When I first posted on the forthcoming Warhammer 40k: Squad Command turn-based strategy offering, I definitely couldn't imagine it would sport the production values evident in the PSP trailer above. I mean, look at it. That's almost Starcraft quality... Now, it would be nice having a DS trailer to look at too...
Castlevania on mobile (or should I say cell) phones? Well, you'd better believe it and the gameplay video above, the one blatantly stolen from GameTrailers, should give you an idea of what to expect. Seems like a suitably simple yet graphically updated NES version if you ask me.... Here's the official demo-sporting website.
Ultima VII: The Black Gate, according to many the pinnacle of Richard Garriott's Ultima CRPG series, can now be played on the go and enjoyed on the PSP's marvelous screen. How (I pretend to hear you ask)? Well, by reading the Ultima VII comes to the PSP post over at the brilliant Artful Gamer blog and having access to the abandonware original game. By the way, see the glorious screenshot above? It's an actual PSP one.
As we previously mentionedMeta Slug 7 is indeed coming to the Nintendo DS, which can easily be considered nice. Now, the gameplay video you've hopefully just watched proves this will be a proper, action-packed and beautifully 2DMetal Slug game, whereas Kotaku's brief hands-on reveals the role of the second DS screen: it's a level map. Right. Here's an IGN preview too.
Blue Dragon, a very polished yet not terribly exciting Xbox 360 RPG designed by Final Fantasy legend Hironobu Sakaguchi, is coming to the Nintendo DS. Oh, and besides the expected graphics quality drop and added stylus controls, it won't be much of a proper RPG either, but more of an RPG-ish card game. Think Pokemon... Anyway, better find out more and see a most relevant scan here.
As if the sounds emitted by the not so impressively radical PSP 2000 (a.k.a. Slimand/or Lite) weren't enough of a let down, Sony went and made sure many of the homebrew freeware gems developed for its handheld just can't be played on the new PSP. I'm sure earning a pat on the back by a select few developers is worth pissing off everyone else... Anyway. Follow this link and find out the compatible homebrew games, emulators and apps.
Yup, that's right, the 7th instalment of the series that showed the world how beautiful, fun and addictive a run-and-gun game can be is going to be a DS exclusive!
Oh, what a great time to have Nintendo's latest hand-held! With Contra 4, Bangai-O Spirits and now Metal Slug 7, I can almost see every retro gamer jumping and running fuelled by pure joy!
Dungeons & Dragons Tactics for the Sony PSP, despite being as promising as a handheld RPG can be, hasn't been quite the hit with reviewers. It averages a rather mediocre 59% over at metacritic (admittedly earning some extreme scores) and the GameTrailers review I've posted here isn't that enthusiastic either. Strangely though, the game still sounds like a great idea to me.
You see, D&D Tactics is a truly hardcore CRPG experience featuring turn-based combat and full implementation of the D&D 3.5 ruleset, that allows players to create their group of six adventurers choosing from any class and race they could imagine and then go on and slaughter hundreds of monsters, beasts and things that move in a pretty standard fantasy setting, following a pretty standard fantasy storyline. Typical RPG stuff of the d20 variety.
What's more, the whole thing apparently works exactly as one would expect it, which logically means only the hardcore will enjoy D&D Tactics and the age when your average video games journalist was also an RPG fanatic is definitely gone...
The DS microphone, speaker, touch-screen and Wi-Fi capabilities have been crying for a touch of VoIP/phone love and I've been patiently waiting for over 3 years to see someone holding the Nintendo DS as a phone. Happily the wait is over as the rather impressive freeware SvSIPNDS VoIP thingy just got released. Download it here and feel the shame.
Ultima VII: The Black Gate, according to many the pinnacle of Richard Garriott's Ultima CRPG series, can now be played on the go and enjoyed on the PSP's marvelous screen. How (I pretend to hear you ask)? Well, by reading the Ultima VII comes to the PSP post over at the brilliant Artful Gamer blog and having access to the abandonware original game. By the way, see the glorious screenshot above? It's an actual PSP one.
See more of this promising update of the classic SNES RPG over at this lovely French corner of the web.
Blue Dragon, a very polished yet not terribly exciting Xbox 360 RPG designed by Final Fantasy legend Hironobu Sakaguchi, is coming to the Nintendo DS. Oh, and besides the expected graphics quality drop and added stylus controls, it won't be much of a proper RPG either, but more of an RPG-ish card game. Think Pokemon... Anyway, better find out more and see a most relevant scan here.
As if the sounds emitted by the not so impressively radical PSP 2000 (a.k.a. Slim and/or Lite) weren't enough of a let down, Sony went and made sure many of the homebrew freeware gems developed for its handheld just can't be played on the new PSP. I'm sure earning a pat on the back by a select few developers is worth pissing off everyone else... Anyway. Follow this link and find out the compatible homebrew games, emulators and apps.
The DS microphone, speaker, touch-screen and Wi-Fi capabilities have been crying for a touch of VoIP/phone love and I've been patiently waiting for over 3 years to see someone holding the Nintendo DS as a phone. Happily the wait is over as the rather impressive freeware SvSIP NDS VoIP thingy just got released. Download it here and feel the shame.
