The Klei developed beat’em up Shank is getting its deserved sequel early this week to bring a bit more blood into this lovey-dovey month. Shank 2 brings players back in control of the titular character Shank as he travels the gritty comic-book-style world to, well, beat dudes to a bloody pulp, this February 8.
Fast paced arena shooters are a tough find these days, titles like Quake and Unreal tournament were the cornerstone of fast paced FPS’s and should not be forgotten. Luckily a new downloadable title know as Nexuiz will be lauching as part of the House Party XBLA promotion.
All the way back in 2009 when Microsoft was first showing off their concept of Xbox having indie games, they showed off Dust: An Elysian Tail. That game was never actually released on the service, though it did win best of DreamBuildPLay in 2009. Now it seems the developer, Humble Hearts, will be releasing the game this year on XBLA.
While Sega was my favorite videogame company growing up, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Sega over the last few years. I loved Vanquish. I loved Sonic Colors. I love Valkyria Chronicles… and well, I hated Iron Man, Golden Axe Beast Rider, Shining Wind, Sonic Riders, Sonic Free Riders, Sonic Unleashed, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Sonic Rivals, Sonic Chronicles, Sonic and the Black Knight, and ,um, well, you get the point. Still, they’ve been improving recently, and thanks to a sale that starts tomorrow, some of Sega’s more recent digital offerings will be available at a discounted price, so even if the game does in fact end up sucking, at the very least you minimized the amount of money you wasted.
Ni No Kuni (sometimes referred to by it’s awkward Engrish subtitle “The Another World,”) is getting an official English release, according to Gamespot Asia. In a press conference held during this week’s Tokyo Game Show, Level 5 President Akihiro Hino formally announced that the highly anticipated game, which Kotaku recently labelled “the prettiest game on the PS3,” would be released in North America sometime during the first quarter of 2012.
This October Crytek will be releasing the critically acclaimed Crysis to consoles. One of the few PC titles to really push the limits of hardware for it’s time is getting an upgrade, as the single player campaign has been completely rebuilt in the CryENGINE 3, which was uses for Crysis 2. In addition to the upgraded graphics engine the game will also feature new nano controls and 3D support.
Summer of Arcade is a great way for a small publisher to get recognized or it can be used as a well to sell A LOT of copies of a very unique game, which happened with From Dust. The first day it launched with impressive sales, though Ubisoft did not specify exactly how many units were sold they did mention that this is the most successful launch of any XBLA title they have released.
The arcade-style hack and slash game Guardian Heroes by Treasure, originally released on Sega’s CD-based console Sega Saturn will be arriving on Xbox Live Arcade. If I was to personally sum up the game, I would call it “Golden Axe on Steroids”, and it can also be easily compared to the arcade game Dungeons and Dragons: The Tower of Doom.
In a very rare event, Sega fan can now grab up every game they were missing as Sega is having a blowout sale on it’s entire XBLA catalog of games. Nothing is held back and we have each game listed after the break so you can see for yourself and not miss a thing! The sale ends April 25th, so hope you were saving your pennies (or MS points).
The very crafty folks at ProjectorGames have finally completed work on the first of several chapters of the well-known FortressCraft. The game brings the Minecraft experience to the console which hasn’t been done before and is already number on in ratings on XBLA. Currently sitting at 4.6 stars with 227 ratings, which is more ratings than the majority of the top rated.
Games and applications are gradually become download-only and with the various Cloud based service such as OnLive it seems inevitable that all physical media will become obsolete in the near future. It seems Microsoft is not yet ready to admit that future is a reality as they are releasing an XBLA three pack disk, which features three of the top downloaded Xbox Live Arcade Titles: Limbo(shown above), Trials HD, and ‘Splosion Man.
Resident Evil 4 currently has six version of the title available, or three if you consider the PS2, PC and GC versions to be the same. Now, with the Resident Evil Project put into place the world will get to experience, arguably, most anticipated version–an HD remake of both RE: 4 and Code Veronica X. Both titles will be heading to PSN and XBLA this fall.
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