03.06.08
Street Fighter Mouse Generation
Press release from Sony shows the new colour version for the PSP – Matte Bronze.
New Wii channel called テレビの友チャンネル Gガイド for Wii has been released. Showing up to a week in advance, you can see TV programmes in your region, and can tell your friends about them in advance. All using the Wii remote. Although it says in the article that the channel itself is available from Wii for free download, I have no idea if it works outside Japan as of yet. It does pretty much what some of our TV services do anyway, but probably a new thing for the Japanese population.
Also on Wii, Biohazard 0 due to be released (originally from GC) this summer. And there’s this new DS game that’s classed as ‘puzzle adventure’, also on release this summer titled リクとヨハン～消えた2枚の絵～ (subtitle: Disappearance of the Two Paintings). Solve puzzles to find out whodunnit, is the gist of this. You will need to be able to understand Japanese for this though until they decide it’s ok to port it over to English (so don’t come crying to me asking for translation of the whole ruddy game!).
Street Fighter Mouse Generation is due out this spring. Free to download, free to play. As can be seen here, you can model your own characters, and play only using the mouse (no keyboards!). Strangely enough, one of the stages seen above is of a typical Japanese kid’s room… you can almost imagine how many otakus played out a fighting scenario in this way with their plastic figurines.