Cave’s ‘Akai Katana’ Coming to North America

The once JPN import only shmup and Cave’s most recent world war two themed flying shooter Akai Katana will finally get released in North America and Europe by the publisher Rising Star Games, who are a subsidiary of Grasshopper Manufacture, for the second quarter of 2012.

I haven’t been able to confirm if this will be a downloadable game similarly to the Deathsmiles IIX US release which was released by Cave last year and was simply a straight port with no menu translation, or a disc based released similar to Aksys Games release of the original Deathsmiles with tons of bonus swag to coincide with the game’s North American release.  Either way, it will surly be much cheaper than importing the original JPN release, which is never a bad thing.

Rising Star Games has also announced that there newest distribution division, Rising Star Games Digital, will also be releasing games for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, Steam, iOS and Android platforms.

 

[via siliconera]

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Dodonpachi “Blissful Death” Coming to your iOS Device!

Cave is showing love to the North American market by releasing the forth Dodonpachi game for your iPhone or iPad this February. Sweet. Keep ‘em coming Cave!

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Megaman & Pacman in Street Fighter x Tekken!?

So is this Capcom griefing all the Megaman fans out there or just differentiating between Rockman and Megaman?

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Neo-Geo Pocket Returns… as a new Handheld (Update)

One of my personal favorite handheld device looks to be making a comeback of sorts. While the original Neo-Geo Pocket played stylized ports of Neo-Geo library, this new device looks to be playing the actual MVS/AES roms and with an SD port on the side, the new SNK cell phone sized portable device looks sleek, sturdy and also sports the amazing analog d-Pad. Currently called the “Neo Geo Portable Device”, one call only hope that SNK will tug on the nostalgia prone heartstrings of this gamer and simply call it the Neo-Geo Pocket 2.

The unit comes preloaded with 20 Neo-Geo games all region set to the North American region. Hopefully you will have the options to changed your region like you could on the actual hardware. All I’m asking for is a cheap-ish device that will faithfully play Neo-Geo games better than my PSP, which was plagued with awkward loading screens.

The game are:

1.WORLD HEROES
2.ULTIMETE 11
3.TOP PLAYER’S GOLF
4.SENGOKU
5.NAM-1975
6.MUTATION NATION
7.LAST RESORT
8.KING OF MONSTERS
9.FRENZY
10.CYBER LIP
11.FATAL FURY SPECIAL
12.ART OF FIGHTING
13.SUPER SIDEKICKS
14.LEAGUE BOWLING
15.METAL SLUG
16.MAGICAL LORD
17.BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL
18.SAMURAI SHODOWN
19.KING OF FIGHTERS ’94
20.FATAL FURY

No details on pricing or when this device will officially so on sale. But rest assured, I’m going to grab one as soon as they become available. ^_^

[UPDATE: Looks like this device may have been a hoax.  The original JPN link has 404'ed and decepticreep pointed out that the Start and Select buttons are labeled differently in the different photos.]

For more photos, head to Andriasang.com.

–Jangofatt

(via Driph on Twitter)

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The Third Run of Pier Solar Is a GO!

Pier Solar, the insanely popular indie developed from the ground up RPG for the Sega Genesis/ Megadrive, has finally release it’s third reprint for sale. Get it while you still can, because they tend to sell out quick!

“The REPRINT is back! Orders for the REPRINT edition of Pier Solar with English, German and French are now open and available for immediate shipping. We also opened preorders for the REPRINT edition of Pier Solar with English, Spanish and Portuguese, attending the high demand.”

I had to wait over two years for the initial run of Pier Solar with soundtrack CD to be sold and soon after release, it became über rare since they only had enough to fill the inital order. I was offered up to $200+ USD for my original run because it was the only version with the CD soundtrack that is meant to be used on a Sega CD console to replace the chiptune soundtrack of the cart. The second reprint was sold without the CD soundtrack but again, they blew through those copies as well, but they gave you the option to download the soundtrack and burn your own disk.

So for this third run of Pier Solar, you can this elusive cart once again, but for the first time, the original soundtrack will also being released as a separate purchase.

“Preorders are also open for the Pier Solar Definitive Original Soundtrack. It includes four discs, including the full Mega-CD/Sega CD soundtrack, a bonus CD with unused tracks and re-arranged tracks, as well as mp3s and VGM files. The fourth disc is nothing less than the Enhanced Soundtrack Disc which was included with the classic and posterity editions. That’s right, now reprint buyers can get their official Enhanced Soundtrack Disc as well!”

The reprint edition of Pier Solar will be sold for $49 usd and the 4 disc soundtrack $25 usd, respectively at Magical Game Factory. If you are into old school retro rpg’s, get this game while you still can!

You have been warned.

–Jangofatt

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Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 Trailer

So it’s Super Mario Bros with SNES, Gameboy and NES graphical over, while playing a slew of old school NES characters in Super Mario Bros? Sign me up!

Until then, enjoy the original Super Mario Bros Crossover at Exploding Rabbit!

–Jangofatt

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Pinekast 138: More Shit Talking Fun!

It’s been a long while since the last show and we recorded this episode a while back but that doesn’t change the fact that we have a new episode for you!

Russ was in town for Thanksgiving and it just us going on about whatever came to mind talking shit.

Awesomesauce.

–Jangofatt

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Pinekast 137: Being Thankful About Ass-wipes

To celebrate this joyous day which is Christmas, please allow me to present to you, the listeners, Pineconeattack’s Thanksgiving episode!

The holiday has been busy for us here at PCA but today is the day of rest and relaxation where we enjoy the company of family and friends as we gift exchange, so on that note, here is Episode 137 where we talk about more Star Wars, flying shooters, and general ass wipery with tons of lolz.

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PCA Chrismas cards!!!

 

As mentioned on the last show page, if you want an Xmas card from us, email your address to pinconeattack at gmail.com.

- Tenno

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Pinekast! – Episode #136: BALDY ASCENDANT!

Well this is way late again; I know, I know, Tenno fucking does it again. I admit it, I’m terrible at managing time, hah ha!

No biggies!

This show runs the usual gamut as Jango and Baldy hunker down against the maniacal idiocy that is Tenno, but then we take on the Transformer’s movies, our fave games, the Xbox and some other stuff you may have never cared about, but I bet after the show, you’ll freak out over.

Hell, just imagine I’m typing something witty here, press ‘play’ and we’ll do the rest!

PS: It’s Christmas time, so if you want a card from us here at PCA, send us an email with your addy to pineconeattack at gmail.com and we’ll send yah one!

- Tenno

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