Microsoft has announced a limited edition Last Remnant premium bundle for Japan. The Square Enix game is actually multi-plat, but no PS3 release date has been announced as of yet. This Microsoft bundle includes the Xbox 360 console, 60GB HDD, a faceplate, a premium soundtrack and a copy of the game. Retails for ¥34,800 (US$331) and goes on sale November 11th.
The Last Remnant [Xbox 360]
Yes. It’s this again. And yes. It’s him again. But hey, if you can spare five minutes for another Peter Molyneux soundbyte and another “oh no PC gaming is rubbish” opinion, read on! Speaking with Videogamer, the Lionhead boss – who, while at Bullfrog, did his best work on the PC – has said the market is “in tatters”:
If you look at the gamer market on PC, I’ll be quite honest with you, it’s in tatters. There aren’t that many releases on PC. There are some high points like Crysis and what Blizzard is doing, but other than that you are restricted to The Sims and World of Warcraft, they seem to be dominating the PC side.
You mean it’s in tatters if you’re not EA or Blizzard, Peter.
PC gamer market in ‘tatters’, says Molyneux [Videogamer][Image]
The Xbox 360 owned September in Japan. Well, at least against the PS3. The Microsoft game console outsold Sony’s, but not Nintendo’s. According to data from Famitsu publisher, the Xbox 360 moved 3,547 units in the four weeks ending September 28th. In that same period, the PS3 shifted 33,071 units. And Nintendo? Nintendo sold 109,548 Wii units last moved, double what Microsoft moved.
Is there a pool hall, milk bar, caravan park or corner shop near you that still has some classic arcade action hidden away in the back corner like it’s 1985? If so, we’re hoping you can share the joy with the hordes of Kotaku Australia readers who want to find out where to relive the days when home consoles were a real luxury, the best games were paid for 20c at a time, and the cabinet art was far superior to the graphics on screen.
We want photos, descriptions, addresses, Google Streetviews, whatever you can do to help others find these precious nuggets of classic gaming and gather to put down their favourite three letters on the top of the list.
If you can start the ball rolling, send your pics, links and write ups to the tips *AT* kotaku *DOT* com *DOT* au address. Hopefully there are enough of these locations out there to keep the gems flowing for the weeks and months to come. Any predictions on which state will turn up the most gems?
Don’t know why this was buried in the middle of yesterday’s Nintendo conference and not announced at, you know, E3 or something, but that’s not really the point. The point is there’s a third Mario & Luigi RPG coming, and this is what it looks like.
We’ve seen Last Remnant screens before. But not in English. Yes, yes, English! Look at all those words, words we all know. Take a look at the latest batch from Square Enix. Do it.
At the tail-end of E3, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto uttered a single line. “We’re making Pikmin“. It was a good line, but also a vague line, one that led to a bit of speculation yesterday when Nintendo announced their first GameCube/Wii remake. Since that first game was Pikmin, pessimists would be forgiven for thinking Miyamoto was only talking about the remake, and not a new Pikmin game. Well, in this case, the pessimists are wrong. Nintendo smile machine Cammie Dunaway has confirmed “Mr. Miyamoto referred to a new Pikmin, as opposed to the classics that are being rereleased on Wii”. We all good?
A bunch of games! No time to waste, let’s dive in. Here is Koei’s TGS booth line-up:
DYNASTY WARRIORS: Multi-Raid (PSP) (Action) WARRIORS OROCHI 2 (PSP) (Tactical Action) Monster Racers (NDS) (RPG) Saihai no Yukue (NDS) (Adventure) DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 (PS2) (Tactical Action) G1 Jockey Wii 2008 (Wii) (Horse Racing) Neo Angelique Special (PSP) (Adventure) Nobunaga’s Ambition Online (PC/PS2) (MMORPG) Uncharted Water Online (PC) (MMORPG) Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online (PC) (MMORPG) DYNASTY WARRIORS Online (PC) (MMO Action)
First impressions? Epic. We took on two missions from the latest Call of Duty and the settings alone show how far and wide CoD:WaW takes you. The first was a Pacific Theatre battle between the US and Japan, starting in a jungle and moving through Japanese fortifications to take an airfield. The second is near the end of the war, as you play the Russians on the streets of Berlin.
The level designs are both dense and expansive, with a lot going on and rapid response required as you move from zone to zone. The pacing felt good on these two levels, with fresh weapons to pick up and work with so you don’t have a chance to feel like you’re on cruise control. And I’m pretty sure we pulled some stunts with the very nice flamethrower (that runs on an overheat recharge rather than ammunition) that should not be allowed under the Geneva Convention.
With the level breakdown looking like an exploration of some of the most important campaign efforts across the globe, there is little in the way of a storyline to thread the game together (except the grand sweep of progress in World War II), the file footage introductions to missions and the scale of each mission means this will be a very nice game to play.
And not just any Motley Crue album. It’s Dr. Feelgood. The announcement comes not from Harmonix, and not from MTV, but from the Crue themselves (or, at least their publicists), with a small note on the band’s imeem portal letting us know that the album most people will say is their crowning achievement will be available for the game starting October 14. For reference, this is the album with Kickstart My Heart on it. Not interested? You should be looking yourself in the mirror and wondering why you spent all that money on a game called Rock Band.
Win the entire catalogue and a signed copy of “The Dirt” [Imeem]
