Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 1 Comment
PC RPG fans everywhere might remember a gem of a title called Planescape: Torment, released to critical acclaim but poor sales on December 12th, 1999. Since the initial production run, it’s become increasingly difficult to track down copies of the game, but Elder-Geek is proud to report some wonderful news, albeit a bit late-coming.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | Posted by Kipp Pietrantonio | 3 Comments
Well…well…well look who is back again. Sega today finally released the newest information on it’s “project needlemouse” and to nobody’s surprise it is Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The Blue Blur will be making his return on the PSN, Xbox Live, Wii Virtual Store, and the iPhone. It is reported that the game will be coming in episode form, with the first episode being released this summer. Rumors are reporting that the story begins immediately after the end of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. It is also rumored that Wii and PS3 Motion controls will be implemented in some way as well. The game will sport HD graphics and a mixture of 2D and 3D graphics. So will this be the game that finally breaks the cycle and returns us to the glorious 16 bit days, or will it be another tragedy that finally puts the furious rodent down for the ten count
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 2 Comments
Capcom announced today that the Mega Man Zero Collection would be coming to the Nintendo DS handheld platform in the early Summer of 2010. The collection will consist of all 4 Mega Man Zero titles for the Game Boy Advance, which collectively sold over 500,000 copies in North America alone. Upon its release, the games were praised for returning to the roots of the series, though many reviewers said that the difficulty level might make them inacessible to some.
Check out some screenshots after the jump.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
In an interview released earlier today, Microsoft’s President of Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach revealed that the motion-control camera Project Natal will be available during the holiday season later this year. Furthermore, he went on to reveal a new addition to the Xbox Live Arcade, known as the Game Room.
In line with the original concept for which the Xbox Live Arcade was designed, Game Room will allow players to use their Avatars to navigate an online environment, somewhat similar in concept to the Home software available on the Playstation 3, in which they can play classic arcade games. Bach stated that “[t]here’s a generation of people [...] who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. [...] Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market, and bringing that to a very broad audience.” The Game Room will be available for both the Xbox 360 and PC and is being developed by Krome Studios.
The Game Room will allow players to purchase games for prices ranging between 240 and 400 Microsoft, which equals roughly $3 to $5. Players will also be able to play a one-off game for 40 points, roughly 50 cents. Games purchased on the Xbox 360 version of the Game Room will also be playable on the PC, and vice versa.
A trailer for the service can be found after the jump.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
Roughly twenty years ago, a group of developers at Capcom were working on a project that was designed to combine elements from the popular Megaman series and Sector Z. The game they were working on was initially known as Dark Rift, though the project was later renamed to Dark Void.
Though the game was eventually shelved, following the arrival of the SNES, Capcom recently announced that the original would be remade and released as a downloadable 8-bit title for the Nintendo DS to complement the release of Dark Void for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. In fact, the game had to be recreated from scratch, as the original files were lost over time. The game follows Rusty, a human originally born in the Void, who has to take up a jetpack to defend Earth from the Watchers.
The game is now available for download in the DSi shop for 500 points. A set of screenshots for the game can be found after the jump.
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Monday, December 21st, 2009 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 1 Comment
Today in the US and next month in Europe, DSi owners will be able to download an arcade-perfect port of the Don Bluth animated classic, Dragon’s Lair. With any luck, it’ll work better than the 3DO version and we can look forward to many an insta-death but this time without popping quarter after quarter into an arcade machine.
See the trailer after the jump.
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Monday, December 21st, 2009 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 9 Comments
Konamistyle has hinted a 19 disc original soundtrack for the Castlevania series dubbed Akumajo Dracula Best Music Collection BOX to be on sale March 24, 2010 in Japan for 21,000 yen (~$230 USD). The soundtrack is to include the music from every single published Castlevania game including the spin-off, Kid Dracula. The 18 disc set will contain arrangement from former Konami composer Michiru Yamane with a bonus DVD with interview and footage from recording sessions. Currently there are no announcements for releases outside of Japan.
