Tag Archives: Akai Katana

Cave, the Japanese-based studio responsible for some of the most explosive and intense scrolling shooters of our day has suffered several high-profile resignations in the past few months. CEO & president Ito Masahito is the latest to depart.

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Rising Star has released a series of tutorial videos for Akai Katana, Cave’s latest typically nightmare hard shooter. And thank god for that.

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Rising Star Games has announced Aksys will exclusively distribute the company’s 2012 North American line-up starting with Akai Katana, the developer’s side-scrolling adventure for Xbox 360. The game places players in a “parallel world resembling Japan’s Taisho period,” where the player must utilize the power behind the world’s Blood Swords for “leverage, and fight alongside rebel warrior kin.” It releases later this spring.

Rising Star Games has announced the opening of a brand new HQ in the US alongside the formation of a brand new digital branch for the company. The first game to come from RSG in the US, based out of California, will be Cave 360-exclusive shooter Akai Katana, due in Q2. It’ll arrive in the same period for Europe as well. For the new Rising Star digital arm, it’ll release games on, but not limited to, PSN, Xbox Live Arcade, Steam and iOS.

The weekend is finally here. For some of us. For those readying to go out on the town tonight, and wanting a few quick ones before they do, click the page break and knock down a dozen or so.

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Japanese developer Cave is to offer a PCB arcade board version of its upcoming bullet hell shooter, Akai Katana, for around £1,500. How many should we put you down for?

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