fredag 30 november 2018

Ketsui, Fast Striker and Rival Megagun, oh my!

M2 released Ketsui Deathtiny for PlayStation 4 yesterday in Japan. It's available on japanese PSN and as a physical release from the usual suspects (in my case Play-Asia).

Bullet Heaven has a review of Fast Striker (PS4/PS Vita version).


The player vs Player shmup Rival Megagun is out now on Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One,and Nintendo Switch (EU/JP, US/Canada gets it on Dec 6th).

lördag 24 november 2018

NGDEV Soundtrack Collection I 5-CD set up for sale

The NGDEV store currently has a 5-soundtrack CD collection up for sale at €50.


Razion, Gunlord, Neo XYX, Fast Striker and Last Hope are the 5 game soundtracks on the CDs. The collection is limited to 100 pieces so get your credit card out pronto if you want this collection. NGDEV has nasty habit of selling out!

The Game Paradise is set to arrive in the EU

Game Tengoku CrusuinMix Special Edition is (finally) heading for an official release in EU, coming November 30th.

By way of the press release:

About:

Game Tengoku - The Game Paradise! is Jaleco's self-parody-filled shooting game, full of tongue-in-cheek references to video game tropes, off-beat humour and sociopathic pigs.
Released to arcades in 1995, upgraded for its console debut in 1997, now the original developers have got back together to bring the ultimate revival to PlayStation4 and Steam.

  • 6 stupendous ships (robots, schoolgirls, ace pilots, pigs?!)
  • 8 parody-fueled stages (JRPGs, driving games, karaoke and more)
  • Multiple soundtracks, display modes and other extras
  • Online leaderboards, time attack modes and eggplants galore
  • A nostalgia-packed data library of Jaleco history
  • Did we mention bomb-wielding pigs?

The international version features subtitled story skits, songs and fully-voiced ‘commentary’ in the data library, where the characters argue amongst themselves while explaining the various featured titles.
The Special edition adds exclusive remixed tracks for all characters, a new Clarice bomb, and more and will come as a free update to all current owners of the game!



Paradise Box Edition:

On top of that, we are proud to announce the long-awaited physical release with a special, Paradise Box edition, in collaboration with Limited Run Games!
It features an exclusive DLC ship: from the legendary Truxton/Tatsujin, replete with weapons, skull bombs and music from the maestros of Toaplan!

The Paradise Box will include:
  • Game Paradise CruisinMix Special (PS4)
  • 128 page Art book
  • 2 soundtrack CDs
  • An original anime DVD (English subtitles)
  • Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special (PS4)
  • 4x DLC (Clarice, Homura Banto, Voice pack + Tatsujin)
  • And a few special, exclusive surprises that are bound to see fans in heaven (or paradise?)!

Information:

Title:  Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special
Genre:  Shooting
Platform: PlayStation®4 / STEAM®
Price:  $29.99 (Digital), $TBA (PS4 standard), $TBA (PS4 Limited Edition)
Release Date:  November 30th, 2018
Planning & Production: Chara-Ani corporation, CITY CONNECTION
Publishing:  Degica Co., Ltd.

And to top it off, a trailer!

söndag 18 november 2018

ESPrade trailer

An RXN unboxing

You know, if you want to watch people unbox things.

More Switch catch-up

Sky Force Anniversary is in the eShop, a welcome addition to this series. You need to grind, grind, grind your way through it but it's fun all the way.

M.A.C.E. Space Shooter is also in the eShop, looks to be your basic 2 player co-op vertcially scrolling shooter.

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is out in the eShop as is Atomic Robo-kid, a new entry in the awesome Arcade Archives series.

RocketsRocketsRockets is a player vs player shmup out now.

Blazing Chrome is a run'n'gun coming to Switch next year:

Playing catch-up

M2STG has just announced a bunch of great things: ESPrade is coming (probably to PS4, I haven't seen platform mentioned), Battle Garegga is coming to Nintendo Switch and there's also an announcement surrounding Aleste 30th Anniversary coming next summer. ESPrade is the pre-cursor to Espgaluda and has to my knowledge never had a console release before. It's CAVE at it's best so this is very welcome.

As previously mentioned, Super Hydorah was coming to Nintendo Switch and it is out now (released Nov. 15th).


tisdag 13 november 2018

Trailers!

Mars: Chaos Menace is coming to Switch, PS4 and Steam on Nov. 16th:




Rival Megagun is coming to (everything!) Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch and Steam on Nov. 29th:




Darius Cozmic Collection debut trailer (Nintendo Switch):




lördag 10 november 2018

A Battle Crust review

Back in early 2018 we got word that a new shmup, Battle Crust (also available on Steam), would be ported to the SEGA Dreamcast. It's been shipping for a while and Dreamcast super-fanboy (I say that in a nice way) Adam Koralik has a review:

torsdag 8 november 2018

Astebreed arrives on Switch, on time!

As expected, Astebreed is now available on the Switch eShop. I would not be surårised if this got one of those limited physical runs we all know and love so much.

måndag 5 november 2018

Bullet Heaven review of Battle City (Famicom)



Most of the 8-bit output is too primitive for me to enjoy (PC Engine mostly exempted) so I'll pass but you may enjoy it?

The Atari ST gets a new shooter

The Atari ST line of computers were made in the mid 80s up until the mid 90s and are still remembered fondly. I was a Commodore man myself back in the day but I did own an Atari ST 1040 briefly.


But more significantly (and on-topic!), a new shooter has been released for it: r0x zero.
It may be time to get another ST then...