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
Capcom continues its exploration of its distant past with the sequel to its surprising retro hit, Megaman 9 with the understandably titled Megaman 10. Still sporting the 8-bit style graphics and soundtrack, players will return the blue bomber to the series’ famous mixture of addictive gameplay and brutal difficulty in the year 20XX. Set during an outbreak of Roboenza, the entirety of the world’s robots seem to become infected, causing a sedentary culture of dependent humans to suffer for the loss of their helpful robotics. Those bots that don’t just become sicker and sicker from the robot flu have begun going on fevered rampages across the land, calling out Megaman once again to set things right. Megaman 10 will be returning to Xbox Live Arcade, the Playstation Store, and Wiiware, with no set release date yet revealed.
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 6 Comments
Accompanying the plethora of existing collections to feature the blue hedgehog’s 2D adventures, Sonic Classic Collection will soon be available for DS owners worldwide. In addition to the original three Sonic the Hedgehog games, the collection will also include Sonic & Knuckles.
Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
Capcom has announced today that it will be launching remakes of the arcade classics Final Fight and Magic Sword on Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in April 2010. These games will be for sale under the name of Final Fight: Double Impact.
Final Fight was originally released in 1989 and is a side-scrolling action / fighting game. Two of the main characters from Final Fight, Cody and Guy, were announced to be playable characters in the upcoming fighting game Super Street Fighter IV. Magic Sword was released in 1990 and is a side-scrolling fantasy game.
Both games will receive upgraded visuals, but players will also be able to switch back to the ‘original mode’ and play the game with the original graphics. There’s also a mode that simulates an arcade cabinet, complete with faint scan lines. Online drop in/drop out multiplayer will also be available for both games. Screenshots for both games can be found after the jump.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Posted by Randy Yasenchak | 1 Comment
Pokémon Rumble, World of Goo, Bit.Trip Beat, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, and NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits have just been announced as the first official demos on WiiWare to be released this week.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | Posted by Randy Yasenchak | 4 Comments
MAGFest (Music And Gaming Festival), the annual festival celebrating video games and video game music, will be occurring January 1-4, 2010, in Alexandria, Virginia. MAGFest is proud to release its lineup of featured guests and video game music bands. This will be MAGFest’s eighth year, and it refuses to let up on the endless onslaught of face-melting music and awesome guests. Each year, MAGFest offers 24-hour console, arcade, and PC game rooms, over ten live video game cover bands, a vendors area, and guest speakers from the video game industry and fan scene. Numerous other events are scheduled each day. It also features a “JamSpace” available to all attendees for impromptu music performances. MAGFest 8 is scheduled for January 1-4 2010. Elder-Geek.com will be there to cover every minute.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
Several months after celebrating its twentieth ‘birthday’, the Nintendo Game Boy was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York last week. The Nintendo Game Boy was first sold in 1989, and was replaced by the Game Boy Color in 1998. Despite the obvious superiority of the Game Boy Color, the older Game Boy had such a large installed base, that games compatible with both handhelds would be sold for many more years. The last Game Boy compatible game was released in 2002, in Japan, giving the handheld an effective life span of over 13 years.
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
The nostalgic game remaking gravy train keeps rolling along. The latest memory from the bygone years is the cult favorite Rocket Knight, courtesy of Konami Digital Entertainment. The remade IP will make it’s current generation debut on both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network, as well as Valve’s PC download client Steam. Debuting on the Sega Genesis, and later SNES, 15 years ago, the revamp will sport a high definition graphics polish and new environments. Outside of a general release date of Sometime 2010, no exact details are yet known about the title.
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
LucasArts and Telltale Games announced that on the International Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day (annually on the 19th of September) the first episode in the Tales of Monkey Island series will be available free of charge for the PC. For the Elder-Geek.com review of this episode, please go here. For information regarding the offer, more details can be found after the break.
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