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A New LEGO Battle Adventures Mobile Game Is In The Works

A mysterious Facebook page appeared a couple of days ago and it is only now that it’s getting some attention. From the looks of it, this new Facebook page is for a new LEGO mobile app entitled LEGO Battle Adventures. Details are scant as of now regarding the game itself, but a survey has been released in relation to the game, perhaps for marketing purposes. Again, the survey itself does not point to any specific direction or info about this new mystery LEGO game, but we can somehow piece together several details to have an idea of LEGO Battle Adventures is all about.

First off, LEGO minifigures will play a central role in LEGO Battle Adventures, and what is interesting here is that it seems that the minifigures involved are those that were released throughout its entire 40 years of existence, combining both the classic minifigures that we grew up with, to those that LEGO has recently offered.

LEGO Battle Adventures also seems to be a turn based role-playing game (RPG) where you either get to team up with others over the Internet, or battle through enemy lines in solo mode. I assume that you can also build up your own army of minifigure warriors or soldiers depending on the mission. A part of the survey specifically mentions other game titles such as Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Ninja Turtles: Legends, Marvel: Strike Force and others that may suggest that LEGO Battle Adventures may also belong to the same genre. The survey also gives a brief description about this mystery game.

LEGO Battle Adventures

Game description: BUILD your ultimate team and engage in an epic solo and multiplayer adventure in the first LEGO battle role playing game, celebrating LEGO iconic minifigures and sets from all eras!

LEGO is no stranger in the mobile gaming arena. It has released a handful of standalone LEGO mobile games in the past, with LEGO Cube being the most recent. And now, it looks like LEGO is gradually leveraging on an online platform that takes advantage of the rich, interactive play opportunities that multiplayer gaming has to offer. For the meantime, let’s wait and see how things will turn out, and hopefully we’ll learn more about this mystery game any time soon.

Thanks to Bricks to Life for the heads up.

A Look at the LEGO DC Super Villains Hub World

Warner Bros and TT Games seem to be in a generous streak lately, now that they have shared an early inside look at their latest video game offering ahead of its release next week. Thanks to the efforts of Brick to Life, we now have our first look at the LEGO DC Super Villains Hub World which maps out some of the various locations that your rookie super-powered villain will traverse to throughout the game.

As revealed in earlier announcements, the LEGO DC Super Villains Hub World will feature some of the iconic DC comics locations such as the Daily Planet, Metropolis, Smallville and even Apokolips. Watch the video below and try to see if you can identify other places.

Similar to last year’s LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 video game, the LEGO DC Super Villains will allow you to select from a huge roster of DC super-powered villains and to utilize their skill sets as the situation calls for it. You will start as the customizable Rookie at the beginning game, unlocking several DC villains along the way.

Speaking of villains, I find it really cool seeing the Reverse Flash speeding his way through the streets of Metropolis. It’s like playing Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic Unleashed.

True to form with other LEGO video games, the LEGO DC Super Villains also comes with a host of new puzzles to solve that are tied to a particular skill of a specific character. Towards the end of the video clip, we see Joker and his handy spray paint utility which he uses to unlock a rather nasty problem in the character of Doomsday. I really didn’t expect that in the end.

I’m pretty sure that there are still a handful of surprises waiting within the LEGO DC Super Villains Hub World so be sure to explore them all once you get your own copy of the game on October 16. And if you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you may pre-order the Deluxe Edition to get early access to the game’s Season Pass and an EXCLUSIVE Lex Luthor physical minifigure.

Thanks again to Bricks to Life for sharing this video clip.

Metal Gear Solid Impressively Recreated in LEGO Worlds

Traveller’s Tales and Warner Bros. Interactive, the dynamic duo of the video game industry that has brought to the world a vast library of LEGO video games over the years, knew well of their consumer base’s interest in creating sprawling LEGO-built virtual worlds. They’ve catered to this desire by releasing LEGO Worlds in September 2017 allowing LEGO fans to recreate any world of their fancy in the virtual, brick-building sandbox game. From ancient Egypt to the unexplored vastness of space, we now have another LEGO Worlds fan recreating one of the most iconic video games of all time in the title of Metal Gear Solid by Konami.

One of LEGO Worlds’ most hyped features was a brick-by-brick editor tool that enabled players to custom-design their own game stages and environments if they’re willing to spend the time doing it. YouTuber Craig Kelly certainly did, judging from his digital MOC of the setting for classic Konami videogame on PlayStation.

In a 20-minute video upload, Craig Kelly walks audiences through his painstaking recreation of Shadow Moses Island as seen in Metal Gear Solid, with a minifigure character dressed up to look like video game protagonist Solid Snake. What’s impressive is Kelly’s claim that he made all the environments using LEGO Worlds brick editor all from memory.

It took him about 30 hours total work on the brick editor to make all the familiar locations from the incredible hit video game created by Konami years ago. Everything is there from the underground dock, the helipad, the bunkers and even the snowfield from the Metal Gear Solid 4 iteration.

LEGO Worlds is playable on Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch. If you haven’t tried LEGO Worlds yet, you may order your copy via Amazon.

