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New Trailer & Screens Emerge for Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights..

While Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights certainly has resembled a certain popular Professor with the information we have seen in the past, Konami’s new trailer for the upcoming 3DS game gives off a whole new vibe which certainly makes this title seem like it has a lot to offer for any fans of adventure or puzzle titles. The trailer itself shows very little of the actual puzzle-solving gameplay, but it does introduce the whole main cast for the game.

The whole plot revolves around Lautrec as he and his young assistant Sophie search for relics belonging to Louis the XIV. While the voice acting did leave a little to be desired just from seeing the trailer alone, Doctor Lautrec is actually catching my interest with it’s overall theme and setting as it seems to be a very visual world that Konami have created. Check the trailer as well as some new screens out below and let us know what you think of this brand new series. Doctor Lautrec won’t be hitting the 3DS until later on this year, but I am sure we will be seeing more details surface in the future to fill us in on just how this mystery will unfold.

Castle Crashers on sale today only

For those misers out there who have yet to pick up Behemoth’s Castle Crashers on Xbox Live Arcade, you now have one less excuse for missing out. Today (or tomorrow depending on your location), April 15th to be more specific, Castle Crashers will be reduced in price by 50% on XBLA. That brings it’s price down to 600 Microsoft points, the equivalent of $7.50 American.

If you need more convincing then you probably haven’t seen the game in action. Either that or you hate fun. So do yourself a favor and head on over to the Xbox Marketplace, pick up Castle Crashers for a pittance, and give yourself something to be happy about on tax day. For more information, head on over to Behemoth’s developer blog.

Humble Indie Bundle now on sale

Gaming and charity go hand in hand once again because the famous Humble Indie bundle is back. The Humble Indie Bundle games are all made by Frozenbyte makers of such games as Trine , Shadow Grounds, and many others. You can choose to support either the Child’s Play Charity, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the developers themselves, or even the Humble group.

The price is however much you want it to be any where from a cent to a bazillion dollars. Another cool thing is you can decide how much money goes to each group if you decide to give to more than one group and the games are DRM free. All you have to do is go to the website and download. This is but for a limited time so you will need to hop on it.  Now for the best part here is the games you can get with The Humble Indie Bundle:

Trine

Shadow Grounds

Shadow Grounds: Survivor

Splort (preorder)

Jack Claw (an unfinished prototype game)

Check out the official website here :  http://www.humblebundle.com

Final Fantasy VI hits Japanese PSN

Final Fantasy VI is regarded by most fans to be one of the best that the series has to offer. Many of the older games have seen a ton of re-releases and remakes such as 1,2, and 4, but it seems that poor Final Fantasy VI hasn’t seen a re-release or a reboot since back in 2007 on the Gameboy Advance. Japan however just got the PS1 version released on their PSN store today.

Post from Square-Enix Members’ twitter account posted that it is now available on the PSN store. Also as a side note they recently released Final Fantasy V on there as well so there maybe a very good chance that us English speaking folk may get our hands on on it. We already have Final Fantasy VII-IX on PSN it seems more than likely that this will happen to although no official word was given. Till then if you want to play you may have to check out local flea markets and dust your old console out of the closet to get your fix. As for me I’ll hold on to all my 3 versions of the game.

Senran Kagura for the 3DS is a platformer full of girls

Huh… well I knew it was coming, you knew it was coming and it certainly didn’t take a whole lot of time before it happened. Japanese game developer Marvelous has announced that they are working on a new 3DS game that is being called Senran Kagura. Senran Kagura will be a side scrolling action platformer and will allow players to choose one of five different ninja students to battle against the enemy ninjas.

Now while this sounds like your standard affair for a side scrolling platformer, the kicker is what is coming up next. The five characters you get to play as are all women and all have unique abilities of their own. While this may not be a big thing on it own, that is where the 3D effects will take place. Andriasang was able to get the scoop from Famitsu that the 3D capabilities will focus on cinematic scenes that show off the girl’s bodies during combat and specific parts of the game. No word about whether or not this will ever see the light of day outside of Japan, but it will be released this Summer in Japan nonetheless.



