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December 16th, 2009 at 03:00am
Under Wii / Nintendo
If the Flash game Continuity were more slow-paced and puzzle-oriented, and swapped out its stick-figure aesthetic for a more opulent, woodgrain look, it would be Rooms: The Main Building. Hudson’s DS (and Wii) port of the PC puzzle game, out next spring, turns the rooms of a building into a slide puzzle. By configuring the rooms in the correct manner, the player can navigate between them with doors and ladders.
Why would anyone even dare to enter a building with sliding rooms that threaten to trap you forever? For a birthday party, of course!
Rooms: The Main Building: A Trailer originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Mister-X
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November 30th, 2009 at 01:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
If you thought last week’s NintendoWare Weekly update was huge, well … you’ll probably think the same thing about this week’s update! That’s mostly because Nintendo provides quite the overweight offering this time, with a total of ten new titles available for your post-Thanksgiving download. Loosen that belt and make some room for more by heading past the break for the full list of this week’s releases.
Continue reading NintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes
NintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Mister-X
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November 11th, 2009 at 02:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Hudson released a pair of trailers for Calling, due out in Japan on November 19. We don’t know if this will reflect on the actual scare content of the game, but the trailer above is creeeepy, bearing all the hallmarks of Japanese horror — by which we mean terrifying little girls getting in your face, and that weird head-rattling motion (in this case performed by dolls).
After the break, see another video demonstrating gameplay. Not only can the Wiimote be used to simulate the in-game cell phone, but apparently that phone can be used as a teleportation device? But … that would only be possible if you were some kind of ghost. We’re scared.
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New Hudson survival horror trailers are Calling originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 10:45am
Under Xbox 360
With the rough time a downloadable title can have finding success in the fourth quarter, it’s probably a good thing that Diner Dash could likely give a plate-dropping damn how successful it ends up being on the console after it arrives on November 18th. The casual title by PlayFirst is already a hit in realm of personal com-pu-ters, having sold over five million copies.
The XBLA version of Diner Dash naturally includes HD-ified graphicals, along with a new multiplayer mode that includes support for up to eight players. The game will allow direct control over protagonist Flo, or the “traditional control scheme,” which involves “point-and-click style with hotkeys.” All the best to Flo in opening up her diner in the midst of the triple-A retail season … she’s going to need it.
Diner Dash serves XBLA on Nov. 18 originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 19th, 2009 at 10:51am
Under DS
It’s an unexpectedly packed week for Nintendo downloaders! On WiiWare, there’s a game that should be wonderful and another that should be, uh, interesting. There’s an arcade classic on Virtual Console, and DSiWare features the arrival of one of the weirdest game series to be announced at E3: a set of five games based on NHK mascot and generally adorable monster Domo-kun.
Continue reading NintendoWare Weekly: LostWinds, Shootanto, Rygar … Domo
NintendoWare Weekly: LostWinds, Shootanto, Rygar … Domo originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Mister-X
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October 9th, 2009 at 05:22pm
Under PSP
The ESRB has exposed a new round of PSone Classics for PS3 and PSP on its
ratings site, including Naughty Dog creative director — and
Uncharted creator — Amy Hennig’s 32-bit opus,
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Other titles recently rated for re-release via PlayStation network include
Bomberman Party Edition,
Fighting Force,
Dirt Jockey and
International Track & Field.
After last week’s deluge of classic PlayStation games gone downloadable on PSN, we were befuddled by the utter lack of any new additions with yesterday’s update. We could very likely be looking at the next round in the list — the only question is when Sony will push them out the digital distribution door.
[Thanks, Dylan!]
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, more PSone Classics rated by the ESRB originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 9th, 2009 at 10:30am
Under Wii / Nintendo
We never expected to see Grand Prix Games’ WiiWare light gun game, Shootanto, leave Japan, and we certainly never expected it to be published by Hudson, a company with plenty of internally developed WiiWare games to release.
In case you’re not familiar with the game (now being called Shootanto: Evolutionary Mayhem), a game we previously said “looks hilariously ill-conceived and poorly made, and is probably great fun to play and laugh at”: it’s a shooter about monkeys fighting giant plants and lizardmen. As your monkey progresses through the game, it evolves into a missing-link creature, a caveman, a knight, and finally into a modern soldier. All of whom shoot at lizardmen.
Hudson plans to release the game sometime this fall, and it could find an audience if the company markets it as a B-movie experience. Of course, since it’s a WiiWare game, nobody’s going to market it at all. If it does manage to become a success, it could lead to more localization of niche Japanese WiiWare games from Hudson. Like the Shootanto sequel!
Shootanto evolves into a North American WiiWare release originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 28th, 2009 at 04:21pm
Under Xbox 360
This week’s Xbox Live Arcade lineup is
Madness —
Madness, we tell you! Well, okay, so it includes Hudson’s revival of the TurboGrafx-16 classic
Military Madness, but also two other releases. Still:
Madness!
Military Madness: Nectaris takes the hex-map strategy game into the era of polygons and — better yet — four-person online play. It’s going to run 800
($10), which is considerably less than a used TG-16, a TurboChip (remember those? If so, you’re old) and the original game will cost you on eBay.
Another classic strikes back in the form of Bust-A-Move Live, the latest retooling of the bubble-shooting puzzle game that’s appeared on every system dating back to the abacus. Did you know it’s a spin-off of Bubble Bobble Neo from two weeks back? Well, it is. It’s also 800 ($10).
Rounding out the bunch — and making us thankful that every XBLA game has a trial version — is Football Genius, a football trivia game about that kinda football; otherwise known as “soccer” up in here. We’d give the 800 ($10) release a shot … if our goal was to be bored. (We love you, soccer/footie fans, but c’mon, seriously?)
This Wednesday: Military Madness and Football Genius Bust-a-Move onto XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 19th, 2009 at 05:00am
Under Xbox 360
There’s usually a nostalgia element to Bomberman games — since the core gameplay has remained basically identical over the last twenty years or so, a lot of the appeal of Bomberman lies in memories of awesome multiplayer sessions past.
But there isn’t usually a ’70s nostalgia element, mostly because Bomberman didn’t exist until 1983. Hudson’s teaser for Bomberman Live: Battlefest, the new WiiWare/XBLA/PSN Bomberman party game, adds a lovely anachronistic touch not usually seen in Bomberman marketing. And also a bunch of footage of stuff exploding in cross patterns.
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September 13th, 2009 at 09:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Nintendo’s DSiWare platform is set to become a bit more combustible later this fall — according to AndriaSang, the Japanese release list in the latest edition of Famitsu reveals an October launch for Itsudemo Bomberman (which translates to Bomberman Anytime) on the handheld’s download service. The magazine also lists a price of 500 DSi Points ($5) for the portable title.
Hudson hasn’t taken the trouble of actually announcing Itsudemo Bomberman yet — regardless, we’ve contacted them to see what, if any, details we can surmise about the game.
[Thanks, Fernando.]
Hudson announces Bomberman Anytime for DSiWare originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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