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Galaga Legions DX Now Available of the Xbox Live Arcade!

Dustin Spencer
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Galaga Legions DX Now Available of the Xbox Live Arcade!

If you are reading this, there is a good chance you have played some form of Namco’s classic space shooter Galaga. Fans of the classic will be pleased to know that Galaga Legions DX, the upgrade of sorts to 2008’s Galaga Legions is now available on the Xbox Live Arcade. Galaga Legions DX is set to be the largest and most improved version of the game to date.

Using the age-old shooter formula that fans are familiar with, Galaga Legions DX will also include several updates and new features that are sure to make the game even more hectic and action packed as players aim to blast away at every alien in the galaxy. One of the most prominent updates included in the DX version is skins, where players can customize their game by choosing from a selection of visual settings, including ships and Galaga alien sprites from past games in the Galaga series. Offensive and defensive upgrades have been added in as well, such as focus fire which lets the ship’s rate of fire to increase the closer they are to the enemy, allowing for infiltration of alien swarms. Two special satellite guns have also been added to each ship, enabling two firing modes to be switched between at the press of a button.

Galaga Legions DX is now available for the Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points and will be “coming soon” to the Playstation Network.

Assassin’s Creed Revelation’s fan trailers are funny, awesome & epic

J. Bradshaw
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The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations trailer at E3 got all of us here at Capsule Computers fairly excited.  The return of Altair and the grizzled look of Ezio all congeal to hopefully make the game like a worthy sequel.  Some fans of the game though wanted to show their personal excitement in a different, blocky, way.  User namwwe24 created a Lego trailer of the game with the entire trailer animated with only Legos.  All in all, he did an awesome job.  If your looking for a funnier version of the trailer, check out the literal trailer done by the always excellent Tobuscus.  The real trailer is also embedded below.

Literal trailer:

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrtbUinWOU[/pro-player]

Real trailer:

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTtIIW1WA0[/pro-player]

Lego trailer:

Xenoblade, Pandora’s Tower & The Last Story will Not be Coming to America…

Dustin Spencer
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Xenoblade, Pandora’s Tower & The Last Story will Not be Coming to America…

If you have been one of the many that have been either a part of or following “Operation Rainfall“, this is news that is sure to be disappointing. After an intense effort that shot “Monado: Beginning of the World” (a.k.a. Xenoblade) to the top of Amazon’s pre-order charts as well as the mass amounts of physical letters, Facebook messages, and e-mails sent, Nintendo of America have finally commented on the release of Xenoblade, Pandora’s Tower and The Last Story for North America. Sadly, this update was not exactly what the fans wanted to see.

Here is the post in full that can now be seen on Nintendo’s official Facebook page:

Thank you for your enthusiasm. We promised an update, so here it is. We never say “never,” but we can confirm that there are no plans to bring these three games to the Americas at this time. Thanks so much for your passion, and for being such great fans!

This certainly is disheartening news for everyone as the Wii certainly could have had it’s lifespan lengthened greatly with a localization of the trio, but as of now a North American release for any of these RPGs seem to be out of the picture. I can respect the honesty on Nintendo’s part, but it just seems that Skyward Sword is the main focus for the company at the moment. As of this posting, over 3000 fans have responded to the message, voicing their disappointment in the decision.

Operation Rainfall is still underway despite this news and I completely support all of you to continue emailing, messaging, and sending off letters as if a title like Duke Nukem Forever can see a release after 15 years of chaos, these three still have a small chance of finally crossing over to America. Xenoblade is still scheduled for release Europe with a yet to be announced date. I guess if we learned anything from this though, it is that Operation Rainfall was a success due to the professional manner that was used and giving that Nintendo actually responded to the cause may completely change the way online movements are executed in the future.

Gatling Gears price reduced on Xbox and releases on PSN

J. Bradshaw
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Missiles, bombs, tanks and torches take center stage in the twin-stick shooter Gating Gears as it launches in North America on the PlayStation Network for $9.99. It is also available on XBLA  for 800 Microsoft points. Previously, the game released for the price of 1200 MS Points but it is now permanently reduced to the lower price. This top-down shooter  “has gamers blasting their way through 30 unique environments armed with a deadly arsenal of weapons including a gatling gun, grenades, rockets and power-ups.”

Gatling Gears was made by Amsterdam-based Vanguard Games in collaboration with the Electronic Arts Partnership program.  Check out our review of the game here.  We gave it a 9/10.

