What with the holiday and all, here's Release List to start the week. This week brings long-awaited racer Grid 2, intriguing RTS Wargame: Airland Battle, Insomniac's shooter Fuse, the Wii U Virtual Console release of Mega Man X, and more.
Next week will see the release of Resident Evil: Revelations' home edition, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Call of Juarez Gunslinger, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, and other things you can play for entertainment.
Becoming a fledgling samurai in Shin Megami Tensei 4 sounds pleasant, but what responsibilities does an initiate have? Cleaning shoes? Answering phones? A new gameplay trailer shows a samurai's duties are far more of the 'wearing a cool wrist computer' and 'slaying demons' variety, thankfully.
Remember that old stuff? Well it's coming back a bit newer. In this case, we're talking Putty Squad, an updated take on the classic platformer from 1994. System 3 has talked idly about the game for several years, including aborted plans for it to be a European Vita launch title, but today dropped a trailer and word that it's coming to a whole heap of platforms.
How pleasant that Capcom this week announced a western release for courtroom thriller Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, but how curious that it'll only be available via download in the 3DS eShop. It's a popular series, isn't it? Not enough to justify a retail release here too, Capcom says.
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Where do you go after you've given players the ability to create nearly any object and modify it with nearly any adjective? The Scribblenauts franchise could have hit a wall with its latest release, Unlimited. However, this year's iteration breaks through that wall by enhancing its library with one of the most comprehensive compendiums of the DC Universe ever.
Scribblenauts Unmasked for 3DS, Wii U, and PC promises to feature all the DC Comics characters--and not just characters from the New 52. "Even characters that appeared in one panel in one comic in 1976" can be found in the game, Warner Bros promises.
Namco Bandai has declared that "Pac is back!" I wasn't aware that Pac had ever left, but regardless, Pac-Man is coming back to consoles later this year in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. It'll feature everything you remember about the dot-munching hero, including a whole lot of platforming! (Wait, that doesn't sound right.)
"Oh my Glob!" you gasped when Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward first talked about a video game of the fine cartoon series. What a shame that Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?! only hit handhelds, then. Steel yourself, heroes, as D3Publisher today announced a new game, snappily named Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!. It's coming this fall to PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and 3DS with four-player co-op t'boot.
Nintendo dropped a Pokébomb this morning, with news including confirmation that Pokémon X and Pokémon Y are set in the new region of Kalos, whose capital Lumiose City boasts an awfully Eiffel-ish tower. The publisher lifted the wraps off another four new Pokémon, with the most exciting being the ridable Gogoat. It's a goat which goes.
Survival shooter sequel Metro: Last Light headlines next week's new releases, supported ably by EVE Online's FPS tie-in Dust 514, god game Reus, first-person tower defense Sanctum 2, tower offense Anomaly 2, and more.
Next week is a little light on new releases. Perhaps everyone's tired after the initial burst of spring exuberance. Still, we'll see the PC-wide release of Pinball FX2, Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move, a PS2 Classic release of Fatal Frame 2, and some other odds and ends.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon leads a week of lovely new releases, which also includes the PS3 Director's Cut of Deadly Premonition, mecha space shooter Strike Suit Infinity, and the PC editions of face-puncher Zeno Clash 2 and puzzle-platformer Fez.
Playing video games without also experiencing a wide range of other arts leaves you a stunted and terrible person, so They say, but thankfully some novels are playable on your game devices and have pictures and everything. Publisher Aksys yesterday announced it's bringing visual novel Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi westward to Nintendo 3DS, to make you more whole by teaching a little something about love between a woman and a man.
Next week brings a fine lineup of new releases, including zombie-smashing sequel Dead Island: Riptide, survive 'em up Don't Starve, heist 'em up Monaco, tie 'em in Star Trek, the expandalone Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, and loads more lovelies.
The Nintendo 3DS's Circle Pad Pro was a curious accessory, a clunky thing adding a second analogue nub and two extra shoulder buttons to make the handheld less rubbish for console-y action games. It's mostly forgotten, only supported by a few games and incompatible with the updated 3DS XL. But hey, if you do own the big 3DS and want in on the analogue fun, Nintendo is finally releasing the XL version in North America this week.
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