According to game site SDTEKKEN, Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion is apparently incoming. The game will officially be announced later next month in Tokyo, is an upgraded version of Tekken 6 and is slated for a December release in Japan. That’s all that’s known about the updated Tekken 6 at the moment. Stay tuned.
TEKKEN 6 BLOODLINE REBELLION Revealed! [SD Tekken][Pic]
Like the look of that shiny new PS2, Britain? Bet you do. Better keep on looking, too, because you cannot touch. The 9000 series consoles that are already out in Japan – and the US as well - won’t be coming to the UK. Some other European territories, yes, but Britain, no dice. No reason was given for the move, so feel free to come up with your own.
No super-slim PS2 for the UK News [Eurogamer]
European video game content rater PEGI has just, well, rated what looks like a new Indiana Jones game for the DS and PSP. With the questionable title Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (woah!), the title is 16 and up, and Activision is publishing. We don’t have any other information about it other than that, but game site Siliconera wonders if this Staff of Kings game is that other “next-gen” Indiana Jones title that was shown a few years back — and then disappeared into the ether.
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings [PEGI via Siliconera]
Face it, asking for fighting games with online to have zero to no lag is a tall order. Replicating that versus arcade experience is hard. Heck, when Virtua Fighter launched on the PS3 back in early 2007, it didn’t have online. (Well, neither did the PS3, really.) Even Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono even admits that lag will be problematic for the home versions. Up front and honest, he tells the Official Xbox 360 Magazine:
Obviously lag will be a huge problem for online play. We’re working on it. Compared to other games such as Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur, they’ve got replay functions and so forth. It’s quite difficult for 3D Street Fighter at the moment.
In order to prevent the lag we’re thinking about trying to balance it up at user interface level and input timing by using joystick or something like that. We still haven’t got a complete plan as yet. We’re still working on it. That’s all we can say at the moment.
Here’s hoping they figure something out.
Street Fighter IV interview [OXM via Joystiq]
In case you didn’t know (and why didn’t you), the PlayStation Network is free. The console may cost money, but the online service doesn’t. Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida explains to game site Games Industry Sony’s view on free stuff: We like to provide as many services as possible for free — we already provide our network access for gameplay for free — and the interesting thing about the network side and the Internet business is that there’s a variety of revenue sources. Not necessarily getting people to pay, but with advertising and so on.
Those are things we’re looking at, and learning how we can provide a service without people having to pay — but we still get our operation running with funding from somewhere so that we can maintain the level of quality we want.
While there’s no such thing as the proverbial free lunch, it’s nice to see Sony try.
Yoshida’s Island – Part One [Games Industry]
SCEE have announced two new PS3 bundles for Europe, to mark the launch of the new 80GB console. The first, to be released on September 10, will include the 80GB unit, two DualShock 3 pads and a copy of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. A decent bundle, that, because consoles with two included controllers are a rare and precious thing these days. But the second bundle? Won’t exactly have you begging “oh man, when does [your relevant market]get this?”. Due for release on October 29, it’ll include an 80GB PS3, one DualShock and…and…
And another episode of Japanese-Devs-Being-Down-On-Themselves, Resident Evil 5 composer Kota Suzuki think American game music has surpassed Japanese game music — especially regarding post-production elements like recording and mixing:
I get the impression that production at western, particularly American developers is ahead of those in Japan. But, I think that more and more in Japan, the process of making video game music is becoming specialised.
…More and more Japanese production companies are working together with foreign companies, and sound production quality in Japan is approaching that of the west.
Stuff like this doesn’t just make Japanese development, it makes game development better. Interesting side note: Capcom recorded the RE5 parts of the soundtrack at Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox with a hundred plus Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra. This was the first time Capcom has ever recorded a live orchestra for a Resident Evil game.
Interview with Resident Evil 5 [Music 4 Games via Develop]
Erotic game and upcoming Xbox 360 title TimeLeap is at the centre of an atomic-bomb-landmark-panty-flashing-dancing-controversy. For one reason or another, two female students from Nagasaki University uploaded a video of themselves dancing to a tune from erotic game TimeLeap in front of the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima. In the clip, the girls briefly flash their underpants.
In Japan, the reaction to the clip has been outrage from some: “You’re the shame of Japan!” Obviously dancing to an eroge song in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, a site were people lost their lives does seem tacky. Others in Japan are blasé about the whole brouhaha, commenting: “Why’d they pick the dome anyway?” The girls since have apologised. Hit the jump for the clip.
Capcom, you dirty teases! First you tell us you’re “investigating” the possiblity of bringing zany-awesome fighter Tatsunoko vs Capcom to the US. Then you go so far as holding location tests! Our hopes were soaring! And now, you bastards, you go and pour cold water all over them, hinting in an official blog post “don’t expect this title to show up in the US arcades”. We feel used, Capcom. But we’re not angry. Just disappointed.
Tatsunoko vs Capcom: it teases you with Mega Man Legends [Capcom]
The new Lara’s certainly generated a lot of attention of late. So is it surprising to see people taking pervy, creepy photos of her through their hotel room’s spyhole? Nope. Not in the least. And why would it be? Sure, the act captured – of her entering her hotel room – is totally innocent, but who knows what she got up to when that door closed? You don’t.
