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New LocoRoco Game, New LocoRoco Trailer

7:30PM Luke Plunkett
There’s a new LocoRoco game due out later this year, and a new game means new gimmicks, in this case a fundamental change to the game’s simple control scheme, with the introduction of the “boing”.
Culture

LocoRoco Swag Arrives, Only Two Years Too Late

7:00PM Luke Plunkett | We’ve bemoaned the lack of LocoRoco merchandise previously. For a franchise so steeped in cuteness, it’s a mystery as to why we aren’t drowning in plushies and other assorted pieces of licensed crap. More »
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Mega Man Blows Mario’s Badly-Rendered Gingerbread Brains Out

2:30AM Mike Fahey | It all starts off innocently enough, but when you start mixing franchises in your video game-inspired holiday gingerbread cookies it can only end in tears. More »

Sony Overdoes It With LittleBigPlanet LocoRoco Costumes

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Okay, Sony. Stop the cute train, we want to get off. On paper, blending the adorableness of LocoRoco’s blobs with the preciousness of LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy looks like a win-win. In practice, though… :( We’ll just keep chanting “Ico and Yorda Sackboy costumes!” until it becomes reality. More »

LocoRoco 2’s Number One Fan

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Hi Tsutomu Kouno. As the guy who made LocoRoco, and who is making LocoRoco 2, what do you think about…uh, Tsutomu? More »

LocoRoco 2 Trailer to Listen to

10:00AM Brian Ashcraft | Sony’s PSP title LocoRoco is back with a cleverly named sequel: LocoRoco 2. And it’s brought annoyingly catchy music with it! If you watch this trailer at least twice, you’ll have that tune stuck in your head all day. Once, even. More »

LocoRoco Coming To (Japanese) Mobile Phones

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Proof you can’t keep a hopping, adorable mass of singing blobs down, Sony have today announced that LocoRoco will be making the jump from Sony console to mobile phone. And not as an “interactive screensaver”, either, but as a proper LocoRoco game. It’ll be priced at ¥420 (USD$US 3.80), and goes on sale…oh, today! SCEJ、EZweb「LocoRoco MOBILE」配信開始 PSP「LocoRoco」を携帯電話で可能な限り再現 [Game Watch] More »

LocoRoco 2 Revealed In New Famitsu

11:30AM Michael McWhertor | That Sony Computer Entertainment is going back to the LocoRoco well for another chance at acclaim and fortune should come as no surprise. The game’s director, Tsutomu Kouno, has been chatting it up for ages and even SCEE reps confirmed it for a PSP release this year. Good then, that Sony got around to confirming its existence in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu. According to details translated by 1UP, LocoRoco 2 looks to stick to the formula of the first pretty closely, with new music, new bosses and the ability to bite more things — that’s a bullet point, for sure — topping the list of new features. Following sequel evolution tradition, your Locos can now swim. Amazing how that always seems to take an iteration or two. LocoRoco 2 Confirmed, Detailed [1UP] More »