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Q2 2009 – Notable releases
Apr 6th
Here’s a quick lowdown on some of the more notable releases for the second quarter of 2009 so far:
Wii:
Excitebots – April 20th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May 1st
Punch-Out!! – May 18th
Boom Blox Bash Party – May 19th
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits – June 16th
The Conduit – June 23rd
Xbox 360:
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assult on Dark Athena – April 7th
The Godfather 2 – April 7th
Puzzle Quest Galactrix – April 8th
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 – April 21st
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May 1st
Batman: Arkham Asylum – June 9th
Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires – June 16th
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits – June 16th
Playstation 3:
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assult on Dark Athena – April 7th
The Godfather 2 – April 7th
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 – April 21st
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May 1st
Batman: Arkham Asylum – June 9th
Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires – June 16th
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits – June 16th
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DSi – April 5th
Rhythm Heaven – April 5th
WarioWare: Snapped! (DSiWare) – April 6th
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier – April 28th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May 1st
Knights of the Nightmare – June 2nd
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits – June 9th
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor – June 23rd
Megaman Starforce 3: Black Ace & Red Joker – June 9th Delayed until June 30th.
Playstation Portable
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce – April 28th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – May 1st
Class of Heroes – June 9th
If anyone wants to pitch in with a release they think is noteworthy, especially for the 360 or PS3 due to my lack of either, let me know.
First Impressions Double Feature: Retro Game Challenge and GTA Chinatown Wars
Mar 19th
So, with the excess amount of cash I have I managed to pick up a couple of games over the last few weeks. Here’s my take on two of the DS games I’ve bought recently. I’m also going to try a bit of a more formal-like structure to First Impressions posts, starting with this one.
First Impressions: Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
Feb 20th
I have a couple of top 10s lined up, but for now here’s something that I can effectively write about.
For once, American Fire Emblem fans had to go through what European gamers go through in general. Believe it or not, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon has been out in Europe since mid December. The game finally made landfall in the US early this week, although it sucks to be you if you live in the land down under right now as you still have a couple of months to wait.
Realizing that I had some extra cash to spend, I ended up picking this up. Although I’m not all that great at this notorious difficult SRPG series, I’ve always picked them up starting with the first, but now how does the latest version of the game that started it all hold out?
And Now For Something Completely Different: Sega Announces Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Feb 12th
Pardon my eagerness to write something about this, but as I’m an Olympic fanatic and the next Olympic games happens to be happening in my hometown, I just have to go through with this.
On a day where Canada is marking the one year countdown to the start of the opening ceremonies for the 2010 winter games, Sega decided to mark the occasion in their own way by uploading a teaser video on YouTube for their second Olympic-based game following their Mario and Sonic mashup of Beijing 2008, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
Impressions: Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)
Feb 9th
Sega’s been really busy with their long-running RPG franchise in the past while, first releasing this, Phantasy Star Portable, in Japan, and then Phantasy Star Zero on the DS, and then getting their localizations underway. The demo for PSP, which takes you up to the first boss then leaves you to explore the multiplayer option as much as you choose, has been available for download on PSN for a good portion of the last week now. With turn-based combat pushed aside a long time ago, being replaced with the real-time combat of MMO entries Phantasy Star Online and Universe, how does this fare on the handheld?
Indie Gaming: Fidgeting with M.U.G.E.N
Feb 6th
Running around with your head cut off for a week leaves me little time to write a blog post, so today I will be trying my best to do a double update.
Fighting games are quite the genre of its own. One on one fights in which you try to bust out absolutely insane combos and memorize complex button combinations make it one of the more difficult and more competitive types of games out there. I remember back in the days; I was so bad with Street Fighter II that I couldn’t even throw a Hadouken. The game when it initially made its way to the SNES was a hit with all the boys at school. They would go home and that’s all they’d play.
Indie gaming: osu!
Jan 30th
The Rhythm genre, made extremely popular with Konami’s Beatmania, Guitar Freaks, and of course Dance Dance Revolution, has always been an addicting one in my mind. As a talanted musician-in-limbo I have always dug these types of games, although that mainly pertains to Guitar Hero/Rock Band.
At the same time, however, Nintendo and Inis put rhythm to the stylus with the Japanese hit Osu! Tatake! Ouendan!, which sees players tapping hit circles and dragging across sliders to music as they appear on the screen. Over here, that became Elite Beat Agents with its exclusive 15 song library of popular western hits spanning the past 20 or so years.
Gamer Gear: Carrying More Games and Less Cases; The Loyal Nintendo-ite Way
Jan 29th
When it comes to Nintendo and handhelds, it has always baffled me how, as the handhelds get more and more advanced and the games become bigger, the cartridges have always become smaller. I was shocked when the GBA came out and found that the cartridges were maybe not even half the size of that of the game boy and the GBC. Even moreso with the fact that DS game cards are even smaller. Here’s the thing, though; I like to keep my game cards safe from dust, but for that why do I have to carry around a case for each game that’s double the size of my DS lite?
Looking Into the Mind of a Gamer
Jan 23rd
Allow me to welcome you to “A Gamer’s Mind,” a blog in which I speak my mind about gaming, video games, happenings in the gaming industry, or whatever happens to come to my mind that involves video games. For now, the blog’s backend has been finished to my liking, although it may take a couple of weeks to create a nice visual look so in the meantime please bear with me as we set things up.
I usually have things to talk about when it comes to video games, as it’s one of my main hobbies (along with music and sports) and something that I’ve lived with for most of my life.
My goal is to be updating almost regularly, not necessarily on a daily basis but whenever something comes to mind, and that will (hopefully) start within the next week or so. Until then, happy gaming.