Cursed Crusade website launched

Feel like doing battle in the name of a greater being than yourself? Well you missed the crusades by more than a thousand years but Atlus is looking to give people a chance to enter their own crusade, a cursed crusade that is. The title was mentioned only briefly in the past but it has now received plenty of attention as Atlus has launched an official website for the Cursed Crusade.

On the website you see plenty of screenshots and even some footage of the game itself. The site shows only a Summer 2011 release date, but a quick check of Amazon and Gamefly shows the title sitting at a July 26th and July 28th release. Of course this type of date can be taken as merely a place holder or something that has yet to officially announced.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City kills Leon in latest trailer

Looks like playing as the bad guys may be more exciting than we thought it would be. In the latest trailer released by Capcom for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City we are treated to plenty of gameplay footage and we are also introduced into some of the enemies that we will be facing in the upcoming zombie apocalypse shooter.

We are shown an out of control Tyrant that looks like the same one that we see in Resident Evil 2, the Spec Ops team that was sent by the government and of course plenty of zombies. Also shown off is the team members of the Umbrella team sent in to clean up any evidence, including killing Leon Kennedy. We are shown Spectre who appears to be the sniper of the team, the invisible turning Vector, Bertha the female soldier and possible tactician and the heavy weapon user Beltway. Catch the trailer below.

Backbreaker: Vengeance jukes onto XBLA this summer

Fans of Tackle Alley mode in the first Backbreaker game should rejoice because NaturalMotion has unveiled a trailer for what they are calling Backbreaker: Vengeance. Now NaturalMotion and 505 Games has already created a game of the same form for the iPhone and iTouch which focuses entirely on the Tackle Alley gameplay mode.

Apparently that is what will be the case this time around. For those who don’t know, Tackle Alley gives players a chance to make it across field as a single runner and must dodge various defenders and obstacles that have been placed in the way. The title looks to be an XBLA exclusive title and will be released some point this summer for a currently unknown price. You can catch a trailer for the game below.

El Shaddai demo available on Japanese PSN and XBLM

Even though UTV Ignition hasn’t announced a Western release date yet, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron has shown up on the Japanese XBLM and PSN. This means that if you happen to have either an Xbox Live account that is registered in Japan that you will be able to download the demo up until April 20th, but you will have to have a Gold account to do so.

The simplest way to get a hold of the demo however is to simply make a Japanese PSN account and download the demo at your own leisure for free. Of course if this demo is anything like the Catherine demo on the PSN then you must act quickly because the demo will only be available for a limited time. Also it is worth mentioning, albeit expected, that the demo will be in Japanese.

Majesco Announce Nano Assault for the 3DS!

In 2005, Majesco along with developer Shin’en introduced the handheld world to the fast paced arcade style shooter, Nanostray on the Nintendo DS. After a sequel and three years, both Majesco and Shin’en are ready to bring the shooter back, but this time on the Nintendo 3DS under the new name, Nano Assault. Nano Assault will put players in control of a Nanite ship as they maneuver through alien cell clusters, fight off infections, and analyze and destroy the virus’ core throughout 32 stages.

This journey will also come with a jam-packed arsenal much like the two Nanostray titles, with weapons such as “powerful beams, energetic bombs and other unlockable assault weapons” to defeat and take out the Black Nucleus, Hyper Blobs and Spore Plants. A respawning system will also be in play, allowing players to clone themselves and restart the journey at anytime.

Features are set to include mission mode, an unlockable arcade style cell stage where players must beat the clock by destroying the most enemies, and Hall of Fame, a bragging rights leaderboard where players can publish and compare high level scores with friends. The 3DS’ Streetpass can also be used to share unlocked content with other players.

I have said it before, but I think these type of shooters are perfect for the 3DS and with someone with the experience of Shin’en behind this follow-up, we could definitely be seeing a spectacular gameplay and visual experience on the 3DS when Nano Assault releases this fall. Stay tuned, as we will be covering Nano Assualt until then and I would expect some screenshots and trailers to be trickling out very soon.