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Another bullet hell shooting game, another Xbox 360 port. Vertical arcade shoot-'em-up Mamoru-kun wa Norowareteshimatta! is the latest to Japanese shooter to be announced for Microsoft's home console. More »
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Shooter specialist G.rev let slip the other day that Senko no Ronde 2 was in the works, revealing two new gender ambiguous additions to the cast of fighters. Now, courtesy of Yahoo! Japan blog Gemaga, we know a half-dozen characters who will comprise a portion of the roster. As fans of the first can see, gender confusion runs amok yet again, as Cuilan returns and a character known as ??? blurs the line between the sexes. Someone at G.rev should be made to pay for this. More »
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The Naomi based fighter-shmup Senko no Ronde eventually wound up on the Xbox 360, arriving in the West as WarTech: Senko no Ronde. It didn't do particularly well with critics or buyers, which seems odd considering its can't-miss formula of gender neutral anime teens piloting robots that shoot pastels lasers at each other. Still, developer G.rev is giving it another go, it seems, as an arcade sequel tentatively known as Senko No Ronde 2 is due to arrive in Japan next year. A teaser image featuring Lev Lefanu (left) and Henri Xia Xiaotien (right) is all that we've seen so far—another very blurry character is shown in a second pic—but we have little in the way of details beyond that. Anyone willing to wager the sexes of these two new additions? I'm withholding judgment for now. More »
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Japanese shooter developer G.rev is firing up the Naomi development kits one more time for its latest vertical shmup Mamonoro. The creators of Senko no Ronde, Border Down and Under Defeat, all for the Dreamcast's arcade-only big sister hardware, are co-developing the game with a group called Gulti. According to Arcade Renaissance, some of the boys from Gulti hail from Seibu Kaihatsu, the developer responsible for the vertical shmup staple Raiden series. More »
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I'll admit I have a bit of a Senko no Ronde obsessive streak. But my interest in the game starts and stops with playing it. And maybe securing a Sanjo Sakurako P2 costume gashapon, but that's really as far as it goes. Fortunately for the otaku crowd with crippling shyness/unrealistic female expectations, G.rev is releasing a pair of "holding" pillows featuring two of the game's loveliest ladies. Fully reclined, lightly dressed, and ready to be "held", Changpo and Ernula adorn the 107 x 45 cm (42 x 17.5 inches) pillow cases. They'll set you back a hefty 8400 yen (about $70) when they ship in March. They should be washed in warm water with non-chlorine bleach and dried on low heat, following... use. More »
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One of the disadvantages to being Weekend Editor, is that when something pops up during the weekday that I'm really psyched for, I have to wait until Saturday morning to gush about it. The other downer is that none of the other editors seem to give two squirts about Senko no Ronde Rev. X for the Xbox 360. Jerks! More »
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G.rev, creator of fine shoot 'em ups like Under Defeat and Border Down (who and huh?), were a bit of a surprise developer in Microsoft's stable. They were, after all, focused on Sega's aging Dreamcast and Naomi hardware. But that doesn't mean they can't make Xbox 360 games, and make them look mighty pretty! More »
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