Aksys Games Bringing Cho Aniki Zero To America

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin


Good prince, Cho Aniki is back. Aksys Games has announced that they are bringing the “manliest” shooter at all times to North America, this time as a digital download for the PlayStation Portable.

Cho Aniki’s record stretches back to the early 90s, where it was originally released according to the PC Engine. Americans got their first official taste of the homoerotic shooter latest year, when it was released on the Wii’s Virtual Console.

Cho Aniki Zero is the latest intrepid in the series, having been released in Japan earlier this year. Sporting a 2.5d apparition similiar to what was found in the PlayStation 2’s Cho Aniki: Seinaru Protein Densetsu, it features “five piece -mazing levels of love” and multiple endings.

“Cho Aniki Zero is a substantive trip,” said associate producer Frank deWindt II.

“It’s wacky, exhilarated, and just plain fun. Be it the crazy characters, the challenging gameplay, or strange to say the out-of-this-world enemies, you’ll find yourself chugging from a high to a low position protein shakes between levels before you know it!”

We don’t hesitate it. Cho Aniki Zero will be out in Spring 2010.

Game Night with Borderlands Coming Soon

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin

Live TV by Ustream
Time: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5 p.m. PST
Location: Watch the embedded video idler above.
Questions: Submit your question(s) in our Game Night intimation board thread.

According to executive editor Thierry Nguyen’s review, Borderlands is for gamers yearning to shoot things in the face, and it’s filled with “midget panic.” Watch this week’s Game Night to find out what exactly that is, and how it’s a reccurring theme in Gearbox’s new game.

Game Night is recorded live each Tuesday at 5 p.m. PST. We welcome your thoughts and comments up~ our messageboard or Game Night’s Twitter account. A recorded reading will go up Wednesday afternoon on GameVideos. For past Game Night episodes bridle out 1UP’s Game Night hub page! Stay tuned!

3D Dot Game Heroes Paying Tribute To The Classics

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin


Looks like 3D Dot Game Heroes isn’t appease with simply tipping its cap to the Legend of Zelda. As single Japanese blog has discovered (via GameSetWatch), the loading screens invoke the boxart from in addition than a dozen classic games.

Maxell011 has taken the time to catalog each of the loading screens and their corresponding games, which include everything from Chrono Trigger to Mega Man 2. The hide you see above, of course, features Street Fighter II in noble voxel form.

You can find the complete catalog on the blog, which includes both the well-known and the obscure (watch out despite the NSFW images in the sidebar). If you’re familiar through Bokosuka Wars, you win a prize.

3D Dot Game Heroes decision be available in Japan on November 5. No word on a toward the west release, but there’s a good chance that we’ll try something by next year.

Image courtesy of GameSetWatch

No Multiplayer Planned For The Last Guardian

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin

While peradventure not the most surprising bit of news to come out of the Tokyo Game Show, ICO and Shadow of the Colossus manager Fumito Ueda confirmed in an interview with 1UP yesterday that his latest dauntless, The Last Guardian, will not include any multiplayer features.

Ueda’s anterior games have been highly focused single-player titles, and the at the outset trailer released for The Last Guardian suggests a similar approach, nevertheless I became curious about the idea after he mentioned in an interview with Famitsu that he was considering online features for the resolute.

In our interview, Ueda clarified that such features would not embrace multiplayer gameplay, but that he “can’t really commit to anything unswerving now” regarding what they might be because he is unsure of whether they wish make it into the final product. Which seems like code towards not wanting us to get our hopes too high.

You normal read a story from Japan’s biggest game convention, the Tokyo Game Show — congrats! To papal court all our news, previews, videos, and screens from the show, rebuff out TGS.1UP.com.

Lost Planet 2 Demo Coming To PSN Next Week

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin


PlayStation 3 owners are around to get a taste of Lost Planet 2 for themselves. Capcom has announced that the demo inclination be available on the PlayStation Network next week, calling it a befall to “experience a piece of the Tokyo Game Show action from the console of their own living rooms.”

As with the Xbox 360 version, the PS3 demo will allow players to cooperate against a “G-Type Akrid,” which is the final enemy of Episode 1. However, Capcom is besides throwing in a little something extra to make up for the time that PS3 owners had to wait.

“Beginning September 24, PS3 owners elect not only be able to engage in the frantic battle counter to the enormous G-Type Akrid, the boss Akrid of the Episode 1, if it were not that will also get the exclusive experience of two additional missions in every online co-operative extermination of the Akrid of E.D.N. III,” Capcom general relations manager Brian Keltner wrote on the U.S. PlayStation Blog.

Capcom direction also be releasing the newest trailer on PSN on the identical day, which will show a new environment. Whereas previous trailers showed off city and jungle environs, the new one features the desert and “equable bigger Akrids.”

Lost Planet 2 will be arriving on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2010.

Need For Speed Nitro Launching Two Weeks Early

October 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin


Unlike distinct other games we could mention, Need for Speed: Nitro is definitely not getting delayed into 2010. In fact, it’s actually jumping ahead a conjoin weeks, with the release date set for early November.

Developed on account of the Wii and the Nintendo DS, Electronic Arts is taking aiming at that happens by chance gamers for this one. The racing is meant to be extremely forgiving, and it features every art style that plays to the Wii’s strengths.

Electronic Arts has moreover released the complete soundtrack for the game, saying that it exemplifies the unflinching’s “intensity, attitude and adrenaline.”

Here the complete list.

