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30th of July 2010

Bloomberg of Japan has reported that the Nintendo 3DS will be released in Japan on September the 29th. More

Square Enix have trademarked Gun Loco. Is it a spin off of Final Fantasy 7, with Barret as the main character? More

Radiant Historia is similar to Star Ocean. According to Famtisu, the game "takes place on a world with five warring countries. A mysterious disease suddenly turns people into sand." More

Virtual-On Force will be released in Japan as a box version of Virtual-On Oratorio Tanagram. The Xbox 360 game will be released on December the 22nd and will cost 6,090 yen ($70). More

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together trailer

God Eater Burst’s new Aragami

Browser Game Pick: Nyalamander (Ijiwaru Neko Cat)

Nyalamander is a mouse-controlled 2D scrolling shooter in the style of Salamander and the Gradius series, featuring six levels to beat and a handful of power-up items for the player to collect. Upgrades are in effect the second you pick them up, and when your ship is destroyed you can still save the options if you gather them before they disappear into space.

The level orientation switches from horizontal to vertical after each boss fight, and you have the option to continue playing from any stage you've beaten previously at the main menu screen. The autofire feature can be activated by scrolling up with the mouse wheel, and to turn it off you just need to scroll down using the same wheel.

Note that the game does not store a record of your unlocked levels between browsing sessions, and you'll have to start playing from stage one again if you close or switch browser windows. (source)

Bayonetta

Chinese Cosplayers

28th of July 2010

Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Diva will be included with the Playstation 3 version of the game. More

Atlus has announced that Radiant Historia will be released on the Nintendo DS. More

Metroid: Other M Story trailer

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 trailer

When CDs spin the Neptune characters transform

Trailer: Fish Fish Bang Bang

Fish Fish Bang Bang is a one-button arena shooter created by Robert Fearon (using sprites from Farb's Fishie Fishie), where players get to shoot at evil fish invaders and collect shiny gems for points. Your fish in the middle of the screen will always rotate in one direction, but the rotation switches the other way around whenever a button or a key is pressed. Each level presents a different layout and shape for the enemies to appear from, and there are gems to collect in the latter stages as well.

A demo will be released sometime this week, while the full version should be available to download from the Bagfull of Wrong site in a fortnight's time from now. Fish Fish Bang Bang is Bob's submission for Indie Kombat - a friendly competition between two developers (the other being Farbs) where they take each other's games and remake them into something ten times better than the original.

XBL Indie Game Pick: Platformance (Magiko Gaming)

Platformance: Castle Pain is a tough platformer available on the Xbox Live Indie Games service. You take control of a knight who must battle his way through a dangerous castle and save the princess.

If Super Meat Boy and Journey to the Center of the Earth had a love child, this would probably be it. There are spinning axes to dodge, bats to flee from, spikes to bound over, octopuses to not make friends with and ghosts to beat a hasty retreat from. Certain obstacles can get a little frustrating, but there are plenty of checkpoints so you'll never be sent too far back.

Download Platformance: Castle Pain from the Xbox Live Marketplace for a mere 80 MS Points - that's one dollar, folks!

My Little Pony with a difference

26th of July 2010

In an interview with Gamasutra, Warren Spector compares Epic Mickey to Deus EX. “You know, the graphics may be different, the hero may be different, the fiction may be different, but there’s some real Deus Ex-y gameplay in this, if people will give Mickey a chance. I think we’ve made it work, and the Wii is a terrific piece of hardware, and Nintendo’s a great company. It’s been great working with them.” More

Dai Sato, writer of Anime hits like Cowboy Bebop, expresses his issues with the Anime market. He said, “we can’t do our own anime” and depend on subcontractors for in-between frames. More

Yoshinori Ono announced at this years Comic-Con that he's working on an online version of Street Fighter 3rd Strike. With production of the game only recently started, it is not expected for this product to be completed soon. More

5bp's Steins;Gate will be turned into an Anime series. More