Archive for September, 2010
Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Odin Sphere collection or HD re-releases coming (XBLA, PSN?)
Rumors are circulating that Vanillaware’s cult-classics Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade are going to be re-released in HD! Most likely for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. Both games were highly praised critically and by those that played them, as graphically glorious hand-painted action adventure titles. Muramasa was released for the Wii at…
Ni No Kuni announced for PS3. Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke) collab with Level-5. RPG features stunning animation. TGS 2010 trailer
Ni No Kuni is coming to the PS3 announced Sony, developer Level-5 (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Dragon Quest IX, White Knight Chronicles) and collaborator Studio Ghibli at the Tokyo Game Show 2010. They also showed off a stunning new trailer for the game. An RPG adventure title, the animation and characters were designed…
New video game releases week 38, 2010
Here’s the list of this week’s game releases. Popular titles this week are: Sid Meier’s Civilization V on PC, Final Fantasy XIV on PC, New Carnival Games on Wii & DS, and Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City on DS. On the downloadable games front we’ve got some fun distractions like the new Wii Shop…
On the Wii and DSi Shops today: Aero The Acrobat 2 (Classic), Triple Throwing Sports (WiiWare), 10 Second Run, Everyday Soccer (DSiWare)
Nintendo downloads this week: For the WiiWare service, Triple Throwing Sports can help hone your skills with Olympic-style projectiles, while The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s ABCs challenges youngsters to grow their vocabulary. The Super NES classic Aero The Acrobat 2 makes its debut on the Virtual Console service, offering fun ways to boost your aerial acumen….
Games Weather Report of Week 37, 2010
What were the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe the past week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest. Think of it as a games weather report. What follows is a listing of the Top 10 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined. North America’s Top 10…
Ninja Gaiden 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 officially announced
Ninja Gaiden 3 has been announced by Tecmo Koei! This news came out of the Tokyo Game Show 2010. This is the first new Ninja Gaiden game following endless re-releases of the original Ninja Gaiden (Ninja Gaiden Black for Xbox1, Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PS3), a DS release known as “Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword” (which…
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor announced for Xbox 360. Uses Kinect!
Steel Battlion: Heavy Armor was officially announced by Capcom Head of Games Keiji Inafune for Xbox 360 Kinect at the Tokyo Game Show 2010 expo in Japan! It is being developed by From Software! (Demon’s Souls) This marks the long-awaited return of the king of all mech-simulation games that was released way back in 2002…
Rise of Nightmares announced for Xbox 360 Kinect. First-person horror adventure
Rise of Nightmares has been announced for Xbox 360 at the Tokyo Game Show 2010. The first-person horror adventure (self-described by publisher Sega) is coming in Spring 2011 for a global launch. Few solid details on the game were revealed, but we do know that it will push a heavy horror theme that focuses on…
Project Draco announced for Xbox 360 by Panzer Dragoon creator. Uses Kinect
Project Draco has been announced by the creator of Panzer Dragoon, Yukio Fatatsugi, and is a Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 game in which you FLY DRAGONS. It releases in 2011. While the game is NOT a Panzer Dragoon title, it has many things in comnon including flying a dragon, being called “Project D” which not only…
Haunt announced for Xbox 360. Uses Kinect, made by Parappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura
Haunt has been announced for Xbox 360 by developer NanaOn-Sha and publisher Microsoft. While the developer name may be unfamiliar to you, you’ll know the guy making it. Masaya Matsuura is the creator of a lil PS1 title called Parappa the Rapper. You may have heard of it before. While he hasn’t done a whole…
Codename: D announced for XBLA. Uses Kinect, developed by Suda 51 and Grasshopper
Codename: D has been announced exclusively for Xbox Live Arcade from Suda 51 and his development house Grasshopper Studios (Killer 7, No More Heroes, No More Heroes 2, the upcoming Shinji Mikami collab Shadows of the Damned). The upcoming game is one of many upcoming Kinect-enabled Xbox Live Arcade games. Very little is known about…
The Undergarden announced for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network
The Undergarden has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network from publisher Atari. The game promises to challenge players in exploring beautiful underground caverns that require solving puzzles and discovering hidden secrets to proceed. All wrapped up with cooperative support, neon-glowing-style side-scrolling graphics, and cute characters! “The Undergarden is a casual zen game…
Radiant Silvergun XBLA announced (Xbox 360)
Radiant Silvergun Xbox 360 remake for Xbox Live Arcade in 2011 has been announced by Microsoft and Treasure! This is huge news and a huge catch for Microsoft, as Radiant Silvergun is one of most beloved shoot ‘em ups of all time and a schmup cult-classic that is at the top of the “wanted” list…
Cowabunga! Do you want a TMNT game from the Batman team? I do! 
I woke up thinking about playing Dance Central. I just want to dance. I just want to dance my life away.
