Quick/Random news
Slow day for gaming news, the biggest thing was the rumor of the Black XB360 with a nice 120GB hard drive. But I really didn’t want to post about any more rumors this week…
Instead, I found some other small-quick bits of news:
-Touch detective 2 website! (wallpapers ftw)
-Bomberman story website. I’m kind of skeptical of the differences between this and “Bomberman land touch!”. They seem too similar, at least there’s a big difference between all the four Harvest moon games for DS(which includes rune factory). sheesh
-Chronos Twin info. This was a GBA title way back when apparently. Some more screens and video showed up on that game, which IMO doesn’t look very good. It’s nice to see a very small-scale developer trying something really bizarre with the DS’s unique hardware - but it looks flawed. I mean, playing two characters on two separate screens?…At the same time? No thanks, not really appealing to me. Looks more frustrating than innovative.
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Chronos Twin’s small developer and platform conversion from GBA to DS reminded me of another title called “Western lords” by Blossom soft. (Hey, there’s also an old DS-X2 interview!) Now renamed “Sagrada Guardians”(?), I have also discovered on the site that the game finally has a solid 2008 release date posted! Well ok, I guess that’s not very “solid”… at least we know they’ve made progress. Blossom soft seems to have also joined up with Alten8 on a cell phone game called “Oracle“. After going to Alten8’s site, I discovered that they had just last week(the 15th) announced they were working on DS games! So now I’m thinking Blossom soft could be involved with… even more DS RPG’s? Who knows, interesting stuff going on the the small-time developer world…. and hey, according to Suda51 - this is exactly what the industry needs more of. I’m all for it, just hope these titles aren’t complete crap….