<![CDATA[Kotaku: Southpeak]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Southpeak]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/southpeak http://kotaku.com/tag/southpeak <![CDATA[Two Worlds II: Two Harder Debut Trailer]]> Okay, Two Worlds II isn't subtitled 'Two Harder,' but wouldn't it be glorious if it was? I'd get confused and buy four copies. Check out the debut trailer for SouthPeak's sequel for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5548810&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Section 8 Makes With The DLC]]> The first downloadable content for Section 8 is now live, bringing three new maps and 10 new achievements to TimeGate's first-person shooter in the Seek and Destroy Map Pack. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5452076&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blood Bowl Teaser Hits Hard]]> This is why elves don't generally make good football players. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5437034&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Little TNA On Your PSP]]> SouthPeak Interactive picked up the license for TNA Wrestling from the now defunct Midway, and now we get to see what they are doing with it with screens from TNA iMPACT!: Cross the Line. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5415234&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Scenes From The Edge Of Twilight]]> The folks at Fuzzyeyes have a keen eye for gorgeous scenery, as displayed in this latest set of screenshots for the upcoming hack and slash platformer Edge of Twilight. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5357284&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Section 8 Allows PC-Hosted Xbox 360 Severs]]> The Xbox 360 version of Timegate's Section 8 is getting a multiplayer boost, allowing players to create their own dedicated Xbox 360 server on their PC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5335698&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Story Of Section 8]]> Timegate has just released this stylish developer diary explaining the setting and story of Section 8, the upcoming shooter for the Xbox 360 and PC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5335001&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Trine Now In Convenient PC Demo Form]]> While we've still got a bit of a wait before Trine comes out on the PlayStation Network, we can play the PC version right now, courtesy of the recently released playable demo. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302875&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Edge Of Twilight Has Come A Long Way]]> When I last set my non-fuzzy eyes on Fuzzyeyes' Edge of Twilight I was a bit disappointed. After seeing the latest trailer, I am absolutely ecstatic. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5285796&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Raven Squad Blends RTS and FPS]]> This batch of new screens shows off SouthPeak and Evolved's upcoming tactical action game, Raven Squad. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5261038&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Big Bang Mini Soundtrack Set Free]]> Due to overwhelming fan demand, Arkedo Studio and Southpeak have released the soundtrack to their unique Nintendo DS shooter Big Bang Mini as a free download. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5165454&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Half-Naked Woman Launches UK X-Blades]]> With last week's North American release of anime-inspired action title X-Blades going largely unnoticed, SouthPeak falls back on that old marketing standard to help liven up the UK launch - bare model bottom. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5156423&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SouthPeak's NYCC Plans Include Real Velvet Assassin]]> The 2009 New York Comic Con is kicking off this weekend, and SouthPeak Games plans on making their presence felt, throwing everything from space bears to live-action velvety assassins at convention goers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5144538&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New X-Blades Screens Bring To Mind Creepy Cosplay]]> New screenshots from SouthPeak's fantasy action game X-Blades highlight the odd contrast between the game's realistic environments and the main character's anime-inspired look. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5104276&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Edge Of Twilight Screens]]> Normally, whenever I see or hear the word 'Steampunk' (i.e. whenever I read Boing Boing) I fly into an uncontrollable rage and start Hulking Out with anguished cries of, "Arrrrgh! GET A NEW MEME YOU VICTORIANA-OBSESSED LOSERS!" More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065253&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ninjatown Impressions]]> No, Crecente didn't go to Ninjatown over the weekend. He's in Tokyo covering TGS. But if he did go to Ninjatown, this is probably what he would look like. I say it's pretty spot on, actually. He even has that confused look on his face he gets every time I talk to him. Someone (I think it was Fahey) claimed the hair underneath his arms with actually armpit hair, and not part of the hair from his head. So what's this have to do with anything? I don't know. But what I do know is I finally got to play Ninjatown for the DS. I mean, I've seriously been waiting at least a year to play this damn thing. And after spending the whole weekend with it, I have to say it's pretty good. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059296&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ninjatown Invades New York City]]> My Plastic Heart, a small, yet expensive exquisite toy store in lower Manhattan, was overrun by a large band of ninjas late friday night. Not only was the store overflowing with Ninjatown plushies and original artwork from creator Shawn Smith, the developers from Venan Entertainment were on hand to demo a preview build of the game. I got a chance to talk to the team a bit about the game's development, what it was like working with Shawnimal himself, and their thoughts on the new DSi. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059288&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SouthPeak's Mister Slime DS Hits Retail Today]]> Southpeak's Mister Slime, which we last heard was coming to DS in April, actually hits retail today in North America. Oh, okay! It sounds fairly interesting, actually — players control Slimey, who must stop violence between warring clans, a rather serious pursuit for a young slime. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5028213&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SouthPeak's E3 Line Up - Brave Choices]]> SouthPeak Games has revealed their line up for E3 2008, where they'll be showing a wide variety of games in all shapes and sizes. Most prominent is their just announced reinvention of the Brave series, which started with Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer on the PS2. Brave: A Warrior's Tale for the Xbox 360, PSP, and Wii has a now elderly Brave telling tales of his youth, with a new character named Courage who uses Brave's wisdom to stop a current-day threat. Meanwhile Brave: Shaman’s Challenge for the DS is a platforming tale starring Brave himself. