Archive for March 1st, 2010

Here is the first, of what I hope will be many, retro review for GamerSyndrome.com. This installment focuses on Megaman Legends! I chose to review the game on the PSX. I hear there was a newer version on the PSP, but for retro reviews I will try and play the game on the platform it [...]

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Hideo Kojima considers PSP-exclusive Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to be an experiment to see which directions the franchise can be taken in.

In a series of tweets from his newly minted Twitter account, the MGS boss said… lots of things in Japanese that we don’t understand. Here’s the translation according to CVG: “It’s difficult to show the interest and freshness of PW through video. Cameron’s Avatar was a huge hit because of the 3D video. That can’t be communicated through text and a trailer. It’s something you won’t understand unless you experience it for yourself in the theater.”

He continued, “It’s not that PSP is the main platform for the future MGS series. PW is a test to see what type of expansions are there if MGS is brought to a portable. We’re not just rising vertically with development on next generation systems, but also horizontally, trying to expand gameplay.”

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is set for a May 25 release in the US and May 28 in Europe.

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Here is a video review of Shiren the Wanderer 3: The Sleeping Princess in the Clockwork Palace, which is developed by Chunsoft and published by Sega for Nintendo Wii. The game was released on June 5, 2008 in Japan. The PSP model will have “readjusted (easier) difficult, a new infrastructure mode, and shorter loading times via the ability to install the game to a PSP”. Watch the video review after the jump.

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Straight from the mouth of Avalanche Studios’ CEO Christofer Sundberg during an interview with Develop Online.
"I still believe publishers should cancel more projects in case the developers fail to deliver quality, before the investments become too high."
Funny part? Sundberg specifically spoke of one game: Ubisoft’s Avatar: The…

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These new titles will be added to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel around 9 a.m. Pacific time.
DSiWare
Let’s Golf (Gameloft, 1-2 players, 800 DSi Points)
Globulos Party (GlobZ, player, 500 DSi Points)
VT Tennis (Virtual Toys, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points)
Flips: Terror in Cubicle Four (Electronic Arts, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
WiiWare
Mega Man…

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