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Yeah, The Dude Who Has The Biggest Collection Of D
… One that was actually for sale by the owner on Figure.fm, but that was a while ago, and it’s been long since sold sorry!
Fun-fact: I almost seriously got one for Doshin The Giant, but the $500 price tag scared me off as a lowly college kid at the time. So I got a PlayStation 1 instead! I also need to figure out how to play the Euro GameCube version!
- Two new characters have officially been revealed for the US release of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. To be honest, Zero looked much cooker in SNK vs Capcom, since we was based on his GBA series. That’s still better than Joe the Condor,gucci handbags, who is yet another new face on the Tatsunoko side that’s actually just someone else with a slightly different outfit. Sorta like how Tekkaman Blade is just Tekkaman with cooler shoulder pads. Again, where the hell is Speed Racer?!
… There’s also this…
At least the other half of the first round of new faces, Frank West, looks to be a worthy addition to the vastly more interesting Capcom side. Though I’d still much prefer Phoenix Wright.
- Sticking with the new female protagonist, one of the possible outfits for during battle was recently revealed… again, awesome sauce.
- One game that I forgot to mention in my rundown of stuff played recently was Scribblenauts. Which I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t gotten very far in, primarily due to my severe lack of imagination. I blame the internet for frying my brain! And yes, I’m well aware of how easy it is to exploit the game, I just refuse to do so!
- Hey, I never did directly address the Tokyo Game Show, no did I? Well, guess there?s still not much to say… as previously noted, it totally blew and provided firm evidence that the Japanese game industry is in a total tailspin. Well at least it helped to produce pics of an awesome looking Cyborg Ninja cosplayer…
- It’s the cast of Street Fighter 4, done all Mega Man-like…
- Okay, time for yet another round of Persona related info! Most of which are courtesy of the always awesome Siliconera, and not just because they’re the first to report every single Persona related update that comes up! Anyhow, as some might already know, in the upcoming Persona 3 Portable, if you play the girl character, you’ll get a chance to swing by Inaba, which is where Persona 4 takes place! Your character will get to stay at the Amagi Inn, where a younger version of Yukiko (P3 takes places about 2 years before P4) will be present!
- One of my favorite NES games to this very day is still Faxanadu, mostly due to the beautiful and haunting soundtrack. And here we have one of it’s best pieces wonderfully re-imagined via acoustic guitar… and accompanied with an unintentionally hilarious video.
- Meanwhile, tshe iPhone version of Noby Noby Boy is apparently coming along just swell…
… Even more evidence of how the game has completely taken Japan by storm… or how it’s just filled with sad, lonely people, can be found here.
- Time once again to check into Rising Stuff, where they have yet another look at an insanely obscure import, this one for some Mega Drive game featuring sumo wrestlers. How come Diehard Gamefan never wrote about this one back in the day, huh?
- But then you have to ask once again what the deal is with Persona 5? Good news! Altus is FINALLY hiring a PS3/Xbox 360 programmer. Geeze, took them long enough. Which means, Persona 5 in 2012? Maybe?
… Tokyo Hunter also has some sweet pics of some R-Type kits…
… The days of Sega before Sonic… as well as Phantasy Star, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, even Shinobi. Crazy, huh?
… That’s Japanese 8-bit superstar Hally playing the Triangle Service Shmup Skill Test!?
- A while back I mentioned a new technology that allowed a game to recognize the player’s facial gestures as part of the gameplay experience. Well as many predicted, the same tech is being used to allow for “shape recognition”. And since it’s a sex title, let alone one from Japan, it all translates to whipping one’s penis out being an actual part of the game!
… His Street Fighter 2/Mortal Kombat piece is equally awesome.
- Yet another fine piece of video game fan-art that’s a bit too hot for Life Meter! Starring a girl from Touhou Project…
- Via GamOvr…
- File this under the “well, it took them long enough” category: a sequel/modern remake of Rocket Knight Adventures is finally on the way! I was a MAJOR fan of the original on the Genesis, so when I first heard word, I was obviously very excited. Though it was significantly dampened after watching that trailer. Looks kinda “meh”. Once again… say it with me… I’d rather have the original on the VC, thank you very much.
- Guess whose birthday it was recently? Why Manaka Takane, one of the fine ladies in Love Plus!
Dead Rising 2 does indeed look awesome, but I’m just afraid that everything will be too dark for my SD television set. 4 Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden appears to be, at the very least, the prettiest looking DS title to date, and the same could easily be said for the upcoming Okami follow-up for the DS as well. Thought the most important thing is how it’ll probably play far better on the handheld than it did on the consoles!