PlayStation Plus anniversary celebrated with bonus months with purchase

Travis Bruno
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You know that free service that you’ve maybe been taking advantage of the past 30 days? Well that’s about to run out. PlayStation Plus is of course part of the Welcome Back package and was provided for the little PSN outage that happened a few months back. But don’t worry, if you’ve taken a liking to the service then you should pay attention to the latest deal that just started from Sony.

From today until July 11th Sony will honor the PlayStation Plus’ first year anniversary by offering a bonus month if you buy a $18 three month membership and an extra three months if you pay $50 for a whole year. This is a great deal for those who loved the PlayStation Plus service and its many game discounts, early demos and free games as long as you keep that PlayStation Plus service going.

Devil Survivor: Overclocked releasing in North America before Japan

Travis Bruno
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Now this news most likely won’t mean anything to you unless you know a little history about the Shin Megami Tensei series first. Every game in the series has always been released in Japan first, with a Western localization somewhere in the future (or never at all). But this time around things won’t be the same.

Famitsu released information saying that Devil Survivor: Overclocked will be released in September in Japan, while North America will be getting the release on August 23rd. The game itself is going to be widely welcomed by fans of RPGs in North America in the first place simply because it will be the first RPG on the 3DS. And North America will be getting it before the country of the game’s origin!

Star Fox 64 3D Trailer posted by Nintendo

Luke Halliday
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Star Fox 64 3D Trailer posted by Nintendo

Today Nintendo has uploaded an epic 5 minute long Star Fox 64 3D trailer and needless to say it’s amazing. The trailer features some gameplay footage that is bound to excite fans and send older fans on a nostalgia trip like no other (excluding Ocarina of Time 3D nostalgia trip).

Fox and friends will be breaking through the fabric of space into the third dimension on the 14th of July in Japan. So if you can’t wait it to be brought over our way in September, prepare your importation device and warp it through hyper-space from Japan.

You can see the epic trailer below.

Whatever he is saying, it’s probably annoying.

Skyward Sword’s story will be “like a school drama” says Eiji Aonuma

Travis Bruno
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Things will be a little different this time around in the latest Legend of Zelda game. Eiji Aonuma, series producer of Zelda had a bit of a talk with 1UP and he had a bit of information to reveal about Link and Zelda. Apparently The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword may be a bit like a school drama because the two of them are classmates in a boarding school.

Eiji Aonuma said:

“This game’s plot is something like a school drama, you could say. The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda.

Like with Majora, there are a lot of game events involving the townspeople that get intertwined with the main story. Link, Zelda and their other friends all go to the same boarding school, and you’ve got teachers and a principal as well. It’s a bit of a different setting from previous Zeldas.”

This certainly sounds like a good idea. Sure it may be a major step up from the usual Legend of Zelda storyline but change is certainly a good thing. I can’t wait to see more of Skyward Sword’s storyline now, especially since before I wrote it off as simply another storyline clone.

Bakuman Season 2 English Dub Announced!

Luke Halliday
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Hot off the heels of their previous announcement of the first season of Bakuman, Media Blasters has announced they will also be dubbing the upcoming second season of the series.

The second season has yet to air in Japan and will be airing in autumn for Japan (around September for the rest of the world). Media Blasters already announced that the first collection of season 1 episodes would be hitting shelves this November.

This is big news to Bakuman fans, unfortunately no cast details have been announced as of writing. Other titles released by Media Blasters include Blade of the Immortal, Rurouni Kenshin, Ikki Tousen, Genshiken and even Invader Zim (funnily enough). If you enjoyed any of those releases then you will undoubtedly enjoy their dub of Bakuman.

We will be reporting on more details surrounding Bakuman as they come to light.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 screenshots introduce Noel Kreiss

Travis Bruno
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Despite a very good hands-on demonstration of the game at E3 not much has been released concerning FFXII-2 since it was announced that the title would be localized in the United States. Today Square Enix has released a number of new screenshots and this time around they introduce one of the new, and main, characters in the game, Noel Kreiss.

Noel Kreiss is a native of Gran Pulse and uses two swords as weapons, or rather one large sword and a smaller dagger-like weapon. The screenshots show off a bit of the combat as well as some strange new flaming metal demon creature which probably will end up being a boss battle when Final Fantasy XIII-2 comes out next year in North America for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 370. Check out the screenshots below.

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