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December 23, 2010

Harmonix and Viacom Split, The Wheel in the Sky Keeps On Turning

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Dance Central, Harmonix, MTV, Music Games, Rock Band, Rock Band 3, Viacom — Sam Scott Given @ 4:22 pm

MTV’s owner Viacom has followed through cutting the cord on Harmonix, setting the company free to flesh out new productions under the eye of new investors. Along with the crazy-popular RockBand series, Harmonix has developed other music titles such as the Karaoke Revolution series and the recently released Dance Central for Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral.

Harmonix’s Manager of Communications, John Drake has said in a forum post on the RockBand site that “the DLC schedule marches on for Rock Band, we will continue our support of previously released titles and we’re hard at work on some unannounced projects that we think you’re going to be pumped about.”

Harmonix sounds like they have everything under control, so I’m happy for that. Their unannounced projects have my interest piqued – last E3 brought word of a game for the 3DS, and who knows what other music-games they may have up their sleeves for the future.

Have any guesses or wishes for Harmonix’s next big title?

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Demo Report – LittleBigPlanet 2

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: Demo, Demo Report, lbp, lbp2, little big planet, Little Big Planet 2, LittleBigPlanet, littlebigplanet 2, Media Molecule, PlayStation 3, PlayStation3, PSN — Brad Johnson @ 8:43 am

LittleBigPlanet 2
We’re back with yet another demo report, this time covering Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet sequel, now 87% more lethal—like a sharpened sausage. Now featuring rocket helmets, grappling hooks, and horrifying cybernetic bunny vehicles, LBP2 is gearing up to be perhaps even more preposterous than its predecessor.

The demo begins with the same silly charm as the original; here you are, strange little sackperson, in your cardboard imagination pod, ready to take on the imagination superhighway. There are three story-mode stages ready for your examination; the first introducing players to the new grappling hook.

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December 22, 2010

Lords of Shadow DLC

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Castlevania, Digital, DLC, Download, Konami, lords of shadow, PlayStation 3, PSN, Resurrection, Reverie, Xbox 360 — Jamie Love @ 3:59 pm

Konami Europe has offered up details on new downloadable content for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which involves two installments titled Reverie and Resurrection.

Reverie sends Gabriel back to the castle to destroy evil, while Resurrection picks up from the retail release’s insane ending, which is said to feature a showdown with a notorious enemy as Gabriel meets his destiny.

Both DLC installments are expected to release early next year, the first in February and the second following in April – leaving us waiting only for pricing details, and Konami to issue the announcement for North America.

In lew of those details, I offer you art.

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Your Wednesday Dose of Zen

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: 360, Arc System Works, Arcade, Arcana Heart 3, import, Japan, japanese, PlayStation 3, PlayStation3, XBOX — Jamie Love @ 2:07 pm

Arc System Works is bringing another dose of elaborately costumed female fighting to home consoles in Japan with Arcana Heart 3 hitting the 360 and PS3 there on January 13th.

I rather enjoyed the one dose available on the PlayStation 2 here, and at no extra charge gained an anecdote involving an gamestore employee convinced that surely Kingdom Hearts was what we meant to say, but no in fact, Hearts differ from Highlanders in that there can be more than one.

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PlayStation Network Sales – Sega Heavy Edition

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: bargains, Christmas, deals, holidays, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, PSN, Sales, Sega, Valkyria Chronicles 2 — Jamie Love @ 12:39 pm

PlayStation Network Sale
Sony sent a reminder that many, many games are currently on sale via PSN, including the must own Afterburner Climax, which shifted to $4.99.

Assuming you aren’t concerned about clutching a UMD in your hands, it’s also definitely worth a mention that Valkyria Chronicles 2 is on sale for $15.99, the same price you can currently snag Phantasy Star Portable 2 for.

There’s a pretty thick list of other bargains of varying interest, so check it out.

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Demo Report – Mass Effect 2

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: Bioware, Commander Shepard, Demo, Demo Report, EA, Electronic Arts, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, ME2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation3 — Brad Johnson @ 9:19 am

Alongside other heavy hitters like Dead Space 2 and LittleBigPlanet 2, yesterday saw the release of the Mass Effect 2 demo on PSN. As the resident Mass Effect addict, I took it upon myself to acquire this mystifying new software package and convert its contents into a convenient text delivery for your purposes.

The demo provides PS3 players with a short video explaining the basic premise of the original game, and then moves on to the opening scenes of Mass Effect 2. From there you’ll enter the character creation suite, where you can fully customize your demo Shepard. It probably would have been easier to simply offer the default appearance for Shepard in the demo, but including the entire creation process is a smart choice; customization is a huge part of Mass Effect 2, and this feature goes a long way towards communicating that to potential PS3 players.

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Trailer Park – Hyperdimension Neptunia

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Hyperdimension Neptunia, NIS, NIS America, NISA, PlayStation 3, PlayStation3 — Nathan White @ 8:53 am

There are few things I enjoy more than girly JRPGs filled to the brim with bubbly techno music and anime inspired character designs. Sakura Wars: So Long My Love most recently filled that cotton candy-shaped hole in my heart, but now Hyperdimension Neptunia is finally on the way and we have NIS America, the patron saint of Japanese quirk to thank for bringing it to the West.

If this newly released trailer is any indication, Neptunia should satisfy all of my aforementioned prerequisites for a delightful time sink. On top of that, there’s a battle system that utilizes game consoles personified as goddesses, the ability to summon pictures and even game characters from your PS3’s HDD, and in-game use of your own images all on an epic journey through a world called Gamindustri (“Game Industry”, in case the subtlety isn’t smashing you in the face hard enough).

The game is slated for release in February 2011.

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