Here's a bunch of video game news fo' the day. First of all, did you see it in store already? :P Here's the launch trailer for Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games on the Wii system.
It's looking nice, like an improvement over the last ones (the 1st one looked so rushed...) but I'm kinda getting tired and bored of these minigames compilations.. Might pick this up at bargain's price.
Continuing with Sega, here's the announcement/trailer for Puyo Puyo !! 20th Anniversary.
This title promise to be very special, for fans and newcomers alike. Like the best the series have seen so far in one Wii/PSP/3DS. Available on December 15.
Finally "Master the Max Cancel" trailer, a video for the upcoming return of the king of the genre, namely King of Fighters XIII!
I'm glad to see the KOF mechanics back in due form. Cancels are back! and properly!
Here's today's latest gaming news status! On today's program; Two rivals team up, a writer is back and a lawyer gets on the silver screen! First up Sega and Nintendo got a new ad for their upcoming crossover title Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Actually there's two slightly different versions of it currently running, one for Sonic and another one for Mario.
It's due out on the Wii soon, on November 18 for most countries, 15 for the US and December 8 for Asia. And the 3DS will get its version next February only.
Meanwhile, some new Alan Wake material has long been rumored. Finally, Remedy revealed it was named Alan Wake's Night Springs, and will be a sort of spinoff/DLC episode. The first picture has been revealed Game Informer's website.
It doesn't show much, but a lot of things can be guessed from this simple pic. You can see a Night Springs sign on the right. This means it will take place in an actual Night Springs location. The game will use the same mechanics/physics as you can guess from the tone and lights here. But Alan is wearing very different clothes and not handling a gun but a nail gun instead.
I can guess it will either take place in Alan Wake's mind, projecting himself into the fictional in-game Twilight Zone TV show spoof. Or it won't even be related to Alan Wake's story in the main game and be simply an Xbox Live Arcade original title reusing familiar faces to tell a Night Springs story.
An actual trailer will be soon released, around Spike TV's VGA Awards event.
Temporary DLC to help fans await until the actual sequel?
Here's a new bunch of gaming news. Today's program, Marios, Sonics, Fighters and Transformers! Also enjoy my all-new random NEWS! pics. I updated the only one I had (Toby "The Rat" Maguire) and made some new ones to shuffle things up a bit. Only the best for ya all! First of all, let's start with a new trailer for the upcoming Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: London 2012. Sega & Nintendo just announced this game will feature a new and original party game mode. Sort of a Mario Party X Sonic Shuffle if you will, for connoisseurs. Check out the Party Mode in the following trailer:
Looks like a fair addition, if they want this 3rd Olympic installment to demarcate from its predecessors.
Street Fighter X Tekken gets a release date, March 6 for the US and March 9 for most of Europe (yay!) and a collector edition!
This collector will include a “Build-It-Yourself Arcade Cabinet Bank” that’s about five inches high, a comic prequel by UDON, in-game gems which will act as currency and serve to unlock/update stuff for your game (à la Marvel Vs. Capcom series). It was confirmed for PS3 and 360 only.
Here's a new trailer from the NY Comic-con, illustrating the new features and more:
I already can smell some haters complaining about this Gems-feature from miles....
Here's a couple more game-related news I forgot to post. Mario & Sonic, Assassin's Creed and Grasshopper studio's new title! First up, remember those Mario & Sonic Olympics games?
Yep, they made another one :/ Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Beijing was...okay I guess (but as the first one it was kinda, sorta boring and way too much gimmick-y) Vancouver was much better, thanks to the far superior Winter sports. But we're back to "normal" Olympics now. They added more variety with the Football/Soccer, Cycling, etc.. So we'll see!
Let's check out the trailer:
Looks great, like most CGi introductions/videos SEGA tends to produce. I guess we'll see one of these Mario & Sonic party games every 2 years now? (forever?!?) Until one o' those makes a flop, that is... This one will be out on November 18 in the meantime.
Ubisoft revealed some more of Ezio and Altair's "last adventure" in Assassin's Creed Revelations. Enjoy this latest trailer from GamesCom 2011:
This latest adventure of Desmond's Hassassin lineage will be out on November 15. Ubi said Assassin's Creed: Revelations would conclude both Ezio and Altair's story, we can only assume it will take place within the established timeline or introduce the next stabby hero in the assassin line. (until Assassin's Creed 3 is actually finally released, that is)
And speaking of which... Awesome game developing studio Grasshopper Manufacture took the occasion, at GamesCom, to showcase their brand new upcoming title. A sidescroller this time!
Black Knight Sword will be a side-scrolling action game. It might look simple and silly but it is (even) running on the Unreal engine (!!!).
(...) So, lotsa things happened since I last blogged about the Expo on this blog.
