Nintendo have confirmed that alongside the physical release of Fire Emblem Awakening for the Nintendo 3DS, the game will also be released digitally through the Nintendo 3DS eShop for download.
This cuts out a lot of the leg work for consumers who simply want to get the game in the easiest way possible. However if you do pre-order the retail copy of the game at Gamespot you will receive a special limited edition art book.
What do you think of Fire Emblem Awakening getting a 3DS eShop digital release alongside the physical release? Let us know in the comments section below.
SteelSeries announced their new keyboards ahead of CES today. The Apex comes in two flavours, the Apex and the Apex Raw. Both keyboards features 22 raised macro keys, two extra arrows on the arrow keys, a special SteelSeries key to execute special functions, independent media keys, swappable rubber feet, and low profile keys.
The SteelSeries Apex Raw provides white LED lighting with 8 levels of brightness. The Apex on the otherhand offers LED lighting that can be customized with 16.8 million possible colours with 5 different illumination zones, allowing each zone to be interdependently colour customized. The Apex Raw keyboard is priced at $69.99 USD and the Apex will be priced at $99.99. Both keyboards will be available early Q2 2013. Check out more about the Apex hereand the Apex Raw here.
Agawi’s CloudPlay platform has been bringing browser based scoial computer games to the iPad and recently, Windows 8 tablets. Today, they announced their Android app through Google Play. The Android app will continue its tradition of requiring no porting from developers. “Agawi’s mission is to bring a vast library of gaming content into the post-PC era of tablets and smart TVs,” said Peter Relan, Agawi’s co-founder and executive chairman. “2013 will be the year of the tablet, and we want the Agawi CloudPlay Platform to be streaming games to every tablet in the market. We’ve already brought over 12,000 social and mid-core games from Facebook to iPads and Windows 8 tablets, and users have paid millions of dollars for the convenience of playing their favorite games on these tablets. Now we’re bringing our platform to Android and extending our developer-friendly solution to core PC game developers.”
Currently, CloudPlay has been downloaded by 4 million times and has almost a million subscribers. Currently, Agawi is working on porting core PC games to their CloudPlay platform. Interested indie developers who are looking to bring their games to Android should contact [email protected]. They are offering flexible profit sharing options with indie devs.
Discotek Media have announced that they have licensed the classic GAINAX anime series Gunbuster 2: Diebuster for release throughout North America.
Their release of Gunbuster 2: Diebuster will be sub-titled only with Japanese audio. There will not be a English dub for this release but that probably won’t be of too great a concern to the hardcore GAINAX fans that will have their eyes on this. The series totals in at 6 episodes much like another GAINAX series by the name of FLCL, both series share the same director even.
Gunbuster 2: Diebuster will hit North American shelves on May 21st, 2013. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section below.
It looks like the drought of 2013 anime licenses may be coming to an end. Today Sentai Filmworks has announced that they have acquired the license to Tamako Market, which is an original anime being produced by Kyoto animation (best known for K-ON! and Chu2Koi) and directed by K-ON1’s Naoko Yamada.
Full release details were not provided by Sentai at this time, though they are planning on releasing it sometime later this year physically, but until then it has been announced that The Anime Network will begin streaming the show on Thursday, January 10 at 9:30 AM CST with every episode after that debuting at the same time.
Sentai Filmworks provided a brief synopsis of Tamako Market’s story which can be read below:
Tamako knows just about everything there is to know about mochi, the traditional Japanese dessert treats. When she’s not attending her first year of high school, she even invents new flavors and varieties for Tama-ya, her family’s mochi shop. School and growing up, on the other hand, are some things that she’s still trying to find the right recipe for. But with the help of her best friends Kanna and Midori, two girls whose parents run businesses in the same shopping district, Tamako’s determined to make the best of things. It’s complicated though, especially when it comes to emotions and her relationship with her best boy friend Mochizo, whose family runs a rival mochi shop. And lately, Kanna’s been feeling a little odd about her feelings towards Tamako as well. And what’s with up with that strange bird fluttering around, the one that speaks fluent Japanese? It’s all very mysterious and overwhelming, but at least Tamako always has one thing she can count on: No matter if your day’s been good or bad, there’s certain to be something sugary and delicious waiting at the end of every adventure whenever you take a walk through TAMAKO MARKET!
This actually marks only the second licensing announcement for an anime airing in 2013, with Love Live!being the first licensed this year by NIS America.
LinkedIn can be a great thing, as not only does it help members of various industries network, it also can provide some leaked information at times. Today such information happened to be spotted by Twitter user @supererogatory which happens to show that CGI creation studio, Blur Studio, seems to have worked on a cinematic trailer for Dead Rising 3 at some point.
Currently there has been no Dead Rising 3 announcement, but the resumes of two Blur employees as well as a cloth-hair technical director and rigging supervisor list the title. Ever since Dead Rising 2: Off the Record was released late in 2011, the series has been quiet and while this is far from an announcement, fans of the series now have a little more hope for another game in the series than they had yesterday.
If you’ve been holding out on the Borderlands 2 downloadable content so far, then perhaps you should wait just a little bit longer. The Australian Classification Board has just provided a ratingfor something called “Borderlands 2 Expansion Pack – Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty and Mister Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage.”
As one would surmise, this means that there may be a retail release that includes the first two DLC campaigns released for Borderlands 2 sometime in the future. This isn’t too much of a surprise considering the original Borderlands DLC was also bundled in the same way, with the first two packs given a retail release while the last two were bundled in the GotY edition.
Today Square Enix opened up applications for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn beta test. Anyone wanting to try and sign-up for the beta can do so at Square-Enix.com by their region of either Europeor North America. Beta members can apply to either choose to try the PlayStation 3 beta, the Windows beta or both at the same time.
Alongside this news of the beta sign-ups, Square Enix also released another video which is actually eight minutes long this time and it works as a continuation from the previous End of an Era video by showing everything in the previous video and three minutes of extra content.
BulkyPix and cTools Studio announced the release of their newest game Little Amazon will see a release on January 10th, 2013. Little Amazon is an infinite running platformer where players will take control of Lily to defeat Gruul and his mionions who are bent on absorbing the forest after the forests protector fell into a deep sleep. Lily has a host of super powers that will help her on her journeys as she conquers mini quests, rescues forest animals, and collects coins.
Little Amazon supports all Retina displays including the new iPhone 5 widescreen and can be played on AppleTV in 720p. The game will be free to play on the iTunes App Store. Check out the trailer and screenshots below.
Today some of the first screenshots for Atelier Meruru Plus: The Apprentice of Arland were revealed and alongside these first screenshots were a number of details courtesy of Famitsu’sonline preview. Similar to Atelier Totori Plus, Meruru Plus will feature additional costumes for Meruru to wear, including a Totori and Rorona outfit and multiple costumes that bring out Meruru’s charms.
Alongside this there will be new events that were not available in the PlayStation 3 version of the game, a number of new bosses to fight against, bonus costumes and enhanced weapons for Totori if you have a save file for Atelier Totori Plus on your Vita and of course, all of the downloadable content released for the PS3 version of the game will be instantly available for Atelier Meruru Plus, including the “Makina Domain” area and the extra party members Hanna, Rufus and Pamela.
The screenshots can be seen below and if you want to see this title head overseas, you should probably let Tecmo Koei know since it appearsthey will be taking control of the Atelier franchise moving forward.
Discotek Media have announced that they have licensed the classic GAINAX anime series Gunbuster 2: Diebuster for release throughout North America.
