Rockin’ Android, publisher of hectic Japanese shoot ’em ups such as GUNDEMONIUM Collection and Qualia, has announced today that they will be localizing something a little different for the PSN. Crescent Pale Mist is an action-heavy 2D platformer that centers around a magical young man fighting against otherworldly creatures.
When Onlive was announced last year, my first reaction was “There’s no way it can do what they say it does”. What they claimed it could do was let you use the internet to control a video game that was being run on a server, which would then stream live video of that game back to your computer. Basically, you could play on a powerful game rig through the internet, while watching hi def video of that game on your crappy computer at home. It sounds a lot like sorcery, but it turns out that Onlive actually does what they claimed.
For almost two decades now, Nintendo consoles have been mockingly referred to as “Nintendo Players.” The title came about during the Nintendo 64 days and grew into widespread use within the Gamecube’s lifetime due to both consoles’ lack of strong third party support. It didn’t help that Nintendo’s steady flow of big name, first party titles squashed what little third party support did actually exist during those times. Fortunately for Nintendo, things have changed with the Wii.
Last year’s DJ Hero product was something special. It may not have been a “perfect” game but it introduced a fun new spin on the music/rhythm game genre. Not only did it have a fantastic soundtrack but the actual idea of spinning a turn table from your home was what most intrigued everyone. The fact that it worked excellently was only icing on the cake. The sales of DJ Hero were very poor, but Activision still allowed FreeStyleGames (the developer) to make a sequel. In the sequel, they don’t improve much, but what is there is still a blast to play.
DJ Hero’s career mode is simply entitled “Empire” mode where you go through multiple cities across the world (None looking too much different than the other) touring with your own club that you are the head DJ of. Empire mode does nothing different than the standard career mode in other music games apart from being able to choose your club name and a special logo (one of which looks incredibly similar to the beautiful Player Affinity logo). This is probably a good thing as we all know what happened when Guitar Hero tried to reinvent the career mode.
Polyphony Digital has leaked a photo of the disc art for the highly anticipated Gran Turismo 5. Many people speculated that the game would miss its Q4 release window this year, but the fact that they have begun printing discs would suggest otherwise.
An improved version of the sleeper hit Sniper: Ghost Warrior is headed to the PS3 early next year, says developer City Interactive. Although the game originally released over the summer exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC, PS3 owners will not need to worry about being left behind.
Thanks to games like Heavy Rain and Mass Effect 2, interactive storytelling has taken some big steps forward in 2010. Indeed, it seems that many developers have recently been putting a great amount of effort into immersing you in dark and engrossing worlds, and gaming is overall better because of this. Luckily, PlatinumGames recognizes that not every new shooter on the block needs to be as emotional as it is bombastic, and the result of their latest collaboration with Sega is all the better because of it. Vanquish flips the bird to many recent shooter conventions, going for a sort of old-school approach to shooting, and it comes out the other end feeling surprisingly fresh because of this.
