Alleria, Windrunner

In the valleys of Winterspring, deep within the verdant glades of the Forest of Trees, an elf with the power of the wind makes her home. She joined the Sentinel as a free agent shortly after the War of the Magi. Favored by the Goddess of Wind, Alleria received many blessings. Her arrows fly straight and true, piercing all enemies in a line. She can lace her arrow with wind and bind enemies together by creating ethereal shackles. Her footsteps are hastened by the currents of air. It is known that she can dispatch enemies at blinding speed by releasing a flurry of arrows. She is indeed a worthy enemy of the Scourge.

Basic shops
Beazel The Weapons Dealer	Sena The Accessorizer	Cache of the Quel’thelan/Gateway of Demonic Artifacts	Leragas The Vile (‘Secret’ Shop)	Ancient of Wonders/Graveyard

Recipe Shops
Level 1 Recipes	Level 2 Recipes	Level 3 Recipes	Level 4 Recipes	Level 5 Recipes

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Hero Abilities

	Shackleshot Alleria fires an enchanted arrow using wind magic that binds the target to an enemy unit or tree behind it. Level 1 – 1.4 seconds shackle Level 2 – 2.1 seconds shackle Level 3 – 2.8 seconds shackle Level 4 – 3.5 seconds shackle Cooldown: 14 Manacost: 90/100/110/120 Level 1: 90 mana, 14 sec cooldown. Level 2: 100 mana, 14 sec cooldown. Level 3: 110 mana, 14 sec cooldown. Level 4: 120 mana, 14 sec cooldown.
	Powershot Windrunner winds up her bow for up to 1 second to perform a single powerful shot. The arrow travels 1700 distance, dealing damage and destroying trees in its path. The damaged dealt is greatest to the first target it hits and is reduced by 10% with each other it passes through. Level 1 – 120 initial damage. Level 2 – 200 initial damage. Level 3 – 280 initial damage. Level 4 – 360 initial damage. Cooldown: 12 Manacost: 90/100/110/120 Level 1: 90 mana, 12 sec cooldown. Level 2: 100 mana, 12 sec cooldown. Level 3: 110 mana, 12 sec cooldown. Level 4: 120 mana, 12 sec cooldown.
	Windrunner Imbues her body with the essence of wind, increasing her movement speed by 50% and giving her the ability to evade all physical attacks for a short period of time. Additionally, the gusts of wind around her impairs the movement of nearby enemies, slowing their movement speed in a 300 AoE around her. Level 1 – 8% slow, lasts 2.75 seconds. Level 2 – 16% slow, lasts 3.5 seconds. Level 3 – 24% slow, lasts 4.25 seconds. Level 4 – 30% slow, lasts 5 seconds. Cooldown: 65/50/35/20 Manacost: 100 Level 1: 100 mana, 65 sec cooldown. Level 2: 100 mana, 50 sec cooldown. Level 3: 100 mana, 35 sec cooldown. Level 4: 100 mana, 20 sec cooldown.
	Focus Fire Alleria channels wind throughout her body to surge an excess of adrenaline, giving her maximum attack speed on one target for 10 attacks. Damage is reduced in this state. Level 1 – 50% reduced damage. Level 2 – 40% reduced damage. Level 3 – 30% reduced damage. Cooldown: 60 Manacost: 200/300/400 Level 1: 200 mana, 60 sec cooldown. Level 2: 300 mana, 60 sec cooldown. Level 3: 400 mana, 60 sec cooldown.

PLAYSTATION 3, disingkat PS3) adalah konsol Sony generasi ketiga. PlayStation 3 adalah penerus dari PlayStation dan PlayStation 2 dan akan bersaing dengan Xbox 360 dari Microsoft dan Wii dari Nintendo.

PlayStation 3 dirilis di Jepang pada tanggal 11 November 2006 tepat pukul tujuh, dan akan dirilis pada tanggal 17 November 2006 di Amerika Utara (Amerika Serikat dan Kanada), Hong Kong dan Taiwan, dan 1 atau 7 Maret 2007 di Eropa dan Australasia, dan wilayah PAL lainnya. PlayStation 3 akan dirilis dengan 2 tipe, Basix dan Premium/Platinum. PlayStation 3 secara respi diperkenalkan kepada dunia pada tanggal 16 Mei 2005 di E3. Konfigurasi final pertama dipertunjukkan di Tokyo Game Show 2006.