It’s Good To Be Bad With The LEGO DC Super-Villains NYCC Panel

New York Comic Con is fast approaching, and we can expect LEGO to make a huge splash in this year’s NYCC celebrations. Similar to last year’s LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 panel at NYCC 2017, we can also expect Warner Bros Interactive and TT Games to be actively involved in the celebrations at the Javits Center starting this Thursday, October 4. We know that this latest LEGO video game title from WB and TT Games will have a stellar voice cast and a huge roster of playable DC villains, and this time around the LEGO DC Super-Villains NYCC panel will go out in sharing more details about this exciting, DC baddies inspired game.

According to a previous press release, the LEGO DC Super-Villains NYCC panel will give comic con attendees an inside look at the very first “villain-centric” video game that WB and TT Games collaborated on. Members of the panel will include Phill Ring (Executive Producer, TT Games), Ames Kirshen (Vice President, Interactive & Animation, DC Entertainment), Nyambi Nyambi (voice of Green Lantern), Grey Griffin (voice of Catwoman & Lashina) and Dee Bradley Baker (voice of Clock King & Desaad). If you’re all set to go to NYCC 2018, be sure to add this event to your Comic Con itinerary. The panel will be convening on Main Stage 1D of the Javits Center on October 4 at 12:45PM.

Additionally, NYCC attendees will also have the chance to be one of the very first fans to try this latest video game title. For a hands-on, try-before-you-buy experience, you may visit the DC Entertainment Booth (#SC01) during normal show hours of NYCC’s weekend events.

LEGO DC Super-Villains will be available on October 16, 2018 for PlayStation4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One X, Nintendo Switch and PC. Pre-ordering the Deluxe Edition entitles you to a free, early access to the game’s Season Pass plus an exclusive, Lex Luthor physical minifigure.

LEGO Mobile Game Co-Developed with Tencent to Launch in China

Back when this year was still new, we covered an announcement of collaboration between The LEGO Group and Tencent in order to enhance the former’s online branding in China. Part of the directive is the co-development of videogames through Tencent’s Games division. This September, such a game is nearing launch, with a still to be disclosed LEGO mobile game.

This Wednesday, September 12, the Chinese micro-blog service Weibo was inundated with advertising from Tencent Games about their soon-to-launch new online mobile game that was co-developed with the Danish toymaker. It only mentioned the release date, but it served enough to drum up interest in China’s massive base of gamers.

Tencent Gaming’s ads go: “Today, we announce a piece of good news. After a strategic cooperation in January, Tencent and LEGO Group will unveil a co-developed game on September 19.” This title is slated to be the first of hopefully many LEGO mobile game and Tencent licensed games to China and perhaps the world.

It’s well-known that China is the current (and perhaps, now permanent) gaming capital on Earth. Its reported number of active videogame players is actually larger than the entire population of the US. And Tencent Games is also the biggest videogame company now, despite only owning developers with their own titles and not making their own.

LEGO’s Tencent game, set to be revealed next week, hopes to take advantage of a dearth of issuing new licenses for game titles in the country while the Chinese Communist Party tries to increase its control over the gaming market.

Aside from video games, the LEGO-Tencent team-up also plans to open a LEGO media section on the Tencent Video streaming platform, to host some of its wide library of animated TV and feature films and series.

Source: South China Morning Post

Playable Demo of LEGO DC Super-Villains to be Featured at UK’s EGX 2018

It’s close now to just being one month away before LEGO DC Super-Villains, the newest whimsical brick adventure video game from WB Interactive and Traveller’s Tales, is released for its various platforms in October. We’ve also showcased its story plot, various game features, and Season Pass a couple of days ago.

But I’m sure there are some fans of LEGO video games who would want more than just a new info-dump for LDCSV; they most likely want to get some hands-on experience with the new title, even if it’s only a short demo. Well, LEGO games in the UK are in luck.

That’s because two weekends from now, Birmingham will be playing host to UK’s biggest games event of the year, EGX 2018. It’s happening from September 20 to 23 at the NEC Arena, and they’ve got an impressive lineup of upcoming games to show off. And of course they will have playable demos, including of course, LEGO DC Super-Villains.

Part of the Sony PlayStation 4 game showcase for EGX 2018 is its version of LEGO DC Super-Villains complete with demo, giving UK gamers a prime opportunity to test out this new experience of playing LEGO versions of DC’s greatest super-baddies to take on the parallel-universe Justice Syndicate and Darkseid.

Aside from the playable demo, there will also be a LDCSV game developer session in store on the last day of EGX, Sunday September 23. Arthur Parsons from Traveller’s Tales is on the spot then. Interested UK gamers who want in on EGX 2018 can get their tickets over here.

LEGO DC Super-Villains is now also available for pre-order via Amazon, and is scheduled to be released on October 16. As a side note, and while waiting for the game, be sure to check out our first wave of LEGO DC Super-Villains printable, coloring pages.

