Konami have today announced that they will be releasing a brand new downloadable Kinect title for the Xbox Live Arcade called Rhythm Party. The game is designed to use the Kinect sensor in the most simplest of ways, without any unnecessary avatar customisation to weigh down the experience, instead you play as your own silhouette.
Rhythm Party also features some incredibly unique gameplay. Since it is a dance game you would expect over the top and contrived choreography to be the meal of the day. Instead Rhythm Party lets you decide your moves as you hit each rhythm ripple as it appears on screen.
That’s not all Rhythm Party is set to feature hit songs from Lady Gaga, The Village People and none other than the legendary Vanilla Ice. The game is slated for release on the 1st of February.
Earlier today at the Perth WAI-CON convention, Madman Entertainment announced several license acquisitions. The follow titles were announced by Madman at WAI-CON:
Digimon Adventure 02
Towa no Quon
Okami-san and her Seven Companions
FREEZING
Guilty Crown
It is definitely great news to see new titles being acquired for release in Australia. Unfortunately no details on the releases have been revealed other than that they will be coming soon.
One could say that given Madman’s trend when it comes to streaming in their Madman Screening Room, that Guilty Crown in particular could soon be streamed through the service along with other series from last year already streaming.
What do you think of Madman’s title acquisitions? Let us know in the shoutbox and comments section.
When I think of what constitutes good television, I often struggle to voice my feelings regarding what makes some shows simply better than others. What is it that makes Breaking Bad so good? What is it that makes The Wire so good? But more importantly, what is it that makes Chuck so good? After watching Chuck’s series finale tonight, I believe that I now understand what it is that makes these series so good – they have soul.
It is that very soul beneath the surface of a series such as Chuck that makes it so very good. It’s the fact that it can move me and make me feel emotions I never knew a grown man such as myself could have. Tonight while watching Chuck’s final two hours, I realised the emotional journey this series had taken me on. Not just for those two hours mind you, but for it’s past five years on the air.
Over five years, I’ve found myself regularly enjoying Chuck, through it’s ups and even it’s downs. I’ve enjoyed this series every bit as much as I have critically acclaimed series such as Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Both shows that many would look upon me with scorn for comparing them to Chuck. But Chuck shares a commonality with series like that, the soul underneath the surface.
Five years ago Chuck began as a plucky comedy about a nerd who is thrust into the world of spies. Tonight it ended not much unlike how it all began. It is still a comedy about a nerd thrust into the world of spies, but over it’s half a decade on air it has become so much more.
The finale featured many callbacks to the series’ past and every callback was earned. Honestly this finale really made me realise how much I love this show. The emotional moments in the finale were all nailed to perfection, Zachary Levi in particular really owned his scene with Yvonne Strahovski in Chuck and Sarah’s dream house. It is moments like that, that solidify this series’ legacy.
While Chuck was always a fun comedy with dramatic elements here and there, it’s entire five year run is ultimately an ode to happiness, friendship, family and most of all – love.
Many wouldn’t consider this necessarily a happy ending for the series, what with Sarah still hazy on remembering who exactly Chuck is to her and unsure of her feelings for the man who she loved in a life now lost. However it was the final moments that ground Chuck’s central relationship; Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker were incomplete without one another and with that one magical kiss at the end, there is hope that they will one day complete each other again.
We never see what unfolds after that final kiss, but we are left with the knowledge that all of these characters have life after the cameras fade to black. That is the real happy ending; knowing that even if Chuck ends, these characters we have grown to love and enjoyed hanging out with for the past five years still have adventures and lives ahead of them.
Thanks for five years of laughs, tears, adventures and fun. What more can be said besides: Aces, Charles, You’re Aces.
The recent issue of Famitsu magazine show of some new screens for the upcoming and highly anticipated PlayStation Vita RPG, Persona 4: The Golden. The game is an enhanced port of the original PlayStation 2 release and is set to feature several new features and enhancements.
