Thursday, May 31, 2012

2012 Console and Arcade News Roundup!


My apologies for not updating the blog in many moons. With E3 around the corner there is no better time then now to bring back the site.

As you may know I did a post about all of the games speculated to come home in the last 12 months here and like always I was correct about the games that were being released MONTHS ahead of any other news sites. Games like Mushihimesama 1.5 and Dodonpachi Daifukkatu (Pal/USA) were released to the Xbox 360 like predicted. In fact the only game not released is the Dreamcast port of Sturmwind.

Everything that was promised by major developers made it out and met my expectations.

The game ports of real importance I failed to cover that were released this year are Akai Katana for the Xbox 360 USA/Pal market , a Blazblue Upgrade for PS3/PSP/Vita/Xbox360 , House of The Dead 3 & 4 on PSN ,and the Simpsons Arcade game for PSN and XBLA.

 That Under Defeat HD Port which I posted the first news about in 2008 was also released finally for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Arcade news has been really slim with not many games in the pipeline with future home ports like Guilty Gear XX , Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Virtua Fighter 5.

Cave released a update to the Dodonpachi Series titled "Dodonpachi Sai Ou Jou" that is currently the 6th most popular game in Japanese Arcades according to Arcadia. They also announced a port of Akai Katana Shin to Arcades which I will cover in my next post.


Here is a list of Arcade ports and Arcade inspired games due for the rest of the year that I know of.


Playstation 3

Dead Or Alive 5
Street Fighter X Tekken
Tekken Tag Tournament 2

PSN

Double Dragon NEON
Guilty Gear XX A Core Plus
Virtual Fighter 5: Final Showdown

PSP Vita

Street Fighter X Tekken


Xbox 360

Dead Or Alive 5
Street Fighter X Tekken
Tekken Tag Tournament 2

XBLA

Double Dragon NEON
Double Dragon II
Guilty Gear XX A Core Plus
Magical Drop V
Virtual Fighter 5: Final Showdown
WWE Wrestlefest


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