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Bargains on Bully and bullet hell

Posted Jul 6th 2008 2:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Sales

If you're the type to never pay retail on anything, especially video games, the like-minded misers at the Cheap Ass Gamers community have found two worthwhile Wii deals for you:

If you haven't looked into shoot-em-up Castle of Shikigami III before, make sure you check out the videos we posted a couple of months ago -- there's a flying butler! Amazon also has CSI: Hard Evidence on sale for $19.99, but we have a feeling that not many of you will be too excited to pick up this video game adaptation of a poor man's Law & Order.

[Via CAG]

WiiWare games hacked, pirated, and brought to North American Wiis

Posted May 4th 2008 3:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Imports, Homebrew, WiiWare

Only a few weeks after pirates figured out how to install Virtual Console games on their Wiis for free using the Twilight Hack, a clever trick for running unofficial code on an unmodded systems, hackers have expanded their counterfeit offerings to allow bootleg copies of WiiWare titles.

We're not yet sure if online modes are working, but the fact that pirates can install Japanese WiiWare ROMs/WADs on a US system, as shown above with Family Ping Pong, is impressive (and criminal!). Considering how fast the Wii's piracy scene has been moving, someone will likely soon release instructions on how to bypass microtransactions and install downloadable content updates for free, too.

How long will it be before Nintendo steps in to end these shenanigans? Will that mean the end of Wii homebrew, as well? See, this is why we can't have nice things.

Taking out the trash in Castle of Shikigami III

Posted Mar 19th 2008 11:15AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Video

Aksys Games' Shikigami no Shiro III may not have enjoyed amazing first-day sales in Japan, but we're still glad it's coming to North America. If you're clueless to the whole thing here, hit up the video above. Basically, you just shoot the crap out of everything in sight. We're sure there's more to it than that, but we really don't care. Shooting things is enough for us.

Gallery: Castle of Shikigami III

Rumor: Wii games face disappointing first day sales in Japan

Posted Dec 16th 2007 3:04PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Rumors

This seems to be becoming a trend, but the handful of Wii games that were released this week in Japan are reported to have had poor first day sales. They were all third-party titles, which is also somewhat worrisome. Here's a look at the numbers:

Chocobo's Dungeon (Square Enix) - 30,000 (30% sell through of initial amount shipped)
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (Sega) - 7,000 (10% sell through)
Soul Calibur Legends (Bandai Namco) - 5,000 (10% sell through)
We Love Golf (Capcom) - 4,000 (10% sell through)
Shikigami no Shiro III (Arc System Works) - 500

Granted, these are only rumored first day sales, and we'll have to wait until later in the week to get a better grip on the situation, but as of now it doesn't look good.

So, what do we make of these numbers? If they're correct, is it bad news for the Wii and third-party developers, or just more evidence that Japan is shying away from console gaming? While the latter is certainly a factor, third parties certainly can't be happy to see low numbers. However, it's way too early to ring a death knell for any of these games, even if these numbers are correct. We'll just have to wait and see how these games perform in the next few weeks.

[Via Cubed3]

Aksys shooting Castle of Shikigami III at the U.S.

Posted Dec 14th 2007 6:35PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Screens

Aksys Games announced today that they will localize Alfa System's vertical shooter Shikigami no Shiro III as Castle of Shikigami III. The game, featuring 10 characters (who fly around and shoot magical bullet things) will be released in the spring of 2008. It seems that only the Wii version is being localized, and not the Xbox 360 version.

We're a little surprised to see a 2D shooter being released in the U.S. outside of the Virtual Console (which is shmupland). But we shouldn't be -- it was published in Japan by Arc System Works, and Aksys seems to have swept up all of their Nintendo content for localization. Just to be clear, we are thrilled about that. Check out the press release after the break and enjoy our gallery of brightly-colored, confusing screens!

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Petit Copter flying over the Pacific

Posted Nov 28th 2007 1:30PM by JC Fletcher

Aksys appears to be the default U.S. publisher for Arc System Works's Japanese releases. In addition to the wonderful DS games they're localizing, they have picked up Sonic Powered's mini-flight sim, Petit Copter. The American release will be titled MiniCopter: Adventure Flight. This is the first American release for a game in the Petit Copter series, which has entries on the PS2, Xbox and other systems.

Now that we know we'll get to play it, we're somewhat more interested in the title than before. The graphics are pretty rough, yes, but flying around in an oversized world, manipulating objects and carrying out objectives with air missiles and suction cups at least sounds unique. Of course, we'll be a lot more "somewhat more interested"
in a budget-priced MiniCopter.

Shikigami no Shiro III: a shooter with the human touch

Posted Nov 26th 2007 9:45AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports, Screens

The Shikigami no Shiro series is pretty weird, for a number of reasons: first, the truly off-putting budget US release with the generic Charlie's Angels boxart; second, that the latest iteration of a shooter series is being released in 2007 at all; but most importantly, and most pertinent to actual gameplay, that Shikigami no Shiro III includes a variety of characters, in the same vein as a fighting game. That the game is being released on the Wii seems fairly standard for a shooter, if anything could be "standard" about a modern entry in this classic genre.

The latest screenshots show the basic projectiles fired by some of the characters. Yes, you play as a flying human in this game, and not a spaceship or multi-headed dragon. That's something. We can't wait to float around as the classy Munchausen and shoot crystals from our outstretched hands. We can only assume that he's fresh from washing single handkerchiefs in a cocktail shaker.

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Bargains on Bully and bullet hell

WiiWare games hacked, pirated, and brought to North American Wiis

Taking out the trash in Castle of Shikigami III

Rumor: Wii games face disappointing first day sales in Japan

Aksys shooting Castle of Shikigami III at the U.S.

Petit Copter flying over the Pacific

Shikigami no Shiro III: a shooter with the human touch

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