December 2009
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Rhythm Heaven for $9.98 at Amazon →
Buy this game already! And if you already have Rhythm Heaven, it’s now cheap enough that you won’t need to drop too much cash to grab copies for your friends/siblings as Christmas gifts. Other notable deals at Amazon:
Personal Trainer: Walking for $19.98
MadWorld for $12.99
[Image via Kubrick]
November 2009
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G3: The Encyclopedia of 8-Bit Heroes →
1UP/Retronauts’s Jeremy Parish and his team of writers published the third issue of GameSpite Quarterly, now available to purchase with three different editions, each boasting a different 8-bit hero — collect them all! (or don’t, if you prefer to spend your money sensibly)
Titled “The Encyclopedia of 8-Bit Heroes”, this issue profiles dozens of video game...
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Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch →
When was the last time you cared about a Doom mod? Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch is a multiplayer Doom game based on classic Mega Man weapons. The pixel-textured maps are littered with Robot Monster weapons, with which players can temporarily replace their Mega Busters. And with those weapons, you shoot other Mega Men.
CutmanMike just released an alpha version, if you’d like to try it out....
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Two peculiar DSiWare imports
Japan’s DSiWare service receives three releases next week, one of which you can see above: Kaiten Illust Puzzle Guruguru Logic (this translates into something like Rotation Illustration Puzzle Turning-around Logic).
It looks like Picross and Quarth but doesn’t play like either puzzlers. You’re presented with an incomplete nonogram that you can finish by rotating the grid...
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Arino the Wanderer Part 2 →
One last set of videos for today, though you’ll need to travel to an external site to watch them, as I’m having a difficult time embedding these Dailymotion clips.
In this second-half of Game Center CX’s latest two-part challenge, show host Shinya Arino continues his quest to complete the original Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer for Super Famicom. Even if you don’t...
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“Now that the ceremony is over, I feel like I’ve been able to achieve a...”
– Sal9000 sharing his short- and long-term plans on life with his new wife, Nene Anegasaki. Most Japanese families don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but I’m sure the newlyweds will share a holiday dinner of some sort with Sal’s parents soon. When that happens, it will make for an...
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Watch the Penny Arcade reality show →
Why you should watch the Penny Arcade reality show:
Whether or not you appreciate the Penny Arcade comic strip, the authors’ personalities are engaging enough (and their story of succeeding against the odds is inspiring enough) to warrant spending 16 minutes of your day on watching the show’s pilot episodes. If anything, it passes the time until A Life Well Wasted’s newest...
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Sonic Chronicles for $4.98 at Amazon →
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a BioWare game priced so cheap — if you can’t afford Dragon Age: Origins, here’s your chance to pick up the next best thing! I hear the stories are near identical anyway. Except this one’s furrier.
[Update: Looks like this deal is already out of stock.]
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More highlights and shame from last weekend's Love...
The janky footage we shared yesterday of Sal9000’s wedding kiss with his digital bride Nene Anegasaki (of Konami’s Nintendo DS dating sim Love Plus) didn’t do the romantic ceremony justice. Please strike that clip from your memory and enjoy this one, which features a better angle and actually captures the audience’s giggles, instead.
If you have any doubts over the...
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“Immigrant Song” by Zulaika. I admit...
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The Love Plus wedding reception
As teased earlier this week, the otaku who married Nene Anegasaki, one of three digital girls in Konami’s import dating simulation game Love Plus, in Guam (a non-legally binding union, of course) held a wedding reception during tech expo Make: Tokyo Meeting 04 last night.
Though the event was heavily attended by the press, the bride’s parents, presumably upset that their young...
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“You will see more games from us on the Nintendo DSi soon – beginning with Art...”
– Q-Games’s Dylan Cuthbert confirming to Finalboss that the company did in fact return to develop the DSi version of its bit.Generations game Digidrive. I was wondering!
On that note, Skip ltd./Art Style fans should pick up this month’s issue of GamesTM (#89) for its four-page article on...
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No online rescues for Shiren (Wii) in the U.S.
Atlus sent out a notice today to confirm our suspicions that the U.S. localization for Shiren the Wanderer (Wii) will not include the Nintendo WiFi Connection features that gamers enjoyed in Japan, likely due to the publisher’s inexperience with the system’s online infrastructure:
“Despite our best efforts, the North American version of Shiren will not include the Rescue,...
