Natsume announced over the weekend that Harvest Moon: Leaf Valley will be released for the PlayStation Portable this April. In Leaf Valley, players are charged with helping the townspeople stop the Funland Corporation from bulldozing the title village and replacing it with an amusement park. Basically, it’s “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” but with farming instead of Ice-T.
Leaf Valley is set to retail for $29.99. An exact release date has not been announced.
As of this weekend, Gamestop has a Pokemon event going, offering a shiny Pichu as a tie-in for the latest movie, and to encourage folks to preorder Heart Gold and Soul Silver. This shiny Pichu not only unlocks the Ilex Forest event in HG/SS, it also comes with two unique moves, Endure and Endeavor. Now, on the whole, Pichu isn’t a particularly useful little critter, so I thought we’d take a look at what can be done with its evolutions. This week, we’ll investigate Pikachu, the electric mouse everybody loves… Or would love to throw in a grain thresher.
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Upcoming tri-Ace joint Resonance of Fate will allow players to customize the look of their characters. An in-game store provides options for outfits as well as hair and eye color. Multiple options are available for party members, and these changes will persist for combat and cutscenes.
Resonance of Fate is out now in Japan as End of Eternity. The game will reach North American stores this March.
Source: Kotaku
According to a press release from the Pokemon Company, a new Pokemon series is in development and is expected to be released later this year in Japan. Few details have been given, though the series will be for the Nintendo DS, and it will feature new Pokemon.
The press release can be found on the company’s Japanese website. A US release has not been announced.
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Nintendo’s recent earnings report revealed a couple of upcoming titles for the Wii. Xenoblade, previously entitled Monado: Beginning of the World, will be released sometime this Spring. It’s being developed by Monolith Soft, creator of the Xenosaga trilogy. And yes, there’s a teaser site. It just wouldn’t be the same without one.
The other title is The Last Story, which is being developed by Mistwalker and Nintendo. According to a statement made at an an investor meeting, the game is supposed to be “a new kind of RPG.” It’s due to be released sometime this year, and there’s a teaser site for it as well.
Source: Joystiq
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With Mass Effect 2 mere hours from release, BioWare co-founder and vice president Greg Zeschuk broke down how the game’s content distribution network will function.
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After completing Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, it occurred to me that the monster system really could have been explained better. So this week on the Strategy Session, we’re going to take a closer look at this subsystem, and what it takes to build a truly dangerous monster.
Continue reading ‘Strategy Session – Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World’ »
Starting February 1, players who preorder the upcoming Pokemon HeartGold or SoulSilver games will receive one of two limited edition figurines as a bonus. HeartGold players will receive a figurine of Ho-oh, while SoulSilver‘s bonus is a figurine of Lugia. Catching them all, in this case, requires a preorder of both versions.
Source: Kotaku
Ah, Valkyria Chronicles. If only I had the shelf space for yet another console… oh well. All in good time, I suppose. Anyhow, here’s some tasty new screenshots for Valkyria Chronicles 2. For your listening pleasure, have some Brandon with a side of van den Bos while you peruse the images, on the house.
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Square Enix is offering iPhone and iPod Touch owners a chance to play two of the rarest Final Fantasy titles…
What’s that? Final Fantasy I & II have been previously ported to other platforms, including the PSP and the GBA? Oh. Well.
The announcement, which was made via Square Enix DLG’s Twitter feed and Facebook page, did not include a release date. The official site only says that the games will be “available soon on the App Store.”
In one of the most unsurprising announcements ever, Atlus stated that it will be localizing Persona 3 Portable for the PSP. The game will be released sometime in July.
Another day goes by without a La Pucelle Ragnarok English release announcement. I am sad.
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Atlus has announced that the upcoming Etrian Odyssey III: Visitor From Star Ocean will not be released in Japan on March 4 as intended. Citing unspecified “various circumstances” for the delay, Atlus stated the revised release date is now April 1, giving IOSYS plenty of time to come up with another catchy flash video.
A US release has not yet been announced.
Source: Kotaku
Yesterday, BioWare announced that Mass Effect 2 will include a special in-game portal called “The Cerberus Network” when the game launches next Tuesday. This portal will allow players to access game news and DLC, and it can only be activated by entering a special single-use code. Every new game, retail and digital, will include a code, but gamers who purchase used copies of ME2 will be able to buy a one-time code in-game.
Furthermore, players who activate “The Cerberus Network” on launch day will receive the first DLC pack, which includes new missions and items. It also includes a mission that allows the player to recruit another character named Zaeed. Sometime after launch, BioWare will release the next DLC pack, which will include new missions, items, and a new vehicle called the Hammerhead.
The main features of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World are an engaging and solidly balanced combat system, and a somewhat overbearing and at times saccharine story. In this, it is a fairly typical Tales game. That isn’t to say ToS:DotNW is a bad game — on the contrary, the game is quite well constructed — merely that it comes off as a bit derivative, particularly where the story is concerned. ToS:DotNW does try a number of new things with the series with varying levels of success, but overall, it’s unlikely that anyone who already has an opinion about the Tales series will find their position swayed one way or the other due to this game.
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An exclusive demo for Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is now available through the Playstation Store. Apart from giving players a chance to test the PSP remake, players can unlock bonus starting equipment in the full game by having clear data from the demo on their memory stick.
Silver Star Harmony‘s website has also gone live. The game is expecting an early 2010 release, although an exact date has not been announced.
Atlus’ DS SRPG/shooter joint Knights in the Nightmare is headed for the PSP. While a US release has not been announced, the Japanese launch is set for April 22. Among the details known at this time, the PSP version will include an animated opening movie and a tutorial mission absent from the DS.
Source: 1UP
