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Agawi CloudPlay Coming to Android

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January 8, 2013

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 licenses Gunbuster 2: Diebuster

Luke Halliday

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January 8, 2013

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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.

Tamako Market licensed by Sentai Filmworks

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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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.

Dead Rising 3 mentioned in LinkedIn resumes

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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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.

Borderlands 2 DLC retail pack rated in Australia

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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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 rating for 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.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn beta sign-ups open alongside new CG video

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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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 Europe or 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.

Little Amazon Release Dated

Jamie Laike Tsui

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January 8, 2013

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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.

Atelier Meruru Plus screens and details revealed

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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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’s online 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 appears they will be taking control of the Atelier franchise moving forward.

Pokemon Direct broadcast to be held tomorrow

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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Remember how last week, Nintendo began teasing that they would have “big” Pokemon news to announce sometime on January 8th? Well we now know roughly when to expect that news because today it was revealed that Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata will be hosting a “Pokemon Direct” broadcast tomorrow in Japan.

The broadcast is going to be ten minutes long and is set to start at 8:00 PM Japanese time, which makes it 6AM North America EST. As for what the news could be, many have rumored it to be either the next generation of Pokemon game for the Nintendo 3DS or perhaps yet another remake/spin-off for the company’s latest handheld.

Steins;Gate: Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram dated for Japan

Travis Bruno

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January 8, 2013

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Today the official website for the next Steins;Gate game, Steins;Gate: Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram, was updated to provide everyone with a clear release date in Japan. The title will be available for purchase on April 25th on both he Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Currently it is unknown exactly what the storyline for Steins;Gate: Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram will entail, though at the time of the game’s announcement back in November, part of the announcement read “There are as many stories as laboratory members.”

Also, gamers will have a chance to pick up a limited edition version of 5pb.’s next game which will come with a replica of Rintaro Okabe’s cell phone which will play the Japanese voices of the main cast.