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Nintendo Download: Puddle, Ikachan, Fire Emblem Awakening on Monday, more
A handful of new games were added to Nintendo’s download services today:
- The tilt-controlled puzzler Puddle is now available on the Wii U eShop.
- Ikachan, the latest game from Nicalis, has been added to the 3DS eShop.
- As has the NES classic Ice Climber.
- The Wii Virtual Console is still kicking as well with the addition of Metal Slug 4.
And on Monday, the next Fire Emblem game, Fire Emblem: Awakening, will be available to download from the 3DS eShop.
More information on all of this week’s new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Sony is revealing “the future” of PlayStation on February 20
Sony is no stranger to the practice of teasing gamers with a fancy trailer and promises of a big announcement only to reveal another trailer (in fact, they did it yesterday). But the consolemaker has announced that their next big announcement will be revealed to the world on February 20 at 6 PM (Eastern Time). The teaser trailer above, dubbed “See the future,” includes a lot of pretty colors and four familiar shapes (a Circle, a Triangle, an X, and an O).
So what future should we be on the lookout for, Sony? Is it the PlayStation 4/Orbis? A Vita refresh? A new entry in a long-running series for the PS3?
Or is it just another stupid commercial for a commercial? As they say, “once burned, twice shy,” so you’ll forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down over yet another teaser trailer… yet.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Vita
Tagged PlayStation Meeting 2013
Daily Scoop: January 31, 2013 – Here comes February
Wow, January flew by in the blink of an eye! It was like a blur of homework, video games, and single-digit temperatures. Dead Space 3 comes out next week already, and I haven’t even put a dent in Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch! This year needs to slow down…
Not too much going on in the deals department. You can save 15% on the Assassin’s Creed III Encyclopedia Edition, or 43% off the Final Fantasy XIII-2 Collector’s Edition. Don’t get too excited – no, seriously, I get your sarcasm. I GET IT.
There are a few good shirts for sale today! (more…)
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Grand Theft Auto V release date set for September 17
When I think about Spring, I think about Easter, PAX East, and baseball. What I don’t normally think about is the month of September. But I guess the folks at Rockstar Games think a bit differently from me as they’ve announced that the official release date for Grand Theft Auto V will be September 17, 2013. Let me just check a calendar… nope, September definitely doesn’t fall within the Springtime.
According to Rockstar, the additional development time is required to create the “massively ambitious and complex game” and that it “simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require.”
I guess we can stop referring to May as the month of Rockstar, huh?
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Sony unveils teaser for God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad
Do you know how you know you’ve crossed over into the twilight zone? I do. You enter the twilight zone when a video game publisher releases a cryptic teaser trailer like yesterday’s “Game Day” video, which is itself a teaser for another teaser trailer they released less than 24 hours later.
Got all that? Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense to me either.
But that’s just what Sony did. On Tuesday, the publisher pushed out the 17-second “Game Day” teaser that promises a further reveal on February 1. Today, Sony released a slightly longer teaser trailer for what we now know is a God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad. This teaser again ends with the promise of more details on February 1. It’s neat, but it also makes the “Game Day” video a teaser of a teaser of a trailer.
And who wants to be the one to tell Sony that Super Bowl XLVII is actually scheduled for February 3?
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged God of War: Ascension
XBLA Today: Skulls of the Shogun
The first cross-platform Xbox Live Arcade game is here. 17-Bit’s tactical action game Skulls of the Shogun can be synced with your Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows 8 PC, and Windows RT tablet so that you can always get a game in.
It’s available for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15) and features, I swear I’m not making this up, vibrant ghost-samurai warriors:
Skulls of the Shogun is a mashup between classic turn-based strategy and fast-paced arcade gameplay. Washing up on the shores of the afterlife, players meet and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal-monks, and mustachioed samurai generals on the way to recapturing lost honor! Boasting an easy to play interface while retaining compelling depth, Skulls of the Shogun is a challenging test of skill for veteran gamers, but friendly even to players new to the genre.
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Tagged Skulls of the Shogun
Disney closes Epic Mickey developer Junction Point
Disney Interactive has announced they’ve shut down Epic Mickey developer Junction Point Studios. The announcement comes just two weeks after the reveal of the publisher’s huge Disney Infinity project, which is in the works at Avalanche Software, Disney’s sole remaining internal studio working on console development.
Disney released the following statement concerning Junction Point’s closure to the press:
“It was with much sadness that we informed our teams today of changes to our Games organization, which include the closure of Junction Point Studios. We’re extremely grateful to Warren Spector and the Junction Point team for their creative contributions to Disney with Disney Epic Mickey and Disney Epic Mickey 2.”
More than 50 employees were laid off as a result of the closure. Studio head Warren Spector told Gamasutra that he’s unsure where he’ll end up next.
[Source: Joystiq]
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Tagged Epic Mickey, Epic Mickey 2
PSN Today: Crysis 3 beta, GTA Vice City, Hitman HD Trilogy, more
It’s another big week for the PlayStation Store as Sony and Electronic Arts have added a Crysis 3 open beta to the PSN. The beta is available to download for free by all PS3 owners from now until February 12. The digital download version can also now be pre-ordered through the PS Store, so you can be sure you’ve got it first thing on February 19.
Also available this week is Square Enix’s Hitman HD Trilogy. The up-rezzed versions of Agent 47’s second, third, and fourth games are available as separate PSN downloads or as one combined bundle.
Going back in time a bit, this week also sees the addition of a trio of games that were previously available as disc-only releases including Platinum’s Bayonetta, Konami’s Zone of the Enders HD Collection, and Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (that one’s a PS2 Classic).
There’s even that’s new to the PlayStation Store this week. You can read all about them after the break. And don’t forget to visit the PlayStation Blog for a list of this week’s new game add-ons. (more…)
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Tagged Bayonetta, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Hitman HD Trilogy