Category Archives: Arcade

Capcom has released a video for Arcade Cabinet Pack #5 which contains 1942, SonSon and Pirate Ship Higemaru. It’s now in available in the North American PlayStation Store and worldwide on XBLA Marketplace, and tomorrow on the European PlayStation Store for $9.99, €9.99, £7.99 or 800 MSP. As a bonus, anyone purchasing all five packs in the Capcom Arcade Cabinet collection will receive two further classic titles – Vulgus and 1943 Kai – for free.

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A 16-minute gameplay video featuring three Guild02 titles has been posted by 4Gamer.

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The Twisted Pixel bundle is now available through Xbox Live. Announced last month, it includes: The Maw, ‘Splosion Man, Ms. ‘Splosion Man and Comic Jumper. It will run you 800 Microsoft Points. Hit up the XBL Marketplace to check availability in your region.

Llamasoft plans to release a reboot of Tempest 2000 for Vita called TxK. The game was originally released 19 years ago on Atari’s Jaguar.

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As noted yesterday, Motorcross Madness is now available on XBL Marketplace. In it, players can freeride across various environments, “drift, trick and turbo boost” your through nine offroad tracks in single-player, ghost challenges and 8-player multiplayer. You can even combine stats with your friends in Bike Club which will rewards. Hit up Major Nelson to check availability in your region. It will cost you 800 MS Points.

Deep Silver has announced Ride to Hell: Retribution and Ride to Hell: Route 666 will be released in June.

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Matthew Smith, famed designer of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, is back in the business after an almost uninterrupted three decade vacation. PCGamesN reports Smith is working with Elite Systems to produce a new game. Elite, which like Smith has been in the games business since the mid-80′s, has been re-releasing many of the designers ZX Spectrum classics on mobile in recent years, so we can probably expect something similar.

“Super Battle Opera” Tougeki, a global arcade game tournament based in Japan, has announced it is taking a break. An announcement on the decade-old tournament’s website, says only that “extenuating circumstances” caused the suspension of this year’s planned events. However, there’s some hope for a return, with organisers planning to continue hosting other events and working towards a relaunch.

Thanks, Shoryuken.

You might remember the PS Mini Velocity, a twin stick action thingie, from way back when (last year), and now it’s getting an HD update and a full PSN release for the Vita, with touch mechanics and everything. This is the same game, but the developers say they’ve changed tons of stuff based on player feedback, and of course it’s more visually attractive. Trailer inside:
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This weekend, Swedish gamer Victor Sandberg set out to take the Missile Command record, set in 1982 by Victor Ali with a score of 80.5 million. The determined arcade fan livestreamed his attempt, which lasted over 56 hours, and eventually took the crown by bowing out with 81,796,035 points. You can watch a recording the stream, or just check out this clip of the record being surpassed, and Sandberg’s eventual game over. The original Missile Command was released in 1980 via Atari and Sega.

Thanks, Kotaku.

The Pinball Arcade is in development for PS4, it has been announced. According to a development post over on the PS Blog, the team is “adding rendering tech for per pixel ray casting, area lights/shadows, point lights and screen space ambient occlusion,” to the game on the new console. The physics and gameplay on all of the DLC tables released will also be updated, and the team is “very confident” it can add these features on PS4 and maintain 60 fps.

Spin the Bottle isn’t a game about awkward kissing. Instead it’s a Wii U party game that sees players spinning a WiiMote on their Wii U GamePad screen to trigger bizarre mini-games. It doesn’t use your television at all, and features a host of colourful characters.

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Street Fighter X Mega Man has surpassed one million downloads worldwide, according to Capcom. While the actual number could be larger due to the freeware potentially being offered elsewhere, Capcom is sure of at least the one million portion. Over on Capcom Unity, the firm also wanted to remind everyone that Mega Man 3 will land on 3DS Virtual Console March 14, and Mega Man 4-6 will following in consecutive order each month.

Xbox360Achievements has posted a list of achievements for Gravity’s Xbox Live remake for Double Dragon 2, subtitled Wander of the Dragons, which we had not heard anything about in a really long time.

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Gaijin Games is working on a Wii U patch for Runner 2, and the main fix coming will squash a bug which freezes the console when powered down or exiting to the main menu.

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With 44 hours to go on its Kickstarter, the developers of Asylum have added a new stretch goal, which is oddly enough $166,666. Upon being met, a complete rework of Asylum will be distributed as an expansion which is being dubbed Asylum: Memories. A 20 second teaser for it is below. The game was also recently greenlit on Steam Greenlight.

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Star Wars Pinball arrives on PSN later today in North America and tomorrow in Europe, so Zen Studios though this would be an opportune time to release a couple screenshots and a trailer for The Clone wars table. Get the lot below.

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Bit.Trip Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien developer Gaijin Games has released a new gameplay trailer for its sprint-em-up. It looks rather shiny and should appeal to fans of Canabalt, Temple Run and all those other cardio-intensive romps.

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Zen Studios has released a new video for Star Wars Pinball, and it features the Boba Fett table. This particular table will contain several “major moments” in the bounty hunter’s career as such as jobs given by the Galactic Empire and the Hutts. The table contains a spinner featuring Han Solo in Carbonite and the Great Pit of Carkoon featuring the tentacled Sarlacc. Star Wars Pinball is releasing next week on the following platforms: App Store, Google Play, XBL, and PSN with Cross-Buy.

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Star Wars Pinball tables have been dated for multiple platfortms. The DLC for Zen Pinball 2 features tables based on The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett and The Clone Wars.

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