Category Archives: Arcade

Rovio has detailed the long-promised Angry Birds animated series.

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The Capcom Digital Collection is now available in the US exclusively for Xbox 360, Capcom has announced, and comes with eight games previously available only through the XBLM. All titles are available together on a disc at retail and include the same content as when released through the service. The disc includes the following for $39.99: 1942: Joint Strike, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Final Fight Double Impact, Flock!, Rocketmen: Axis of Evil including Rocketmen: It Came From Uranus expansion, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3.

Grasshopper Manufacture’s time manipulation shooter Sine Mora launches on Xbox Live Marketplace today, and VG247′s video mastermind Sam Clay has produced a segment featuring the first 10 minutes of gameplay. The sch’mup game co-developed by Digital Reality will run you 1200 Microsoft Points.

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Konami has announced Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition will be released through PSN, WiiWare, and XBLA this spring. Outed by the Australian Classifications Board last month, the game contains the core Frogger mechanics, but adds “new content and ideas” such as the new gaming modes: Tile Capture, Battle Royale, Freak Out and “more.” Players can also customize the game experience through a variety of skins such as the “modern neon style of Hyper Arcade” to 8-bit sprites from the original Frogger, classic Castlevania titles, and even Contra. The game also contains four-player matches so you an friends can figure out who is the best at dodging semis, compact cars, and eating flies off gator backs.

Microsoft’s released a new trailer for their upcoming Kinect-controlled Xbox Live Arcade game Wreckateer. The game will require you to wreck stuff in order to progress. You get to control everything from giant catapaults to flying bombs in order to lay siege. The trailer gives you a glimpse of how you can go about doing your stuff in the game using Kinect. The Iron Galaxy developed title releases at some point of time this spring. You can watch the trailer after the break.

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Europe’s PEGI ratings board appears to have outed an Xbox Live Arcade release of the 80′s classic Dragon’s Lair.

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Zen Studios has announced four new tables will come to Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX2 themed around The Avengers. The tables, knowns as Avengers Chronicles, will launch this spring ahead of the movie in May, and will feature new achievements and trophies, table guides and more. The content will go live as DLC on PSN and XBL, with a standalone game release on PlayStation Vita.

Thanks, EG.

An officially licensed handheld sporting 20 classic NeoGeo games will arrive in the west over the next few months.

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A listing on Xbox Live Arcade noticed by NeoGAF has Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World releasing on the service April 25. It comes bundled with Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy in Monster World and Monster World 4. It has leaderboards, Achievements and trial modes as well. No price just yet, though.

Ubisoft has released a new teaser trailer and three screenshots for Babel Rising, its PSN and XBLA game which allows you to play God and keep the Babylonians from building three different towers to heaven.

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SEGA has announced The House of the Dead 4 will be released on April 17 in the US and April 18 in the UK through PSN for £6.49/€7.99, and Plus members will get 30% off.

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Ubisoft has released the launch trailer for Shoot Many Robots, the side-scrolling PSN and XBLA title from Demiurge Studios. The game follows the exploits of P. Walter Tugnut as he travels around in his RV filled with guns and beer killing robots. The game contains four-player co-op and item customization in two modes: Traversal, where players must progress linearly through a level; and Survival, where players fight against waves of robot hordes. The game is out today on PSN in the US, and tomorrow in the UK. It will release on XBLA tomorrow in both regions.

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CVG’s got some new shots of the HD remake of Jet Set Radio, backing up last week’s first trailer release. The game’s out as a download this summer.

345 Games has announced Bellator: MMA Onslaught for XBLA and PSN based on the MMA organisation Bellator. It is in development with Supermacy MMA studio Kung Fu Factory.

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Haunted Temple Studio’s quirky XBLA title Skulls of the Shogun has been delayed while the team sorts out a few “AI and bug” issues.

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Halfbrick has a busy year ahead of it following on from the success of Fruit Ninja Kinect.

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SEGA has announced Jet Set Radio will be released this summer as a digital download through PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. You can also enter a contest which will see your graffiti artwork land in the game. Eighteen winners will be picked, and each will also receive a copy of the game, a Bluetooth speaker system which is solar-powered, and game-themed accessories. The game, which was teased by the firm last week, was originally released in 2000 on Dreamcast. New shots are below.

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Bullet hell shooter Shogun: Rise of the Renegade has been released for Android. Get it here. The int13 vertical scroller released for iOS devices last month. There’s a moview below: looks very swish. Via IndieGames.

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The Aussie classifications board has apparently outed Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition from Blacklight developer Zombie Studios.

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A mobile version of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction has released on Windows Phone 7, according to AnythingButiPhone. It features gameplay mechanics from its console and PC brother, such as “mark and execute”. An iOS version was released in 2010. Conviction original hit 360 and PC in June 2010.