- How about another two-fer? First we have The Fresh Prince of Sonic CD. And second, Sonic CD meets 50 Cent.
… Again, don’t get the sudden rise in popularity. And because it’s via Danny Choo, be careful cuz that was actually one of the more tamer pieces.
Though I have zero idea why I wasted my energy and your time with all that text, when I could have just passed along this Mega 64 vid and be done with it. Along with this review, which illustrates how, if you’re gonna trying to go head to head with Apple and their iPhone, you had better come prepared!
- Oh, and here’s a pic of Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuyoshi “Sanodg” Sano (another favorite game musician of mine, behind some of the very best Tekken and Ridge Racer tunes, without a doubt) hawking Korg DS-10 Plus outside of a store in Akihabara that Chris Kohler took last time he was there…
- Meanwhile in America, the cover for EGM’s grand return was recently revealed, and it features the return of the original logo! That alone guarantees that the issue will fly off ilves once it finally comes out!
Related: Original Sound Version recently interviewed three of the musicians that were part of the Ketsui Arrange Album, including my good pal virt! AKA Jake Kaufman. I’m assuming that it’s release was supposed to coincide with the 360 port, which was originally slated for this past May. Oh well! Anyhow, gotta get my hands on it, though I’m more concerned with the DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou arrange album at the moment, which I have a guy in Japan tracking down for me this very moment!
- Finally, my good pal John Green, who starting making a point and clicks adventure staring a teenage zombie, recently got updated! It’s not finished yet, but it’s still being worked on, and what better game could one be playing in honor of Halloween?
- Lastly, and was gonna save this for my next big rundown of toys and figures and junk like that, but check out these awesome Persona statues from Treasure Festa!
Hey Eric, if you’re reading this, anything I’m forgetting? Wait a minute, just remembered: some behind the scene goodness with Fumito Ueda regarding The Last Guardian. And get this: the dude’s a big Half-Life 2 fan?
- If you love or hated Jason Nelson’s hybrid video game/interactive poem “I made this. You play this. We are enemies”, you might be interesting in know that he has a new game out called Evidence of Everything Exploding.
- Your obligatory NeoGAF thread for this post is from last month, a week or so before the Tokyo Game Show, in which it was rumored that the PS3 might be able to play PS2 games once again, as well as Dreamcast titles too! The latter is clearly the most interesting, though it seems far more feasible on the 360, given how both architectures have ties to Windows. As for the return of backwards compatibility, it would be strictly for a title-by-title basis. You won’t be able to pop in your copy of Dog of Bay I’m afraid; each title would be sold via the PlayStation Store and have it’s own custom configured emulator attached, much like how every VC title has it’s own emulator built-in as well.
- You see tons of video game-y music vids posts all over the place these days. Most are far hipster bands cashing in on Nintendo nostalgia. And most are also lame as well. But not this one!
Anyhow, it’s super long, but super meaty: an interview with 5th Cell’s co-creator Jeremiah Slaczka. The most interesting part, naturally, is hearing about the challenges for developing on a Nintendo platform and expectations, as well as pit-falls that comes with it.
- Though I much prefer Siliconera’s idea of a bonus! And it goes without saying that every vid from that event that one can come across is a total required viewing for any Persona fanatic.
- And hime we have a guy who modded his NES cart to play NES games. Just check the video out to see what I’m talking about.
… And one of Suda 51 holding a real-life beam katana…
- If Mini Squadron plays half as good as it looks, then we have definitely iPhone game of the year material here.
- On a semi-related note, the vast majority of Sega-philes cut their teeth on the Genesis back in the day, some the Master System before it. But what about the SG-1000? Even the most diehardest of diehards have never touched the thing, let alone heard of it. So behold…
- A Katamari cell phone strap…
- And Donkey Kong in the grocery store…
- Sticking with the Fab Four, what happens when you combine the Beatles and a shump? You get this.
- Though it wasn’t entirely doom and gloom. The aforementioned news that Cave is finally looking to the overseas market by making their next release region free shows that Japan’s downfall is finally waking some people up.
- Here we have two different items that references Obama’s recent Nobel Prize win (BTW, I try to not spill my political views into my video game reporting too often, by my two cents? among other things, totally unnecessary,replica bags, though even funnier were those upset with my negative attitude, with one colleague of mine going so far as to claim that I was being “Un-American” , which is hardly a shock since a lot Democrats I know are acting just as insane as the Republicans they hate so much, but I should maybe save the rest when the time is right):
- And when it comes out, the always lucky Japanese will have a choice between the regular edition, which is just the game, and the DX Pack, which includes a Velvet Room shirt, desk calendar, and mini posters! Might pick it up just for the calendar alone, to replace the one I got from the Ikki Tousen: Eloquent Fist deluxe set. Oh, and the shirt looks pretty cool too.
