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News  Pre-Orders Open For Ghosts 'N Goblins-Esque Neo Geo & Sega Dreamcast Platformer 'Gladmort'

If you missed out on the Kickstarter for PixelHeart's Ghosts 'N Goblins-esque platformer GladMort earlier this year, and have been kicking yourself ever since, then we have some good news for you. Last Friday, the publisher launched a bunch of pre-order options on its website, giving players the chance to secure copies of the game for the Neo Geo & Sega Dreamcast ahead of its official launch later this year. Gladmort, in case you're in need of a quick refresher, is a brand new title, developed by the Neotris developer Chips on Steroids, and a small team comprised of the artists Jérome Lignier and Lionel Pigaglio and the musician Stef Sirrah. It follows a story about a kingdom besieged by undead monsters who, in a last-ditch effort...
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News  "An Evil Disguised As Good" - Dragon Quest Vets Rail Against Censorship In Candid Interview

If you've been following the development of the upcoming Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, then you'll be aware that the late Akira Toriyama's artwork has been updated for this new release, with female characters generally showing less skin than before. The character that has been impacted the most is the female Warrior, who now wears clothing underneath her (admittedly revealing) armored bikini. Speaking at the recent Tokyo Game Show, series creator Yuji Horii and former Shonen Jump editor Kazuhiko Torishima (a key figure in the inception of the first game) touched upon the delicate topic of censorship in a surprisingly candid exchange. The conversion has been translated by Valute News, and sees Horii admit that he is confused as to...
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News  Namco's Splatterhouse Is Getting An Unofficial Mega Drive / Genesis Port

After 36 years, Namco's gory 1988 arcade beat 'em up Splatterhouse is finally coming to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis port, via an unofficial fan port. Monster Bath Games, the developer of games like Deathwish Enforcers and Guardgrave, recently announced over the weekend that it had taken a 2-week break from working on its own titles to experiment with creating a fanmade port of an arcade title to Sega Mega Drive / Genesis using @earok's Scorpion Engine. For this, it decided to opt for Splatterhouse, a game that was previously ported to the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx-16 and FM-Towns computer in the early 90s. This game skipped the Sega console at the time, with only its sequels Splatterhouse 2 and Splatterhouse 3 getting an official release...
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News  Weekly Gaming News: September 30, 2024

A new Atelier Resleriana game was announced at TGS Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & the Polar Night Liberator is a first for the Atelier franchise: it is free-to-play. It fell into the trap that many mobile games do: too much of one thing, not enough of another. So I raised an eyebrow at the announcement of Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian — but it is described as "completely offline" so that could imply it is a normal, premium Atelier game. It remains to be seen. Not a lot has been revealed about this new title, but here is the official description so far: "A new RPG from the Atelier series. A new adventure with new protagonists and an original story in the world of Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten...
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News  Jaleco's 'Saiyūki World', 'Magic John', & 'Pizza Pop!' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch

City Connection has announced that the next three Jaleco titles coming to Nintendo Switch, as part of its 'JALECOlle Famicom Edition' series, will be Saiyūki World, Magic John, and Pizza Pop! The announcement was made just a couple of days ago across both City Connection's social media and official website, though no date has been given just yet as to when these titles will become available for players to buy. Saiyūki World (1988), in case you're unfamiliar with it, is a Japan-exclusive action-adventure RPG based on Wonder Boy in Monster Land and inspired by the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. It was developed by Westone (the developers of Wonder Boy in Monster Land) and sees players take control of Sun Wukong (also...
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News  Arika Signs Agreement To Develop New 'Tetris The Grand Master' Game

The Tetris Company and the Japanese developer Arika have announced that they've reached an agreement for a new Tetris The Grand Master game. The news was shared via an English and Japanese press release, published earlier today (September 27th), and states that the project will introduce new ideas based on the concept of "Tetris that makes [you] good at Tetris." Beyond that, very little else was revealed about the title, except that it is currently scheduled to be released during the fiscal year 2024, which is slated to end in March 2025. Just to give a brief bit of history, Arika's Tetris The Grand Master was first released in arcades in 1998, with the goal of the project being to introduce a greater layer of difficulty and...
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News  New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games

