D3 offers a brief bite of local co-op video for Insect Armageddon, which you can catch after the break.
Local co-op comes in addition to the previously mentioned three-player online campaign mode and a six-player survival battle royale. D3 has also updated the weapon count, doubling the 150 count to 300+ at present, and the suggested retail pricing for the title is currently listed at $39.95 USD for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 when the game releases in the Spring of 2011.
Capcom revealed a few details about Chibiterasu’s arrival on North American DS’ today, specifically that the event will be taking place on March 15, 2011, and that the cost should run you about $29.99 USD.
There was also mention of a pre-order bonus via GameStop, which doesn’t seem nearly as grand as what Japan eventually got on top, but whatcha gonna do?
Actually what you can do, apparently, is loiter around the Okami Facebook page, where Capcom is mentioning fabulous prizes for those fans that drop by and play with the Goblin Mask Facebook app. The PR used words like “win a 3DS, a copy of the game, Chibiterasu plushies” – so maybe drop by there and see what’s up with all that, though one expects it may be a while before you can really win any of those things.
In playing open-world games, perhaps the quintessential dilemma is to what extent it is necessary for a game to push players to explore what it offers, and at what cost to player freedom–where at one end of the spectrum the player becomes bored and complacent, and at the other, the game is no longer open at all. I have found it can be far too easy to become mired in endless side-quests and irrelevant mini-games, thus losing a sense of progression and purpose, and while it’s certainly true that the player is ultimately responsible for utilizing the game assets, it is also fair to say that the game is responsible for presenting these assets in an engaging way.
Dead Rising 2’s solution to the problem is to grant the player freedom, but with consequences—the same as you find in the good, old fashioned real world. This is achieved chiefly through demanding that the player manage his or her time. Unlike, for example, Red Dead Redemption, where you could conceivably hunt bounties for a month before choosing to start the next plot event, Dead Rising 2 is characterized by a ticking clock, and story events that occur at specific times on that clock—whether the player is ready or not.
First-rate Sugarfiend Ujn Hunter had an import order placed for Marvelous’ swagged-out Japanese edition of No More Heroes 2 before they even knew they were making it.
Marvelous’ description of what was inside and on the discs left some questions, so with the release upon us, I’ve been nagging him for two days straight to rip it open and give us a tour, and he did, which is why we now know that The Hopper’s Edition has a motion styled / voice-acted comic, among other treats.
Catch some pics after the break.
Capcom is bringing the Smurfs to iPhone… yes, I just wrote that, and it’s apparently factual to boot.
As a tie-in to next summer’s film, Capcom is making a social-rific game with the franchise where players rebuild Smurf village this November- Gargamel wrecked the joint, how he finally found it I don’t know.
Starting with a single mushroom house and a plot of land, players will be able to construct specialized houses, grow gardens and crops, build bridges, and play several mini-games.
If they want to get family friendly and nostalgic at the same time, they should get to work on another Duck Tales, or maybe Darkwing Duck, that would also be acceptable.
Say what you will about World of Warcraft.
Go on. It’s an incredibly derisive, love it or hate it ordeal. On one side you have those who are the dedicated, forging names for themselves online and off, spending countless hours building up characters which represent an alt-reality personality that some come to love and cherish much like one would coddle a small dog or ferret. On the other side, there are those who could care less and maybe have dabbled in it like one would witchcraft.
But what of the actual players? Over this past weekend at BlizzCon, I was lucky enough to meet people for whom World of Warcraft and Starcraft aren’t merely games, but a way in which to keep tabs on friends and live vicariously in two worlds.
Leaving no Japanese stone unturned, Famitsu turns up intro video for the recently revealed PSP edition of Persona 2: Innocent Sin. As much as knee-jerk fanism makes me excited at the probability of finally seeing a packaged version of Innocent Sin in North America, I’m having a hard time imagining how Atlus might go about bringing it here – mostly because one imagines that other Persona 2 will turn up as well, and confuse the hell out of us poor consumers.
I’m not even trying to be sarcastic there either, writing about two Persona 2’s could get really confusing. Makes me wonder if Atlus will make us wait here for some sort of double-pack super-duper Persona 2 edition that proves too tempting to simply write off as “another one of those damn Atlus PSP ports.”
But who knows.
In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to check out this new video alongside that of the original PSOne release.
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