The PSP Go recently came out, and all claims that it would be DOA were pretty much valid. Because, in the end, it truly is a pointless proposal. I know I risk looking like a total idiot by quoting her, but the President of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime totally hit it right on the head when he asked “What’s in it for me?”
But then this was just revealed. A HD remake of Daytona USA for the arcades? That’s… really strange. Would make far more sense if it were a console release. Besides, the graphics in the original, despite being circa 1993, can still easily hang with whatever the current machines can produce, but hey, the more Daytona the merrier!
But he’s still writing about the world if indie gaming and awesome iPhone games to look for, just over at Boing Boing proper. But I’ll be damned if I can find any of it, due to their suck-ass site design/navigation. But tshe good news is that he’s working on something new, which wshell ideally serve as a successor of sorts! In the meantime, along with all the regular Tiny Cartridge, GameSetWatch, and Siliconera story reminders, this post will serve as the last time I’ll be mooching content from Brandon, at least for the time being.
- Back to GOTO80, the dude has a new music video out, and it’s simply amazing.
- It’s recently been revealed that Ryo Hazuki from Shenmue is a playable character in the up-coming Sega All-Stars Racing. That’s cute I guess. Though call me when the Daytona USA Hornet Gallop is also included.
In this post:
1. My now once a month look back at all the notable game related news that one might have missed!
- Then you have the fan made Metal Gear Solid flick, which is ambitious looking to say the least (haven’t had a chance to check the whole thing out unfortunately). But once again, great looking locales!
- And only the most hardcore of Sega fanboys will give a rat’s ass about this: the tannest man in Japan, Toshihiro Nagoshi, is the grand prize for some contest being run in a magazine for night club hostesses (which are featured prominently in Yakuza 3). More than anything else, THIS proves how print is far from dead in Japan, in which women who work at bars have their own periodical. BTW, here’s a pic of the guy from the Tokyo Game Show, surrounded by various bar hostesses (of course), at the Yakuza 4 press announcer…
- This viral Tekken 6 ad is just great, and a clear-cut sign of how video game commercials should be. Unfortunately, the second one is a bit too much like other ads, content-wise, with the gratuitous hot chicks, but is still very well done on a purely technical level.
- Meanwhile, this fan made Tekken movie trailer is also rather spiffy. It seems really goofy at first… but that’s only because of the source material… with the later parts getting me all hot and bothered, thanks to all the fighting and familiar faces (with some excellent real-life reproduction of their costumes). It also proves that a great setting can totally make or break a fight scene, especially if it’s based from a game.
- Hey, so that douchebag, wannabe game designer, Marc Ecko wants to make another installment of his lame-ass Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Splendid. Can’t wait for her to stink up another GDC by lamenting how game designers are uncreative “a**holes” and then go ahead with yet another lame-ass Jet Set Radio/Grand Theft Auto hybrid/rip-off. Seriously, what a piece of sh*t this guy is.
- As for what was playable that’s coming down tshe pipeline immediately, not a whole lot stands out… though I was relieved to hear that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is shendeed a real-deal MGS experience, and not some off-shoot that Portable Ops was (which was still awesome, mind you), as well as a damn fine PSP title period.
EDIT: Okay, I realize how some folks absolutely hate how these recaps are so dense, while others absolutely love the big chunk of info. But even the later group might suffer from information overload this time around, hence why I’m splitting this update in two. The second half will go live around Sunday.
- Here we have a nice little rundown of what dating sims look like, based upon the region they’re targeted at. Though more than anything else, it’s case for how 2D women are hotter than 3D women.
- Steve’s long form pieces are definitely the highlights of Kotaku, and the main (while some might argue the only) reasons to check the site out. Along with whatever neat little thing or flat-out weirdness that catches Michael McWhertor’s eye, of course!
- Just stumbled across the work of Butt Johnson. And he doesn’t have a lot of it, but his video game related work is pretty neat…
- Speaking of Adam, the dude was lucky enough to hang out with Keita Takahashi during IndieCade 09. Jealous? YES. This one post alone illustrates why I’ve been so bored with the NYC game dev scene as of late.
- ATTN: Katie, here’s more on Jeff Minter’s latest game, Gridrunner Revolution. And for the rest of you, my girlfriend is becoming quite the Llamasoft fangirl!
