Sixty Hertz

Arcade culture article…

Thanks to lord cheez for this link.

This looks to be a great article from the chums over at insomniac! Click here!

And here’s a quote to get you hyped:

“The starting point of this essay then — and make of it what you will — is the observation that games released in the arcades are of a much higher quality, on average, than games released for the home console market. In other words, if you decided to walk into an arcade today blindfolded, and spend the evening playing the first game you bumped into (having taken off the blindfold first, yeah), chances are you’d have a lot more fun than if you spent the same amount of time playing something picked at random off the shelves of your local game retailer. “

Edit: Link fixed lol! 

What is Touhou, well its a one man development team’s shooter series that’s in its 10th plus incarnation. They made possibly one of the greatest shooting experiences: Shoot The Bullet. The two new titles are:

Mountain of Faith: A shooter who’s gameplay details can be read about here on the awesome TouhouWiki.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody: This Collabo with Tasogare Frontier is a projectile laden fighter (i think it’s a sort of sequel to a previous Touhou Fighter), click here for more info.

Sonic Team has posted a new vid detailing the new combat additions coming in the expansion. I’ll try to detail the new additions:

- Just Attack: Correct timing in the chain deals more damage and i think it refills your Photon Meter a slight.

- Just Counter: Correct timing after a block and you can counter attack.

- Accurate Collisions: Now collisions seem to more physical based…

The Insanity Naked Hunter Group has another superplay DVD coming out (0/13/2007). This time the featured game is Triangle Service’s Shooting Love 2007, which contains Exzeal (seen here) and Shmups Skill Test i think (kind of confused on this). Anyway enjoy…

Stumbled on this while looking for a Takoron Vid…

Passion for Puzzle seems to focus on all types of puzzle games regardless of the media (so console, portables, mobile as well as real world puzzles like rubiks cube…). 

Also Nikoli is a great page (i think i linked to this already but can’t seemed to find my old post). 

PS3

Dynasty Warrior: Gundam (Bandai-Namco)

Bladestorm (Koei) [JP]

PSP

Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Capcom)

Wii

Sharuui * Takoron (Compile Heart)[Jp]

Decent write up here! 

360

Blue Dragon (Mistwalker)

Dynasty Warrior: Gundam (Koei)

Can’t wait for this one… q4 2007 release!

Decent interview from 1up.com. Interesting fact: Dead Rising was originally a Shadow of Rome sequel.