Since I’m in the middle of a serious love affair with Valkyria Chronicles II, this interview really caught my eye today. One of the first things you’ll notice about VCII even before playing it is just how different it is in tone from the original game, the reasons for which…
Some news days are slow. Some are VERY slow. Some take place after TGS and actually go in reverse, so that you find news you didn’t hear about before but quickly learn is old even before you learned of it. The bonus of this is that you find yourself hunting…
Are you Japane-..wait, doesn’t it feel like we’ve done this before? Yet another ‘Huh, I wasn’t expecting that’ announcement to come out of TGS, there will actually be another playable demo of Vanquish released next week on the Japanese on-line marketplaces. No word on a US/EU release date, but presumably it wont…
A Youtube commenter once said (6 months ago, apparently) “If you say you owned a Dreamcast but never played Power Stone, you never really owned a Dreamcast”. I think I’d have to agree, as the console port of Capcom’s arcade fighter is almost as ubiquitous as Crazy Taxi was during…
Man I wish travelling was either affordable or instantaneous. With PAX, TGS and JAMMA in just two weeks of each other, it’s unsurprising that something gets lost somewhere in the giant press machine of the internet. Luckily, Arcade Heroes have created a huge round-up post of all the major news…
Hatsune Miku is kind of a big deal, with the VOCALOID sensation in general permeating into Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and her own personalised leeks cropping up in Phantasy Star Portable 2. She is also this Saturday having her debut US concert in the Japantown area of San Francisco,…
As part of the pre-release hype to Sega’s main RTS franchise, the makers of Shogun 2 have begun releasing ‘Battle Reports’ similar to what Blizzard created for Starcraft 2. Instead of commentating on a Multiplayer match-up though these are simply walkthroughs of skirmishes between the creators and the AI, demonstrating…