Rising Star games are bringing Deadly Premonition to the UK!
Official announcement
I want this game because I have seen videos from it on youtube and it seems... uh, pretty eccentric! And... very funny for a horror story. It's received some extremely mixed reviews...
It's on preorder on Amazon UK and play.com for £17.99 - if only I could be sure of my postal address on its release date, I'd preorder it right away!
Monday, 13 September 2010
Monday, 6 September 2010
2011 anime calendars up for preorder
It's that time of year! The time of year when CD Japan put up calendars for preorder... and minutes later, they're sold out!
CD Japan Calendar section
Calendars I'm looking at:
One Piece
Heart Catch Pre Cure!
Digimon Xros Wars
TV anime calendar
TV tokusatsu hero calendar
All that's Ultraman
I kind of wish there were more calendars with old series known for their great artwork. There's Ashita no Joe but I haven't seen much of it and the front cover is a terrible series spoiler. Ultraman calendars always make me smile, though. Every year. :D
CD Japan Calendar section
Calendars I'm looking at:
One Piece
Heart Catch Pre Cure!
Digimon Xros Wars
TV anime calendar
TV tokusatsu hero calendar
All that's Ultraman
I kind of wish there were more calendars with old series known for their great artwork. There's Ashita no Joe but I haven't seen much of it and the front cover is a terrible series spoiler. Ultraman calendars always make me smile, though. Every year. :D
Recettear now available for preorder
As I mentioned in my post about companies translating and releasing doujin games in English, Recettear by EGS is coming out soon through a company called Carpe Fulgur.
official English website
EasyGameStation website
I've played the demo, and I really like it.
You play as a little girl who is running an item shop in an RPG world. She can buy and sell things in town and haggle with customers, she can hire people to go into dungeons to get new stuff for her to sell. And I love random dungeoning! :)
I've got it preordered on Steam even though it's the only version with DRM. It's 10% off for the preorder, and Carpe Fulgur made a point of being nice and fair when it comes to international pricing!
official English website
EasyGameStation website
I've played the demo, and I really like it.
You play as a little girl who is running an item shop in an RPG world. She can buy and sell things in town and haggle with customers, she can hire people to go into dungeons to get new stuff for her to sell. And I love random dungeoning! :)
I've got it preordered on Steam even though it's the only version with DRM. It's 10% off for the preorder, and Carpe Fulgur made a point of being nice and fair when it comes to international pricing!
Telltale Great Adventure Bundle
Special offer from Telltale Games at the moment:
The Great Adventure Bundle
For $19.99 US dollars, you get The Whispered World, Jack Keane, a collection of the King's Quest games, both of the Penny Arcade games, and if they sell enough copies you also get Puzzle Agent and the Sam & Max Season Two.
They also give some money to charity.
I'm not sure I like this.
I mean, it seems a fairly good offer, probably, but the emphasis of the sale seems to be that it's a way to give to charity and you also get some games. People are talking about it like all the money goes to charity.
But that's not the case. 25% of the money for this goes to charity.
It just seems like they are using charitable causes to advertise their products, rather than wholeheartedly doing this for charity. It doesn't sit well with me.
Telltale Games have made a lot of good games, funny adventure games, I don't have anything against them, I'm not sure about their marketing though. Anyway, if you think it sounds good, this special offer is now on so you can buy those games cheap. :)
The Great Adventure Bundle
For $19.99 US dollars, you get The Whispered World, Jack Keane, a collection of the King's Quest games, both of the Penny Arcade games, and if they sell enough copies you also get Puzzle Agent and the Sam & Max Season Two.
They also give some money to charity.
I'm not sure I like this.
I mean, it seems a fairly good offer, probably, but the emphasis of the sale seems to be that it's a way to give to charity and you also get some games. People are talking about it like all the money goes to charity.
But that's not the case. 25% of the money for this goes to charity.
It just seems like they are using charitable causes to advertise their products, rather than wholeheartedly doing this for charity. It doesn't sit well with me.
Telltale Games have made a lot of good games, funny adventure games, I don't have anything against them, I'm not sure about their marketing though. Anyway, if you think it sounds good, this special offer is now on so you can buy those games cheap. :)
My impressions of raptr
I signed up with raptr, the videogaming social network.
Here's my profile: tenshi_a's Profile
My opinions of it:
Good:
* It can automatically track what you're playing on XBLA, PSN and Steam
* You can see what all your friends are playing on the various gaming networks
* You can chat to your friends across the various networks
* You can add your own collection of games manually
Bad:
* I was really reluctant to hand over my login details for the various gaming networks to them.
* It doesn't track what you're playing on XBLA / PSN / Steam if it doesn't have achievements / trophies.
* It says it has 40000 games in their database, but I think most of them are flash games.
* I can't seem to get it to track me playing the flash games it lists.
* It's really bad if you own a lot of old games / obscure games / import games from Japan / you're in Europe and own a lot of Europe-exclusive games. And I have a lot of all of those! I just can't find my games in their database. :(
* They have a page for adding games, and I tried it but the game I added hasn't shown up after about a week or two, so I can't be bothered.
So yeah, it's much more of a social tool than a game collection / playing tracker. It's not ideal for me, but I might as well stick with it for now.
Here's my profile: tenshi_a's Profile
My opinions of it:
Good:
* It can automatically track what you're playing on XBLA, PSN and Steam
* You can see what all your friends are playing on the various gaming networks
* You can chat to your friends across the various networks
* You can add your own collection of games manually
Bad:
* I was really reluctant to hand over my login details for the various gaming networks to them.
* It doesn't track what you're playing on XBLA / PSN / Steam if it doesn't have achievements / trophies.
* It says it has 40000 games in their database, but I think most of them are flash games.
* I can't seem to get it to track me playing the flash games it lists.
* It's really bad if you own a lot of old games / obscure games / import games from Japan / you're in Europe and own a lot of Europe-exclusive games. And I have a lot of all of those! I just can't find my games in their database. :(
* They have a page for adding games, and I tried it but the game I added hasn't shown up after about a week or two, so I can't be bothered.
So yeah, it's much more of a social tool than a game collection / playing tracker. It's not ideal for me, but I might as well stick with it for now.
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