Stand up Inazuma fans, your favourite team of football misfits is heading to Europe once again with Inazuma Eleven 3 for the Nintendo 3DS being officially confirmed for release in the region.
Available in two versions, ‘Lightning Bolt’ and ‘Bomb Blast’, Inazuma Eleven 3 is set to be the biggest entry in the series to date with over 2000 playable characters and over 350 special moves to use in game. It looks to be the best Inazuma Eleven game to date.
Inazuma Eleven 3 will be heading to Europe later this month on the 27th of September. For now you can tide yourself over with the English trailer for the game below.
Madman Entertainment have officially confirmed that they have acquired the license for Studio Ghibli’s latest animated feature film The Wind Rises. The film itself incidentally has become the final work in the long and legendary history of Hayao Miyazaki following his recent retirement announcement.
The Wind Rises is a semi-autobiographical tale of the life of World War II fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi. The film has done commercially well in its native land of Japan raking in over ¥8.78 billion to date which is roughly $96 million AUD.
Madman have yet to confirm any plans for a home video release, but did reveal plans for a theatrical release at some point in 2014. Stay tuned for further information on the release of The Wind Rises as details surface.
Welcome to Sydney’s film festival of the year –catering for all our lust, desire, fetish, humour, horror and fantastical urges from cinema –in this amazing visual and cultural experience. The Sydney Underground Film Festival 2013 (SUFF) took place from September 5-8 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville, a central and suitable location to immerse in this screening adventure for film goers and makers.
Opening night featured the return of director, Alejandro Jodorowsky with his masterpiece, ‘The Dance of Reality’ (La Danza de la Realidad), an independent autobiographical film of his coming of age in Chile. After 23 years behind screen, Jodorowsky restores his cinematographic work through this surrealistic adaptation of his personal life; drawn from his memoir of the same name.
There were a number of stand out features, special screenings, documentaries and short film sessions that drew in large audiences. To name a few, the documentary ‘Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton’, celebrates 85 years (1913-1999) of this amazing poet and his experimental filmmaking to discover his sexual orientation and be the voice for homosexuals. On the other hand, ‘Unhung Hero’ is a cockumentary of comedian, Patrick Moote and his mission to overcome his own shortcomings by determining the importance of size in manhood.
As for the premiere features, ‘Magic Magic’ is an intensifying psychological thriller, exploring the depths of hypnosis and insomnia, driven by an all star cast; Michael Cera, Juno Temple and Emily Browning. In contrast, ‘Antisocial’ brings to screen a horror that challenges the ideal of social networks through an epidemic of violence on New Years Eve.
The most impressive short films that received awards include:
Free Radicals: L’apparition de Courbes Aurorales (Samantha Gurry)
Lovesick: Blind Passenger (Shahane Bekarian)
LSD Factory: Auto Bambina
Ozploit: Catch of the Day (Patrick Feary)
Reality Bites: The Sandwich Nazi (Lewis Bennett)
Closing night presented a thrilling ending with ‘The Canyons’, a suspenseful and erotic drama written by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader. The neo-noir film, starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen, explores the controversy of unconventional relationships, double-standards of privacy, trust and degrading oneself for money and fame.
Outside the theatre rooms, entertainment arose in the form of guest music performances from Twilight of the Dogs, an enticing black culture cab booth for free photos, delicious jaffles, serendipity ice cream and limited merchandise; SUFF t-shirts and a collection of previous screenings on DVD. However, the main attraction of the event lies within the lively atmosphere, built on the exploration of film at its finest or worst.
There is no doubt that the seventh instalment of SUFF 2013 will not be forgotten anytime soon. Don’t miss out on next years festival!
While many fans of the old Crash Bandicoot series on the original PlayStation are still longing for a true sequel, Mark Cerny, who worked on the original Crash games over 17 years ago and also on Ratchet and Clank, is touting the new PS4 launch title Knack will appeal to that wanting audience.
Knack is an adventure filled action game starring the creation Knack, who can change size from 70 centimeters tall to 10 meters tall by collecting parts in each stage. Small Knack is small and agile while big Knack can overwhelm enemies with his enormous power. Knack can also call on support characters such as Robo Knack to help in fights. The title promises dynamic action and Knack can have over 5000 different parts in his makeup at once thanks to the power of the PS4.
Knack is being developed by Sony Entertainment Studios and will be packaged with all PS4 launch consoles in Japan as a further incentive to pick the console up early. You can check out the trailer for the game below.
The newest entry in the long-standing Yakuza series from Sega has been officially confirmed, and for not only the PlayStation 3, but also the next-gen PlayStation 4.
Yakuza Ishin (Yakuza Restoration as it is translated for us westerners…whom will likely not even get the game) will simultaneously release on the PS3, and be a launch title for the PS4 in Japan, on February 22nd, 2014. This title is set in the Edo period (1603-1868) and features iconic characters such as Kazuma Kiryu playing historical figures – think of them as past lives. Not many details have been revealed about the game, however we do know that cross-play with the PS Vita as a controller will be available.
Today it has been revealed that Japan will be getting the PlayStation 4 quite a few months after North America. While Sony is planning on releasing the console in North America on November 15th, they aren’t planning on bringing it to Japan until February 22, 2014.
The system will cost 39,980 yen, but will come with a PS Eye camera and all launch versions of the PS4 will be called the “First Limited Pack” which comes with a Knack download code and a one year extended warranty for no extra charge. The reason for this delay is because Sony believes that Japan needs many unique game titles, many of which were announced at their SCEJA Press Conference 2013 today.
Today with the SCEJA Press Conference 2013 going on, D3 Publisher took to the stage to announce that they are bringing two of their more popular franchises in Japan to the PlayStation 4. They announced that they are currently working on a new Earth Defense Force game which has yet to be named and a Dream Club game called Dream Club: Host Girls, both of which will be released sometime in the future.
To commemorate the announcement, the company released a teaser trailer which shows a small tidbit of what Dream Club: Host Girls has to offer, though we may never actually see it in the West.
Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign has been confirmed for the PlayStation 4 as well as PlayStation 3 during the Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia Press Conference earlier today. There were hints that the game will see a release on next-gen consoles before, but an Xbox One release is currently unconfirmed.
After a lengthy stint with the BlazBlue games, the newest Arc Systems Works fighter is the long-awaited sequel to the hit Guilty Gear series. Sporting a heavily modified Unreal 3 engine, Guilty Gear: Xrd Sign is looking gorgeous while retaining that sharp cell-shaded look.
Today during the SCEJA Press Conference 2013 Kadokawa Games, revealed that they are working on a new game called Natural Doctrine and they are currently planning on releasing it for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PS Vita. The game is currently set to be released sometime in 2014 and at the moment there has been no mention of a Western release, though another of their games, Demon Gaze, is currently in the process of being localized.
To go along with this announcement a trailer for the game was released and you can check it out below. Not only is this the first strategy RPG announced for the PS4, it is also the first game to come from Kadokawa Games’ internal development studio.
The title was previously announced for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita handheld less than a fortnight ago. The meaty expansion will feature new characters, including Chen Gong and Zhu Ran, and a new story chapter entitled “Lu Bu”. Features such as cross-play that were added to Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends will return. As for next-gen exclusive features, the significantly more powerful hardware will enable a considerably higher number of characters on screen at once, enhanced depth, lighting and other visual upgrades. First screenshots can be viewed in the gallery below.
