The nearly twenty-year-old Shining series from Sega may be best known for its turn-based strategy roots, but the publisher has focused on more action RPG oriented entries recently like the brand new Shining Force Cross. The newest issue of Famitsu reveals Sega’s latest entry, announcing Shining Force Cross for arcades. The game, due to hit…
We’ve already seen Sega and tri-Ace’s upcoming role-playing game End of Eternity in screen shot form, but those screens failed to capture the magic of subsequent images running at approximately 24 frames per second. The debut trailer from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 RPG is full of things you’d expect from your teasers, including…
The recently released PC version of Number None‘s time-shifting platformer Braid comes with an unexpected surprise: a built-in level and graphics editor. Developer Jonathan Blow says documentation and a developers kit is due shortly. Blow confirmed that the PC version—and, eventually, the Mac version—comes with an unannounced editor, allowing players to swap out graphics, sound…
Japanese developer tri-Ace, largely responsible for the Star Ocean series, is working with Sega on its newest role-playing game, End of Eternity. Sega showed off the game in Japan today, releasing all-new, all-pretty screens. While tri-Ace’s pleasantly androgynous characters are par for the JRPG course, End of Eternity mixing things up with its focus on…
THQ has pushed back the release of the Saints Row 2 downloadable content pack “Ultor Exposed,” moving its arrival to April 23rd. Hope you didn’t plan that sick day just yet. The Saints Row 2: Ultor Exposed DLC will hit both the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store next Thursday, bringing with it an all-new…
The publisher and peripheral maker of upcoming DJ game Scratch: The Ultimate DJ have filed suit against developer 7 Studios and Activision for “intentional interference with contract, breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets.” Yes, the publisher is suing its own developer, claiming that the two parties have interfered with efforts to complete the…
From Software’s Ninja Blade gives Xbox 360 owning wannabe ninjas the opportunity to live vicariously—and cinematically—through protagonist Ken Ogawa, a super ninja tasked with saving futuristic Tokyo from parasite-infected Japanese schoolgirls, yakuza and salarymen. If Ninja Blade looks familiar, that’s because it is so unapologetically derivative, borrowing game design elements wholesale from Japanese action-adventure titles…
Publisher Square Enix may be giving the Front Mission strategy series another go in North America, registering trademarks for Front Mission Evolved with the US Patent and Trademark Office. While Front Mission Evolved could be an all-new game in the long-running mech strategy series, it could also be an older, localized take on slowly moving…
Sega announced today that the Platinum Games developed Bayonetta would ship worldwide sometime this Fall, also releasing a batch of new, but familiar screens of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 stylish action shooter. After playing (and mostly enjoying) the developer’s first effort, MadWorld, I’m personally more excited than ever to get my hands on…
When publishers are asked if their upcoming game supports downloadable content, they typically hem and haw, noting they haven’t announced anything yet. In the case of Punch-Out!! for the Wii however, it’s just not happening. So says Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, who flat out denies that the upcoming Wii boxing game will add…
The primary editorial team responsible for Edge Online has quit in response to the magazine’s “old media thinking, rampant cost-cutting and ego-driven control mechanisms” former editor in chief Colin Campbell announced today. According to a post from Campbell at his new venture GameBizBlog.com, the departure of Edge Online’s senior team, which includes news reporter Kris…
Depending on which analyst you ask, first month sales of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars are either a worrisome indicator that Mature-rated content simply can’t sell on the Nintendo DS—or a great success. That’s because two analysts who follow the video game market, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich, have wildly different estimates…
Boston-based hockey fans will be wicked psyched to learn that their own Boston Bruins will win this year’s Stanley Cup, according to EA Sports‘ simulation of the 2009 NHL playoffs. Electronic Arts has run the numbers in NHL 09, calling the Bruins to win the cup in six games, defeating the Chicago Blackhawks for their…
Sony reps have confirmed that there are no plans for a UMD release for Patapon 2 when the PSP game ships in North America next month, calling the move “a one time test case.” In a statement from Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at SCEA, the company’s plans to go download-only on the…
Gaze upon the carefully rendered work that is Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete‘s Blu-ray box art, which features enough perfectly groomed hair and giant sword to satisfy any Japanese role-playing game fetishist. The Japanese release, with its clearly inferior box art, is just a few days away, something we expect to do exciting things…
Regular chess not mustachioed enough for you? We’d think that USAopoly’s Super Mario Chess—totally Nintendo authorized, by the way—will fit the bill. It features no less than two mustaches! Toy retailer Entertainment Earth is now accepting pre-orders for the “Collector’s Edition” chess board, which is dripping with Mushroom Kingdom characters. The “most popular” Super Mario…
Xbox 360 owners have committed mass Covenant atrocities to the tune of 10 billion aliens killed in Halo 3‘s story driven campaign mode. Covenant-hating Halo fans reached that milestone this weekend, Bungie announced. That statistics comes not long after the announcement that Halo 3 fans have played one billion multiplayer games, another indication that Halo…
Konami’s dual-stick arcade-style shooter Zombie Apocalypse will be infecting Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this quarter, the publisher has announced. No, they’re not re-announcing Burn Zombie Burn!, it just sounds like it. The Konami version of dual-stick, arcade-style undead shooting looks to be taken a bit more seriously—minus the teddy bear packed with C4…
Just weeks before the release of Punch-Out!! for the Wii comes the unofficial release of the original NES game’s Nintendo-aborted sequel, Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch. It’s Punch-Out!! plus aliens, minus quality. According to GameSetWatch’s quick primer on the Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch, the game was originally planned to be a proper Punch-Out!! sequel,…
Sony may be taking a rather unusual step at retail with Patapon 2, making the PSP a digital download only, but still offering a boxed copy at retail. How would that work, exactly? According to Ars Technica‘s unnamed sources, Sony will release the Patapon sequel via the PlayStation Store as downloadable goods, bypassing a UMD…
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