Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Australian classification board gives away Square Enix's next digital port.
Back in the early 90's, as part of then-Squaresoft's efforts to expand the console-style RPG market, an "entry-level" RPG was created specifically for English-speaking gamers. Titled Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, the hope that was by forgoing the difficulty of Dragon Quest and the main Final Fantasy series, while also streamlining and simplifying the game's core mechanics, people traditionally not interested in RPGs would give the game a chance.
Now, nearly twenty years later, Mystic Quest is set to return via the Wii's Virtual Console. While the port hasn't been officially confirmed at the time of this posting, the Australian ratings board has approved the game for release with Nintendo marked as its publisher. As Super Nintendo games are typically 800 Wii Points ($8), perhaps another new generation of non- and casual-gamers can soon be introduced to the RPG genre with a simple impulse purchase?
Source: Siliconera
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Warp on 07/28 at 03:35 PM
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Fighting enthusiasts the world over can finally see some more of their fantasy bouts in action with the announcement of not one, but two cross-over fighting games. Capcom will continue to take on the world with their stable of fighters, utilizing the Street Fighter 4 fighting engine to develop "Street Fighter vs Tekken." Namco, meanwhile, will be developing "Tekken vs Street Fighter" on the Tekken 6 fighting engine, taking iconic fighters like Ryu out of their element for a little thrashing.
Regardless of your preferences there should be plenty of content -- and contention -- to be had next year when these games release. Hit up the source for videos and early screenshots of the games in action.
Source: 1UP
Thanks to forum member Nicodemus for the heads-up!
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Warp on 07/28 at 02:19 PM
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2008's LittleBigPlanet, an adorable little platformer with robust creation tools, captured the hearts of many thanks in no small part to its star Sackboy. While Sony spared nothing in its promotion of Media Molecule's first project to ensure the new game's success, a different approach is being taken this time around. With vastly improved and expanded creation tools and an established fanbase, LittleBigPlanet 2's promotions are far more tangible. Retailers Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop, movie giants Disney and Pixar, and game developer Insomniac Games are teaming up with Sony to bring a variety of pre-order swag to gamers this holiday season.
Pre-orders placed through any of the retailers will score customers four exclusive "Even More Animals" costumes, modeled after a cobra, a vulture, a mandrill, and a crocodile. In addition to these costumes each retailer will have its own special costume. Best Buy's pre-order will get customers a costume modeled after the "Aliens" from Disney and Pixar's Toy Story Series. Pre-orders placed at GameStop, meanwhile, will receive the "Clu" costume, modeled after the Tron: Legacy character of the same name. Finally, pre-orders placed through Amazon will gets players not one, but two additional costumes based on the Ratchet & Clank series; one after Ratchet, the other after Clank.
And if that wasn't incentive enough for you, Sony also announced a LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector's Edition. Priced at $79.99 and said to be in limited quantities, this edition includes all of the retail-exclusive DLC costumes as well as its own exclusive costumes modeled after Jak and Daxter. A 7" Sackboy plushie, LittleBigPlanet-themed book ends, and five exclusive PlayStation Network Avatars are also included in the Collector's Edition.
LittleBigPlanet 2 is scheduled for release on November 16th.
Source: PlayStation Blog; Amazon; GameStop; Best Buy
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Warp on 07/28 at 01:49 PM
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North America has the Electronics Entertainment Expo, Japan has the Tokyo Game Show, and last year saw the appearance of GamesCom, Europe's unified display of game publisher's latest and greatest. Despite roughly 245,000 visitors attending last year's convention, largely due to the convention being open to the public, Sega formally announced earlier this month that they would not be attending this year's show. A "commercial decision" was given as the reasoning for the publisher's absence.
Following this Capcom announced late last week that they, too, will not be participating in this year's show. "GamesCom allows publishers and developers an excellent opportunity to promote their titles to both consumers and media," reads the official statement on Capcom Europe's website. "In the case of consumers we feel it makes sense for them to experience the titles that will be available in stores over the next few months and right now we have confirmed two titles for release between August and the end of the year Dead Rising 2 and Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes." As the original Dead Rising was banned in Germany and the eagerly anticipated sequel is still awaiting an official rating from the country's rating board, Capcom has decided to forgo making an appearance all together. Why recently released games couldn't be put on display alongside the upcoming two remains unanswered, however Capcom will still be showing these games and others to the media around the time of GamesCom.
Source: Capcom Europe, via Kotaku
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Retail giant buys online social networking site Kongregate
Retail giant Gamestop today announce that they have acquired online social network gaming website Kongregate. In an announcement posted by the CEO of Kongragate on the Kongregate website, it was revealed that the website has become a full-fledged subsidiary of GameStop.
Kongregate would not reveal how much Kongregate was purchased for; however, it was revealed that the company would attempt to reward its' members with "rad stuff" from GameStop. Plans for the social networking site, with regards to GameStop, were not immediately revealed; however, GameStop did reveal that the company would continue to operate out of their existing San Francisco offices as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Sources: Kongregate, Via Kotaku & GameSpy
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Apollo on 07/27 at 09:56 PM
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