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She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant You won’t need plastic instruments to jam along to Harmonix’s latest Rock Band game. Revealed on G4 today, Rock Band Blitz turns players into a one-man band, making them play all the instruments with a gamepad in a song in an arcade-style experience that harkens back to the dev studio’s Frequency and Amplitude games.
Last week’s teaser is now this week’s confirmation. Sega will be releasing a revamped HD version of Dreamcast favourite Jet Set Radio for digital download on an as-yet-unspecified date this (northern) summer, on XBox Live, PlayStation Network and PC.
Last year, Sony piloted their PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards, and they apparently liked the results enough to repeat the endeavour this year.
Oh man oh man oh man. It’s finally happening! [Calms self, takes deep breath]. Alright, let’s start again — Journey, quite possibly my most anticipated game of 2012 finally has a proper release date, and that date is March 13 2012. Please, can someone just calmly hook this thing to my veins?
There’ve been betas and release date push-backs but the game that lets you be a violent devotee of Batman or his crazy archenemy will finally hit platforms next week. The downloadable FPS will be available on February 7 for PlayStation Network and Windows PC users in the Americas and on February 8 for PSN users outside of the Americas. The Xbox Live version comes out on February 8 as well. [Gotham City Impostors]
Folks looking to revisit where Square’s big-deal JRPG franchise started — or encounter it for the first time — can do so today. Final Fantasy Origins bundles the first two Final Fantasy games in a downloadable package that can be had for $US9.99 on the PlayStation Network.
They crank out a lot of Street Fighter and Resident Evil but Capcom also has a history of putting out weird, unique games like Okami, God Hand and Viewtiful Joe. Rageaholic adventure Asura’s Wrath seems to follow in the legacy of such idiosyncratic games. We’ve written a bit about the mythological sci-fi action brawler, but those of you curious about what it plays like only have to wait a little longer to sample it.
You’ll finally be able to get your hands on the medieval, character-switching action of Trine 2 today, if you’re getting it on Steam. The game’s gorgeous art style and beautiful colour palette manifests into gorgeous vistas and sharp character animations.