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023739&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SouthPeak Scores $12.9 Million In Funding, Plans More Two Worlds]]> VentureBeat reports today that publisher SouthPeak (I was just there yesterday seeing Ninjatown) has picked up $12.9 million in private investments. It's worth pointing out, as Dean Takahashi does in his story on the financing, that rarely do console and PC video game publishers pick up venture capital - most VC dollars these days are going to more nouveau-media stuff like online games, social networks, virtual worlds and so-called "Web 2.0." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018001&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[My Trip To Ninjatown]]> This artwork by Shawnimals toy line creator Shawn Smith adorned one full wall at the PR office where I went to check out Southpeak's upcoming Ninjatown strategy title for DS. The game's based off of Smith's cute little ninja characters and quirky designs, and it's slated for an October release. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017744&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Russian Gaijins Go Anime-Style With X-Blades]]> I saw a couple of Southpeak's upcoming titles today, including one that I didn't even know existed, to be perfectly honest. A development team of Russian Japanophiles - get this, their name is Gaijin - set out to create the most anime-styled action title they could, and came up with X-Blades, headed for PC and next-gen consoles in the Fall. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017703&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Southpeak Tapped For Igor Movie Game]]> MGM Studios and The Weinstein Company's new animated film Igor is set to get the video game treatment courtesy of publisher Southpeak Interactive this September. Developed and co-published by Legacy Interactive, the game, in development for the Wii, DS, and PC, will follow the exploits of the John Cusack-voiced Igor, a mad-scientists helper who dreams of one day winning the Evil Science fair. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5016224&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Oniblade Becomes Southpeak's X-Blades]]> Today, SouthPeak Games has unveiled X-Blades, an anime-inspired action adventure game that features a cute blond heroine using guns, swords and magic to battle her way through hordes of demonic enemies, developed by TopWare Interactive. Looking through the screenshots, I realized I had seen the game before as Oniblade from Russian company Gaijin Entertainment, which we posted a trailer for back in November. Due out in late 2008 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3, you can see more of the game either by waiting a week for the X-Blades website to launch or head over to the Oniblade website, already filled to the brim with screenshots and clips. Weird. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=362266&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Southpeak Getting Roogoo All Over XBLA]]> First SouthPeak delivers Things on Wheels to the Xbox Live Arcade, and now they're dropping Roogoo on it. What is Roogoo? According to SouthPeak and developer SpiderMonk, Roogoo is a frantic puzzle game in which you try to drop geometrical shapes through rotating discs in order to save the planet Roo and the Roogoo race, which look like cute little teddy bears you just want to cuddle. According to Symantec, Roogoo is adware that installs a Layered Service Provider that monitors network traffic. I'll take the second one please. Roogoo should be available for Xbox Live Arcade and PC this spring, and I'll buy it simply for the fact that it has a cheerful bear flying across the bottom of the screen pooping rainbows. That's all I ever wanted. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=355387&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Things On Wheels Coming To XBLA]]> SouthPeak games is entering the Xbox Live Arcade ring, partnering with Load Inc. - the creators of XBLA racing game Mad Tracks - to create Things On Wheels, an RC car racing title due out this summer.
"We've been looking to move into Xbox LIVE Arcade titles and Load Inc. wanted to do something brand new with the racing genre. This really appealed to us," said Melanie Mroz, CEO of SouthPeak Games. "Competing with real life remote control cars is great fun, so why not do it in a videogame?
So completely new! No one has ever done the mini-cars racing through large environments thing before, unless you count all those Micro Machine games, or the RC series, or maybe Mad Tracks for the PC and XBLA. Other than that - and countless other titles - no...never been done. Let's hear it for innovation! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350522&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Edge Of Twilight Gets Publisher, 2009 Release]]> SouthPeak Games has announced that it will be publishing Fuzzyeyes' steampunk action-adventure fantasy Edge of Twilight for 'next-gen' consoles and the PC in North America and Europe in 2009. The game features an art direction that I have described in the past as "vaguely reminiscent of something out of the Planescape D&D universe." And while the brief teaser trailer they released back in October didn't exactly knock me off my feet, the screenshots and concept art coming from Fuzzyeyes continues to impress me, as does the official game website. They got another year to make this game spectacular. Here's hoping they use it wisely!
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=330802&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Iridium Runners Brings Futuristic Foot Races To PS2]]> Foot racing games haven't exactly taken off on consoles over the past few generations. There was that one running game with the animals whose name escapes me, and I know there was one for the PSone, but having played both of them they obviously didn't leave much of an impression. SouthPeak is giving the running game another go this February, bringing Playstos' Iridium Runners to the PS2. The game is set in 2050, and features futuristic tracks where runners must use weapons and power-ups to win. Imagine your Wipeout racer breaks down and you have to hoof it. It looks...um. Well it sure is a running game!
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323559&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PS3 Catches Monster Madness]]> Monster Madness: The Battle for Suburbia didn't exactly take the Xbox 360 by storm, but it must have done well enough for SouthPeak Games, who just revealed plans to bring a new version of the game to the PlayStation 3 early next year as Monster Madness: EX. What does the EX mean? Extra time in development apparently, as features of the new version include a polished camera system and tightened controls, which in a roundabout way is admitting that the 360 controls could have been better and the camera sucked. Other than that, MM:EX adds mini games and mysterious "newly built in extras" to the mix, hopefully transforming the mildly received 360 game into "the beat-em-up brawler PLAYSTATION 3 system owners have been looking for." Good luck! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299176&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Two World's Collectors Edition Detailed]]> A little less than a month before SouthPeak Games releases Two Worlds, Reality Pump's action RPG, and they've just released details on the collector's edition of the game that should be hitting retail shelves come August 7th. Encased in an attractive holographic slipcase, both the PC and Xbox 360 versions will come with exclusive maps and a second disc containing music and video content as well as a fansite kit so you can become an active part of SouthPeak's marketing initiative. Fansite kits always come across as a bit presumptuous to me. More »
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