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Blip Festival NYC returns May 25-27 →
Blip Festival returns to New York City on May 25-27, this time taking place at The Gramercy Theatre — chiptune fans, make sure to leave your schedule free for this!
8bitpeoples hasn’t announced the lineup yet, but when has Blip Festival NYC ever disappointed? Still, the show will have a tough time topping Amanda Palmer and Dot.AY at Blip Festival Australia two weeks ago.
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February 2012
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Game Center CX coming to DVD in US →
Don’t miss the KACHO! Don’t you dare miss the kacho. Anime distributor Discotek Media has picked up the DVD rights to “Retro Game Master,” the translated version of Game Center CX that ran last year on Kotaku, and plans to release it on DVD.
The set will contain twelve episodes, with a nice bonus feature not seen in the Kotaku version: dual audio tracks, English...
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Good People Die becomes 'Virtue's Last Reward' for... →
It’s official! Chunsoft’s 999 followup is coming to North America on both 3DS and Vita as “Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward.” The branding will extend back to 999, which is now also part of a “Zero Escape” game series. Totally makes sense!
The American release of Virtue’s Last Reward will have voice-acted “Novel” sections. The...
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Nintendo holding Kid Icarus: Uprising tournaments... →
I guess Nintendo is kinda serious about this multiplayer stuff in the new Kid Icarus game! Starting March 8, it’ll host tournaments in GameStop stores across the US.
Specific locations haven’t been announced, but they’ll include “regional competition at select GameStop locations in San Francisco (March 8), Orlando (March 11), Los Angeles (March 15) and New York (March...
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“While the 3DS adaptations of Super Street Fighter IV and Dead or Alive feel...”
– Summing up my thoughts on Tekken 3D: Prime Edition in a review posted at Joystiq.
Buy: Tekken 3D Prime Edition
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
See also: Tekken 3D details and footage
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Pokemon Black and White... 2? →
The followup to Pokemon Black and White isn’t the predicted “Gray,” it’s Black 2 and White 2, coming to DS in June. There’s not much information about them yet, except that they’re coming out, and there are two new legendary Pokemon for the covers.
They’ve also been announced for North America, as “Pokemon Black Version 2” and “Pokemon...
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Rhythm Thief out in Europe on April 5 →
Sega’s still saying a vague “early 2012” for the American release of Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure. In Europe, however, the game has a release date that you can actually circle on your calendar without a paint roller — April 5 (April 4 in Spain).
For the Euro release, Sega has partnered with Nintendo for distribution, a company who, I guess, is less...
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WatchSubtitled trailer for Culdcept 3DS, the board/card game series that most probably remember from the PlayStation 2 version that was localized way back in 2003.
Next to Calciobit, this is probably the game most people were least interested in from this week’s Nintendo Direct event, but it’s right up my alley! Check out the adorable hobo cat at the beginning at of the video — I...
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WatchSubtitled trailer for Etrian Odyssey IV. There are some images from the first-person dungeon crawler here, but while the background art from Studio Ghibli veteran Nizo Yamamoto is quite nice, the screens aren’t very inspiring. Maybe this looks better on the 3D display and in motion.
Buy: Etrian Odyssey III
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
See also: More Etrian...
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Nintendo Direct to the point
If you couldn’t convince yourself to wake up early to catch the Nintendo Direct presentations this morning, or if you didn’t have the time and patience to watch them all, don’t worry, we’ve collected all the vital info for you here.
We’ll post more media from the presentations throughout the day, so as usual, keep an eye on the site.
Critically acclaimed Wii...
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Even on 3DS, F.O.E.: Etrian Odyssey IV!
It’s been a great day for portable gamers, what with a new Nintendo Direct presentation starting in several hours, Good People Die announced for the U.S., and now Etrian Odyssey IV!
Early online reports say the game features a new difficulty setting (including a casual option) that you can adjust at any point, and will release in Japan this June.
The game’s staff revealed so far...
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Good People Will Die in North America
Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die — the sequel to Chunsoft’s adored 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors — is coming to North America some time before the end of the year, thanks to the awesome folks at Aksys.
The news comes by way of Nintendo Power, which as far as I know only discusses the 3DS version, so I’m unsure if the PS Vita edition will make it out...
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Game Center CX 2's 'Triots' hits iOS →
I was going to headline this post “Game Center CX 2 released in US*” but that’s too mean of a tease. Really, though, it has been … in a very small part.
The puzzle game Triotos is now available as a standalone iOS app, based on the “Super Game Computer” Triotos DX, for $3. It uses virtual buttons instead of a swipe-based control scheme, but it works...
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Nintendo Direct returns tomorrow
Nintendo will stream a new round of pre-recorded presentations for fans tomorrow morning, likely talking more about its upcoming DS, 3DS, and eShop software — I expect the company will talk much about Kid Icarus: Uprising, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition. Hopefully we’ll hear about new third-party and downloadable titles too.
The Japanese version of...
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Buy two PS Vita games, get one free →
I was hoping Amazon would match all the deals going on at brick and mortar shops for PS Vita’s launch this week, and it looks like the online retailer grabbed the best one! The offer ends on the 25th, so jump on this, Vita fans.
Preorder: PS Vita See also: More PS Vita coverage
[Via Wario64]
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Report: Nintendo reviving other publishers'...
There are reports again that Yoot Saito is working on a portable version of Sega’s Seaman — the virtual pet-raising sim series in which your pet is a fish with a human face — for 3DS. If true, I’m glad he’s working on something else besides Guild01’s Air Porter for the system!
The project is part of a new initiative by Nintendo to revive other...
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Several months later...
Nintendo announced this morning that its 3DS has gone on to sell more than 5 million units in Japan — likely thanks to key holiday releases, the system’s price-cut, and other factors building momentum for the portable.
It’s now selling at a faster rate than the original DS, Game Boy Advance, and Wii. In the U.S., the system has moved over 4.25 million units as of last month.
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Flipper creator unveils math puzzler thing →
Hugo Smits, the fellow behind the Flipper games on DSiWare, has another strange title on the way for the platform: Ace Mathician, a math-based platformer puzzler thing. It reminds me of Scribblenauts but with equations.
If you’re terrible at math, don’t let the concept scare you off, as there aren’t any actual right or wrong answers in Ace Mathician. As Smits puts it, the...
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Quarth hits Japanese eShop February 22 →
Party on, Quarth! The Game Boy version of Konami’s super rad shooter-puzzle thing will be released this Thursday in Japan (alongside the visual novel True Remembrance), for 400 yen ($5ish). Soooooort of reminiscent of Art Style: Pictobits, Quarth is a game about shooting blocks into falling structures to make rectangles, which then clear from the screen.
Best of all, the Game Boy version...
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