Eve:
Burst Error, is to be remade for the PSP handheld console.
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Sega
has a four point strategy to improve the arcades, by have a
standardised cabinet. This way they will be able to focus the
finance on the games and less on the expensive units the games come
in.
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A new
Super Street Fighter IV trailer has been released to showcase its
on-line play. (See below)
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Namco
Bandai may be working on a version of Tale of Vesperia for the
Nintendo Wii.
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Super Street Fighter IV on-line
trailer
Trailer: Bezier (Philip Bak)
Philip Bak is looking to take the 2D blaster and
inject some story and 'a lot of heart' into it - enter
Bezier.
Set in a giant super computer, Philip's been working hard to give the game
that special something.
His website
states:
"Powered by the BezierSynth, a bespoke 2D graphics engine which utilizes
genetic algorithms to create a look based on evolving curves. This allows
the visual look to change based on the character's actions, story
parameters and spectral analysis of the 45 minute score."
Browser Game Pick: Super Sloth Bomber (Megadev)
In
Super Sloth Bomber, you are a sloth
piloting an airship that can drop bombs at enemies on the ground to knock
them out. Bombolia is under attack, and the king has sent you on a quest
to drive back the invaders with your ship's ordnances. To progress you
would have to clear an area of all enemies before time runs out, or defeat
a boss if you are in the final area of a major location.
Players have a small supply of explosives to use per bombing run, although
you can increase this limit and purchase other useful upgrades from the
shop with the coins you've collected during your adventures.
Here's a guide to Gamestop
6th of November 2009
During
an earnings Q&A, Satoru Iwata has been stressing that Nintendo will be
working more closely with third party software publishers.
Shinji Hatano, General Manager of the marketing division, has
confirmed that Dragon Quest IX will be available in the West soon.
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Record
of Agarest War has been delayed until next year. A
representative from Aksys said "we’ll understand why there was a delay
when they make an official announcement."
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Resonance of Fate from Sega, will be fully playable on standard
definition TVs.
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Yoichi
Wada, Square Enix’s CEO, said that Final Fantasy could be released
within this financial fiscal year and that ends on the 31st of March.
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Namco
Bandai’s God Eater demo is meant to be huge.
The trial version,
lets the player make a custom character which can be transferred into
the final game. It's exclusive to Famitsu members from November
19th to 25th. It will be released publicly on the PSN network, on the
26th of November.
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Sony
has just updated the Japanese version of White Knight Chronicles to
version 2.01. The patch adds voice chat within towns and quests
to the game’s online mode.
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Record of Agarest War
Weekend Watch: IGF Edition
Tale of Tales had compiled
a list of videos submitted by entrants
for the IGF 2010 competition which you can watch
here and
here.
Lewie Procter of SavyGamer is also in the process of compiling
links to IGF entries with playable builds online to download or
play, although you might have to wait a bit for the rest of the
alphabetical links to appear on his site.
More notable videos (IGF and non-IGF) can be watched in the extended.
Freeware Game Pick: Kabloom (The Death of Games)
The Death of Games are a team of five from DigiPen,
and
Kabloom is a project they developed over
eight months. It's a short game in which an elephant living on a floating
set of islands attempts to breathe life into her dying habitat by planting
trees and nurturing them to health.
A very sandbox experience, players can suck in water and seeds (amongst
other things) with their trunk, then spit them back out. You'll also need
to stomp the ground, readying it for planting. Each tree successfully
grown will spout fruit, and once all 6 fruit are collected, the game pans
out to display your creation. There is no way to die - it's simply a slow
and calm playtoy.
A word of warning: the download is 80MB in size, so this isn't one to play
at work!
Grab it from the DigiPen site. The
trailer is below the cut.
Epic Offers Free Unreal Engine 3 For Non-Commercial
Use
Epic Games has just launched a free edition of its
Unreal Engine 3, one of the best (if not the best) game engine around to
use when developing 3D games. Called the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the
toolset is also distributed with support resources and technical
documentation which are all available to download from the
official
site.
No charge will be imposed for non-commercial and educational use of UDK,
although you will still need to obtain an
official
licensing agreement (Epic receives twenty-five percent of
revenue after the first $5,000 is made) to develop a commercial product
using UE3.
The UDK site is already hosting two standalone games that runs on the new
UDK framework, meaning that you won't need to have Unreal Tournament 3
installed to play them. The Ball deserves a bit of a special mention
though, because it was originally developed as a mod for UT3 (hence the
need for the full game to play it), but has since then been turned into a
standalone version using UDK to showcase the versatility of the engine.
