Muramasa: The Demon Blade commercial
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Square Enix bringing Bubble Bobble Plus! stateside
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We now have a confirmation that this game will indeed launch on the North American WiiWare service.
ESRB rating description:
“Rating: Everyone
Content descriptors: Comic Mischief
Rating summary: This is an arcade-style adventure game in which players guide a character through colorful mazes, blow bubbles, and shoot them at colorful little creatures (e.g., wind-up toys, dragons, etc.). Players can also shoot tiny lightning bolts at larger boss characters to progress to the next level.”
Japanese hardware sales (2/22 – 3/1)
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PS3 36,513
DSi 35,827
PSP 35,588
Wii 17,876
Xbox 360 11,795
DS Lite 11,774
PS2 5,099
Golf game heading to Japanese WiiWare
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– Called Okiraku Pata-Gorufu (Family Golf Putter)
– Choose from 4 characters
– Putt golf ball into different holes, do trick shots
– Wiimote control only
– Swing after shot power is set
– 500 points
Namco Bandai Games Europe announces Klonoa for Wii
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A Classic Returns with Updated Graphics and Controls, Coming to Europe in 2009
PARIS, FRANCE – 6 March 2009 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe announced today that Klonoa will be available in Europe for Wii in 2009. Klonoa’s long-awaited return offers vibrant graphics, motion control and new secrets to discover in this update to the series’ debut adventure. Highly revered as one of the best platform games of the past 10 years, Klonoa will ignite Wii owners’ imaginations with addictive gameplay, exciting stages and a memorable story.
Help Klonoa save Phantomile, a land formed by the dreams of its inhabitants, and recently besieged by an unknown evil. Klonoa’s breathtaking journey takes him through a series of increasingly difficult stages across multiple kingdoms as he strives to save his friends and homeland. Throughout his quest, Klonoa is aided by his friend Hewpoe, a benevolent spirit who resides in the ring from which Klonoa is able to fire his Wind Bullet. The Wind Bullet gives Klonoa the ability to grab and inflate his enemies and use them to his advantage.
New Kizuna trailer
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Thanks to Isai for the news tip!
Furry Legends details
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– Gamelion founded in 2002, employs about 100 people
– Furry Legends has been in development since fall 2008
– Everything built from scratch
– Game is a platformer, but roll instead of walk
– Environmental puzzles present as well
– Supports the Nunchuck + Wiimote
– Devs have found 40MB size limiting
– No DLC planned
– No online functionality including leaderboards
– Will be releasing in the US and EU markets, possibly Japan as well – aiming for a Q2 2009 release
– Devs have other ideas in mind for WiiWare that depend on initial reception of Furry Legends
Virtua Tennis 2009 screenshots
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade info
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– More than 30 different types of stages.
– Collect up to 108 different swords, which you can temper at the forges.
– A variety of different ougis (special techs)
– Wiimote + Nunchuk, Classic Controller, and Gamecube controller all supported
Guitar Hero Greatest Hits fact sheet
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Turn down the lights, crank up the amps and prepare to command center stage as some of the most famous AND infamous tracks from Guitar Hero®, Guitar Hero II™, Guitar Hero® Encore: Rocks the 80s™ and Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock step into the spotlight in the most epic, full band jam session to-date — Guitar Hero® Greatest Hits. The #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2008 presents the best of the best to music video game aficionados so they can join together with guitar, bass, drums and vocals and rock to master tracks of their favorite Guitar Hero music.
Featuring 48 master recordings, Guitar Hero Greatest Hits delivers exciting online and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online. In Guitar Hero Greatest Hits players’ rock n’ roll fantasies turn to realities as they create their rocker, compose their music and share it with the world through the innovative Music Studio, GHTunesSM and robust Rock Star Creator gameplay modes first introduced in Guitar Hero World® Tour.