[Rud31]

DANCE DANCE DANCE

The world will keep turning if you keep on dancing.
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THERE ARE DEFINITELY WORSE VIDEO GAME PODCASTS

[Talbain]

[geinou]

I would only buy the game when this japanese dude who presented the game at E3 would be included.

[108]

[Sketch]

PS3 modchip? Has anyone posted this?

I dunno, I found these links on another forum. Few days old only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOEbZEkp9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDaGne0u-4

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

It's not quite a modchip. Rather, if I've got the (still developing) story straight, those guys got their hands on a combination of software (previously available, I believe) and a specialized USB stick, the combination of which basically allows any PS3 (at the current firmware or below) to use the features of a debug PS3, notably the option to copy a full game to the hard drive. To my knowledge, the USB device is something that would actually have to be taken (read: stolen) from a developer themselves, and the planned reproduction/sale of it won't even be a gray area - it'll be flat out illegal.


to quote the NeoGAF topic:

[Takashi]

[Persona-sama]

[Sketch]

Regarding this hacking of the PS3 - I'm curious if you could somehow use it to force your non-BC system to becomes PS2 BC...

I recall someone on here, a developer presumably, stating that while working with official development hardware, the PS3 / PS2 / PSP compatibility situation was akin to a series of selectable drop-down boxes in any PS3. Hence why the Minis were so suddenly PS3-compatible.

I could be remembering this wrong though, and I can't recall which topic it was in.

[Mikey]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/108/1084002p1.html

Did this only fly under my radar, or did everyone else not hear about this?

[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Dracko]

Well this is looking pretty rubbish.





Little wonder the original series comes with the game.
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[RobotRocker]

Kinda didn't help when Namco showed up at Bottle Rocket with a U-Haul to take all the dev kits back and then dump it on the internal Afro Samurai team.
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[Lynchburg]

So it jumps from 2D platformer into a 3D brawler? Almost makes the new Castlevania look good!
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No sir!

[Loki Laufeyson]

not even 1% as gory as it needs to be :/
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[Dracko]

Going to ahead and repost this from the Vanquish thread: The demo is hitting PSN and XBLA on the 2nd of September! A lot sooner than I anticipated or hoped for.


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[BalbanesBeoulve]

[cassievania]

[Teflon]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Journey concept art:

[Talbain]

Not a new vid, but it's actually in HD this time.

Also, Catherine website is now up.

HQ Journey Concept Art via alr1ghtstart from NeoGAF.
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[firenze]

So am I the only one who is very concerned that Catherine won't ever get an English localization? Violence is never an issue, but sexuality in games tends to freak western publishers and retailers out. And it's not as if there's no precedent for Atlus leaving SMT/Persona games in Japan. Still, SMT/Persona ARE at their highest popularity ever in the west and it has been a while since one of the games was passed on for western release (Devil Summoner remake on PSP is the last, I think). I can't help but get nervous thinking that the sexual themes might make this a harder sell for North America though (no pun intended).

***

Also... Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu (er... Resurrection) for iPod/iPhone/iPad is coming this week. August 26 (Thursday) in Japan, which means it may be showing up as early as Wednesday in the US due to time zone differences. Only $4.99 for a special introductory price for the first four days!

[BotageL]

Yes, you are.
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[BalbanesBeoulve]

I was kind of thinking the same thing as firenze but then i remembered rule of rose got an American release.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

but not in the uk because the papers decided it was child pornography
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[firenze]

Whoever just deleted that post worrying about not understanding what the hell you actually DO in Catherine... you had a valid point. As I understand it from the fragmented information that's out there, the game seems to be some sort of action-adventure. I'd assume there's some amount of RPG influence in a SMT-related game. But if a large component of the game is more leaning toward being a visual novel style game (which wouldn't be incredibly shocking knowing Japanese trends these days), that might also make it a little less palatable for a Western audience, even for the niche crowd that normally supports Atlus RPG stuff.

Not that it doesn't look really intriguing to me so far, but I know that my personal tastes aren't exactly a great reflection of the market.

But maybe this is all me being devil's advocate and fear-mongering. Atlus USA DOES seem to need to have something to promote and sell in the upcoming year, their slate is looking pretty blank as-is without a ton of obvious prospects for new releases. Etrian Odyssey III and a few Sting games (Knights in the Nightmare and Blaze Union PSP, maybe Yggdra Unison on DS) seems like a pretty bare schedule that's even more low-volume/"niche only" than usual for Atlus, and Catherine would fit in nicely as their big console game to promote.

[RobotRocker]

[Toups]

[Lick Meth]

Surprised our resident "post every Harlo Reach story" poster didn't tell us about the game being leaked (and spoilers put on video sites etc.).

[geinou]

That's an early leak, yet I remember that Halo 2 also got leaked ages before the release.

[Toto]

[Lick Meth]

Makes a change from ever minor tidbit appearing here then, eh?

Other news: $50m game canned (This is Vegas) (more like This Was Vegas)

(well actually they'd spent $43m thus but it needed another $8m or so to finish)

[Dracko]

Lick Meth, if you think I've been posting every tidbit in here, you obviously haven't been paying attention.

Anyway, that's three out of four Halo games leaked. Considering how this one got out, I can only assume that Microsoft are incompetent.

Wonder if Activision will be any better.

Probably not.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

if you can't do a videogame for $43000000, maybe you're an insanely wasteful idiot who shouldn't be given any sort of responsibility
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[Dracko]

ATTN: geinou



dubbing this the scrub pack 8)
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[Toptube]

http://hardocp.com/news/2010/08/24/steam_sale_saves_developer

[RobotRocker]

Clear version of the new Portal 2 trailer

Looking good

[Swimmy]

Plain Sight is currently $2 on Steam. I nabbed it and really want to play it, but I guess this is a popular deal: the server has been unavailable for registration all evening.
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[geinou]

[geinou]

Oh hey, the big enemy in the next Bioshock isn't the Big Daddy, it's the Handyman. I wonder if he's also a dandyman.