The world is becoming increasingly digital when it comes to the media we consume. Streaming has reduced sales of music and movies dramatically, and games are headed the same way; over 90% of the games sold in the UK are digital. Digital media has many positive aspects when it comes to video games. You can purchase a game directly through your console or computer without having to leave the house or wait for it to be delivered physically. You also don't have to swap discs or cartridges whenever you want to play a game, which is good news for those of us who tend to lose or misplace things (or are just plain lazy). However, as many people are keen to point out, you don't actually own digital games, and a new Californian law will ensure...
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News  Lunar Fans Have Noticed Something Interesting About The Upcoming Remaster

Sony's recent State of Play broadcast gave us many pleasant surprises, but as retro gamers and lovers of classic JRPGs, the news that the PS1 versions of Lunar and its sequel are getting remasters was very welcome indeed. Developed by GungHo, Lunar Remastered Collection is coming to PS5, PS4, Switch and Xbox Series X/S, and updates Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete for a new generation. In case you didn't know, both games were originally released on the Sega CD and were updated for Sony's 32-bit hardware over 20 years ago. The Western versions of the games were localized by Working Designs, a North American company founded by Victor Ireland that specialized in bringing over Japanese RPGs. John...
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News  Yes, You Can Buy Virtual Boy Merch At The Nintendo Museum

As you've probably already seen, Nintendo's Japanese museum is close to opening, and the internet has been flooded with preview images showing off exhibits, displays and – yes – merchandise. The museum's shop is packed with goodies covering pretty much every era of the company's history, including Wii, N64, Game & Watch and Virtual Boy. The inclusion of the latter seems to have surprised some people, given that the Virtual Boy is one of Nintendo's most high-profile flops. While it didn't sell particularly well, Nintendo has acknowledged the Virtual Boy previously; it appeared in Tomodachi Life, WarioWare and even as a bonus item in the 3DS StreetPass mode. So it perhaps shouldn't come as a massive shock to see Nintendo promoting...
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News  Original RPG Fantasian Neo Dimension launches for PC and consoles this December

From the creator of Final Fantasy, Fantasian launched via Apple Arcade in two parts during 2021. Even then, I hoped the RPG would be released for PC and consoles. Apple Arcade has a limited pool of potential subscribers and Fantasian was too impressive to stay exclusive to that small percentage of players. First announced during June's Nintendo Direct, this enhanced version of Fantasian includes English and Japanese voiceovers, an additional difficulty option, and 4K support for PC/PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X. And its release date has now been set for early December! Fantasian Neo Dimension is one of the most visually stunning games in recent memory. There are over 150 hand-crafted dioramas to explore; each was made by hand before...
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News  Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows

Originally due out in two months, Ubisoft has decided to delay Assassin's Creed Shadows. Part of the reason for the delay is because of player feedback from Ubisoft's other recent release, Star Wars Outlaws, which garnered lots of negative reception for overly difficult stealth sections, which Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment has been tasked with patching post-launch. The company is hoping that the extra time to polish the game will make for a better overall game, and will lead to better sales, as their recent output has been disappointing, commercially, according to a recent financial report. Assassin's Creed Shadows is now due out on February 14th. :arrow: Source
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News  Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999) is now available on GOG

The original Resident Evil classic trilogy is now complete, as today, the last entry of the PlayStation classics has joined Resident Evil (1996) and Resident Evil 2 (1998) on GOG for purchase, culminating the promise of GOG on bringing all 3 classics for modern systems. This new GOG release of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis includes the following features: Full compatibility with Windows 10 and Windows 11. 6 localizations of the game included (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese). Mercenaries Mode included. Improved DirectX game renderer. New rendering options (Windowed Mode, Vertical Synchronization Control, Gamma Correction, Integer Scaling and more). Improved graphics engine initialization and restart. Improved video...
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News  More Taito Arcade Archives Games Are Now On Sale On PS4

Hamster Corp has announced yet another sale on its Taito Arcade Archives' library of classic reissues (thanks @ohfivepro!). The 50% off sale applies to 10 titles from the legendary arcade publisher Taito and is active across the Nintendo Switch eShop and the PlayStation store in Japan, as well as the PlayStation store in the US & UK. According to the store pages for the games, the sale will reportedly end on October 9th in the UK and October 10th in the US, and will see the prices of the chosen games reduced to just £2.89/$3.99 from their usual starting price of £5.29/$7.99. This means it's a pretty great opportunity to nab some of these titles for slightly cheaper if you've yet to get around to buying them. Here is the full list...
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News  Namco's Japan-Exclusive Shoot 'Em Up 'Blast Off' Is Coming To Switch & PS4

