Originally titled (roughly at least) Hyper Dimension Game Neptune, NISA have finally announced this curio-rpg for both main western territories. The announcement was all but confirmed for a while now, with localisation rumours abound, but the announcement of a European release is actually a pretty big surprise for me. Hyperdimension…
I really like Project Sylpheed, and I’ve never been quite sure what it did to garner such hatred from gamers. Presumably it’s because it diverged so greatly from the formula of the original games in the series, which were much more tradition vertical shooters rather than free-flight space combat games….
Okay, so it’s actually part of a much larger post on ‘Narrative Design in Vanquish’ from the fantastic JP Kellams over at Platinum Games. JP you may remember from the old interviews with Hideki Kamiya on the Bayo Blog, and once again is here detailing his involvement and the decisions…
I really have to hand it to Konami. I can’t think of another developer with such a track record of catering for platforms that aren’t exactly the one they’ve seen the most success with. The Contra and Castlevania series were both typically Nintendo properties, starting off on the NES before releasing…
I know. What the hell were they thinking with Sega Bass Fishing? On the other hand, Space Channel 5.2 (Or Part 2, but that’s a bugger to sound out) is exactly what I was hoping for with this series of digital reprints. Space Channel 5.2 is of the 2nd game following…
I’ve made no secret of my Yuji Naka man-crush, culminating in an epic rock paper scissors match to the death/mild-discomfort of standing up too long. So I’m damn excited to have come across a slight tease from the current issue of ‘Famitsu’ where the President of Japanese game publisher Kadokawa…
I love any kind of case mod/custom art for any sort of console or arcade stick, but this one is particularly inspired. A wonderful aesthetic feature of the MK1 Mega drive (and Genesis) was the ring embossing around the cartridge slot, and what artist Paul Burke decided to do was…