lördag 28 april 2018

Tempest 4000 gets retailed!

The reason why Tempest 4000 never actually appeared on the online stores of Sony and Microsoft may have been what Amazon surprisingly just listed: a retail version for both consoles.

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions have both appeared.


At this point it's not clear why, what or how Atari managed to bungle such a slam-dunk release but let's hope we get those retail versions. Seeing is believing I guess.

Twin-stick PC shooter Riddled Corpses jumping to consoles

Decidedly busy-looking twin-stick shooter Riddled Corpses will join the roster of console games on PlayStation 4, PS Vita and Xbox One as Riddled Corpses EX. Scheduled for a Q2 2018 release it's especially exciting to see something (anything!) new coming to PS Vita.


Psyvariar Delta surfaces for pre-order

Play-Asia, my favourite Asian place to buy games (with Akiba-Games a close second), has listed Psyvariar Delta for pre-order in both regular and two separate limited editions for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Pick your poison and haul out that credit card!


Cancelled Atari Jaguar shooter surfaces in early demo version

The failed Atari Jaguar had a lot of announced games drop off the radar when Atari folded and was liquidated. The easily spelled shmup Zzyorxx II was one of them.



Now, thanks to preservationists, a ROM of an early demo has been dug up from the digital graveyard and made available.

The Atari Jaguar, much like SEGAs Dreamcast, is a great "what-if"-machine. When seeing Rayman or Tempest 2000 (a game series very much still alive) running on the Jaguar it's easy to see that the machine had potential that was just never fulfilled.

Bullet Heaven reviews Tengai / Sengoku Blade for Switch



I'm really happy that ZeroDiv brings the Psikyo library to Switch, here's hoping they sell well and will help bring other great studios back catalogues to the system.

torsdag 26 april 2018

SNK celebrates 40th anniversary by Switching it up

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection has been announced for the Nintendo Switch.
The SNK 40th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION includes classic titles such as Alpha Mission, Athena, Crystalis, Ikari Warriors, Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road, Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue, Guerilla War, P.O.W., Prehistoric Isle, Psycho Soldier, Street Smart, TNK III, and Vanguard - with more titles to be announced!

A superlative collector's edition will be available too.


NEO GEO shooter Ghost Pilots out now on Xbox One, EDF hits Steam

Yet another classic shmup from the Neo Geo library landed on a modern piece of kit today with the arrival of Ghost Pilots on Xbox One.



Arriving today on Steam is Earth Defense Force 4.1 Wingdiver the shooter which seems an excessively long title for a shmup. But as it braves new waters for the excessive third-person shooter series of EDF I guess it's fitting. It's 30% off right now so it might be a good time to get it if it tickles your fancy, if you're more of a console player it's still headed for the PS4 later this year.

tisdag 24 april 2018

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tisdag 17 april 2018

Psyvariar Delta is 70% complete

The new Psyvariar I told you about a month ago is coming to both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It's about 70% complete and we now know that it will be a significantly enhanced version of the arcade title Psyvariar Revision. Release date now seem sketchy instead of a solid "July" time frame but at least it got itself a real name: Psyvariar Delta.


Update: New launch date is August 30 (in Japan).

CAVE Festival 2018 brings sale to Steam

All CAVE titles on Steam are heavily discounted right now due to the ongoing CAVE Festival 2018.

So get your Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi Resurrection and DeathSmiles while they're cheap!

ZeroRanger coming to Steam

ZeroRanger is a new vertical-scrolling shmup that's been in development by developer System Erasure for a decade(!), coming soon (finally?) to Steam.



It was named FinalBoss earlier but recently went through a name change.

Rigid Force Alpha lands on Steam soon

Rigid Force Alpha is a new side-scrolling shmup from com8com1 launching soon on Steam.

I
t's a looker!

lördag 14 april 2018

SEGA AGES coming to Switch

SEGA announced that its AGES series is coming to Nintendo Switch this year.


Thunder Force IV is a promising start!

torsdag 12 april 2018

Shmup under development: Iro Hero

Iro Hero is a shmup under development which seems to have borrowed its mechanics from Ikaruga.



Check it out!

onsdag 11 april 2018

Panzer Dragoon Orta returns on April 17th.

After the Panzer Dragoon 1 & 2 games on the Saturn SEGA made a (great!) sequel to them on the original Xbox. On April 17th you can pop your original Panzer Dragoon Orta Xbox game into your Xbox One and play it again, it's been added to Xbox Ones list of backward compatible games!


For friends of rail shooters everywhere this is really great news.

tisdag 10 april 2018

Hyper Sentinel blasts onto consoles May 11th!

Huey Games announced on Facebook that crowd-funded shooter Hyper Sentinel will launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and (yes!) Nintendo Switch on May 11th.


PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X will get full native 4K support.

måndag 9 april 2018

Kickstarter shmup: Star Gods

A new shmup with an interesting mechanic is seeking funding on Kickstarter: Star Gods. A demo is available for download there and.. there's a trailer!



I hope it hits the funding goal so we get to take it for a spin!

It has a month to go and one of the stretch goals is a Nintendo Switch version!

Dat R-Type anime has been extended


It made the rounds about a year ago but has been expanded and has somehow been made even more awesome this time around. It sure makes me wanna kick some Bydo ass again.

lördag 7 april 2018

PSP classic Metal Slug XX to return on PS4

I still have my PSP (and PSVita and PSTV) but it's still nice to see a re-release of Metal Slug XX. It will be a PSN release and will launch this summer.

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Announced

There's sure to be some shmups in there, like Alpha Mission. The Switch keeps delivering the hits!

"During a panel hosted at PAX East, SNK announced the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection.
The release will be a curated collection of the best years of the publisher’s early years, created in collaboration with Digital Eclipse."

onsdag 4 april 2018

Dangun Feveron out in US and JP on Xbox One

For the lowly sum of $34.99 the US Xbox One owners can now be the proud owners of a download of Dangun Feveron. CAVEs disco-themed shooter.


It's also out in the JP store but has yet to be available in any european territory.

tisdag 3 april 2018

Limited Run Games announces Senko no Ronde 2

Limited Run Games has teamed up with Degica Games to launch a physical PlayStation 4 version of G.Rev's Senko no Ronde 2 on April 14th.


I'm not the biggest fan of the first games but as with all things shmup, better keep your fingers on the trigger when it launches or you'll probably miss out and instead have to face the Ebay scalpers.


söndag 1 april 2018

Aprils Fools...?

So M2 is launching Ninja Soldier. Created after following 30-year old documents they found in their warehouse. It could be an elaborate joke, I guess.



Mani Yugo Tokoyo, a top-down shmup focused around the theme of buddhism has launched on Steam.


It has been out on the New Nintendo 3DS for some time already.

Both games look aimed at "old-schoolers" who want their 16-bit era back. Nothing wrong with that I guess.