The biggest surprise out of the Nintendo Direct live stream today came not from Nintendo, but rather, three of Japan’s biggest third parties: Capcom, Sega, and Namco announced that all three companies are working together on some sort of mysterious cross-over game for the 3DS. No details were revealed, but the internet is already exploding with speculation.
Sorry about that headline. I couldn’t resist.
Anyway, Japanese news outlet Nikkei is reporting that Nintendo is launching a new initiative in which the Kyoto publisher will pick up and produce entries in other publishers’ franchises. This is a bizarre move for the usually withdrawn and conservative Nintendo, but even more bizarre is the first game they’ve decided to revive: Sega’s virtual life experiment Seaman.
According to gi.biz, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, had some interesting things to say at the D.I.C.E summit in Las Vegas. Sweeney feels there are too many platforms in the market, predicting that, “Over time these platforms will be whittled down to a competing set of platforms to maybe three winners worldwide.”
Radiant Historia is one of the best original handheld RPG’s ever made, and now Atlus is giving you a second chance to buy this instant classic this March.
Earlier we reported Double Fine, a start up company which recently posted it’s listing on kickstarter.com had gotten over $300,000 in funding. Now they are breaking the all time record for the crowd-source funding site (according to Joystiq) and is now coming close to doubling said record.
The Playstation Vita doesn’t have a UMD drive (thank god,) but it is still technically backwards compatible with PSP games: most PSP games downloaded via the PSN Store are fully playable on Sony’s shiny new handheld. In Japan, PSP owners can register their UMD games with PSN in order to receive partially discounted digital versions of all of their old games, but unfortunately, Sony announced today that they aren’t extending that measure of good will to American PSP and Vita owners.
For those hoping that the FFX HD remake would overhaul the game (which it honestly needed), then you’re going to be disappointed. It has been confirmed that the upcoming port of Final Fantasy X is simply a remastering of the game.
Sony’s Playstation Vita will hit American shores in less than a month, and expectations are understandably high for the newest handheld powerhouse. While the Vita received a strangely cold reception when it launched in Japan over a month ago, the system still tops many gamers’ most wanted lists, and it’s easy to see why: I mean, who doesn’t want something that basically amounts to a portable PS3? But while the Vita is undeniably a sexy piece of hardware, we shouldn’t forget that this isn’t Sony’s first attempt at bringing the console experience to “the handheld ghetto” (as Sony calls it.) Yes, I’m talking about Sony’s poor, oft-forgotten original PSP, and now, on the eve of the launch of it’s successor, it seems pertinent to look back on the tumultuous history of Sony’s first foray into the handheld gaming market.
MLB 12 The Show will be ready just in time for spring training this year and some of you Canucks may be curious who will be on the cover. As it turns out, the Booster Juice endorser and Blue Jays fielder Jose Bautista will be featured front and centre on this year’s Canadian edition of the game.
In portable gaming battery life matters. No one wants to be stuck on a 6 hour flight and only have 3 hours of game time. So, in a recent test of both the PSVita and 3DS’s battery life while playing games, with all battery-saving features enabled, the testers came to a surprising conclusion.
Capcom has made a lot of stupid decisions over the last year that have caused gamers a fair amount of distress; whether it was their decision to do a $40 re-release of Marvel vs Capcom 3 a scant 6 months after the original version came out, or their cancellation of the long awaited Mega Man Legends 3, Capcom did a lot in 2011 to sully their reputation with hardcore gamers. Thankfully, they seem to be trying to fix things in 2012: last week they finally showed off the amazing looking Resident Evil 6, and today, they pulled a very Phoenix Wright-ish “Turn-about” by announcing Gyakuten Saiban 5, the newest entry in the Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney series.
Nintendo keeps no secrets about how well the 3DS has been selling since they decided to drop the price. Many critics of the forthcoming PS Vita have suggested the 3DS’ success will diminish sales for Sony’s portable console. Sony seems far more positive about Nintendo’s sales numbers.
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