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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Dubbed “Osu! Phoenix Wright”, this home-made PC rhythm game takes its cues from the Elite Beat Agent rhythm games — with some added Phoenix Wright and awesome.
The guys at Mega 64 are up to their old tricks again, this confusing the non-gaming public with a live-action performance of hit Nintendo DS rhythm game Elite Beat Agents.
It looks like that Xbox 360 game that Elite Beat Agent dev iNiS said they were working on is likely rumored and then leaked karaoke title Lips.
Joystiq writes that an anonymous tipster tells them that iNis is the go to dev for the project, which makes a lot of sense what with their beat-game background and 360 project.
Rumour: Elite Beat-dev iNiS developing Xbox 360′s ‘Lips’ karaoke game [Joystiq]
We mentioned Keiichi Yano earlier this week with the announcement that iNiS is working on a 360 title, but Gamasutra has an interesting interview up with him touching on topics ranging from the success of Elite Beat Agents, to the advantages of the Live Arcade format, to the East-West divide (or lack thereof). A sampling on his thoughts on the flow between East and West in terms of game design:
There needs to be more insight from a technical vantage, and just more of a game design sampling, I think. I know that Western developers are interested in Japanese thinking in terms of game design, so that’s why I think a lot of game designers are called to GDC this year, including myself. I think it’s really several things, but those two are probably the major reasons, I think. Hopefully, that’ll continue to grow and Japanese developers come to the States or Europe more to gain information that we wouldn’t be able to gain just being in Japan.
It’s an interesting interview with some nice perspectives on a variety of topics. We’ll be waiting for the next update on exactly what iNiS is working on for the 360.
Feeling The Elite Beat: Keiichi Yano On Crossing Over [Gamasutra]
Nintendo of Korea is localising a trio of games into Hangul: Elite Beat Agents, Picross DS, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. NoK is handling the translating duties, so it looks like the games will get proper releases. (Good news for Koreans traditionally neglected by Nintendo!) What is intriguing is the Elite Beat Agents release. Will it have Korean popstars like BoA or Rain or will it stick with the Sum 41 and the Ashlee Simpson? I sure hope not. For Korea’s sake. EBA for Korea [Siliconera]
