Rival Megagun gets physical release on PS4 and Switch early next year

1st Press Games has announced that Rival Megagun will get a physical release in January of 2020.
Both Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch is targeted!

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.

Homepage:  https://gameparadise2017.com/en/

And to top it off, a trailer!

The summarized news

I'm still on vacation (with one week to go) but here's the news that's been rolling in:

Game Tengoku! / Game Paradise! CruisinMix went on sale in the EU / NA PSN Store without an announcement of any kind and Degica Games was quick to point out that it really shouldn't have. It's not ready for retail here yet. The game will get patched to retail level when available if you already bought it.

Super Destronaut DX has launched in the asian PSN store for both PS Vita and PS4 with the PS Vita being especially welcome, shmup releases for the system aren't exactly frequent these days.

Dimension Drive has launched in Asia/Japan on Steam, Nintendo Switch and PS4.

Iro Hero, already available on the Switch, is coming to Steam on July 31st.

Omega Fighter in Hamsters ACA Arcade Archives series launched two days ago (July 26th) for both Switch and PS4. I noted it was coming back in June.

RXN ~ Raijin ~ made it into the Japanese top 10 list for Nintendo Switch. They have a sale on where it's down to just 999 Yen there.

Radirgy de Gojaru!, the Nintendo 3DS spinoff of the Radirgy series has been re-listed in the Japanese eShop. Who knows how long it will remain there? Here's hoping the series will re-emerge on current-gen consoles.

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.

...and the review is in!

Space Invaders Extreme launched today

As can be plainly seen, Space Invaders Extreme launched on Steam today.

Space Invaders Extreme hits Steam on Feb 12th

Space Invaders Extreme, the 40th anniversary release, is releasing on Steam on Feb 12th.

Space Invaders Extreme goes Steam

The 40th anniversary celebration of Space Invaders is kicking off.

Steam page is up and there's a teaser trailer:

Get ready to get invaded!

If you have ever played a video game (if you are reading this you almost certainly have) then you likely have Taito to thank.  It has been 40 years since they released their monumentally influential arcade title, Space Invaders, an indisputable founding-father of modern gaming.  To celebrate this occasion, Taito and Degica are bringing the invasion to Steam in 2018.  Stay tuned for more details at the beginning of the new year!

TEASER SITE

Castle of Shikigami gets a big (free) update + scoring contest!

Degica games just rolled out a press release about a big update to Castle of Shikigami:

The team has been working hard on improving the game and thanks to your feedback we have a large update to release today. The details are below, but we still have more to come, so stay tuned!

Update Details

• Added Slowdown option
  Accessed via the Options, this can be turned on or off. The slowdown is as close as we can get to the original console releases, but will vary depending on your PC.
• Added Practice Mode
  Accessed via the main menu. New stages are opened once you've reached them in the main game. Each character's practice stages are independent, so unlocking stages for one character will not unlock them for the others. Scores are local only.
• Fixed leaderboard issues
  Without getting into technical discussions, the problem here is that Shikigami's scores are larger than Steam's leaderboards can cope with, so the approach we took was to divide the scores uploaded to Steam by 10, while leaving the in-game scores faithful to the original game.
• Changed Extend scores to match original game
  
  • Very Easy: First 100,000,000 and every further 100,000,000 points
  • Easy: First 100,000,000 and every further 200,000,000 points
  • Normal: First 150,000,000 and every further 300,000,000 points
  • Hard: First 200,000,000 and every further 400,000,000 points
  • Very Hard: First 250,000,000 and every further 400,000,000 points

As always, if you have any issues post-update, please post them here.

Thanks, the Shikigami team.

The scoring contest is described like this:

Score Contest

To celebrate Shikigami's update today, we're having another high score contest and to make sure everyone can take part it's very simple!

Rules:

1. Leave difficulty on default setting (Normal)
2. Play Practice 1-1 with any character and record a score (you need to complete the stage)
3. Take a screenshot with F12 of the Practice screen showing your score
4. Post the capture to Twitter during the contest period with the official hashtag #castleofshikigami and a mention to us (@degigames)
5. Multiple entries OK, but only one score per user will be accepted.  

