort packed to the gills with beautiful (Not to mention frisky!) women. Don’t think for a minute that you can just walk through the door and have any of these ladies flat on their backs in seconds though. Just like in real life, intimacy is earned; but not in the way you would expect it.

The major play mechanic of this game is cards games. If you want a chance to seduce the woman of your choosing, you need to make sure you know how to play the cards and have a little luck on your side as well. Some card games require you to score higher then your opponent, have the highest pairs, match scores with your opponent or be the first to get rid of your hand of cards. Win and the chances of having a good time with your lady friend increases with some options of just how intimate you want to get with her. Lose and those chances fail along with your popularity. The less popular you get, the quicker you will find yourself getting uninvited from the resort and any other future sexy parties. After a few sessions of playing the game, understanding the card game mechanics, losing, getting kicked out of the party and then starting all over again; I started making progress. That was until I started having some bad luck and found myself an unwelcomed guest yet again. While there is an auto-save function that can restore some of your hard earned popularity, I found myself wishing for a manual save feature; especially when I got dealt a poor hand of cards.

The artwork in this game is quite striking, catching your eye immediately. From the beautiful design of the house the game takes place in, the lovely curves of the women and the details shown during the various types of intimacy; the visual quality stands high. The same high quality can be said about the music: its calm, relaxing rifts helps the player mellow out and focus on the task at hand. This helps increases the overall presentation of the game.

“Seduce Me” has been billed as just a “Porn Game” and when I hear that term I can only think of some sleazy, dirty game that gets the player instant gratification and then they move on. That’s not the case with this game. Rather, its a piece of art that offers the players intimate interactions with its characters in a classy and playful way. You have to be patient and earn your rights for pleasure and even when you do, there’s enough content to make you want to come back to see what other options are there.

While my luck didn’t take me very far with this game, it one of the most well presented “Adult’s Only” Rated games I’ve ever played. A smut title though? Certainly not.

“Seduce Me” was developed by  Amsterdam based studio No Reply Games and is currently available for purchase and  digital download at www.seducemegame.com.

Artists from around the world are invited to share their unique visions of Azeroth with the World of Warcraft community

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OCTOBER 12, 2012: At the UDON Entertainment panel at New York Comic Con, UDON today announced that it has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment to produce the next epic installment in their ‘Tribute’ series of deluxe art books: WORLD OF WARCRAFT® TRIBUTE! This massive collection will offer hundreds of professional and hobby artists the opportunity to show off their artistic chops and pay homage to their favorite characters, settings, and moments from Blizzard’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Beginning November 1, artists from around the world are invited to submit their original, World of Warcraft–inspired artwork for consideration to be included in this collection. UDON’s previous ‘Tribute’ books have served as a “Who’s Who” of international comic, concept, game, and fan artists, and WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRIBUTE will continue that tradition by collecting imaginative takes on Blizzard’s game world—from anime and western comic styles to cartoons, pixel-based art, sculptures, and more—whatever medium the artist chooses to express their unique vision of the Warcraft universe.

Blizzard and UDON will select the most epic and impressive submissions to be included in WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRIBUTE, which will premiere as a special limited-edition hardcover book at San Diego Comic-Con 2013. With thousands of entries expected, submitting artists are encouraged to bring their “A” game if they aspire to have their work included in the collection.

“We couldn’t be more excited about this project,” said Erik Ko, Editor In Chief of UDON. “We really respect the amazing universe Blizzard has created with the Warcraft series, and the games have been a major source of inspiration to the artistic community for years. This book will be our biggest Tribute undertaking ever, and we’re already anticipating all of the amazing illustrations that will soon be headed our way.”

“We’ve always been humbled by the fact that some amazing artists out there have drawn inspiration from our games over the years,” said Paul Sams, chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment. “Deciding which pieces to include in this book will be a huge challenge, but we’re looking forward to working with UDON to select the best of the best and put together an epic collection. And who knows — maybe in the process, we’ll discover some great new artists to invite to work with us on future Blizzard games.”

Since its launch in 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular subscription-based MMORPG in the world. The original game and its four expansions, including the recently released Mists of Pandaria™, have earned critical acclaim and captured the imaginations of millions of players around the globe.

For full WORLD OF WARCRAFT® TRIBUTE artwork submission details, head to WarcraftTribute.com. Contest entries will be accepted beginning November 1, 2012 through noon PST on January 15, 2013.

About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment’s track record includes fourteen #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.

About UDON Entertainment
UDON Entertainment is a publisher of original art books, graphic novels, and manga. UDON’s best-known projects are those based on popular video game franchises including Street Fighter®, Okami®, Mega Man®, Darksiders®, Valkyria Chronicles, and more. The publisher’s ever-growing library also includes English editions of several Japanese manga titles, and the anthology art book series Apple. For more information visit www.UDONentertainment.com.