In
Gravmari you control the Playertoid, a
sphere that has to absorb asteroids and small planets to grow and fuel
itself. There are only grey space rocks to collect at first, but soon
you'll be able to absorb moons and orbiting planets after playing for a
couple of minutes. The Playertoid can also eject mass at the press of a
button to propel itself in the direction of your choosing.
Windows only.
Tayutama -Kiss On My Diety- was released today in
Japan, for the Xbox 360. It's a visual novel, that was given a 17 rating.
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5th of November 2009
Remember,
remember, the fifth of November; with gun power, treason and plot.
For years I thought they were saying treacle. I know; it
sounds stupid now.
In 3D
Dot Game Heroes, you can create you own characters, like the the picture of
Cloud to the left. (It doesn't look anything like Cloud) From
Software have added a character creator and I think you'll have to
better than the job this person did.
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The
masturbation simulator, err, I mean; on the back of the box for
Bayonetta, it talks
about an “infinite climax action.” Everything builds up from one
action sequence to the next. Check out the review.
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Alpha
Unit goes out of its way to make sure that everyone knows that Monster
Finder is exclusively for the DSi. They even pointed out that
DSi cartridges are white, whilst DS cartridges are grey. OK, I
think we get the message.
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German
USK rating system have revealed that Phoenix Wright may soon be
released on the Nintendo Wii. No date was mentioned of its
release schedule.
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Namco
hope to solve the on-line frame-rate problems for Tekken 6 with a
patch. They sent out an E-mail that said that the patch
“improves the online game experience.”
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Space
Invaders Extreme Z has been released in Japan on DSiware and if you're
interested, will cost 500 DSi Points. No announcement has been
made about when it will be released elsewhere.
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Namco
Bandai are teasing us with a project, which they said was the “next
RPG Project K.” Question; why do a lot of Japanese made
characters look like they're dancing?
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If you
buy Zelda: Spirit Tracks on the first day of release, you'll get a
free clear feather stylus. Woo Hoo.
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XBL Indie Game Pick: Carcophony (Green Light
Projects)
A traffic management game? What tomfoolery is this!
Carcophony is indeed such a thing, but while I've not exactly loved
such titles in the past (see Armor Games
I Love
Traffic, which was incredibly boring), Green Light Projects' take on
the idea quickly warmed to me.
Everything about this game makes me think of a horrible commute to work.
The plodding music, the constant traffic jams, the slow-going - yet
watching from above, it makes for quite a hectic experience. It all starts
off slow and steady, and easy to keep organised. Traffic lights need to be
switched to let cars through, and at the end of each wave an ambulance
comes powering through and needs to make it from one side of the screen to
the other before time runs out. If you have a queue, he's going to find
that difficult!
As time goes by, more and more cars fill the screen, and if a jam gets too
big, you've had it. There's also a multiplayer mode in which you handle
traffic jams versus another player - makes for a lot of shouting and
cursing. Right now Carcophony is priced at 400 MS Points ($5) which is
possibly a little too much to ask for an arcade traffic sim, but
there is of course a demo you can check out that should give you more
to go on.
Death Rally has been released on Gamershells website
and is free. Here's the MO for the game.
The basic idea behind Death Rally: win races, gather
more money, buy upgrades to your vehicle. In between wreck your opponents,
shoot your way through bystanders and keep the pedal to the metal!
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A clip from FASA's failed Shadowrun project
40,000 Lego bricks were used to create Mario.
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4th of November 2009
Siliconera has a competition for Magnacarta 2. You need to pick
a games franchise that you like and write 500 words about how you
would do things differently.
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Arc
System Works will be brining BlazBlue to the PSP handheld console.
You can remote play already but not everyone wants to do that.
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Squaresoft was thinking of calling Final Fantasy, The Great Warrior
Saga. Thank god they never but, if your interested, there's a
site with a load of unreleased game scans.
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Microsoft have announced that Konami will publish Ninety-Nine Nights II in
North America.
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Sony
have recently patented something that mixes Netflix Party and Mystery
Science Theatre 3000. It even mentions Mystery Science Theatre
3000 as their inspiration.
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Super
Street Fighter IV will be coming with the bonus stage from Street
Fighter 2.
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Trawling my way through the
list of IGF entries
for this year (seriously, there's a lot!) I came across
Mon & Bot, a "physics based
ambient platformer game" from South Korean developer Imwill. The above
gameplay footage shows the work in progress. Apparently a beta will be
available next week. That'll be nice!
Gratuitous Space Battles Released, Demo Available
Gratuitous Space
Battles, the epic space battle sim from Cliff Harris aka Positech
Games, has now been released. The game has been in beta for a few months,
with pre-orderers gaining access to it, but now the full version is
available for purchase.
