…And so my epic trilogy of posts regarding the potential HD rerelease of Yakuza 1 and 2. We laughed, we cried, and we learned things. Ok, well we learned that Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition, as it has been officially titled, is coming to Japan. We also learned that…
David Perry, founder of Earthworm Jim creator Shiny Entertainment, had quite a lot to say about the current state of their chewy length of worm flesh in a recent interview with Eurogamer. In it he described his hopes, and those of the original team, of making an Earthworm Jim sequel…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2_pUkjeHGQ&feature=player_embedded We knew it would happen eventually… With Rovio’s Angry Birds series appearing on everything from iOS to your grandmother’s toaster the only reasonable place left without a port of the game was Sega’s 16-bit console, the Genesis. Well, now that can be checked off the list as well as…
Before you say it–hell, before you even think it–no, this is not the official “major announcement” from Yakuza’s official website. The Japanese gaming mag Famitsu is reported to reveal the HD re-release of the first two Yakuzas in their newest issue, along with a Japanese release date of November 1st and a price…
Yes, 100 episodes! What a long, strange trip, etc., blah, blah blah. Well! Now you can relive all our past monkey shines by downloading a huge poster of all 100 episode headers (plus some other stuff because there was extra space)! This is especially fun for those of you…
A lot of exciting and…not so exciting Sega announcements have been making the rounds over the past couple of weeks, and it seems that the company’s Japanese gangster epic is not being left out. Mere days after a leak outed the Yakuza 1 and 2 HD Collection in Japan, Yakuza’s…
The most impressive thing about Space Channel 5 is how it combines every single cliche in gaming yet the final result is intensely memorable. Grab your checklist: There is an impossibly well proportioned, gun toting heroine. The plot involves a savage alien attack on unsuspecting mankind. The gameplay is typical rhythm-button…