OCTOBER 12, 2012: Today UDON Entertainment was proud to announce the following license acquisitions for new art book releases, scheduled to be released in 2013. The announcements span the gamut of game, anime, and character graphics books, and the broad selection and high quality continues to cement UDON’s reputations as North America’s premiere publisher of game and anime related art books. Due to the advanced nature of the announcement, official art is not available for most releases.

GROWLANSER: ART WORKS

The Growlanser series of tactical role-playing games is a favourite of hardcore JRPG players with its gorgeous, intricate character designs, and dramatic storytelling.

UDON Entertainment’s Growlanser Art Works features the artwork of Satoshi Urushihara in a spectacular, 176 page release. Includes game covers, character designs, merchandising artwork, rare promotional pieces, creator commentary, and an exclusive interview with Satoshi Urushihara and the development team behind the Growlanser series.

Featuring materials from Growlanser 1 through 6, for titles appearing on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PSP.

Coming in February 2013, at the printers now.

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HARUHI SUZUMIYA ILLUSTRATIONS: SPRING & SUMMER
HARUHI SUZUMIYA ILLUSTRATIONS: AUTUMN & WINTER

Joining our recently announced artbook HARUHI-ISM: Haruhi Suzumiya Illustrations by Noizi Ito, UDON Entertainment is proud to announce that 2013 will see the release of not one, but THREE Haruhi artbooks!

Haruhi Suzumiya Illustrations: Spring & Summer and Haruhi Suzumiya Illustrations: Autumn & Winter collect a stunning array of artwork from the Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, with the illustrations broken into seasonal themes. Collecting illustrations from the series and original material created for anime magazines and other promotions… whether you want fun and sexy times at the beach or gorgeous Christmas and new year illustrations, you’ve now got Haruhi and co. for every season!

These books will be released approximately 3 months apart, with HARUHI-ISM in Q1, Spring & Summer in Q2, and Autumn & Winter in Q3, 2013.

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MIDORI FOO’S BOOK OF PICTURES

This one is for fans of extraordinary artwork! UDON Entertainment is proud to announce that we will be releasing the spectacular art collection Midori Foo’s Book of Pictures, a massive, 300+ page illustration collection featuring the work of acclaimed artist and designer Midori Foo!

While her name may not be known to the general public, Midori Foo’s illustrations have graced video games, light novels, trading card games, art collections, and popular illustration magazines including Kikan S Magazine and FELLOWS! Magazine for years to come.

Midori Foo’s illustrations are utterly gorgeous and of the highest quality, with a huge range of styles contained in the book. This will be one of our loveliest collections of the year, and fans of APPLE, ROBOT, and PIXIV ALMANAC are going to absolutely love this book.

To be released in Q2 2013, at the printers now!

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Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Character Graphics Collection: CV01 Edition
Vocaloid Kagamine Len & Rin Character Graphics Collection: CV02 Edition
Vocaloid Megurine Luka Character Graphics Collection: CV03 Edition

Following hot on the heels of UDON Entertainment publishing the first official Hatsune Miku artwork in PIXIV ALMANAC earlier this year, we’re proud to announce that we will be publishing three Vocaloid Character Graphics Collections in 2013! Hatsune Miku, Len & RIn, and Megurine Luka will all start in their own character graphics collections, to meet the growing demand for Vocaloid-related artwork and products in North America!

Each volume features more than 30 artists’ spectaculr takes on the Vocaloid characters, from high-fashion to everyday activities, to pin-up style idol artwork to performance! More than 150 illustrations in each book!

Fans of our PIXIV, APPLE SELECTION, and GIRL SEVEN art books are going to love these spectacular collections of pin-up artwork!

Scheduled to be released Q2, Q3, 2013.

The Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set just came out today and I have finally received mine! Be sure to check out the unboxing of it in the next episode of Logically Thinking!

As much acclaim as the entire series has received, my first real dealings with the Persona series was with the 4th installment on the Playstation 2. The concept of the game seemed a little strange to me at first, but the beautiful artwork and design of the game grabbed my attention immediately. After becoming addicted to the game and spending over 60 hours with it to get the true ending, I ranked Persona 4 as one of my favorite JRPG games of all time and it’s an experience I will never forget.

Now UDON Entertainment has brought us Persona 4 Official Design Works from overseas and inside this book is a well rounded amount of content that any Persona fan will love. Those looking for concept art, final production artwork and a look at almost every character in the game will certainly want to pick this book up. One thing I enjoyed about this book is that it’s very light on spoilers, so if you’ve never played or finished P4 you can read the book without ruining the important parts of the story.

The comments from the design team are also quite interesting as they discuss some of drastic changes that occurred to certain characters as development of the game progressed. Usually, these comments are followed by the appropriate artwork progression of the concepts from start to finish.

With release of Persona 4: The Animation, Persona 4: Arena and the upcoming Persona 4: The Golden, readers may be disappointed that this book does not contain any art from those releases. While the disappointment is understandable, one must realize that UDON translated this book from the original Japanese release of P4 Official Design Works. Perhaps in the future, we may see an additional release with that content. I would have loved to see that content as an exclusive to the translated release though.