These latest batch of screens show of bits of the new animated intro, and it looks rather trippy and groovy. The animation is being done by famous anime studio, Mad House, well known for the highly popular Death Note series. The screens also reveal motorbikes, that can be used during the game’s battle mode. Finally, it shows a new Persona evolution for one of the main characters of the game, Yukiko.
Persona 4: The Golden is shaping up to a massive improvement over the original, and it should be a solid Vita RPG when it comes out.
Cave seems to be going a little crazy with their shooter releases, as they show off yet another new title in their flagship franchise, DoDonPachi. DoDonPachi Blissfull Death is one of three DoDonPachi titles planned for this year, and this one is for the iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices.
The debut trailer shows of a ton of gameplay footage and from what I can see here, the gameplay looks to be typical DoDonPachi. It looks to have the typical insane bullet hell gameplay, and the trailer even shows off some massive boss battles and bits of the artwork.
DoDonPachi Blissful Death is expected to hit the App Store sometime in February.
There are only a few days until Final Fantasy XIII-2 is released in stores, four to be exact. But that doesn’t mean that Square Enix is going to stop releasing trailers to help sway any indecision you may have left about picking up this title when it is released on January 31st.
Today Square Enix has released the trailer below which is called the “Clash of Time” which shows us various battles including demonstrating some of the monsters you can fight alongside, cinematic actions as well as Lightning and Caius fighting it out. So, if you could pick any monster to fight alongside in FFXIII-2, what would it be? I’d have to say that the Chocobo they show in the video would delight many fans.
When the price was announced for Resident Evil: Revelations most people were surprised because it would end up being the most expensive Nintendo 3DS game of all time as it was expected to be sold at $49.99. The reason for the more expensive price tag was supposed to be the fact that the game was going to be on a 4GB cartridge rather than the standard 2GB cartridge.
It seems that the game will be a bit cheaper than originally expected as Capcom’s Brett Elston has announced to the world that after spending “weeks of effort” Capcom has been able to drop the price down to the more tolerable $39.99 which is standard for the Nintendo 3DS.
EA Sports have released their third producer video in prepartion to the release of Grand Slam Tennis 2, this time showing off the PRO AI system which will be an integral part of the game.
Each player has their own unique mannerisms, making them mimic their real life counterparts and adding an organic feel to the game. The AI will also adapt to your tendencies, forcing you to play smart and keep on your toes throughout the match.
For a more in-depth explanation of the PRO AI system, check out the video down below featuring EA Sports and GST 2 producer, Thomas Singleton.
Grand Slam Tennis 2 will be available on the 14th of February for Xbox 360 and PS3.
KONAMI have announced that their Facebook page has made it to the 5 million “likes” mark, and to celebrate this social media milestone, Cristiano Ronaldo has recorded a message for the Facebook fans.
Ronaldo, who became the face of the PES series last year, dedicated a special message to the 5 million followers, in addition to a competition also being announced in which 5 lucky fans will win a shirt signed by the Real Madrid superstar.
The milestone will be highly appreciated by KONAMI who have really been pushing the social media side of gaming. KONAMI established the Social & Online Media Department early last year with just 1.6 million Facebook fans at the time. The division has been responsible for a 600 percent increase in monthly active users and also a 1,300 percent increase in monthly page views over the course of the past year.
A short while ago there was news that the 3G/WiFi version of the PlayStation Vita was canceled by online retailer and it seems that may have been a precursor for what was just announced today. The 3G version of the PlayStation Vita is actually now being given a launch bundle that not only is provided for the same price but also comes with a number of bonus goodies.
The 3G version will now be launched with a 8GB memory card that is $30 in value, an AT&T DataConnect Session Pass and an unnamed PlayStation Network game. The model is available for pre-order now at Amazon. It is interesting to see Sony create this bundle themselves, though this certainly does make the 3G version look a bit better than the original $250 WiFi only model.
