Ron Gilbert, the man behind The Secret of Monkey Island and most recently The Cave, has left Double Fine to pursue his career in video games elsewhere.
Gilbert has said; “I want to thank all the amazing people at Double Fine for all their hard work on The Cave. It was a true pleasure to work with every one of them over the past two years. So much fun. I will miss them all. And of course to Tim for creating the opportunity to come there and make The Cave.”
NeoGAF user CrunchinJelly has spotted a listing by the Brazilian ratings board that lists Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse as an upcoming title for PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita and Wii-U. We assume this title will be re-released digitally.
Castle of Illusion was originally released for Mega Drive in 1990 and is highly regarded as one of the best Mickey games ever made.
No release date is set at this time. More on this as we get it.
Arkedo Studio, the team responsible for Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit have sadly shut their doors.
Bizarrely, the studio didn’t go bankrupt or into administration. Arkedo weren’t able to secure a project after finishing Hell Yeah! and decided to disband while they had money and were able to get “good conditions” for all their staff elsewhere.
Arkedo have also announced that they have 2 other unannounced games which are complete. These games will be the last from the studio and should be released “soon”.
SEGA’s PC/PSN/XBLA title Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is getting a spin-off title called Hell Yeah! Pocket Inferno. The game is an iOS running game like Canabalt and features a total of 50 stages. The game launches sometime tonight.
SEGA have permanently reduced the prices to a select number of PSP titles that are available to download from the Playstation Network. This is a North American deal only. The prices are below:
Alien Syndrome:$9.99………$4.99 Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars:$9.99………$4.99 Crush:$9.99………$6.99 Sonic Rivals:$9.99………$6.99 Sonic Rivals 2:$9.99………$6.99 Super Monkey Ball Adventure:$9.99………$4.99 Valkyria Chronicles II:$19.99………$9.99
If you haven’t played it yet we recommend Crush as it’s one of the most interesting and unique puzzle games ever created.
Anarchy Reigns is making its’ way to the Playstation Network today. The Platinum Games-developed brawler can be bought and downloaded to your PS3 hard-drive for £19.99.
Our good friend Titanscreed and his YouTube channel Project Phoenix Productions (that we are proudly affiliated with) have begun a Let’s Play series of the Double Fine adventure game The Cave. You can check out the first episode below:
SEGA have revealed that the re-releases of Cyber Troopers Virtual-On and Virtua Striker will not be making their way West and are restricted to the Japanese PSN and XBLA services. This is disappointing news as the other 3 titles in the collection (Sonic the Fighters, Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers) were released in the West.
The 2 games are due to launch in Japan on February 13th 2013.
Bayonetta will be re-released via the Playstation Network on January 30th. The Platinum Games epic will be available to download for £14.99.
There is currently no word about whether the long loading times of the original PS3 release will be cured in the PSN version. We’re hoping that they’re at least shorter due to the entire game being installed on your hard-drive for direct access.
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