Good news for Figma collectors, gamers and Saber fans. Fate/Extra will be released around March next year for the Sony PSP. Unlike the previously released Fate/Unlimited Codes (for the PSP & PS2) which is a VS fighting game, Fate/Extra will instead be an action RPG featuring the lovely characters from Fate/Stay Night such as Saber and Rin Tohsaka.
The best part is, the game will come in a Limited Edition version which features a special illustrated box, a beautiful figma figure of Saber in her Fate/Extra costume, a soundtrack and a visual book. The Figma figure will come with 2 different headsculpts, sculpted by Wada Aruko and Takeuchi Takashi respectively. The game still has a few months before finally coming to market, but there’s already something to like based on the screens in the Famitsu magazine scans as well as preliminary pics of the figure…Saber’s see-through costume! Can’t wait.
Here’s an interesting video coverage of the Tokyo Game Show 2009 event. Would love to be able to attend one in the future if time and money permits. The video featured quite a few interesting products, such as Microsoft’s Project Natal for the XBox 360, Sony PS3’s motion controller, as well as the PSP GO. There’s also news coverage on Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception which uses the iPhone’s accelerometer and touch screen to control the in-game fighter planes, and the much-anticipated Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3. The video is definitely worth a watch even if you don’t understand Japanese.
From the looks of it, it seems like game companies are increasingly moving towards a more interactive game environment as there seemed to be an emphasis on non-traditional interactive and control methods with hand gestures, body movements, and motion controls. This to me is a welcome move as I’m a fan of Nintendo Wii’s controller, which pretty much changed the way we game on a console. I also find myself spending the most time on my Wii (ok, this came out wrong) than any other console I own.
The newly designed Sony PS3 Slim looks pretty good to me, but as nice as the slim PS3 is, this Playstation 4 concept by Tai Chiem absolutely blows it out of the water. With it’s smooth mirror finish and simple shapes and lines, it’s a celebration of aesthetic beauty at its best. Woudln’t you agree that the black mirror finish and clear glass goes together rather nicely?
What does this concept PS4 contain you ask? Bluetooth integration, LCD screens on both the system and controller, the ability to mount the system horizontally or vertically are among it’s design features.
However, I’m doubting the usability and practicality of the controller since it seems to be missing quite a few buttons which are usually found on the top of the PS3 controller. Perhaps Tai Chiem could find a way to incorporate the missing buttons and try and sell the refined design to Sony. I’m sure most of us wouldn’t mind if our game consoles looked this good, even if it means having to clean it more often due to the mirror-like finish which attracts fingerprints like bees to honey.
But alas, this thing remains a concept and we can only hope that someday our future gaming devices would look this good.
Here’s a limited edition game which I think is genuinely limited and difficult to obtain, as opposed to the masses of limited edition game packages out there. Amy Hennig, Naughty Dog’s creative director revealed that the special Fortune Hunter edition for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves cannot be bought but instead will be given away through a series of competitions. People who were interested were told to keep an eye on the Playstation Blog, PlayStation Home and the upcoming Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo for more information.
The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Fortune Hunter Edition will include the game, an uber neat replica of the Phurba Dagger Artifact as seen in the game, including a display stand as well as a collectible art book and collector’s case autographed by Naughty Dog, plus a host of downloads.
I’m a few months’ late with this news as I was never really interested in GamePark’s GP2X Wiz prior to its release. I’ve already got a PSP, among a host of other consoles to occupy what little free time I have for games. However, I became interested in the GP2X after viewing a few Youtube videos of the GP2X Wiz running MAME as well as a host of other emulators. It seems like this tiny little wonder can do a alot of things, such as MPEG4, xViD and DivX video playback, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV audio support, as well as the requisite JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP formats for viewing photos. It also comes standard with some pretty impressive specs such as a touch sensitive 2.8-inch QVGA OLED screen, 533MHz ARM9 processor, 64MB of RAM, and 1GB of NAND flash memory!
I’ve been spending too much lately, so I’ll have to wait a little longer if I do decide to pick this miniature wonder up. I’m wondering how well it’ll do compared to the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. It’s a fair bit smaller than the Sony PSP or Nintendo DS Lite and would be far more pocketable as a portable gaming system. Are you interested in the GP2X Wiz and will you be buying one?
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