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Archived news February 2009

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28th of February 2008

Taito reveals Space Invaders, Cooking Mama games for the iPhone, iPod and Android.  More

Sony comments on PSP2 rumours and says that there's no new hardware development kits out there.  More

Final Fantasy IV sequel is coming to the Nintendo Wii.  More

MMORPG Three Kingdoms beta is open to the public.  More

Dreamcast Stuffed Inside an iMac Corpse

Lost Planet is only $5 on Steam.  More

Browser Game Pick: Portal Defenders (BoMToons and Luis)

If you liked a bit of Castle Crashers, you're going to love this. Portal Defenders sees players taking control of the Newgrounds creator Tom Fulp (and a cast of other Newgrounds regulars after you've unlocked them) as wave upon wave of enemies are sent in your direction. Your mission? Button-bash them all to death.

If you know your indie developers you'll recognise a good few names here, including a certain Armor Games developer and a guy in need of Closure. There's plenty to do here, with lots of bosses and mini-games to fill out the time, plus achievements of course.

There's a whole page dedicated to explaining Portal Defenders here, but if you'd rather just jump straight in, give this link a click.

26th of February 2009

Siliconera has an article entitled, "How Katamari Works On DSiWare"  More

Google attacks Microsoft's browser monopoly and I say that it's the kettle calling the pot black.  More

Playstation 3 price cut announcement expected in the next few days.  More

Last Remnant demo for the PC is now available.  More

Twenty deathmatch maps have been released on Gamershell for the original game F.E.A.R.  More

Daedalus Rev 306 - Nintendo 64 Emulator for PSP

This is an unofficial release compiled from the svn, no details as to what's new, but some testers are saying that Mario 64 works almost full speed with 1 frame skip and sound set to asynchron.

24th of February 2009

A Japanese website is offering porno downloads to the Sony PSP.  More

Warhawk Command Centre is coming to Home.  More

Gamesindustry.biz has an interesting article entitled, "3D gaming 'most anticipated' tech this year"  More

Aliens RPG has been cancelled.  More

ID is considering developing games for the Nintendo Wii.  More

PSP2 is going to drop the UMD format.  More

Dual Wireless Microphones for PS3-WII.  More

Freeware Game Pick: Dinowaurs (Intuition Games)

Dinowaurs is a hefty multiplayer combat/strategy game done completely in real-time. Players pick a dinosaur, give him a name, dress him up, kit him out with weapons, then aim in the direction of the enemy and blow them to pieces.

Each team is given a set of villages and each village generates money which can in turn be turned into bigger and better weapons to destroy the opposition with. Online matches are found via a matchmaking system and there's a tutorial to plug your way through, so you can get to grips before taking on the world.

There's actually a lot going on here, with a nice online ranking system to boot. It appears that initial reactions from players are rather varied, with some loving the mix of combat and trajectory-work and others just not liking it at all. Overall it's good solid fun which is easily accessible for those who want a quick, silly game, yet deep enough for serious players to keep at it.

Play it over at Kongregate Games now. There's a gameplay trailer below, too.

Browser Game Pick: Shinobido (Acquire)

Shinobido is a web advergame for Acquire's PS2 stealth-based action title with a similar name, in which players assume the role of a ninja who has to storm five different samurai strongholds, carry out their assigned objectives and reach the topmost floor to complete the mission.

Only the space and cursor keys are needed to play this game. Surprise an enemy from the back to execute a stealth kill, or press the space key to throw a shuriken at an opponent and stun them momentarily. Direct confrontations should be avoided whenever possible, as some health would be lost if you trade blows with an adversary. Mission objectives range from collecting all scrolls in the current stage to killing a certain number of enemies to progress.

There are only five strongholds to infiltrate in total.

Name: Shinobido
Developer: Acquire
Category: Action
Type: Browser

Related:
Shinobido gameplay video

24th of February 2009

Square Enix has confirmed that it will bring its games to Vale's Steam service, starting with Last Remnant on April the 9th.  More

Some new information on Alan Wake has been released on their forum.  More

Dragon age trailer and here's a link for the HD version to download.  More

23rd of February 2009

Sony has released a plug-in for your internet browser, that takes over the browser, fills it with Helghast and turns the mouse pointer into a crosshair.  More

ICO and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda, will be speaking at this years GDC.  More

Capcom has unveiled Lost Planet 2 trailer and it's 450 Megabytes in size.  More

Atlus Online reveals that their first game available on-line will be Neo Steam.  More

Lost Planet 2 trailer

For this week only, Braid on the Xbox 360 is $10.  More

22nd of February 2009

I have added a list of free games for the PC that are add supported in the free games page.  More

Extra content for Yakuza 3 on the Playstation 3.  No one saw that coming.  More

Violent games make players "comfortably numb" to the suffering of others.  I think that treating them like shit might make them careless for the suffering of others, rather than games.  More

Alan Wake's plot has been reveal.  More

Last Remnant has been given a release date on the PC.  Let's hope they fix the stuttering problems that they clearly were too lazy to fix on the console release.   More

Freeware Game Pick: Pac-Man Physics (imwill)

Pac-Man Physics is an experimental take on Namco's classic maze game, where the law of physics is applied to wall sections, dots and power pellets which are not anchored down to their original spots onscreen. Your goal remains the same and ghosts will still chase you, although collecting power pellets now creates a force of gravity pulling all objects towards one particular direction.

Click on the tiny green arrow just beneath the post date to display the download link.

Name: Pac-Man Physics
Developer: imwill
Category: Physics
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Download mirror: Click here

The Dark Knight sales have surpassed the one billion dollar mark.  More

God of War III has been confirmed for sometime in 2009.  More