As if to kick off the tidal wave of info coming out of E3, Atlus dropped announcement after announcement yesterday with game after game on the way.
Here is the list of all the titles that Atlus has announced so far:
- Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii): Announced as a Wii exclusive, New Blood will feature an all new story, fully voiced dialogue, and 2 player co-op gameplay. It will also feature an online score ranking system similar to the Live Leaderboards.
- Draglade (DS): Draglade is an innovative new title that blends fighting and rhythm concepts.
- Touch Detective 2 1/2 (DS): A follow up to the original Touch Detective featuring a 5 episode story as you lead Mackenzie through a puzzling plot. TD2.5 also features more than twice the locations to visit and many all new characters to compliment the returning cast.
- Riviera: The Promised Land (PSP): A classic RPG experience for the PSP. Riviera features beautiful hand drawn graphics with over 100 character expressions. Packed with over 30 hours of gameplay and multiple endings, Riviera promises to deliver a great experience. Riviera is available ow.
- Ontamarama (DS): Making full use of the Nintendo DS’ dual screens, touch screen, and mic, Ontamarama is a new fast paced music arcade game that will challenge your reflexes, timing, and concentration.
Aside from Riviera, which is now shipping., no release dates were given for the announced titles.
According to reports coming out of the Microsoft E3 event, they just announced a Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360. No other details are known just yet.
UPDATE: Here is what comes in the new package that is dated for September:
- Halo 3 Special Edition Console
- Halo 3 Special Edition Wireless Controller
- Halo 3 Special Edition 20GB Hard Drive
- Halo 3 Special Edition Wired Headset
- Halo 3 Special Edition Gamer Pics and Theme (Exclusive download via Xbox LIVE)
- Component HD AV Cable
- Ethernet Cable
- HDMI Port
- Play & Charge Kit
- Xbox LIVE Silver Membership
- One-month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership
More information on the new product page.
Rumors of price drops, new mobos, and cooler chips continue to pop up in reference to the Xbox 360. It appears that they make actually be true this time. San Jose Mercury News’ Dean Takahashi is reporting that Microsoft is primed with a 65nm chipset codenamed Falcon. The original Xbox 360 was built on a 90nm chipset and Falcon should help lower costs while also helping out with the Xbox 360’s heat issues.
Falcon is made up of an IBM microprocessor and an AMD/ATI graphics chip that essentially are smaller versions of their predecessors. Takahashi suggests that Microsoft is in the final stages of testing the new Falcon chipset and should have them ready for launch this fall.
I for one would welcome a cooler, smaller Xbox 360 maybe in a slightly smaller shell and possibly with HD-DVD internally. Oh wait, this is not my wish list is it….
UK webzine Way of the Rodent’s own Rocky Howard has put his thumbs on the chopping blocks, announcing a personal mission to play, in order, all 4000 classic arcade games listed in Twin Galaxies’ official book of High Scores.
You sir, are my juke box hero.
You can keep up with his progress at the So, You want to be an Arcade Champion? website. So far he’s four weeks and thirteen games in, a rate of progress that should see him finish sometime around Christmas 2030.
But why undertake this task? Says Howard, “A bunch of us recently took a bit of a pilgrimage to the Classic Arcade Tournament over at Funspot in Americaland. I met a whole bunch of World Champions at the event and it got me wanting to make England proud and to bag one of them records for old Blighty.”
“Handily, Walter Day, keeper of the arcade scores at Twin Galaxies, had just released the latest set of records in a big-old book and as I flicked through the pages two things happened: my childhood memories of seedy, brilliant, East End arcades came flooding back, and I realised that there were a few scores in there I could probably beat,” he added.
And that, folks, is just what Rocky has set out to do…
Oblivion, that little niche title from Bethesda, looks to be getting the Game of the Year treatment this year. Bethesda announced this morning that they would be releasing a Game of the Year Edition of the popular RPG for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC this September.
The GotY edition is slated to include the original version of Oblivion along with the Shivering Isles expansion and the Knights of the Nine content.
If you skipped over Oblivion when it was released, then this is probably your best chance to grab all the available content in one place. Bethesda hasn’t released any pricing info on this version of the game, but I would expect to see it priced slightly lower than the average full price of games on each respective platform.