LEGO Star Wars III Now Part of Games With Gold for The Xbox One This September

Back in 2011, LucasArts and Traveller’s Tales released its fourth LEGO Star Wars video game, of the format that players of LEGO game titles for licensed properties are familiar with. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars was a true sequel of sorts to the first two games of the series, with the third being a compilation of its predecessors instead.

Having been released on Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 among other systems, the title has been deemed worthy to be included in the latest wave of Games with Gold titles that are exclusive to members of Xbox Live Gold this September.

These latest Xbox Live Gold games will be available to any Gold members on their Xbox One starting September. Two of these are Xbox One games, while the other two are from the Xbox 360, including LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. They’re playable on the Xbox One thanks to the console’s backwards compatibility.

LEGO fans with Xbox Ones and a Gold membership can download LEGO Star Wars III starting December 1 until 15. Also available with the game are Prison Architect (September 1-30), Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World (September 16-30) and Livelock (September 16 to October 15).

LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens Video Game Coming June 28, 2016

For those who are excited about its arrival, the LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens video game is now officially slated to be released on June 28!

It is bound to happen: Microsoft’s Xbox has announced on its website the release of yet another LEGO Star Wars video game, and this time it claims that “The Force is strong with this one.” Riding on the recent success of its two-billion-dollar movie counterpart, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if LEGO announces the release of the LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens video game to keep the force moving.

LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens – What You Need to Know

Developed by UK-based TT Games, the LEGO Star Wars line-up has already made a distinct brand for itself, with endearing features and gameplay that are all too familiar to the fans of the series. True to its form, it promises the same light, but exquisitely challenging game modes, immersive shooting action, and of course, tons of virtual bricks to collect and to build ships and props from the Star Wars franchise.

Typical LEGO Humor and Star Wars Action Rolled Into One

Not to mention the comedic antics of their minifig counterparts that are sure to draw laughter from children and adults alike. Xbox players may choose to follow either the light or dark side of the force by taking the roles of Rey, Finn, Poe, BB-8, Kylo Ren, Han Solo, and the rest of the characters from the movie. I guess it is safe to assume that we’ll be seeing all of the characters featured in the game’s cover art at some point in the game.

Watch the video game’s trailer below:

Though all of these may sound standard fare for all LEGO-based video games, Xbox promises a different take on the LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens storyline. This time, the game will feature “exclusive playable content that bridges the story gap between Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” as mentioned on the Xbox website.

This is sure to gather more interest among gamers as they’re treated with unexpected twists and turns during the transition from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

Feature-Rich Games Modes

But the best promise of immersive gaming experience may actually come from the various game modes that come along with LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens. For the first time ever, TT Games introduces the Multi-Build and Blaster Battles modes in the game’s line-up.

“With Multi-Builds, use available LEGO bricks to open up new paths, then break them apart and re-build them again to open up another! And another! During Blaster Battles, use your surroundings as cover to stand against the First Order,” as Xbox describes it. We hope that the Blaster Battles will also include network-based, free-for-all, and coop gameplay.

Well, we can dream all we want, but in the meantime, we just have to wait for around five months before we can actually grab a copy and pound once again on our controllers. For now, this teaser video might give us a laugh or two. I guess even under his intimidating mask, Kylo Ren may have a chuckle or two when his lightsaber’s hilt needed several taps before he could get it to work right.

Availability and Release Date

LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens is scheduled to be released on June 28, 2016. The last LEGO-based game to be launched recently was Marvel’s Avengers on January 26.

LEGO Fusion Website Live | 4 Exciting Digital Adventures Coming Soon!

As we reported last week, LEGO is coming out with a new theme called LEGO Fusion and it is supposed to combine real play with virtual play. We have just learned that a corresponding LEGO Fusion website is now live and it has details of the theme itself as well as each of the sets included in the theme.

Watch the teaser video below found on the LEGO Fusion website.

If you recall, this latest convergence of brick building and virtual play consists of four new LEGO Fusion sets: the Town Master 21204, the Battle Towers 21205, the Create & Race 21206, and the Resort Designer 21208. LEGO has also released videos dedicated to some of these sets which you can watch below.

Three of the sets will be available in August and the final (Resort Designer) will be available in September and they will cost $34.99 each.

Check This Out: LEGO Batman 3 Plastic Man Plane Mode

On LEGO Batman’s Twitter Page, he revealed a plane mode/outfit for LEGO Batman 3 Plastic Man character.

There are no details on what it does but it may suggest that we can use him in this LEGO video game during free play mode to get to hard-to-reach areas. As we get closer to the release of the game this fall, we’ll probably see more reveals like this so stay tuned for more updates for LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

LEGO Batman 3 Plastic Man

The best-selling LEGO Batman videogame franchise returns in an out-of-this-world, action-packed adventure! In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the Caped Crusader joins forces with the superheroes of the DC Comics universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth. Using the power of the Lantern Rings, Brainiac shrinks worlds to add to his twisted collection of miniature cities from across the universe. now the greatest superheroes and the most cunning villains must unite and journey to different Lantern Worlds to collect the Lantern Rings and stop Brainiac before it’s too late.

(Hat tip: The Brick Fan)