Phoenix Wright to be made a Musical Comedy
Capcom announced that their video game Phoenix Wright will be produced as a musical comedy by the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theatre. Yes, your favorite Ace Attorney will be singing and dancing live on stage in the form of Ranju Tomu from the Cosmos troupe this coming February. View the clip after the jump to have an idea how this will all turn out to be. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, or Gyakuten Saiban Yomigaeru...
Mega Man 9 hits stores next week
Mega Man 9, also known as Rockman 9: The Ambition’s Revival! (Rokkuman Nain Yab? no Fukkatsu!) is slated to be released September 22 in North America. It will be the first Mega Man title to get a number designation since Mega Man 8 way back 1996. As far as the story goes, Dr. Light (Mega Man’s creator) is blamed for a robotic rampage with which Dr. Wily supposedly doesn’t have anything to do. However, since this is a...
Heretic and Hexen released as open source
Holy sh*t! The age of open source is nigh. And I just hoped that this was the case years ago. Yeah, so I started my computer gaming career more than a decade ago when the best games were Frogger, and, if you’re lucky, Prince of Persia. Then came Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom. Sometime during that era were spin-offs like Heretic and Hexen. I love revisiting my childhood but getting those games always meant having to resort to some...
Preview: Mortal Kombat vs. DC is a bad idea
When we hear of the phrase Mortal Kombat, only one thing first comes to mind: Fatality. Even Capcom can admit that this concept featured in MK challenged the supremacy of their Street Fighter. The Fatality became a major innovation in the genre of fighting games, that it made MK gain its current reputation: it was deemed too graphic and disturbing that it caused major uproars from concerned citizens, especially parents. Ironically, I...