Coming this December,
The Black Forest
has an interesting setup. A series of 4 'episodes', one part will be
released each week and feature completely different gameplay mechanics
compared to the rest. Players will simply be given a small ghost-like
character, which controls to use, and left to discover what game design is
on offer.
Each episode of the project will not aim to be a full game, but rather "an
effort to create emotional experiences that are more personal and
different from the ones traditional game design has to offer".
Trailer: Flipper (Goodbye Galaxy
Games)
Flipper
has come a long way since we
first featured it back in April. Now at completion and even
sporting a publisher! Still headed for the Nintendo DSi, Flipper is the
story of one boy's quest to be reunited with his goldfish. Available
sometime very soon!
My Girlfriend Is The President
3rd of November 2009
Bic
Camera is selling The King of Fighters XII for 980 yen, which works
out as $11. The game is available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox
360.
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Shiren
the Wanderer, (aka Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 in Japan) is
now rumoured to be coming out on the PSP as well now.
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Amazon
has given a March release for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.
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Front Mission Evolved
King of the Fighters 2D shoot-'em-up dose look quite
good.
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Would you like your own personal maid? I bet she
could keep you fit.
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Here are some Facebook pictures for King of the
Fighters.
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The Nielsen Company and Electronic Entertainment
Design & Research, will be working together to give a deeper statistical
overview of the gaming market.
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2nd of November 2009
Siliconera looks at Love Plus from the perspective of a married
couple and how they would view this game.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, sits down with the creators of Sin &
Punishment 2. It's quite interesting.
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Last
Rebellion has had its release date pushed back in Japan, to the 28th of
January.
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Eurogamer Indie Game Arcade Roundup
The Eurogamer Expo visited Leeds and London last
week, featuring all the big AAA titles that gamers will be playing over
the Christmas period and beyond. The part of the expo I was most
interested in, however, was the
Indie Game Arcade
setup, showing off some of the big indie titles in development (or
recently released) by a range of different indie developers.
You can find a roundup of all my thoughts on the games and the arcade
itself just below the cut. For some of the titles which just blew me away,
I'll be making separate posts regarding those too to give you all a more
indepth analysis.
Annoyingly, in a moment of distraction I put my camera down and failed to
pick it back up again. Fortunately, it turns out gamers are the nicest
kind of people and it was handed in to the Eurogamer guys, who are posting
it back to me. Hence, I'll be putting up pictures and videos from the expo
later in the week, but for now Rob Fearon has given me permission to use
his own photos - you can find his whole collection
here.
Trailer: Zombie Driver (EXOR Studios)
A mysterious chemical-related accident has turned
most of the city into brain-eating zombies, so now it's time to jump in
your machine-gun wielding vehicle, mow them all down and try to save the
surviving city dwellers before it's too late.
Zombie Driver is a
top-down driving affair which promises to feature a main story, plenty of
side quests, combo killing and all in a neat, arcade-style package. Coming
later this month for PC.
Trailer: TRAUMA (Krystian Majewski)
I'm not usually into this style of point-and-click
adventure, but this gameplay video just blew me away. The dynamic level
layouts look gorgeous and the way it all flows together is spot on. It all
just feels so full of atmosphere and depth.
The story of
TRAUMA
revolves around a young woman who has recently been in a car accident, and
while in hospital begins to have dreams regarding her past and her
identity. Players are urged to explore her dreams, now and again using
mouse-drawn gestures to move around and achieve goals. Look out for this
towards the end of the year.
Return of Alice: The Creepy Trailer
1st of November 2009
Atlus
has acquired
Gonzo Rosso Online KK, which is an
online content distribution service. Will we see ports of Atlus
games available on this service? Only time will tell.
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Super
Monkey Ball Step & Roll will feature a mini game with monkey ninjas.
The game will be released in North American stores on February
9th, 2010.
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The
overseas share of Capcom games will account for 75% of their games.
Lost Planet 2 and Dark Void are a couple of examples, of games that
are only scheduled for release in Europe and North America.
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Little
Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ is to be ported to DSiWare. You can
download it now for 800 Wii points.
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In
Japan the PSPGo will be released with a game called Room. Users
will be able to blog, play mini-games, and meet up in virtual spaces
with Mii-like avatars. They could just go out and meet people.
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Namco
Bandai will be releasing Time Crisis 2nd Strike for the iPhone soon.
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Trailer: Guerrilla Bob (Angry Mob Games)
Guerrilla Bob is a top-down shooter
coming soon for your i-Poddery gizmos, featuring dual-stick controls,
lovely-looking comic visuals and lots of shooting. The press release blurb
says: "This is the odyssey of a brave soldier, who decided to take matters
in his own hands.
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