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King Of Games Go Spelunking
12:00AM Luke Plunkett | Japan’s King of Games — our second favourite outfitter of gaming shirts — will this week be adding some more good stuff to their line of Irem clothing. And where there’s Irem, there’s R-Type and there’s Spelunker. More »
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Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts ‘N Goblins For iPhone
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | R-Type is coming for the iPhone. Ghosts ‘N Goblins came out over the weekend. Who keeps signing these cheques? More »
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This Week On Live Arcade: R-Type Dimensions
5:30AM Mike Fahey | This Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade, shoot-em up fans get a healthy dose of redone retro goodness with R-Type Dimensions, repackaging and repolishing the first two games in the R-Type series. More »
R-Type Coming To Xbox Live Arcade
5:40AM Michael McWhertor | The Bydo empire must be destroyed. Again. The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification has rated a new title in the series, named R-Type Dimensions, for an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release. The surprise announcement, dug up by GamerBytes, shows that Microsoft will publish, but that developer Tozai will handle all the coding wizardry. Unfortunately, there’s little else in the way of concrete info for R-Type Dimensions, such as whether it will be a totally new entry in the series or a HD remake of a previous entry. Whatever the outcome, we don’t care. It’s R-Type! ‘R-Type Dimensions’ Coming to Xbox Live Arcade! [GamerBytes] More »8:40AM Michael McWhertor | R-Types Rated For PlayStation Network Re-release. You’re certainly not going to be lacking in the various ways to play R-Type soon, as the ESRB has rated R-Types (again) for the PlayStation 3 and PSP, meaning that a PlayStation Store release is likely, if not imminent. The PS One “classic” was originally released by Irem in 1999, collecting both R-Type and R-Type II, a pair of extremely challenging arcade side-scrolling shmups. More please! *cough* Thunder Force V *cough* More »
Shoot The Very Small Core
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | We. Want. These. Next February, Japanese toy maker Yujin is releasing a “Shooting Game History” capsule toy collection that includes the R-9A Arrow Head from R-Type, the 0F-1 Daedalus from Image Fight, the Vic Viper T301 from Gradius, the Metarion from Gradius 2 and the Silver Hawk from Darius Gaiden. Yujin, you had me at R-Type! For those that don’t live in Japan (sorry), know that National Console Support is selling complete sets for $US45. But, really, can you put a price on miniature Gradius toys? Survey says “no.” Shooting Game History [NSC via Siliconera] More »
