The list of games for the summer of arcade this year include the Giant Bomb shilled Bastion, an iPhone to Kinect port Fruit Ninja Kinect, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, From Dust, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
Perhaps the least exciting lineup ever? Yes.
The seminal classic River City Ransom is finally getting a proper sequel, and it’s going to be on consoles, instead of being limited to some bizarre Asia PC only pseudo MMO. Now we must all begin wirting letters to the developer Miracle Kidz asking that it be 2D sprite work only, none of this sad 3D that attempts to emulate the old style that has been cropping up in some of the spin-off games.
Square-Enix in their infinite wisdom has seen fit to cancel the multiplayer downloadable title Gun Loco. The game should have been finished by now, and someone at Square must have finally looked at it. Good riddance.
There’s a rumor swirling about the internet saying that, according to Xbox 360 Magazine Italy, there will be a multiplay Silent Hill game for XBLA where players have to survive in the town of Silent Hill. Seems somewhat insane, but Konami is the company self-destructive enough to do it. Perhaps it could be fun, the Resident Evil Outbreak games never really had a proper shot because they just came to early for proper online console gaming.
An insane amount of gameplay footage was put up for the XBLA game Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Thia should give you a very good idea if you’re interested in this or not. The art style is very nice, but very unchanging throughout.
Double Fine has announced the first of their new smaller downloadable titles Costume Quest. In a move rarely seen outside of free flash games they’ve made it a holiday themed game, that holiday being Halloween. It’s described as an adventure/RPG, hopefully not to Diabloesque there’s been a quite few of those lately. You play a kid out for a night of trick or treating, and you battle imagined monsters using your imagined powers in a quest to save your little sister. Sometimes you will have help from your friends whose imagined selves are also defined by their cute kid costumes.
Costume Quest is planned for release this Halloween on Xbox Live Arcade, and the Playstation Network
Crystal Dynamics has announced the latest Tomb Raider game, except it’s not a Tomb Raider game. They’re dropping the Tomb Raider moniker and just calling it Lara Croft and the Gaurdian of Light, they aren’t releasing any details except that it’s being made as a downloadable only title. They’ll be showing the game behind closed doors this month at the Game Developers Conference.
IGN is now reporting that Ikaruga, Omega Five, Exit, Trigger Heart Exelica will all be coming to the XBLA.
1up is reporting Rez is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Rez will be in HD, with 5.1 surround sound, and is scheduled for release in Q1 ’08.