A new Nintendo System, the Wii U, which will be a much more powerful HD Wii in a way. With big mainstream "adult" titles such as Alien Colonial Marines, Metro Last Light, Ninja Gaiden 3 and even some mysterious titles such as Assassin's Creed (is it an exclusive one? the original/a remake Assassins' Creed 1? Assassin's Creed Revelation only they forgot to put in the rest of the title?) and Tekken (Tekken Tag 2? A new one? A remake of the original classic?). This new system has a very special type of controller, more like a tablet than an actual controller, with buttons + sticks. Featuring a screen which kinda makes this controller a sort of handheld system, only 1 player will be able to use it on a Wii U, the others will have to use "classic" Wiimotes.
Meanwhile Sony showcased their new PSP2, sorry, the VITA. Or PSVita, or PSV..anyways I'm just glad they didn't keep their previous temporary acronym NGP ("Next Gen Portable") which will always stand for me for Neo Geo Pocket :P Me and tons of retro gamers around the world.
What d'you guys think? Well, I for one am not really a fan of accessories or systems. It's the games that count. (same goes with movies and 3D, home released and Blurays or DVDs.. the content is always more important than the container) They'll all have to offer more than 5-10 good titles to interest me :P First let's start quickly with a Wii U (how do you say that? Way-you? Wee-eww?) reveal trailer:
It's backward compatible with all existing Wii games, and apparently supports existing Wii hardware too. I'm guessing (and hoping) the same goes with Gamecube stuff. (or I'll have to replug the GC!) And hopefully we'll be able to transfer our game saves/profiles/etc in some way... It's pretty gimmicky, but I guess that's the way technology is evolving into. The controller doesn't surprise nor impress me much.. I guess that was bound to happen. *reads/watches too much scifi stuff*
Enough!
On to the games now!
Nintendo had lots of trailers/announcement regarding its other new system, the 3DS. Including a Metal Gear Solid, a Starfox and a Mario Kart 3DS. Let's check out the others not as much people will look into:
Kid Icarus: Uprising, looking nice, if a bit pixelated. (but I guess that goes with most 3DS titles... to force people to use the 3D to smooth things out)
Here's now Super Mario. Simply Super Mario. From the same team that made Galaxy.
Woah! Not much a fan of Mario usually (and I don't get "blinded" by Mario's legacy, nostalgia and fanboysm when judging one) but this looks great! Why couldn't they make one like this on the Wii directly?
Everything I always wanted Mario 64 to be!! (yeah, I admit it, I never liked it much...too much uncontrollable for my tastes and serious lack of sidescrollin' around..)
And here's another Mario:
Yeah, I said I wasn't gonna post those big name games...but I guess I lied :P
At least this one's Paper Mario 3DS!
Looks nice.
I doubt I'll get it (at least at full price!)
But nice.
Meanwhile on Capcom's side:
It's Resident Evil: Revelations!
For the 3DS also.
(all the good games are coming up there?)
Unlike Mercenaries, which is all about shooting action, Revelations is all about survival horror, the very genre Resident Evil established. We actually think of Revelations as a direct sequel to Resident Evil 5 and it will be full of new, innovative ideas and characters
Capcom sees this one as the true actual new RE game. Or at least, that's how they're trying to sell us this one.
And if you're not convinced, here's another title:
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Much like Resident Evil: Mercenaries on the 3DS, it's a multiplayer spinoff title. This one is based around the events of the classic RE in Raccoon City.
Like a sort of Left4Dead take on the series.
Back to Big N.
Link is back in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Looking lovely, sharp, bright, colorful.
Love the feel, the graphics...
I'm expecting a Wii and Wii U releases. Like Twilight Princess. The question now is, which system was it developed for, and where is it being ported to in a rush.
Mario, Sonic & co are brought back together one more time, in...
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games!
Another one, right!
....And one more time it's gonna sell a million copies.
And here's another sequel, this one to a much more loved "Mario" game:
That's right! Next Level Games is developing a Luigi’s Mansion 2. Worry not, Shigeru Miyamoto is even on board!
And meanwhile, since it seems that Sega got the rights for another year for yet another Olympic game (a next gen realistic one will be developed by Eurocom), here's what we now are used to by Sega & Nintendo for the Wii system:
That's right! Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games! All those are simply mock-up covers for now, leaked from spanish/portuguese websites. And they don't seem to shy away from spoiling the news since the London 2012 has already been officially revealed there in portfolios of people involved with the game over there.
And that is all~ The Mario & Sonic games are kinda decent party games, as far as party games go. (not a big fan here) Though it should be fun enough if it is anything like the previous Winter 2010 one.
Cancels are back! and properly!
*hides KOF12 in the garbage can*