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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Releasing on May 17, Christmas-themed nightmare shmup Deathsmiles IIX is US bound. The upgraded version of the arcade favourite features new stages and will hit Xbox 360′s Games on Demand for $US29.99. According to the game’s publisher, the game isn’t localised into English and player’s can’t use Microsoft Points (credit card only).
The top-selling shoot-em up of this console generation is coming to North America, as Aksys Games announces a US release for Cave’s brilliant Xbox 360 gothic lolita shooter, DeathSmiles.
Cave, the Japanese developer behind such shmup classics as Mushihime-sama Futari, recently announced a revolutionary way to release arcade games in Japan: For free.
DEATHSMILES! The game sold 20,000 copies in Japan during its first week on sale. This is the first traditional shooter to break the Japanese top ten this generation.
Cave’s fantastic fantasy shooter DeathSmiles is coming to the Xbox 360. Microsoft, understandably proud of this, showed a trailer for the port at yesterday’s press event in Tokyo.