Teknologi terbaru yang digunakan adalah cell processornya, tipe prosesor yang benar-benar dioptimalkan untuk melakukan operasi floating point. Berbeda dengan prosesor desktop pada umumnya, kemampuan cell processor PS3 untuk melakukan operasi floating point sangat baik. Kemampuan cell processor untuk melakukan operasi floating point sangat baik karena cell processor merupakan arsitektur vektor processor. Selain itu GPU dibuat sendiri bekerjasama dengan NVidia.

Berikut adalah harga PlayStation 3 dari beberapa negara (Sumber: Wikipedia bahasa Inggris).

Harga PlayStation 3*

Negara / Daerah	Perkiraan Harga saat rilis
	Versi 20GB (Basic)	Versi 60GB (Premium)
Jepang	JP¥49.980 (IDR3.880.330,91)	JP¥59.980 (IDR4.656.577,10)
Indonesia	IDR 6.750.000,00~	IDR ~8.500.000,00
Britania Raya		GBP425 (IDR7.354.884,40)
Swis	CHF 749 (IDR5.498.196,40)	CHF 899 (IDR6.599.303,82)
Selandia Baru	NZ$999 (IDR6.041.085,28)	NZ$1199,95 (IDR7.256.256,53)
Swedia		5999 SEK (IDR7.757.279,42)
Kanada	C$549 (IDR4.402.664,71)	C$659 (IDR5.288.249,33)
Denmark	4295 DKK (IDR6.737.428,83)	5495 DKK (IDR8.619.800,51)
Meksiko	MXN$7.999 (IDR6.727.642,90)	MXN$9.499 (IDR7.989.303,85)
Uni Eropa	€499 (IDR5.834.967,77)	€599 (IDR7.004.189,37)
Norwegia		5000 NOK (IDR7.110.917,50)
Finlandia	€550 (IDR6.431.246,47)	€650 (IDR7.600.564,01)
Australia	A$829 (IDR5.791.476,54)	A$999 (IDR6.979.113,47)
Hong Kong	HKD$3.180 (IDR3.727.437,43)	HKD$3.780 (IDR4.430.588,59)
Amerika Serikat	US$499 (IDR4.554.824,42)	US$599 (IDR5.467.614,88)
Taiwan	NTD$14.980 (IDR4.170.635,20)	NTD$17.980 (IDR5.005.875,89)

* Daftar harga kemungkinan bisa berubah.

Harga Game

Kaz Hirai, presiden Sony Computer Entertainment America memperkirakan harga game PlayStation 3 (Blu-Ray) kemungkinan akan lebih dari US$60. Situs web resmi Sony, dari tanggal 15 Oktober 2006, menawarkan pre-order game untuk US$59,99.

Game PlayStation 3

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (クライシス コア -ファイナルファンタジーVII-, Kuraishisu Koa -Fainaru Fantajī Sebun) adalah permainan role-playing game action yang dikembangkan oleh Square Enix untuk PlayStation Portable. Game ini merupakan prequel dari Final Fantasy VII dan juga entry keempat dari seri Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, yang di dalamnya juga termasuk permainan Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII dan Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, juga film CGI Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children dan anime Last Order: Final Fantasy VII. Produksi permainan ini dipimpin oleh Yoshinori Kitase, sutradara original permainan Final Fantasy VII, dengan Hajime Tabata sebagai sutradara. Tetsuya Nomura bertanggung jawab atas desain karakter.

Saat ini hanya sedikit informasi yang dirilis mengenai permainan ini selain akan dirilis untuk PSP. Permainan ini tampaknya akan berfokus pada Zack, seorang SOLDIER Kelas 1 dan Cloud Strife saat ia menjadi seorang Prajurit Shin-Ra berpangkat rendahan. Karakter lain yang akan hadir adalah Aerith Gainsborough karena suaranya yang terdengar dalam trailer permainan ini. Cerita dalam permainan tampaknya akan berkisar seputar kejadian di Nibelheim yang disusun dalam Last Order: Final Fantasy VII.

Tagline permainan: “Kisah tiga pemuda dan seorang gadis yang terikat inti takdir.”

Game Play

Game ini memiliki kelbihan pada saat pertarungan. Pada pertarungan, memiliki efek gerak dan efek gambar yang bagus dan juga menarik, ada juga suara yang membantu menyemangatain pemain. Pertarungan pada game ini menggunakan sistem DMW (Digital Mine Wave), Zack dapat menggunakan kekuatan teman-teman nya dalam pertarungan. Tidak hanya itu, pada DMW juga terdapat ingatan Boss dan Chocobo Character sehingga Zack dapat menggunakan banyak kekuatan yang memperkuat serangan atau memiliki efect tertentu. Di dalam game ini juga terdapat beberapa teka-teki yang dapat memusingkan otak pemain karena tingkat kesulitan yang lumayan susah.

