They’ve done the prequels, they’ve done the originals, they’ve done the entire saga as a single game, so what could possibly be left for LEGO Star Wars to cover?! Why The Clone Wars of course! Yesterday, LucasArts announced that Traveller’s Tales will once again be bringing the world of LEGO to the Star Wars universe in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Or would that be bringing the Star Wars universe to the world of LEGO?
Early in the upcoming year gamers will have an unprecedented amount of solid titles on which to spend their Christmas cash. There hasn’t been a year in recent memory that has been so front-loaded with quality games. Bayonetta, Mass Effect 2, God of War III and Final Fantasy XIII are only a few examples of AAA releases that are coming out before April. To play them all will be next to impossible for most of us. Konami and Kojima Productions seem to understand our quandary, at least, and have announced that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker won’t be hitting shelves until late May.
What can someone do in 30 seconds? Well, they can melt butter in a microwave for starters. They can also wash the germs from their hands, preventing the spread of horrific diseases like The Flu, or the even more terrifying Flu With an Unnecessary Prefix That Makes it Sound Even More Scary. They can tell a joke, watch a commercial, delete the junkmail from their inbox, guzzle a carbonated beverage for a belching contest or come up with a better idea for a sitcom than anything that’s been featured on primetime TV for the last ten years. They can also save the world.
Nihon Falcom may not be a household name on this side of the Pacific, but according to a recently released financial report it looks like that may change in the near future. According to that report the Japanese company is hoping to boost sales by localizing a significant chunk of their PSP library for North America.
Falcom was once a leading Japanese PC developer whose library extends back to the early ’80s and many of their modern games still channel that old school vibe. Despite originally developing primarily for PC, most of their games were also ported to consoles; old-time RPG lovers may remember classics such as Faxanadu on NES and the SNES rougelike Brandish, although they are likely most fondly remembered for Ys: Book I & II for the TurboGrafx-CD. More recently Falcom has been fairly quiet, releasing only a small handful of titles outside of the first three entries in their The Legend of Heroes series.
We’ll have to wait until Falcom officially announces some titles to find out which of their current Japanese PSP library they will be bringing over, but with the possibility of playing games like Ys Seven and Brandish: Dark Revenant, JRPG fans should have a lot to look forward to in the near future.
[Via: RPGamer]
Everybody grab your friends! There’s going to be an Ad Hoc party! No, wait; You don’t actually have to go grab your friends, I said “adhocParty“. It’s a new app for your PSP that will allow you to enjoy all your favorite PSP games that only feature Ad Hoc multiplayer modes through your PS3’s internet connection. It’s already been available in Japan for the past year and Sony will be bringing it to the North American PlayStation Store soon… for free!
Life can be tough for a private detective. Oh sure, things are fine for a while. You have your own business in a “quaint” office with a partner who isn’t drunk all the time, a hot girlfriend who sings at the club, and a big case that promises to further your career. That is, until the “entrepreneur” you’ve been tailing discovers you, has you killed, and takes your head for his trophy case. Next thing you know you’re on a slab in some crazy scientist’s basement with your brain in a jar attached to your shoulders.
Needless to say, Fred’s in a bit of a bad mood.
Games get sequels all the time. Sometimes they’re better, sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they’re more of the same and other times they shake things up too much. Yet as often as games reproduce these days (which looks a lot like watching a cell divide, oddly enough), it’s very rare for them to move to an arguably “inferior” platform. With this in mind, I present you with Valkyria Chronicles 2.
Finally, Sony mega-franchise Uncharted will be represented on PSP… sort of.
The ESRB has leaked details that Sony will be giving some their beloved franchises a bit of a shake-up by releasing a series of game themed virtual pinball tables for the PSP; which they are calling Pinball Heroes (See, Activision hasn’t copyrighted every possible ‘Hero’ related word combination).
Some have argued that Visceral Games’ transformation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, into a God of War-esque action game borders on heresy already. What luck; Heresy is the subject of the newest Dante’s Inferno Developer Diary!
You may recall us bringing you a review of Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? some time ago. Well, if the review piqued your interest, but you didn’t like the idea of the game only being released as a download, then you’re in luck! NIS wants to ship out a physical copy of the game, but they need something from you first. What, you may ask?
Oh, only 1,000 preorders in less than a month.
Now now, don’t go pulling your hair out yet! You’ll need that for when you actually play the game. The preorders are going until November 13 over on the RosenQueen website. If the site gets 1,000 preorders by that date, then NIS will manufacture the UMDs and ship them out. Think of it this way: do a good deed of preordering to make up for all the evil you’ll be perpetrating in the game. It’s just that simple!
[Via: RosenQueen]
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