- I’m with Michael when he asks why, as good as it might be, Metroid Prime should be compared with Citizen Kane. Once again, folks REALLY need to get off the video game and film comparisons; it really shows a lack of pride in one’s favorite medium, which at this point is just flat-out aggravating and sad, especially when it comes from a video game journalist.
- Same goes for this…
- Though the REAL news from the past few weeks is how Brandon Boyer’s Offworld is no more. Which totally, TOTALLY blows. After-all, Brandon’s the only guy in the world who pays attention to, let alone knows about stuff like Extremities.
- 4 color rebellion recently ordered from Attract Mode and took some pics of what came in the box, along with the box itself!
- This is kinda old, though it was originally posted a bit after the big day, so maybe it’s no biggie in the end: Adam Gouveia, one of the grand prize winners of my Persona 4 art contest earlier this year, recently created this phenomenal illustration to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the greatest video game console to die prematurely…
- So whime to begin? A LOT has been going on, which is hardly surprisingly, since as noted late Wednesday night, with the busying holiday season coming full speed ahead, the publiirs we know and love are spitting things out at a rapid pace. Though I can tell you something that is more than likely NOT going to be underneath the Christmas tree come this December…
- Or perhaps I should just wait for the inevitable American release? Provided it actually happens… After all, Persona 4 didn’t do quite as well as was expected. Then again, Devil Survivor exceeded expectation, which was obviously helped by the fact that the DS is on fire at the moment, whereas the PS2 is yesterday’s news in many people’s minds, hence a possible reason why not as many people played P4. No American numbers for the first Persona remake on the PSP, whose numbers are perhaps the most relevant in this instance.
Because it’s been about a month since I last did so (plus the weather, especially if you live in New York City, is going to be crap this entire weekend, though I hear it’s also pretty bad in Cali at the moment… along with how the subways will most assuredly be messed up like last weekend’s, meaning lots of folks staying in and looking for stuff to pass the time) how about another rundown of all the headlines and whatnot from the world of video games that’s fit to re-post? Along with assorted bits and pieces that’s sure to be new to most everyone…
I’m all for digital distribution (I don’t even want to reveal the obscene amount of money I blow each week on tracks for Rock Band or games and apps for the iPhone), but the way Sony has dropped the ball on every single conceivable level. Charging consumers more for a system that technically does less than the regular one? And then charging the same amount for games as they cost on that other system, when the whole point of everything was to save money? Especially when you’re technically getting less in the end (no box or instruction manuals)? Not to mention how it’s costing Sony less money to create the games themselves as well (no manufacturing or shipping expenses on their end)? With the icing on the cake being that, not only are Go owners not able to play the “vast” library of games that’s already out there (aside from nixing the plan to allow folks to trade in their UMDs for digital copies… which BTW I still can’t believe some actually thought such a plan would ever happen, it’s just way too much trouble for Sony whose whole motivation is distance themselves from the past to begin with), all new downloadable releases are trailing behind their physical counterparts by at least a week or two (which is really pisses off many publiirs). What a mess.
- Speaking of Apple, as well as Nintendo, there’s now rumblings that they might have a brand new DS in the wings come 2010. Huh? While Siliconera’s assessment seems pretty on the ball, it just seems like a stupid idea, especially since the DSi just came out. And for Nintendo to make the same basic mistake that Sony has, with trying to compete with Apple, is just plain retarded. Also… and hate to say it… but whatever new graphics chips should be sent over to the Wii.
It all seems highly probable, but like everything, I’ll believe it when I see it. Oh, and there’s also rumors that Yakuza 3 might be appearing here, but as a download. Again, not holding my breath.
- Hey, remember those ultra tiny Sega arcade cabinet replicas from a while back? They now available for pre-order!
- While on the subject of shumps, it was recently disclosed that the Xbox 360 port of Ketsui, which at this point is an absolute mess thanks to the wonderful idiots at 5pd, is now on-hold, perhaps indefinitely. Yay. Hopefully the possible success of Mushihimesama Futari in the states (I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that it’s going to be region free) might motivate Cave to go forward with a port themselves, and maybe even start from scratch!
- Semi-related: the chiptunes tribute to the Beatles is finally live! It’s pretty neat, though as is often the case in such things, some songs are stronger than others. I highly recommend the Psilodump, minusbaby, poke-1,170, and GOTO80 tracks!
- Anyone out there remember the Nintendo 64DD, the hardware attachment for Nintendo’s 64-bitter that allowed one to mess around with the successor to Mario Paint and create custom tracks in F-Zero X? Well here’s what it looked like.
- If you want to adorn your domicile with video game-y furniture, and you already have Tetris bookshelves, how about this…
- Also via OSV, what happens when you get 40 of Japan’s top, freelance game musicians get together? they form an alliance, that’s what! Which includes folks like Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Yasunori Mitsuda, Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, and Akira Yamaoka, which essentially make up about a half of the music on my Mac!
