North Americans may be getting a triple-shot of Raiden style shmupping, positive word delivered via multiple retail listings for the still Japan-only top-down shooter Raiden Fighter Aces. One of the casualties of region-locked Xbox 360 software, Raiden Fighter Aces was released in Japan last March, bringing the decade-old Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell…
Add Risk: Halo Wars to the list of Halo titles being released in 2009. The board game follows up the Halo Interactive Strategy Game released last year. Try to contain your nerd-ons, guys. USAopoly is releasing the Halo Wars-branded version of venerable strategy game Risk this Summer. It features three factions (UNSC, Convenant and Flood),…
Atlus announced today that it will indeed be bringing Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon to North American PlayStation 2s. Can’t say we’re surprised, just a bit out of breath. Seriously, that title is long. “The longer the title, the better the game,” says the official game announce from Atlus…
Each year, one of the three big console manufacturers gets an opportunity to dazzle Game Developers Conference attendees with a fabulous keynote speech. 2009 is Nintendo’s year, with president Satoru Iwata returning to the stage. Iwata will kick off GDC 09 with an address titled “Discovering New Development Opportunities,” scheduled to delight the dev-heavy crowd…
Sony may be readying a proper successor to the PlayStation Portable, reports IGN, with a “widescreen multi-touch interface” equipped PSP2 “on the horizon.” If you’re expecting further details on the rumored hardware, bail out now. As IGN points out though, things like an iPhone-esque multi-touch interface wouldn’t come as a surprise to virtually anyone. It’s…
Not sure if you’ve heard, but the economy is shit and everybody’s losing their jobs. If you’re still gainfully employed, the downturn might start to hit home soon, thanks to game retailers stocking less. Sega Europe president Mike Hayes tells GamesIndustry.biz that U.S. retailers are “being far more prudent in what they buy, so they’re…
Joakim “Konjak” Sandberg, developer of the gorgeous IGF nominaated Noitu Love series, has released a one-level “love letter to Zelda” called The Legend of Princess. It’s the unofficial sequel to Zelda II we’ll never get. This stunning, two-dimensional, arcadey hack and slash represents a potentially frightening alternate reality scenario, one in which the sidescrolling sequel…
Maybe Apple’s iPhone really is “the future of gameplay.” This year’s Independent Games Festival Mobile finalists are almost entirely comprised of titles for iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, with just one Nintendo DS entry appearing. Two iPhone titles lead the pack of nominations, with tower defense game Fieldrunners and cubic puzzler Edge up for three…
Rockstar Games has given owners of the Windows version of Grand Theft Auto IV a new title update, issuing a suite of bug fixes, tweaks, new options and new controller support. Probably most welcome to those of us sporting a PC that is brought to its knees by GTA IV are new graphics sliders, giving…
With the economy in a rut, it’s hard to justify fabulous Super Bowl bashes when companies are bleeding cash and slashing headcount. But Electronic Art’s is proudly soldiering on with its festivities, Madden Bowl-style. The publisher is just one of a handful of corporate entities going all out at Super Bowl XLIII with Madden Bowl…
Square Enix has put a firm date on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. The game, dual-shipping on the Wii and Nintendo DS for euphoric connectivity, will land at retail on March 24th. Both the Wii and DS versions of Echoes of Time will set you back a budget-priced and outrageous $39.99 USD, respectively.…
If you were serious about picking up artist Jason Chan’s Left 4 Dead 4 Kids print (not actual video game fan art, mind you) now’s your chance. Prints are available for purchase. Chan’s “Zombie Playground” is available in physical form in one of three size flavors: 13″ by 19″, 18″ by 24″, or 24″ by…
Micro-managing your Sim all over again may be further off than originally planned, if retailer reports are accurate. According to Edge, Electronic Arts is “evaluating the launch window” of The Sims 3. Whether that means a formal delay for the next installment in EA’s 100 million unit selling franchise is unclear, but its European release…
Be careful what you log into, Steam users. A new account phishing scheme is targeting users of Valve’s digital distribution platform, luring in gamers with the promise of gifted copies of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2. While Steam users are regularly warned by messages from Valve not to provide their login details to anyone — “Steam…
Good work, Atlus. Your “Atlus Faithful” e-mail newsletter works like a charm, because every Kotaku reader and his mother just tipped us off to the near-existence of another Shin Megami Tensei game coming stateside. The game? Well, we’re not sure, since Atlus’ only communication, outside of the teaser picture above was “???” in the e-mail…
Looks like Indiana Jones’ video game adventures might not be completely canceled, at least according to a newly (and unofficially) released trailer for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for the Wii. Wait, the Wii? Yes, it looks like rumors about Indy’s demise on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms were pretty accurate…
Remember L.A. Noire, the “interactive detective story” set in the late 1940s, set to be published by Rockstar Games? Apparently, so does the developer, Team Bondi, who are staffing up to maybe actually finish it. The Sydney, Australia area dev — headed by Brendan McNamara, former Director of Development for Sony’s Team Soho Studio which…
We’re calling it: Animal Crossing: Wild World is a hit with the Japanese. A pretty bold claim, we know, but with five million copies under its belt in Japan alone, we’re feeling pretty confident. Japanese sales tracker Media Create revealed that the Nintendo DS game is the second title for the platform to move past…
Specular Interactive and Raw Thrills’ arcade sequel to Hydro Thunder in-everything-but-name looks good in stills. But the powerboat arcade racer H2Overdrive looks amazing in motion. Let’s watch some videos! 1UP has the first in-action clips of H2Overdrive and my goodness does it look lovely. It’s so Hydro Thunder-esque, from its race starting “Go! Go!! Go!!!”…
The UK design studio largely responsible for the identifiable visual style of Psygnosis’ WipEout series, The Designers Republic has shut its doors after more than two decades in business. Why? Money problems. The Designers Republic founder Ian Anderson tells the Creative Review that the studio, which handled visual work on titles like WipEout and WipEout…
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