Want to know exactly how the new Prince of Persia will play? This is exactly how the new Prince of Persia will play.
You bought Rock Band 1, you love playing Rock Band 1 then, oh no, they go and release Rock Band 2. What are you going to do with two Rock Bands? You can’t possibly change discs during play – that’s just silly – so Harmonix have had to come up with a workaround. That workaround allows you to transfer all your RB1 songs onto your HDD, and works a little something like this…
Don’t like WoW? Not up to date on the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King? Doesn’t really matter. Blizzard’s cinematic sequences are normally great viewing whether you like the game or not, and this, their latest, is no different. It’s really great.
It’s from the Leipzig showroom floor, so don’t expect fancy camera angles. Plus, it’s two Average Joes playing it, so don’t expect to see any kind of fancy goalmouth action. In fact, if you were hoping to see the game’s “radical aesthetic upgrade” don’t expect to see much of anything at all, because if it weren’t for the new font on the bottom of the screen we’d have had a hard time telling you this wasn’t Pro Evo 2008. Or Pro Evo 6, even.
About ten years ago my mother ran a dancing school summer camp with themes based on Disney movies, and each year around Aladdin time I would get the dreaded call..”.Michael? We need a genie”. I would then be dressed up by my mother and sister, painted blue, and sat down in a room full of little girls who were convinced I was an otherworldly spirit. Perhaps this is why the blue girl in this team of booth babes representing NCSoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity wouldn’t stop looking at me. There’s a special sort of bond that forms between people that have been blue in public for entertainment’s sake.
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Brazilian SEGA licencee Tectoy has released another 8-bit console. Dubbed the Master System 3, the new system looks like the old Mega Drive (Genesis) with Sonic painted on it and is packed with 131 built-in G-rated games. That’s right, no cartridge slot. The system is bundled with two six-button Genesis-style controllers. Its priced at the equivalent of $US 133.
Master System 3 (131 jogos) [Tectoy via Insert Credit]
Yep, seems we’ll be getting another arcade shooter from Cave — and boy, do we love them Cave shmups. While the developer’s last completely new shooter IP was the horizontal side-scroller, Golthic Lolita-infused Death Smiles, it’s next bullet hell title is more moe. Otaku artist POP was wrangled in to provide the character illustration. Maybe in the vein of Cave’s Muchi Muchi Pork, minus the buxom fat girls? Anyway, that’s a sample right up there. Take a look. Cute!
ケイブ祭りで新作シューティング [Sazanami via Canned Dogs via Siliconera via Game|Life]
First impressions are very important. My first impression of Capcom’s Dark Void at E3 last month basically amounted to “meh”. I wandered by the demo machine, saw what looked like a standard third-person shooter, and then moved on. Had I stayed, I might have discovered that there is a lot more to Dark Void than initially meets the eye. Developed by Airtight Games, a company formed from the core Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge dev team, Dark Void takes standard TPS duck and cover mechanics to a new plateau, located atop a sheer cliff side that you’ll have to climb in order to get there, but the game really excels when you aren’t touching the ground at all.
Dark Void is the story of a cargo pilot who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle, discovering the secret of the mysterious disappearances that famously define the area – trans-dimensional aliens. They’ve been using humans as slave labour, and it’s up to your character to join up with the renegade Survivors to overthrow their alien overlords and get everyone back home.
