An extended dose of Double Fine’s Costume Quest releases for some, with Grubbins on Ice releasing for Xbox LIVE Arcade today at 400 Pts – sorry PSN fans, you have to wait until December 21 when it releases for $4.99.
While PlayStation owners sharpen their knives over that, the 360 crowd can visit the universe of Repugia, complete with new costumes like the ziplining pirate, eyeball, and Yeti, as well as eight new battle stamps and eighteen new creepy treat cards.
EA sent word that we’ll be able to get a taste of Isaac Clarke’s trip through The Sprawl before the release on January 25, 2011, with a demo of Dead Space 2 hitting Xbox Live worldwide and the PlayStation Network in North America on December 21, 2010 – European PS3 owners have to wait one more day for a December 22nd release.
Additional word is that said demo offers a walk through the Church of Unitology, so maybe remember to say your prayers before playing, anything with religion involved is apt to be frightening.
I admit to digging that WiiWare now has fireplace gaming, though I don’t know if that counts as gaming? You can alternate between automatic and manual modes though, and switch themes to suit both festive and romantic occasions – finally a legitimate reason to make love by the light of the Wii!*
Catch a whole lot of log burning after the break.
I just got handed a trailer for Okabu, which is in development exclusively for the PlayStation Network by Rolando developer HandCircus.
The release sees two characters, Kumulo and Nimbe, ride clouds to save their world from industrialization, and perhaps more importantly gives the impression of offering gamers a landscape filled with weird and wonderful ideas, the sorta stuff Sony Japan used to offer more of.
Okabu is due to hit PSN in 2011, and you can catch the trailer after the break.
I’ve tuned out on The 3rd Birthday over the last few months, mostly in order to skip Square-Enix’s strange new desire to twitter every last detail away during the lead up to the Japanese release of Aya’s PSP debut.
It’s hard to ignore this image of Aya in her now bloodstained wedding dress however, gracing the cover of Dengeki PlayStation, so I suppose Squeenix still knows how to grab my attention when push comes to shove.
While playing and writing on Disney Epic Mickey didn’t yield the most positive of reviews, it has stirred an obsession to revisit some aged animations, the most prehistoric of which being Winsor McCay’s 1914 Gertie the Dinosaur – not the first cartoon ever created, but considered the first featuring a character narrative.
Obviously I can’t place myself among the first audiences to marvel at the sight of imaginary creations given life, but even today the exaggerated movements of Gertie offer a spectacle that finds me stuck on poking comparisons to the first videogames I came into contact with, suddenly offered the chance not only to witness creations given life, but also able to control that movement through a new medium seeking to deepen the connection.
Of course at the time I didn’t realize this would become such an obsession, but here we are. The appreciation I have for Gertie’s every movement reminds me most of the way I felt during the 16-bit console generation, with so many developers exploiting any chance to give their creations more life and my young eyes marveling at the simplest touches.
SNK Playmore is all nostalgic about the 20th anniversary of the NeoGeo, and the PlayStation Network has been designated the celebration spot as of December 21, 2010, when NeoGeo Station starts extending the NeoGeo library to the PlayStation Network, with titles releasing for the PS3 at $8.99 and the PSP at $6.99.
Players can expect classic NeoGeo with a touch of the modern in the way of network play over PSN and Ad-Hoc compatibility for PSP.
Ten games will be available for PS3 when Station launches on December 21, with only Fatal Fury and Metal Slug available for PSP that day, though SNK Playmore plans to offer PSP versions of the entire launch list along with more releases during 2011.
The full list for the 21st includes Fatal Fury, Alpha Mission II, The King of Fighters ’94, Samurai Shodown, Baseball Stars Professional, Magician Lord, Metal Slug, League Bowling, Super Sidekicks, and Art of Fighting.
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