… One word: HAWT. It would be cool if they could somehow bring Chie into the fold, but that’s good enough for me!
Ghost Trick, something new from Capcom that I’ve only seen mentioned over at Tiny Cartridge, appears promising, even though I have no idea what the game is about. And according to our man McWhertor, RayStorm HD is not half-bad! To see what it looks like in action, check out this slightly old-ish trailer.
- Not only has this dude turned his old NES controller into a flash drive, but he added the Konami code for some added security. Neat!
- So U2 wants to have their own video game. Just swell. You know, I think I’d rather play Guitar Hero Van Halen, thanks.
- God bless Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out, and God bless animated gifs.
Anyway, here Steve explains the story behind that message application that I always pass by when going through the 360’s catalogue of indie games. It’s made her $60,000? Jesus Christ… It’s also nice to see someone finally write about House of the Dead EX!
- It was also interesting to hear how Natal is actually some real-deal thing that’s being seriously considered for us by folks like Hideo Kojima. And if there’s any game that could use the massive shot in the arm thanks to such new technology, it might be Katamari Damacy, which seems to work really well.
We also have Steve Totilo talking with the man about his “less is more” philosophy when painting a game’s story. Which Totilo widely contrasts with the far more verbose tales found in Mass Effect. For the record, I like both approaches.
- You know why I find this video of skateboarders with neon Tetris pieces on their heads somewhat annoying? Because even in the year 2009, not everyone is able to recognize what a standard Tetris piece looks like.
- Back to music and shmups for just a sec, another chiptunes pal of mine, Nullsleep, toured the world this past summer and came back with plenty of pics from his assorted stops. Including a number of wonderful shots from an arcade while in Japan…
- As for the event itself, who you gonna go to for highlights? Offworld of course!
- Though one has to wonder what it’ll be like. Which brings us to this awesome postmortem by the team behind Persona 4 over at GameSetWatch. This spill the beans quite a bit, though the most telling is how the creation of the game was so draining that it honestly sounds like they don’t want to make another Persona! Or at the very least, part 5 will be vastly different. Which I suppose it hardly a shock since the first two were similar, and then three came in to change things up dramatically. Which got it’s follow-up, so time to move on?
I’ll be back later this weekend!
- An oldie, but certainly a goodie: Snorlax does indeed own.
First we have further evidence of why Hideo Kojima is the man, as he deftly tried linking Obama’s win to his upcoming Metal Gear title! And second, the denizens of 2chan believe if Obama can get a Nobel, so should the dude who managed to gather the most complete collection of Dreamcast related goods ever assembled!
- For those who want a little bit of veno while playing Kid Icarus…
- I’m fairly certain that absolutely no one will remember me talking about a game called Panty Explosion some years ago. Well, here we have a rather extensive interview with it’s creator, Jake Richmond. Actually, here’s part one, which is all about Panty Explosion, and here’s part two, centered on another game of his called Classroom Deathmatch!
… Ice not included, obviously. Oh, and for those who haven’t been thime as of late, tshe catalog has been updated to include Space Invader shece cubes and Pac-Man over mitts!
- But back to everything in Japan having a magazine, as most are well aware of, Nintendo’s been trying their best to combat piracy for a good while now, primarily the R4-like flash carts. To the point that many argue that the sole reason for the DSi’s existence is to combat such forms of piracy? Well, how exactly do people in Japan keep up to date with the latest hacking methods? They get the magazine, of course…
- Sticking with Sega for a bit, a while back, I might have mentioned something called Sega Racing Classics being trademarked, which got me all hot and bothered,omega replica watches, since I figured at long last we’re getting a XBLA or PSN port of Daytona USA, minus the name, since EA owns the copyright to the name. And when it was discovered that it was just the name for another upcoming racing game, I became less than excited.
- I guess that’s it? Again, proof that TGS 09 was definitely on the lame side. Then again, could have been much worse: new consoles could have been announced!
What else made it’s debut or finally showed it’s cards at the TGS? Ummm…. the latest trailer for PixelJunk’s Shooter continues to impress (I mostly like the Sub-Terrania vibe I’m getting). Death By Cube still looks pretty inviting, as does 0 Day Attack On Earth.
UPDATE: Wait a minute… new articles are still being published at the Offworld site, but the RSS feed doesn’t work? Hence the lack of updates in my feed reader… LAME. Why does Boing Boing continue to be such a technical mess? At least I can finally find out how Austin GDC was from his perspective!
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