A new trailer forYakuza 4today features one of the new main characters, Shun Akiyama. The trailer makes him out to be a ladies man that gets a bit too far into it, but his backstory is a bit more interesting than that. He was formerly homeless, but has moved up to own a club and a loan company. And being one of the fourYakuza 4main characters, he’s also a badass. The money he used to build his mini empire literally fell into his lap....
Sony’s “Next Generation Portable” will mark the end of the UMD format, with Sony ditching the discs for games stored flash-based memory cards. According to the publisher, these cards can not only store a full game, but also have enough space for downloadable content and saved games. The upshot here is that you won’t need separate memory sticks for your game saves, as each title will have its data self-contained....
What I love about the Tecmo Koei merger is that it hasn’t dulled the former’s commitment to rampant sexism. Bouncing boobs are still in full effect, even if the owner of said boobs happens to bea fourteen-year-old girl. That’s misogynistic dedication, and you can’t go wrong with that. Anyway, here are some screens of the co-op action to be found in Tecmo Koei’sfirst official game,Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. The gore is a little toned down, but the ol’ chest tumors are still as gravity-defying as ever....
DSiWare kind of sucks. There are a few cute games on it, but it’s generally a big waste of potential thatPSP Minisis going to totally upstage. Nevertheless, there’s the occassional glimmer of hope, andAa Mujyou Setsunais one of them. The game,translated roughly asAh Cruel InstantorOh Heartless Moment,is a classic top-down shmup full of everything that makes shmups good. Power-ups, attack chains and endless swarms of enemies. Nintendo is listed as the game’s creator, although Arika is also credited....
The Nintendo DLC train does not stop running, even for Christmas. They have a nice lineup of titles to play over your Christmas break this week. For the first time on the Wii, via Virtual Console,Mario Party 2drops. I remember playing this on the Nintendo 64. I got lots of mileage out of the one cart with its four player minigames, so it’s nice to see it’s only 1,000 Wii points....
It’s Thursday, and that means Nintendo’s released a bunch of stuff that you might care to download. The biggest game this week isPro Jumper! Guilty Gear Tangent!?on DSiWare and the eShop. It’s a “quirky” platformer in which you run, jump and attack with a towel. Cool. On WiiWare, we have a puzzle game calledThe Mystery of Whiterock Castle, which you won’t buy andStrategofor DSiWare and eShop. As for the 3DS’ Virtual Console, you’re surely expecting another great Game Boy game, right?...
Nintendo — a company that blatantly has short-term plans for a 3DS Lite — has said today that it has no short-term plans for a 3DS Lite. We’re fairly certain that “Next year, while laughing into a giant vagina made out of dollar bills” counts as short-term, guys. “The first thing (Nobuo) Nagai-san10, who’s in charge at the Uji plant, said to me when he looked over the designs for Nintendo 3DS before mass production began was ‘This time it’s fully packed right from the start....
Excited about the upcoming Capcom Arcade Classics releases for Wii in 2011, I revisited the Capcom booth at Comic-Con today to give the only classic they had available a spin. This wasSonSon, a very old arcade game. It turns out that this was only the second game the company ever made, originally released in 1984 in arcades. Despite its age, it was still fun. Fun and hard. You play as little monkey-ish guy who is out to make his way to a place called Tenjiku....
Do you like the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, or Led Zeppelin? Me? Sometimes, but new artists are making new music. Try that out. Wait, that’s a whole different rant, and not at all related to videogames. What is related is that members of all three bands have dropped hate on the music video games that we play so much. Here’s what they’ve been quoted as saying: “It encourages kids not to learn, that’s the trouble…....
Two new characters have been revealed forDynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends, and one of them will be instantly familiar to long-time fans. After much fan pressure, Koei Tecmo has seen fit to bring back Pang De. The other character is Wang Yi, a female character who fights with a gigantic pair of sai. There are new renders and screens in the gallery, so give those a gander if you like!...
If you regularly read Destructoid you know that we’re pumped for the upcoming release ofShin Megami Tensei: Personafor the PSP.We’ve seenthis re-imagining of the original PlayStation RPG and we can say that it’s good. Today, Atlus has launched a huge web-based tease for the September 22nd release ofPersonaPSP. The new webpage has teaser placeholders for the game’s story and characters. It also includes wallpapers (even a PSP wallpaper) and other images as well a few choice screenshots....
Nippon Ichi’s tactical PlayStation 2 role-playing game classic makes its way to Wii, and this Japanese trailer fromGamekyogives us a first look.This looks like…the PS2 game. This time around the game has new characters and story elements, and keen (and geeky) eyes will recongnize the addition of Plenair to the lineup. Although aged a bit, it’s a damned fine videogame, and I wouldn’t be suprised to see it come out here....
In what could be taken as a Captain Obvious story, Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford has twisted the knife in Michael Pachter’s incorrect brain, making sure that everybody knows exactly how wrong the analyst was when he saidBorderlandshad been “sent out to die” and would get destroyed byModern Warfare 2andDragon Age: Origins. He really was quite wrong. “We were sandwiched between the two biggest first-person shooter franchises ever,” confesses Pitchford. “And the guys at BioWare, who walk on water, were releasingDragon Agearound the same time....