**If you can't locate the screen captures, open your Steam Library, right click on Castle of Shikigami and select 'View Screenshots' and follow the prompts to navigate to the correct folder.

Contest Dates:

Start: Oct 4, 2017 7:00pm (Thursday)

Finish: Oct 9, 2017 7:00pm (Sunday) 

Prizes:

1st place: A signed Shikigami poster

2nd place: A Shikigami poster

3rd place: The soundtrack (Steam key) 

**We'll also be picking two random winners and awarding them a prize too. 

Small Print

In order to deliver physical prizes, we will need to be able to contact you by email, so please check back at the end of the contest.

In order to send the posters, we will need a postal address and name.

Game Paradise: Cruisin Mix getting a western release

There is no firm date set yet but it looks like an english release is in the cards for Game Paradise: Cruisin Mix.

Game Tengoku CrusinMix gets a teaser!

Lets hope it turns out great!

That Game Paradise game

It now has an official site!

Castle of Shikigami (Steam) review

So not the best of releases, then. Well, we can always hope for future patches.

Shikigami is on Steam

Degica has now released Castle of Shikigami on Steam. It's 17% off as an introductory offer right now, go get it!

Shikigami comes to... Steam?!

Ok, they had me fooled. I was all but certain that this would be rolling onto PlayStation 4.

But Degica just announced that Steam is the platform and I'm not even mad. ;)

The date is June 15th. Be ready!

Dariusburst gets YET ANOTHER PHYSICAL RELEASE!

Degice Games just announced that Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours is getting yet another physical release. This time it's the PS Vita version getting the Limited Run Games treatment hot on the heels of the LRG release of the PS4 version of the same game (that sold out in minutes).

I guess we can expect the same insanity this time although physical releases for PS4 and PS Vita are readily available right now from places like Play-Asia.

So to recap: Dariusburst CS is now available on PSN for both PS4 and PS Vita, on Steam, physical releases (Asian and Western) for PS4 and (Asian) PS Vita and is about to get a western physical release for PS Vita.

And lets not forget that Dariusburst (without the Chronicle Saviour moniker) is available for Sonys PSP and Apples iOS.

Degica website announcement: Castle of Shikigami

Straight from the horses mouth:

That’s right, the next shmup release from Degica Games will be Castle of Shikigami!

Congrats to @AlbertZero on Twitter and Michael Anderson on Facebook for figuring it out in our Mystery Clue contest! And after only one clue, too! They’ll each get a key for the game for their amazing prognostication.

So what is Castle of Shikigami?

A bizarre string of serial murders has occurred in Japan. Each victim was killed slowly, over an entire day. The 32nd victim has just been found. And you are going to stop it. Via mystical powers and shoot’em up gameplay. (There are very few problems in video games that can’t be solved this way.) Each of the playable characters has their own unique shooting mechanics while sharing the tension system, which rewards risky play with stronger shots.

Castle of Shikigami has never gotten a proper EN release, with only a PS2 release redubbed Mobile Light Force 2 with all the story pulled out making it outside of Japan, so this will be the first time ever that you can experience the full game in English! And with all six characters having a separate story, that is a lot that you were missing out on.

Be on the lookout for more info about Castle of Shikigami in the coming weeks!

Shikigami no Shiro getting re-released

Degica Games ran a short contest before announcing that their next shmup release will be Shikigami no Shiro or Castle of Shikigami, the original game which saw a botched port (for PS2) known in the west as Mobile Light Force 2 for some reason.

I'm not the biggest fan of the series and platform hasn't been announced yet but who am I trying to kid? I'll get it.

DariusBurst:CS Capcom DLC is out now!

The Capcom DLC is now out in the Steam store and will be on PSN sometime during the 16th (local times).

http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2618/

Don't forget DariusBurst and the other DLC are also on sale for Valentine's, because what is love if you can't shoot some giant mechanical space fish?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/377870