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PODCAST NO: 111
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LATEST GAMING
NEWS
7th of September 2010
Aksys
has posted a hands on flashed based demonstration of 999.
Click on the link, enter your birthday and click on demo. There
is a flash based guide to the game.
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D3
Publisher has opened up a teaser site for Earth Defense
Force: Insect Armageddon. At the moment the site has no
content but will soon have screenshots, etc.
More
KOF
Sky Stage is an SNK developed shooter that replaces fighters with
flying people. How it will work in practice is anyone's guess.
I suspect that it will probably be just another 'bullet-hell' game.
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Ni no Kuni: The Jet Black Sorcerer trailer
Trailer: Chenzo Cove (Vincent Mysliwiec)
Chenzo Cove is an upcoming 3D platformer
similar to the Super Monkey Ball series. Players roll a pirate around in a
ball, trying to reach the end of each level in the set time limit.
Apart from the Monkey Ball style gameplay, there are also some 2D plane
sections mixed in between. Then there are a couple of extra modes -
Treasure, which I'm assuming will be a sort of coin collection minigame,
and Race which is shown towards the end of the above trailer. It's only
single player, which is a shame since multiplayer racing would be ace.
Still, looks like it will be good fun. I personally love the Super Monkey
Ball games (well, the original few anyway) so hopefully Chenzo Park will
be just as entertaining. Check out the
Chenzo Park site for more details.
Freeware Game Pick: Sombreros (Dustin Gunn)
Sombreros is an arcade shooter made for
Arthur Lee's
Action 52 remake challenge, where you
play as a Mexican gunslinger who has to retrieve a couple of giant hats
from the bad guys. Ammo is unlimited in the game, and you can also call
upon your sombrero power to pause time and mark enemies for a round of
quick fire shots. Doing this depletes your sombrero gauge, but you can
replenish it by collecting hats from defeated outlaws.
You won't just be shooting at henchmen throughout the entire game. There
are a number of occasions where you have to duel with one or more
gunslingers, and some levels have doors that you have to break down before
you can proceed. The obligatory boss fights are there as well, featuring
gang leaders who can take more damage than the common criminal.
Note that the version of Sombreros highlighted here is unfinished, but we
will keep you posted if the full game ever comes out. Until then, best to
grab a copy of the game in case the project is abandoned (Dustin's last
update was July 16th) and the download link expires forever. (Windows,
4.00MB)
Preview: Legend of Iya (Andrew Bado)
Here's the latest development video from
Legend of
Iya, a 2D exploration platformer that has been in production
for several years now. Originally designed for the Game Boy Advance, the
current iteration of the project is
developed with the PC platform in mind although the author has yet to
decide on whether to release the game for free or not.
Shown above is a mid-boss fight with the elephant monster GunGanesha -
from only the first area of the game. There are plans to release a
short demo for Legend of Iya once the
opening area has been completed, but considering that all of the coding
and art are done by just
one person, it could still be years
before anyone out there will have a chance to sample it.
