Saint Seiya Brave Soldiers will cover the Sanctuary, Poseidon and Hades arcs of the Saint Seiya manga, and this morning, Namco Bandai shared a new trailer for the anime fighter that covers the Hades arc of the story. Watch it below:
Saint Seiya Brave Soldiers will be available in the west this November. In case you missed it, you can watch a trailer for the Poseidon arc here.
NIS America released a new video of Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness that introduces the main characters. You probably recognize Laharl, Etna, and Flonne from other Disgaea titles. Disgaea D2 is a direct sequel to the first game and Laharl has stepped up to the Overlord throne.
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Sicily is a new character who claims to be Laharl's sister and also wants to be the Overlord. Another faction doesn't believe Laharl is up to the task of filling in for King Krichevskoy and wants Barbara to be the Overlord. Meanwhile, there is a war between demons and angels. It seems like Xenolith knows something about that.
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Disgaea D2 comes out on October 8 in North America and September 27 in Europe.
Insomniac Games revealed Sunset Overdrive during Microsoft's press conference at E3.
The game is a colorful and stylistic open-world shooter. From what we can gather from the reveal trailer, Sunset Overdrive allows freedom of movement, including wallrunning and parkour style climbing.
The trailer shows a battle between humans and orange mutants, and features both traditional and unusual weaponry, such as a gun that shoots vinyl records (Revolution X, anyone?).
This morning, The Wonderful 101 director Hideki Kamiya hosted a Nintendo Direct presentation, explaining the upcoming Wii U exclusive in great detail for those that essentially have no idea what it’s about. You can watch the presentation in its entirety below. It touches upon the game’s combat, characters and more:
The Wonderful 101 will be available on August 23rd in Europe and September 15th in North America. A demo for the game is available on the Wii U eShop in Europe now. North America will be getting the demo in the near future as well.
Ace Combat Infinity, Namco Bandai’s free-to-play Ace Combat game, is headed to North America and Europe, the publisher announced this morning. The game will include a new story campaign as well as team co-op multiplayer.
“The Ace Combat franchise has set the gold standard in both graphics and dog-fighting dynamics for flight combat video games throughout its long running history,” said Chris Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Namco Bandai Games America.
“The Project Aces team has crafted a Free-to-Play experience within Ace Combat Infinity that will allow gamers to enjoy high flying aerial warfare like never before.”
Ace Combat Infinity is slated for release on PlayStation 3 as a free download in the “latter half of 2013” in North America. Europe will get the game in 2013 as well.
In 2012, Disney release a side-scrolling Wreck-It Ralph platformer as an extension of their animated movie. The game took place after the events of the movie, allowing you to play as Ralph or Felix, and one of the concept artists who worked on the game has shared some of the work he did for it.
The concept art shows off stage design notes, detailing both art and game mechanics in some of the pieces, as well as designs for enemies and a mini-boss, and you can take a look at some of it below. The rest of the design concepts can be found at the link above.
The theme of the latest installment of the popular rhythm game series Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd is going to be “The Diva until now, The Diva From now on,” as Sega’s way of expressing the evolution of the series. As part of the evolution, they’ll also be remaking past songs for the upcoming game. These will be chosen from a list of popular songs voted on by fans.
The poll took place between December 24th, 2012 and January 15th, 2013. Fans were asked to participate in a poll regarding their favorite Project Diva songs. Here’s a look at the top 39 songs that fans picked:
1. Romeo and Cinderella
2. Rain of Cherry Blossoms ' Standard edit
3. Two-Faced Lovers
4. A Pair of Wintry Winds
5. Melt
6. Cantarella
7. Rolling Girl
8. A Thousand Year Solo (DIVA edit)
9. World is Mine
10. SPiCa – 39’s Giving Day Edition -
11. Paradichlorobenzene
12. Love Words
13. Cumulonimbus Cloud Graffiti
14. Luka Luka★Night Fever
15. Disappearance of Hatsune Miku
16. Clover♣Club
17. Hold, Release; Rakshasa and Carcasses
18. Meltdown (Nuclear Fusion)
19. Although Songs Have No Form
20. magnet
21. Just Be Friends
22. Colorful×Melody
23. Look This Way Baby
24. Marginal
25. I'll Make you Miku Miku'ed
26. When the First Love Ends
27. Yellow
28. Electric Angel
29. Love is War
30. Stardust Utopia
31. In the End of Solitude
32. The Intense Singing of Hatsune Miku
33. Miracle Paint
34. After Rain Sweet*Drops
35. Vocaloid In Love
36. Far Away
37. Change Me
38. Heart
39. Packaged
According to the official Project Diva blog’s post, it has not been confirmed as to how many of the above 39 songs will actually be remade for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd, but the development team will be making an announcement in the near future.
In addition, Sega would also like to remind fans that this list wasn’t a vote for the most popular songs, but rather taht the original poll asked fans which song they’d like to see remade the most.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd is slated for release in Spring of 2014 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
