04/26/2006

Kangaroo Flange?

by Matthew Edward Hawkins

With E3 now less than 2 weeks away, its hardly surprising that there’s tons of news game announcements all over the place…

- Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his team has obviously been very busy; 1UP (i.e. perhaps the most horribly coded and assembled major gaming news site on the web today) passed along today the first screenshots of Lumines 2, as well as some new shots of Every Extend Extra.

Plus there’s a port of the first Lumines, called Lumines Plus, coming out for the PS2 later this year. That’s awesome news and all, but it yet another reason why I’m in no rush to get a PSP anytime soon.

Also, a new version of Meteos is also being produed, one the incorporates Disney characters, called Meteos: Disney Edition. There’s no screenshots available yet, but I’m imagining something along the lines of Disney Tetris and Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Mix.

- Another guy who’s output seems like crazy is Suda 51 and his Grasshoper team; first Jeux_France reports that they’re producing a new PS3 game called Kurayami, which is inspired by the work of Franz Kafka. But later, they explained that its just a concept at this point.

Then comes word, via Gamefront.de, as translated by NeoGAF, that they’re 70% done with a new title called Blood + One Night Kiss, which is said to have visuals that are similar with Killer 7.

I many not have been the biggest Killer 7 fan, but I like the company and are looking forward to it (and I really hope their DS RPG, Contact, makes it out here soon). Plus, I really need to pick up their Samurai Champloo game that just came out…

It’s also worth mentioning that Grasshopper has a pretty neat homepage.

- Yet another game I’ll be keeping an eye out for at E3 is a title which 4 Color Revolution first broke news about this past weekend: Drawn to Life, in which you actually draw the main character in the game. Almost/sorta/kinda sounds like that Namco RPG in which you draw the expression of your character’s face depending on the situation that I mentioned a whiles back.

- They also recently posted links to some crazy commercials for Odama. I like the first one the best since it reminds me of that Queens of the Stone Age video from a few years back (the song’s okay, but that vid is simply brilliant). And the last commercial is pretty much spot-on; I can’t help but scream in the mic while playing either.

- Here’s something from totally out of left field and from Atari: its called HOT PXL, which seems to be like Wario Ware, meaning there’s its all twitch oriented minigames, but uber stylish. The last time Atari tried going the arty route was with Atari Retro Classics for the DS, which looked great, but didn’t play as well. So who know how this one will pan out, but at the very least, it does look pretty neat. Check out the screens from Gaming Age:

- Finally comes word (and pictures) of Jeff Minter’s new game!

… and I haven’t even gone into the Monkey Ball game for the Revolution, New Super Mario Bros getting a solid release date, and that Final Fantasy VIII-2 pic I saw at Insert Credit earlier this morning!

  • TOLLMASTER

    The Final Fantasy VII-2 pic is almost certainly fake. I saw it about 4 days ago, along with the post “April’s Fools!” on a random imageboard.

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