Namco's Japan-exclusive shoot 'em up Blast Off is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop and PS4 on September 26th, as reported by Famitsu. Originally released in arcades back in 1989, Blast Off is the sequel to Bosconian, which was launched 8 years earlier in 1981. It was developed by N.H. System, a short-lived Namco subsidiary that also worked on the isometric platformer Märchen Maze one year prior. Designed to run on Namco's System 1 hardware, the sequel is a significant departure from its previous iteration, dropping the multi-directional scrolling of the original for a vertical scrolling format similar to other Namco titles like Xevious and Dragon Spirit. It sees players fighting off a new alien threat with the help of four...
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News  Ultimate Dreamcast Mod "Designed In About Six Hours" Includes ODE And HDMI

If you're keen on upgrading your Dreamcast for the modern era, then you'll already be aware mods such as Optical Disc Emulators and HDMI-out already exist. These enhancements allow you to run games from flash media and obtain the best possible picture quality but are quite expensive when purchased individually. Thank goodness, then, for modder AshEvans81, who has created a new project that takes these two elements and combines them in a single board. "I made a Dreamcast GD Emu thingy," says the modder. "Designed in about six hours. Using (mostly) code from Marcus Comstedt / zeldin. About two days debugging, to finally get it working. Loading times need some improvement. It has HDMI output, but I need to design a custom flex cable, to...
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News  'Kawaii' Nintendo Wii Keychain Is Finally Taking Shape

The Kawaii is making amazing progress, with physical prototypes now showing up online. "The ninjas can't stop this portablizer," says YveltalGriffin. "I received the anodized aluminum prototype shells from @Ding earlier this month. In person, they actually look better than the renders."
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News  Double Dragon Artist Says Double Dragon Revive Is "Cheap" And "Shows No Respect" To The Series

Double Dragon artist Koji Ogata has revealed that he and other members of the team who worked on the original 1987 game don't consider the upcoming Double Dragon Revive to be a true entry in the long-running series (thanks, VGC). Ogata worked on the first Double Dragon, and would also contribute to many of its sequels. He's not involved with Revive, which is being developed by Yuke's (most famous for its wrestling games) and published by Arc System Works, which now owns the rights to the series, having purchased them from creator Technos in 2015. Double Dragon Revive is expected to arrive on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC next year. "I'll be honest with you," Ogata wrote on Twitter. "The fact is that not a single person in...
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News  Level-5 Vision 2024: To the World’s Children event brings news on four unreleased titles and two new game announcements

Today's annual Level-5 Vision event is subtitled "To the World's Children." The idea is that games aren't just for children, they're also for adults who never lost their inner child. Recently, the publisher has been delaying many of its games, some repeatedly. I normally understand delays but with this many, I'm getting both frustrated and concerned. Unfortunately, this event does not lessen any of my fears. It does, however, provide information on a handful of previously-announced titles and two new game announcements; there are new trailers for each game. (Note: There is one game I didn't include because it's a game update and not an upcoming title, but if you're interested — Megaton Muashi W: Wired will receive a major update in...
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News  OLED Switch Lite display kits to go on sale September 26th

The little brother to Nintendo's flagship hardware, the Switch Lite released in 2019 to positive reviews. With all the power of the full-sized console at a lower cost, along with integrated controls and a traditional D-Pad, the system positioned itself as a perfect fit for those wanting to travel light. This portability came at a price though, with the system unable to dock for a full console experience. Nintendo went onto release the OLED Switch two years later, leaving some fans of the smaller form factor hoping their system of choice might be graced with such an upgrade. No such revision came, but fans of the Lite may yet be in luck. Teased earlier this year by YouTuber Taki Udon, SUPER5 is an OLED display kit for the Switch Lite...
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News  PlayStation has scheduled a State of Play livestream for tomorrow, Sept 24

PlayStation's announcement showcase event returns tomorrow, as a new State of Play is set to air on September 24th. There will be about 30 minutes of updates and announcements for over 20 different upcoming PlayStation 5 and even PS VR2 titles. The stream will kick off at 3pm PT/12am CEST. You can tune in over at PlayStation's official YouTube or Twitch channels, or you can keep an eye on GameParadise.org, as we'll be recapping every announcement from the show. :arrow: Source
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