Back when the PlayStation Vita launched in February, Mark and I had a head-to-head chat about it and decided it wasn’t much chop. I passed mine on to a 10-year old, while Mark lost his somewhere in the midden of free games and general rubbish he chooses to call a desk. Somehow, I don’t think the three new “Discovery Apps” Sony has just announced for the platform will inspire him to dig it out again.
New Little King’s Story, a sequel to the wonderful Wii role-playing game Little King’s Story will make it to America this summer. The game came out in Japan in March, but now the US gets it too.
I know I’m not alone in thinking that the best fighting games have their own rhythm — you get in the zone of a Street Fighter, BlazBlue or even Mortal Kombat and it’s a lot like drumming.
It has occasionally felt like a dirty secret that Mortal Kombat 9 was one of my favourite games of last year. But there it is. It hit just the right blend of punchy violence, imaginative special moves and accessibility, and it got me invested in the (silly) Mortal Kombat universe and its (ridiculous) characters all over again.
Remember the ill-fitting costume that the Kitana model wore to promote Mortal Kombat on the Vita? And the model who had to brave fields of gravel in heels as Mileena?
Normally when I spot a cheap gaming-related deal or sale, I mention it to Mark and let him handle it. But since he’s currently swanning around the US eating burgers and confusing people even more than usual with his impenetrable Scottish brogue, I guess I’ll have to tell you about it myself.
The UK’s live-action Mortal Kombat Vita ad campaign continues, swapping out Kitana for another of the game’s femme fatales and making a poor model navigate treacherous terrain in the least-sensible shoes imaginable.