Alex Metric - What Now

Bloody Beetroots act of dexterity. Cool Kids - Awesome

Crookers feat. Wiley and Thomas Jules - Business Man

Crystal Method act of dexterity. LMFAO - Sine Language

Danko Jones - Code Of The Road

Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden - Bonkers

Drumagik - Make It Rock

Earl Greyhound - Oye Vaya

edIT trick. Wale and Tre’ - Freaxxx

Evil 9 - All The Cash (Alex Metric Remix) Feat. El-P

Hollywood Holt - Can’t Stop

k-os - FUN!

Lady Sovereign - I Got You Dancing

Major Lazer achievement. Mr.Lex & Santigold - Hold The Line

Matt & Kim - Daylight (Troublemaker Remix)

Mickey Factz - Yeah Yeah

Pint Shot Riot - Not Thinking Straight

Placebo - Breathe Under Water

Rise Against - Kotov Syndrome

Roots Manuva - Buff Nuff

Rye Rye - Hardcore Girls

Street Sweeper Social Club - Fight! Smash! Win!

Taking Back Sunday - Lonely Lonely

The Enemy UK - No Time For Tears

The Gay Blades - O Shot (Dmerit Remix)

Two Fingers feat. Sway - Jewels And Gems

Need for Speed Nitro will be at a loss November 3.

This Week in 1UP Reviews, 9/25/09

October 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin

We’re arrival to the close of the Tokyo Game Show, but that didn’t sluggish the new releases this week. The heaviest hitter belongs to the put under cover that Microsoft built — or, arguably, the one that built Microsoft. But in that place were other notable game releases, so check the full listing in the world of sense and click the links to read the full reviews.

Halo ODST

Halo ODST (360) - Jeremy Parish: “As a bookish man of the “quality over quantity” school of entertainment, I’ll take a brief but meaty experience that keeps me coming back over a diffuse, drawn-out exercise in tedium any day. ODST may be a margin diversion in the Halo universe, but it’s an awfully just actions one.” (A-)

Need for Speed Shift (360/PS3) - Garnett Lee: “Missed opportunities through every part of Shift’s presentation lead to the inescapable feeling that the team poured everything it had into the up~-the-track racing, and then did its best to get the rest wrapped up steady time. Even as such, that effort pays off, because it is Shift’s address to bring the roar of the race to life, that manages to inundate out much of its flaws. ” (B+)

NHL 2K10 (360/PS3) - Mike Nelson: “As much as this may be an improvement over last year’s passage , it just doesn’t feel like a complete package. Like a professional hockey team in a rebuilding phasis, NHL 2K10 feels as though the developers worked hard on nailing the sights and sounds of the intrepid — along with some online integration — but have yet to craft a virtuous hockey experience.” (C)

Persona (PSP) - Jeremy Parish: “The only real, solid drawback to Persona is that, 13 years after its debut, its approach to RPG combat interaction is still practically unparalleled, especially on consoles. We have power to only hope that everyone else is taking notes.” (A)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up (Wii) - Ray Barnholt: “Despite the faults in moral qualities variety, you get a good Ninja Turtle fighter using a proven means, but maybe Ubisoft will do one better than the Konami of 1994 and yield a sequel worth wishing for.” (B-)

Free Realms Reaches Five Million Users

October 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin


One of the largest massively multiplayer games generally available continues to do quite well for itself. Only a not many months after its release, Free Realms has officially reached 5 million users.

Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley confirmed the number doing his keynote at the Austin Game Developer’s Conference (via Massively). Free Realms apparently hit the milestone last month, but it’s solitary being confirmed now.

Free Realms has grown quite quickly since its April enlarge, accumulating 1 million users in its first eighteen days. It’s a charitable MMORPG that emphasizes its large class selection, which includes options like “Chef.”

It was officially released April 28 put ~ the PC. While it still has a ways to go in the van of catching up to the subscription-based World of WarCraft in terms of numbers, Free Realms seems to be off to a neat good start.

FreeRealms Coming to PS3 ‘Mid-2010,’ Likely to Use Eye

October 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin

FreeRealms
During a Q&A session following John Smedley’s keynote speech at GDC Austin (where he revealed Free Realms has already hit an impressive five million users), Smedley revealed that the antecedently revealed PS3 version will likely be released in mid-2010 (via Joystiq).

“It’s next year sometime, toward the middle of the year,” Smedley uttered in response to a questioner. In addition, Smedley also revealed that it’ll in a fair way use a particular PS3 peripheral: “For the PlayStation 3 version, it’s extremely likely that the Eye is going to be something we undergo.”

Exactly how the game will support what is essentially a webcam was left unexplained, on the contrary knowing the dark miasma that is human nature, we’re hoping it’ll exist heavily regulated by Sony. Heavily.

Elder Scrolls Novel Blurb Seems to Confirm Oblivion Sequel

October 26th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin

Elder Scrolls novelConsidering for what reason well The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sold, it’s pretty probable Bethesda will make a new game in the series eventually. But according to a blurb describing maker Greg Keyes’ “The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel,” the prospects for a sequel have become a lot more likely (via Kotaku).

The Waterstone’s retail site’s listing for the novel originally had a blurb that described its chronicle as “[taking place] forty-five years after the Oblivion Crisis, what one. is the story of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion game and the extent pack Shivering Isles. It partly bridges the gap for the nearest game, which is set 200 years after the Oblivion crisis.”

Next game, huh? Set 200 years after Oblivion, eh? It sure seems to settle a sequel, but you probably won’t be surprised to learn that this portion of the blurb seemingly confirming The Elder Scrolls V has since been removed from the retail listing. So don’t necessarily take this as a confirmation, further if the blurb was indeed accurate, it looks like Bethesda is already setting the pieces for a sequel in place.