AND…WE’RE BACK!
At ButtonMash we’re hungry for brand-spanking new games and May is set to be an exciting month with the release of a clutch of high profile and intriguing games which are set to leave us with a month of sore thumbs.
Final Fantasy VIII – my personal favourite in the series – originally released for PlayStation is now available to download for PlayStation 3 and PSP system from PSN, priced £7.99 and sized at 1.7Gb.
Though it received high critical acclaim at its original release, including a 10/10 review from Official PlayStation Magazine, the game has (rightly or wrongly) always lived in the shadow of its predecessor, Final Fantasy VII.
We posted a few weeks back about the upcoming PSP game Dead or Alive Paradise, exploring some of the dodgier aspects of the pervy title. Today, regulatory board ESRB has finally given us their take on the game:
Today we received what is arguably one of the most entertaining press releases we’ve received since we started this blog, in the form of the announcement of Dead or Alive: Paradise. *
Tecmo announced last night that Dead or Alive will be hitting the PSP with the vague launch date of “this Spring” and (directly from the press release) will feature all the Dead or Alive ‘lovelies.’
Plenty of “top games to watch out for in 2010″ type posts today, but below are a couple of the best along with a few other hand-picked posts from around the videogaming web.
A slow day for videogame news as thousands return to work. Take a look at our choice picks below or subscribe to our Tumblog nano.spacejunkie.co.uk for updates as they happen.
It seems as though the games industry decided to treat us this year by releasing some truly epic titles early on. Check out what we’re being treated with on the list below.
Not caught up with your RSS reader for yesterday’s feeds yet? Never fear – here is a round-up of the top gaming news from yesterday:
No-one knows why yet, but Kotaku reports that Street Fighter publisher Capcom is delaying all of its major titles slated for H1 2010 to between April 2010 and April 2011. This effects AAA titles such as Lost Planet 2, Super Street Fighter IV and Dead Rising 2. No definite dates have been confirmed for the release dates of these games.
That’s right. The Guitar Hero Van Halen add-on has been released into the wild. I can’t imagine this will be as ground-shattering as The Beatles Rockband, but I suppose Activision need to try and keep up some how, eh?
Edge magazine has published an intimate interview with Eiji Aonuma, one of the key brains behind the Legend of Zelda series on games past, present and future. Aonuma reveals that he regrets “not doing all the things that perhaps with hindsight Nintendo had the capabilities to do” with the last major LoZ game, Twilight Princess and feels more could have been done to boost its epic feel.
So it looks like Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator or Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and – of course – the Final Fantasy series is readying a new project announcement for Spring 2010.
IGN reports that in a recent blog post at the Mistwalker official site, Sakaguchi wrote, “I thought we’d announce the new title within the year, but it’s running a bit late. My apologies. Next year, perhaps Spring?”
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