Category Archives: D3Publisher Europe

Earth Defence Force 2025 – otherwise known as Earth Defence Force 4 – has a new July release date, according to Siliconera. The action effort had been expected in June, but has apparently been pushed back. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 release is also headed west but has not yet been dated.

In Earth Defence Force 2025 you’re likely to get crushed and stomped on, but not as the elusive Wing Diver unit, which takes the fight to the skies.

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A $40 collector’s edition for Adventure Time has turned up on GameStop, sporting a sword-shaped stylus, poster, art book and steelbook packagaing. Naturally you’re all over that, and thankfully, the retailer told Joystiq the package isn’t exclusive to GameStop, so check with your local store before accepting the $30 standard edition. WayForward’s DS and 3DS tie-in launches in October. Check out a trailer here.

D3 Publisher has stepped in to help out with the Xbox Live Arcade launch of indie platformer Pid. Celebrate this news with a trailer through the break.

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Reverb and D3 have dropped a June 27 release date on Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad, which was announced earlier this month.

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Play.com has listed Onechanbara 2, the bikini zombie slayer game, and it has the game down for a February 2012 release.

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European and US players will share international servers when White Knight Chronicles II launches in North America next week.

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D3′s released a new trailer of Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, showing off the over the top action the series has been renown for. Having first started out on Nintendo 64, the HD release will include 100 levels, a level editor and more.

Watch the trailer through the break, via GSW.

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D3′s released a new video showing off Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, the mental HD redux of the over-the-top multidirectional shooter. It has bullets.

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Gods Eater Burst – the more attentive among you may notice the “English” title has gained a significant plural – is one of those hunter-type PSP games, viewed through a veil of apparent madness. Siliconera got their hands on the localisation and dragged out a pile of new gameplay info.

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D3′s press released Puzzle Quest 2, confirming the sequel for 360 and DS only.

The game will feature four classes – War Mage, Inquisitor, Barbarian or Assassin – and will task you with reclaiming “the once peaceful village of Verloren from the evil clutch of the demon Gorgon”.

Amazing scenes. It’s out next spring. PR after the break.

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Matt Hazard, the larger than life personality that powered parody shooter Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, is shrinking down and making the jump to PSN and XBLA. This time, though, instead of yuckin’ it up to the tune of Gears of War, Hazard’s bringing his signature brand of humor to the realm of sidescrollers like Shadow Complex.

And really, with a title like “Blood Bath & Beyond,” how can you refuse? Bigger, better, and more badass? Sorry Cliffy — weak descriptors like that just won’t cut it anymore.

The press release is after the break.

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D3Publisher will bring Imagi Studios’ CG-animated movie adaptation Astro Boy: The Video Game to consoles and handhelds this October, to coincide with the release of the film.

Fans of the classic manga and anime series can choose between DS, PS2, PSP and Wii versions, as you become a young boy robot with incredible powers shouting “Let’s Rocket!”

All of Astro’s weapons and abilities will be usable, and you can expect normal enemies and bosses along with a few never-before-seen surprises.

Press release is below.

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Both Flock! and Puzzle Quest: Galactrix have been released on Xbox Live, costing 1,200 and 1,600 MS Points respectively.

Flock! looks awesome. So probably buy that. More here and here.

A free version of Puzzle Quest will be hitting iPhone and iPod Touch’s App Store next week.

Also, Chapter 2 of the iPhone Puzzle Quest trilogy will be free to owners of Chapter 1, and will include 20 more hours of gameplay when it goes live in the next week or two.

If you like puzzle games on the go, it may be worth looking into.

Namco has reached agreements to acquire 70 percent of D3′s shares, according to this Andriasang report.

The news apparently comes from a press release.

Namco hopes to acquire the full 100 percent of shares, at a price of 62,000 yen.

D3 will be turned into a wholly-owned Namco subsidiary.

Other detail from the press release outlines resulting benefits of the move:

• Cooperation on overseas content expansion using such products as D3′s BEN10 series.
• Increasing the value of D3′s content by tying it in with Bandai Namco Groups’ other “strategic business units” (the release mentions five such units: toys and hobbies, amusement facilities, game content, network, and video/music content).
• Use of Bandai Namco Games content with D3′s casual games series
• Use of D3′s content with Bandai Namco’s “multi-content” development system (this presumably refers to Bandai Namco’s ability to produce toys, anime and other products outside of games).
• For North American content development, improvement of development efficiency through shared use of technology (game engines, etc.)
• Cooperative development and promotions for mobile content
• Offering of new types of play and new content by using the combined knowhow of Bandai Namco Games and D3

D3 Publisher will unleash its Japanese hack-and-slash Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad on an unsuspecting American public tomorrow via the Xbox 360.

The 360 version takes place before the Wii version, Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers, and while both stories feature Aya and Saki battling zombies, more is planned for the Xbox 360 outing further down the road.

According to an interview with D3′s Alex Coward over on Strategy Informer, a variety accessories and outfits not in the Wii game will be made available, along with a Zombie Wale, sword fighting on a motorcycle, and the girls Misery, Himiko and Reiko.

PS3 users take heart: while the Onechanbara games are not currently heading your way, Cowards says it hasn’t been ruled out yet.

Videogaming247 has sat down with Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard lead producer, Brian Etheridge.

We asked him what makes Eat Lead unique, the trials and tribulations of development, and all kinds of interviewy things like that.

He even reveals that the game will be released in March for 360 and PS3.

You can watch three new gameplay video and check out loads of brand new screenshots here.

Full thing after the break.

By Mike Bowden

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D3Publishing has released a ton of new media for its spoof-action hero shooter, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.

Vicious Cycle Software’s Matt Hazard is a fictional video game character from the 80′s who is now making a comeback six years after his last game.

The three videos that show some old and new school graphics and the groovy new images can all be seen below.

Look out for our interview with the dev team coming soon.

Update: Speak of the devil: here’s the interview.

By Mike Bowden

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D3′s stuck up a decent Flash demo of the upcoming Puzzle Quest: Galactrix here, featuring a two-player puzzle-off against an NPC.

The futuristic sequel to the stupidly popular Puzzle Quest features a robotic woman saying things like, “Supernova,” as well as the opportunity to laser opponents. Because you’re in space, obviously.

The game itself releases for PC, DS, XBLA and PSN next month.