By the time I reached the end of this book, I was bum rushed with the same great experience I had with the actual game. For anyone else who has had that feeling, picking up this book is a no brainer.

Rating: 9 out of 10.

Retail Price: $39.99

Get it here: http://www.udonentertainment.com

Capcom’s Street Fighter X Tekken was a colossal hit when it was released. Combining two great fighting game universes is no easy task, but the design team behind the game got the job done with great results. With the release of UDON’s SFXT Artworks, fans can now see some of the brainstorming that was done during the development of the game.

Fabulous illustrations like this one are plentiful in this art book.

The book itself spans over 192 pages and features a variety of sections including concept art and development materials as well as comments from the design team. For those looking for some verbal insight on the Street Fighter and Tekken games, extended interviews are featured as well. The interview with Akiman (A designer who has provided designs for the Street Fighter series for some time.) provides one of the most interesting interviews as he talks about his involvement with Final Fight, Poison and more. The variety of concept art featured will be very interesting to both Street Fighter and Tekken fans alike as some of the alternate costumes that never came to light would of been quite intriguing to see. (Especially the Poison alternate costumes!)

For those looking for something past concept art, a variety of things are pulled straight from the game. Each trailer, cut scene and ending are made available to the reader; along with the individual character backgrounds for each character. For those of you who didn’t get to see certain characters due to one being available on a different console platform, you can now check them out; which is a welcome addition.

Every trailer, introduction and ending is featured.

With all of these features and then some, the SFXT Artworks is a must have pick up for any Tekken or Street Fighter fan. The well rounded amount of content definitely left me satisfied! Those wanting to add this art book to their collection can expect to find it in comic shops in October or online for a suggested retail price of $39.99.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Where to buy: http://www.udonentertainment.com

The latest Apple iPad digital out adapter plugs right into the bottom of your iPAD and gives you video out options up to 720P for around $40.00 dollars. Using a HDMI cable as the link between the accessory and your TV, you will instantly be given a beautiful 4:3 aspect look at the desktop of your iPad. Firing up a YouTube video lets you output in full 16:9 and most games look fantastic when its outputted onto a HD TV, though they display in 4:3 as well.

Unfortunately, the AV Adapter will only work for apps that support it, so my hope of using this to display Amazon Instant Movies on my 40 inch LCD TV in the bedroom was met with crushing defeat. Its a shame that Apple does not design this device to automatically output everything as I imagine it could be done pretty easily.

If you would like to use your iPad for some sort of presentations, then this device could be pretty handy. Unfortunately the fact that some apps may not be supported makes the accessory a dice toss and its one you might not win at.

Rating: 7 out of 10

I was quite surprised when I played last year’s Mortal Kombat reboot, like Johnny Cage nut shot surprised. As a hardcore Street Fighter fan, the complete presentation of MK made me realize that Capcom could learn a thing or two with how to improve their fighting games by taking a good look at this. When I had the opportunity to review the game, I gave it a 5 out of 5; calling it my favorite fighter of 2011. 1 year later, Mortal Kombat has been ported over to the highly powerful PS VITA; but how does it fair when compared to its console big brothers?

Outworld still looks fantastic in this VITA port.

The game has had a slight downgrade in the visuals, it seems the developers used the console assets and put them in a video format on the portable so the story presentation is not lost. The change in visuals becomes apparent when the game goes from the video to the actual fighting engine as characters have less of a defined look and backgrounds seem less animated. Still, the presentation on the VITA’s screen looks fantastic.

Johnny Cage doing his David Caruso impression and good example a of the visual downgrade.

Mortal Kombat does suffer from some slight frame rate drops during battles, but thankfully it only happens during the X-RAY cinematics which is non user controlled anyway. The in-game audio seems to be somewhat quiet compared to other games on the portable, even on full volume. I would definitely recommend head phones if you really want to hear the music and other bone breaking sounds. As with any fighting game, responsive controls are a must and the PS VITA’s button layout is more then fit to do the job. The D-PAD easily response to half circle motions and other button movements needed to pull off moves. I’d say this is the most responsive portable fighter since Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP and that’s a huge compliment.

A Dead Or Alive 5 guest appearance would do great things for Sonya’s career…

All the features included in the console version of Mortal Kombat are here in this version including online multiplayer, the game does support local infrastructure multiplayer mode for two players as well. The port adds support for the touchscreen, motion sensor, includes most of the DLC from the consoles versions as well as 150 new challenge tower missions; which is a welcome addition to those who have already played MK.

ROUND 1…FIGHT!

This is the definite version of Mortal Kombat to play, if you don’t mind the graphical downgrade. The ability to play this fighter anywhere with almost the same presentation of its console brothers, shows that the PS VITA can be a true portable contender when put in the hands of the right developers.

Mortal Kombat for the PS VITA gets a 9 out of 10.

For those of you who want to see my thoughts on the console version, please see my video review below: