Gaming News – 09/12/2009
ByDisney Producer Confirms ‘Tron Legacy’ Game in Development
Disney just wrapped up their D23 event this week, in which new projects were announced along with details on films already revealed. But it turns out there was at least one bit of gaming-related news squeezed out of the event, as Latino Review reports (via Kotaku) that Tron Legacy producer Steven Lisberger confirmed a videogame tie-in for the film is currently in development.
Sony: PSP Minis to “transition to UMD
SCEE’s Zeno Colaco has revealed that some PSP Minis are likely to be released at retail on UMD or even on PS3.
PSP Minis are small downloadable games for PSP, limited by a 100MB size cap. They form part of an initiative to allow small indie devs to release games on the portable, but the best ones may end up on UMDs in shops.
Wii sales down 50 percent and probably decreasing
Run for the hills, it’s all coming to an end! Wii sales have dropped! PS3 sales are up! The world is spinning out of control, people. In a recent talk with IndustryGamer, analyst Michael Pachter has said just as much, revealing that the Wii’s sales are down 50 percent year-to-year over the last five months and he expects them to continue dropping if Nintendo doesn’t start selling a new bundle or cutting the price of their system as its two competitors have done.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade – Wii
Acing the Tameshigiri.
In the world of folks unceremoniously known as “gamers”, there’s nothing worse than those gamers who chronically clamor for innovation, exclaim their boredom with all the gritty, photo-realistic first-person shooters, the solid but conservative action-adventure titles, and annualized, money-grubbing franchises, but then are inexplicably afraid of change and anything that they deem weird. They are the complainers that complain about the solution to their complaints. Even if I shove the gorgeously-designed boxart of Muramasa: The Demon Blade in their faces while bellowing how this is exactly the action title they have been looking for, they will pout and say that it looks too Japanese. Hopefully, those gamers don’t include you.
Top 25 Dreamcast Games
25.) Power Stone 2 (Capcom)
The Power Stone franchise is all about dropping fighters into an environment filled with weapons and watching them torch each other with flamethrowers and smash chairs over their heads. Its sequel builds off the original’s goodness with insane four-player action spread across multi-tiered environments. In one level, everyone jumps between two submarines that ascend and descend. In addition to swimming around, they beat each other with umbrellas, hammers and swords and shoot themselves with cannons, machine and ray guns. Eventually, no one knows what the hell’s going.
New Dreamcast Title in 2009
It’s been years since Sega’s under-appreciated console saw a big release, yet a newly-announced Dreamcast racing game proves the decade-old platform still has legs.
Publisher Senile Team has taken advantage of the Dreamcast’s tenth anniversary in America to announce the imminent release of Rush Rush Rally Racing, a new Dreamcast title and loving tribute to fans of vintage two-dimensional rally games.
What began as an exercise in game coding has become a commercial release thanks to German publisher redspotgames, and gamers who fanatically held on to their obsolete consoles can look forward to dusting off their controllers in October if they pre-order the title now.
Army of Two: The 40th Day Review
I find it a bit odd that, after finishing Army of Two: The 40th Day’s campaign in about seven hours, what I remember most isn’t its co-op mechanics, nor its cast of mask-wearing musclemen. Sure, I eventually think about that stuff when I put my mind to it, but [...]