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Upcoming tri-Ace title Beyond the Labyrinth, a dungeon-based 3DS RPG, will feature music from Motoi Sakuraba. A veteran composer, Sakuraba has worked on several tri-Ace games before, including both the Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean series.
Source: Andriasang
CyberConnect2 confirmed that a 3DCG movie based on the .Hack series is in development, dubbed simply .Hack//The Movie. While little was revealed about the movie itself, Namco Bandai president Shin Unozawa added that the Blu-ray release will include “a small game” on a hybrid disc. While NB has made hybrid discs for other series, and .Hack has used a similar tie-in concept before, it is not currently known how, or if, the movie and the game will intersect.
Source: Andriasang
Damn but it was hard to focus and get this done. Human Revolution is right there on my hard drive, locked away and waiting for a signal from the Steam mothership to grant access. Buuuut I guess while I’m waiting we should get to the news. Here’s what’s going on this week:
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Available copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be intentionally limited during its initial launch period, both for retail and digital sales. Reportedly this is for server stability reasons, or so an EA representative at Gamescom explained: once a certain number of copies are activated, EA will temporarily cut off digital sales (which are available exclusively through EA’s Origin system) and work on expanding the servers to compensate.
EA’s Frank Gibeau had indicated that such expansion will occur shortly after launch, stating that “We’ll be able to scale up and light up new severs on a fairly quick basis. We’ve got a plan to do that over the months following ship, and we’ve got a lot of capacity built into that.” No indication was given of what the player count threshold might be to restrict sales, though EA has previously indicated a substantial, albeit unspecified, number of preorders.
The Old Republic has not yet received a release date.
Source: 1UP
Nintendo has just announced that Skyward Sword, the latest Wii-bound Zelda title, will launch on November 20. In case you’re wondering, yes, that’s in time for Black Friday.
Source: 1UP
The D&D-based Neverwinter, a co-op RPG being developed by Cryptic Studios, has been pushed back to “late 2012” from its intended 2011 release. This news comes in the wake of a settlement between Hasbro and Atari over development and distribution rights, as Cryptic had previously been owned by Atari before being picked up by Perfect World earlier this year. Atari gained the rights to “several games,” while Hasbro keeps digital licensing rights for D&D in general.
Source: 1UP
Some plot details have been explained regarding Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3. Key treasures of the Slime Kingdom, the seven Niji Orbs, have been stolen by the Tails Brigade. This is where you come in as presumably a bad enough slime to go get them back. Thus you set sail on the Slime Ship, which you will have to defend on occasion. Enemies can board the ship and even destroy it if you fail to protect the engine room.
Source: Andriasang
In case you were looking for a PSX-era RPG to spend six bucks on, Breath of Fire IV has been released on the PlayStation Network as a PSOne Classic. Just throwing that out there.
Dengeki PlayStation has revealed that Namco Bandai and Nitro Plus (Stein’s Gate, Phantom of Inferno) are co-developing an “adventure dungeon RPG” based on the anime series Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica. Featuring turn-based movement through dungeons, Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica Portable is billed as a roguelike and reportedly is based off the anime, though the game will introduce new areas.
Standard and limited editions come up to 6480 and 11900 respectively, with the latter adding a bonus figure, illustration collection, and such. Both versions are scheduled for a March 15, 2012 release in Japan.
Source: Andriasang
With a playable version of Final Fantasy XIII-2 set for the Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix has announced plans for an early demo event. Hosted at their Tokyo office in Shinjuku Ward, the demo event will select a total of forty people in two phases of twenty to try the game. The meetup is scheduled for September 10, and anyone interested in attending can apply at the official site up through August 24.
Source: Andriasang
Nippon Ichi has confirmed that a port-slash-remake of Disgaea 3 is in the works for the PS Vita. Subtitled Disgaea 3: Return, the game will include all DLC featured in the PS3 version along with two new characters and four new scenarios. There has also been discussion of post-release DLC, though with the system itself not yet released there are few details at this time.
In addition, the company stated that four other games are being developed: an action RPG from the Prinny team, a new title from the Disgaea team, another game from System Prisma (the Cladun people), and a Japanese release of “a 3DS game that was popular overseas.” No platforms were specified.
Return is expected to debut at the Tokyo Game Show in September.
Sources: 1UP, Andriasang
Come one, come all, we got all the news you have time for and then some! Well, okay more like all the news I can squeeze into a 15-minute podcast. And, well, actually it’s more like news and analysis and WHATEVER YOU’RE NOT THE POLICE OF ME!
In today’s cavity-fighting* episode:
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Long feared to be a dead series, the announcement of The 3rd Birthday caused no small amount of surprise and delight amongst fans of Parasite Eve. Unfortunately, the finished product cannot be said to have the same effect. Featuring an overcomplicated mess of a plot, suicidal AI, and an actively hateful interface, The 3rd Birthday has fundamental issues that really prevent it from being enjoyable. There are some good points, of course: the game is great at creating a sense of tension, has a huge amount of replay value, and it presents some unique ideas in gameplay. It’s unfortunate that these ideas are buried under the weight of the game’s less player-friendly elements, to the point where it becomes difficult to recommend The 3rd Birthday even to fans of the series.
Continue reading ‘The 3rd Birthday – Staff Review’ »
NIS America has just announced the release date for Cladun x2, the sequel to Cladun: This is an RPG. The title will go live on August 30, exclusively on the PlayStation Network.
For more information, check out the game’s official site located somewhere over here.
Via Famitsu is the news that Final Fantasy Type-0 will see a public demo version prior to release. The demo, dubbed “Natsubi,” is a modified version of a demo shown at an Odaiba event a few weeks ago. No timeframe was given on the demo’s release.
Source: Andriasang
Strong sales and preorders for the Legend of Heroes series have prompted developer Nihon Falcom to raise its yearly earnings forecasts. Two titles in particular – Zero no Kiseki and the upcoming Ao no Kiseki – were cited for the change, and for the period of October 2010 to September 2011 the company now expects net earnings of 125 million yen, up from previous estimates of 75 million.
Source: Andriasang
As part of their Zelda 25th Anniversary celebration, Nintendo has announced an unusual fan contest based on flipnote submissions: short Zelda-themed animations made either on paper or with the DSi’s Flipnote Studio. Contest winners will be examined by key Nintendo staffers – Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma were specified – and added to the Zelda anniversary website, which is being set up here.
Submissions must be in by September 9.
Source: 1UP
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