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December 11th, 2009 at 11:15am
Under Xbox 360
Konami appears to be daring enough to localize Ninety-Nine Nights 2 — which, we suppose, isn’t too much of a surprise since it showed the courage to publish the sequel to the mediocre action title in the first place. While Konami hasn’t said anything official, an OFLC rating has appeared for N32, outing at least a tentative plan to publish the game in Australia. Speculation: Konami’s not going to localize the game just for Australia.
Whether the announcement is good news or not depends on your faith in Feelplus (for whom this is the first action game) to deliver a better Dynasty Warriors-type game than Phantagram did.
OFLC suggests Western release for Ninety-Nine Nights 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 9th, 2009 at 07:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
I’m a big fan of Silent Hill. I’ve played every game in the series and a few years ago you might even have caught me defending the Silent Hill movie. When I first heard that Climax was re-imagining the first game in the Silent Hill series, and putting it on the Wii, I was a bit nervous. When the company revealed the logo and announced that the rust laden, nightmarish Otherworld was being brushed aside for an ice world, I was downright scared. After gathering some more info and trying the game at E3, all fears were assuaged. This was to be the great hope of the Silent Hill series.
Having spent two evenings with the game and completing the story for the first time, I’m conflicted. Was it good? Yes. I’m just not sure it’s Silent Hill.
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Review: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 9th, 2009 at 04:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
While playing through Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for review, our very own Richard Mitchell stumbled upon a pretty neat thing: classic Konami coin-op arcade cabinets. Sadly, you can’t play the cabinets in-game, but it’s a nice Easter egg for fans, if we may say so. There’s Contra, Rush’N Attack and — our personal favorite — Gradius. Check ‘em out in the video above.
Konami coin-op cameo in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 5th, 2009 at 04:30pm
Under PSP
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Though we still don’t know much about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s cast of characters, Konami sent out a batch of glamour shots for a few of the assumed super spies you’ll be cavorting with during your time with the game. Our personal favorite? Definitely Chico. It takes a special breed of man to pull off an Ascot that expertly.
Check out all the portraits, as well as a bunch of new screenshots, in the gallery below.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker character art’s got style originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 4th, 2009 at 04:21pm
Under PSP
We found out
yesterday that the PSP sequel to
Metal Gear Solid 3 will hit shelves in the UK on May 28 — following a
March 18 debut in japan — and today Konami has announced that
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will arrive (via cardboard box, fittingly) at US retail three days earlier on May 25.
Although Kojima Productions is at work on a localized English language Peace Walker demo, the Japanese demo, released during Tokyo Game Show ‘09 (and later improved for release on PSN Japan) is pretty easy to pick up on — and definitely worth playing. We’ve contacted Konami in hopes of confirming a digital release of the game for the same week the physical copies hit shelves, and maybe — just maybe — we’ll get la-li-lu-le-lucky and score a special / limited edition for the States.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker steps onto US soil May 25 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:52am
Under PSP
After Konami recently confirmed the Japanese March 18th release date for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the PSP, and then released a bunch of new screenshots, the publisher has gone and revealed release dates for the game in the UK and Europe.
The good news is that that Western gamers won’t have to wait too long to get their hands on the title, as March 28th is when people in the UK and Europe can expect to find Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker down their local retailer.
A North American release date is still MIA.
Source: VG247
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December 3rd, 2009 at 03:54am
Under PS2+ PSP+ Wii / Nintendo
Konami surprised many a fan by their announcement that the original Silent Hill for the original PlayStation was being revamped and remade for the Wii, PSP and PS2 in the form of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
The upcoming survival horror follows Harry Mason as he searches the snowy streets of Silent Hill looking for clues to the disappearance of his daughter Cheryl.
Take a walk down Silent Hill memory lane in the montage trailer below:
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December 2nd, 2009 at 05:20pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Konami has released a new trailer for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and … it kind of rocks. Literally. Rather than flooding the senses with creepy atmosphere, rusted metal and sexually confusing nurses, the trailer opts instead for a montage of the game’s characters and some rock music, specifically “When You’re Gone,” a new theme composed by the series’ longtime (and recently departed) maestro, Akira Yamaoka.
Sharp-eyed viewers will also notice that Cybil, the friendly police officer from the original Silent Hill, appears in two different variations in the trailer. The version of Cybil encountered will be different for each player, depending on the player’s actions prior to meeting her in the game. Also featured in the video: Monsters. Lots of ‘em.
Shattered Memories releases December 8.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories trailer rocks out originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 1st, 2009 at 12:30pm
Under PSP
This week’s issue of Famitsu lifts the cardboard box off Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s release date, outing the PSP title for a March 18, 2010 release in Japan. Given Konami’s history of timely Metal Gear localizations, it might not be too long until the game reaches its excited Western audience.
We loved what we played at TGS and we’re willing to bet those of you who braved the Japanese demo likely felt the same. If you were frightened by the lack of understandable words, have no fear — an English demo is currently in the works!
Famitsu: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker strides into Japan on March 18 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 27th, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under Xbox 360
Being Dave Cox, head of European development for Konami, can’t be an easy job. For one, he’s not Hideo Kojima, so he’s already got that going against him. Worse yet, he’s had to tow the company line and let his upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow languish out of the spotlight while Castlevania Judgment got all the attention. It seems Konami didn’t even have the confidence to allow Lords of Shadow the Castlevania license — nor did fans. “It was quite a radical departure from what had gone before with Castlevania, and there was a little bit of nervousness that perhaps it wouldn’t be accepted as a Castlevania game,” Cox told GameReactor.
Though he claims the project was approved originally as a Castlevania game and was built from the get-go with the vampire-hunting series in mind, the folks in charge at Konami had cold feet going into the big reveal at Games Convention 2008. “Senior management took the decision that we were going to announce it as Lords of Shadow, see what the reaction is, and if it’s a good one then this would become a fully-fledged Castlevania.” It was definitely a good one.
[Via VG247]
Why ‘Lords of Shadow’ wasn’t ‘Castlevania: Lords of Shadow’ at first originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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