Game ini Harus dicoba bagi Pemain PSP (PlayStation Portable), Teka-teki, dan Pecinta seri Final Fantasy, terutama yang mengikuti seri Final Fantasy VII.

Tanggal Produksi:

Jepang 21-09-2007 (Dalam Bahasa Jepang)

Inggris 06-05-2008 (Dalam Bahasa Inggris)

Eropa 22-09-2008 (Dalam Bahasa Eropa)

Grid

Race Driver: GRID

is the latest addition to the TOCA Touring Car series by Codemasters, published and developed by the same company. It was announced on April 19, 2007, and is available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PC. The game was released on May 30, 2008 in Europe, June 3, 2008 in North America, and in Australia on June 12, 2008. Despite its release date, as of June 5, 2008, GRID is available in Australia on the Steam digital distribution service.

Gameplay

Technology

Race Driver: GRID uses Codemasters’ own Ego engine, an evolved version of the Neon engine already used in their previous release Colin McRae DIRT. The damage code has been completely rewritten to allow for persistent damage environments.

Portable version

Firebrand Games, the developers of Race Driver: Create and Race, are developing the game for the Nintendo DS. The game will have 20 circuits, with 25 cars. The game will also included a “Track Design” utility from Create and Race which will allow players to create their own custom circuits and side-road billboards. The portable version will launch in early August.

Demo

PC system requirements

• Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended)
• DirectX 9.0c
• Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+
• 2GB RAM.
• Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD 3800 series
• Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card.
• Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive
• 12.5 GB Hard Drive Space

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, HD2600, HD2900, HD3850, HD3870, HD4850, HD4870

NVIDIA Geforce 6800, 7100, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800

Laptop versions of these cards may work but are not supported…

The demo also has the two competition tracks available for an online racing experience; it allows up to 12 players to compete online.

The demo has been downloaded by over one million people on the three platforms it is available for.

Agito

TOKYO-Square Enix showed off a remarkably dense CGI trailer for its upcoming mobile game, Final Fantasy XIII Agito. That’s right, a CGI trailer for a mobile game. Although the game may never see the light of day in the US, Square Enix is certainly throwing a good amount of resources behind it in Japan, as evidenced by its showing today in the Closed Mega Theater at Squeenix’s booth at TGS, where it was sandwiched between trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII: Versus.

The three Final Fantasy XIII games all apparently tell tales set in different worlds, so it’s difficult to tell how the story told in this trailer will tie in with the other Nova Crystallis games. At first, we see a large amount of wreckage floating in shallow water, underneath a blackened sky. After a few moments, the camera zooms in on the word “Agito” emblazoned on the side of a metal scrap. It’s unclear whether the wreckage is that of a ship or of a city, and whether or not Agito refers to a construction or a place.

Off in the distance, beyond the wreckage, a white city is seen, shining atop a large green mountain. After a series of zooms, the camera resolves on a large cathedral at the top of a hill, which is surrounded by red-robed acolytes. After the camera focuses in on one of them, a blonde-haired boy, he turns around to view the courtyard. Although it was fully populated moments before, his view reveals it to be void of anyone but him.

After he heads inside, he stumbles across a large, floating crystal, suspended above a structure that appears to make it levitate. After activating the device with his thumbprint, the structure starts to glow bright red, and the crystal follows suit. The thumbprint machine then spits out five cards, which the boy spreads out and examines; apparently it’s some sort of fortune-telling device. Unfortunately, before he can do anything more but frown at what’s revealed, the clock atop the cathedral strikes noon, which in turn triggers the explosion of the crystal.

The crystal apparently contained power beyond its small size would indicate, as the entire island is quickly shattered by the explosion, resulting in a towering inferno. Despite the destruction, the last moments of the cutscene return to the cathedral’s innards, where the boy is lying unconscious but apparently unharmed. A few screenshots of the game float by the camera’s view, imprinted on the cards the boy was holding earlier. The last image of the trailer shows a close-up of the boy, who’s lying on the floor as his cell phone rings.

Although precious little of the actual gameplay of FFXIII: Agito was shown in the trailer, we’re still intrigued by the dramatic events of the cinema. As more details are revealed about the game, including news of a possible US release….