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July 16, 2010

Swords & Soldiers Marching To PSN

Filed under: Features — Tags: , , , , , — Jamie Love @ 9:07 pm

Swords & Soldiers
As you may have heard earlier today, Sony Online Entertainment gave word that Ronimo Games’ WiiWare RTS plans to invade the PlayStation Network later this Fall. As part of the move, the game’s unique brand of animated mayhem and civilization conquering strife is getting a bump in the visual department as well as the online features.

Always looking to learn more about HD-ness, I managed to catch up with Ronimo’s Fabian Akker to find out a bit more about the work involved –

“The cool thing is that we had little work on the HD graphics, most of the assets were made in HD and then scaled down for Wii, so it was mostly just exporting the original high res files for PSN.

The visuals in the HD PSN version are really sharp and crisp, it helps the characters a lot. For instance you can now clearly see the skull belt on the viking berserker which was just a yellow blob on the Wii, so especially for our artists it’s great to see all these cool details as they were meant to be seen.”

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The View From Gekkoukan High

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: , , , , , — Jamie Love @ 12:24 pm

Persona 3 Portable
I feel terminally exhausted lately.

In fact, the days seem to go by in a blur now, as if one morning I’m walking to school only catching half a conversation with friends and then suddenly waking to a mid-afternoon lecture on literature – and then before I really know what the context is, school is over for the day and I’m back at the dorm questioning whether I should try to study or crawl back into bed.

I’ve missed tennis practice three times in a row now. I joined the club as soon as the opportunity presented itself, and even though they meet three times a week I constantly seem to get derailed. I always mean to go, but someone or something always seems to need me those days. Just last week I got asked to join Student Council, and like usual I couldn’t bring myself to admit that I was already too busy.

For some reason I can never say no.

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Your Morning Bit of Zen

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: , , — Jamie Love @ 8:30 am

Meow Meow Happy Fight
Can you ever be too happy? Big Pixel Studios seems to think so, and is unleashing Meow Meow Happy Fight for the iPhone – wherein a giant Happy Cat decides that the future is too happy and travels back in time to bring a new mix of happiness and destruction to Tokyo.

Okay, maybe I’m just mentioning the game because I wanted to type that description – if you called your game Super Happy Zombie Flower Hour I’d probably want to write about it a little too.

As far as the game goes, Big Pixel says the dual-stick shooter offers 24 levels, 15 characters, 12 power-ups and of course that one previously mentioned happy cat.

Catch a trailer after the break if only for the novelty factor.

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July 15, 2010

Your Okamiden Import Temptation

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: , , , — Jamie Love @ 9:03 am

Okamiden
Apparently Capcom wants to ensure no one ever releases a more legendary collector’s edition for a videogame, ever. My evidence for this comes via the Japanese CE for Okamiden, which offers a giant box to help store the swag accompanying the game – bonus soundtrack, DVD, illustrated book, tiny plushie, and perhaps the cutest earphones ever created.

It’s official – Capcom is absolutely vomiting rainbows full of Okamiden swag.

Check it out over at E-Capcom.

Your No More Heroes 2 Overdose

No More Heroes 2
On the short list of import worthy releases from Japan, the Hopper’s Edition of No More Heroes 2 that Famitsu recently revealed for an October 21, 2010 release is in a league of its own.

Compensation for the wait for more Travis Touchdown offers up one very shiny yellow box that includes the game, an artbook, soundtrack cd, and an additional bonus DVD.

Our friendly neighborhood Marvelous Rep tells me that the added DVD contains two “animes”, one about the events of the original No More Heroes, and another detailing events during the three year space between the two games – plus a documentary about the Japanese voice actors.

Both the regular release and this hopped-up edition also offer a No More Heroes comic as a pre-order present.

July 14, 2010

Your Recommended Dose of Ys Seven

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: , , , , — Jamie Love @ 1:44 pm

Ys Seven
The above screen may cause you to think that “Michael Wootton” is a curious choice of name for a random RPG character, but it in fact belongs to one of the winners of XSEED’s contest that offered fans a chance to attach their name to the upcoming release of Ys Seven – also known as the first shot in a landslide of Falcom goodness for your PSP.

Ys Seven, along with one very sweet collector’s edition, is set to release summer 2010 – which caused me to mention that it was summer 2010, which in turn caused someone to remind me that the summer doesn’t end until the first of September. If that sounds unhelpful, Amazon says August 17.

In the meantime XSEED sent that screen along with a bit of art, which you can catch after the break.

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Your Piece of Wonderland

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: , , , — Jamie Love @ 8:23 am

Alice
On the off chance you ever fall down a rabbit hole and end up in the darker side of your warped imagination, Epic Weapons is offering the opportunity to at least look as if you could defend yourself and possibly take down a Jabberwocky – with a 1,000 piece production run on this replica Vorpal Blade from American McGee’s Alice.

The piece will cut about $90 out of your wallet, and an extra $20 if you dig the stand. If you’re looking for more of a potential bargain, the first 25 blades will be up for live auction from July 22 – July 31 with pre-registration starting today – you can get more info on that over here.

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