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Retro City Rampage OST sees limited edition vinyl release

By
Matt Keller
– February 23, 2012


Retro City Rampage is due out later this year on a myriad of platforms, but for now you can enjoy the game’s soundtrack in one of two forms – digitally, through Bandcamp, or vinyl (for a limited time).

The soundtrack for the game is being created by Jake “virt” Kaufman, Leonard “Freaky DNA” Paul, and Matt “Norrin Radd” Cramer and consists mostly of NES inspired chiptunes.

The digital version is $CA7.99, while the vinyl copies will cost $CA43. The vinyl is limited to 500 copies – 300 black, 100 Green Sapphire and 100 Horizon Blue.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: The Warriors

By
Matt Keller
– February 23, 2012

Can’t believe it has been seven years already.

The Warriors is a video game based on the 1979 film of the same name. Without being tied to a release date for a film project (though a remake was planned at one point), Rockstar Toronto had ample time to flesh out the game and its mechanics, making it arguably one of the best licensed titles out there.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Sonic Heroes

By
Matt Keller
– February 22, 2012

Team Chaotix fo’ life.

Sonic Heroes was the first Sonic the Hedgehog game to be released across multiple platforms on day one. The game is best known for its three character set up, which allows you to switch between characters on the fly, and the return of Team Chaotix, who had not been seen since Knuckles’ Chaotix on the 32X.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Psychonauts

By
Matt Keller
– February 21, 2012

One for the Schafer crowd.

Psychonauts is a fan-favourite platformer with something of a troubled development history. Tim Schafer’s first post-Lucasarts game was meant to be an Xbox exclusive published by Microsoft themselves. Some four years and $US13 million dollars later, it ended up being released by Majesco, who were nearly bankrupted following the game’s terrible performance at retail.

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Contra turns 25 today

By
Matt Keller
– February 20, 2012


Apparently today marks 25 years since Contra debuted in Japanese arcades way back on February 20th, 1987. You should celebrate by playing Contra, or by watching this video of Neo Contra.

Yes, he is running on top of a helicopter propeller.

We’ll have some sort of feature on the series in the coming months. Maybe Konami will get around to revealing that reboot before then.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Street Fighter: The Movie

By
Matt Keller
– February 20, 2012

Van Dammit.

Street Fighter: The Movie is, as the name suggests, based on the film which was loosely based on the game. Unlike the arcade version, the home version was actually developed internally by Capcom, which some might say was an attempt at salvaging the project and turning it into something playable.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Spider-Man

By
Matt Keller
– February 19, 2012

The one that started a real turnaround for superhero games.

Spider-Man is the nineteenth (I believe) game based on Marvel’s most popular comic book character, and the first to be published by Activision, who still holds the license to this day. The game was developed by Neversoft using the same tech from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.

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Naughty Dog reflects on the making of Jak & Daxter

By
Matt Keller
– February 18, 2012


The Jak & Daxter HD Collection is out in the states now, and will be out here next week (we might even have a review for you in the near future), and to celebrate, Naughty Dog and 2 Player Productions teamed up to produce this short documentary on the making of the series.

Pretty interesting stuff. I’ll always wonder what the second game would have been like if they weren’t so heavily influenced by Grand Theft Auto III, however.

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Auction Watch – 18/02/2012

By
Matt Keller
– February 18, 2012

Seems to be a lot of obscure peripherals around this week.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Saturn)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC) w/ play guide

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (GameCube)

Club Nintendo Mario Controller for GameCube

Sega Master System 3-D Glasses

The Activator for the Sega Mega Drive

Hyper Magazine Issues 1-118 Pick up from Brisbane/Courier only

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Pix’n Love’s History of Nintendo Vol. 2 coming March 9

By
Matt Keller
– February 18, 2012


You might remember a couple of months ago that I posted a gushing review of Pix’n Love’s The History of Nintendo Vol. 1 – 1889-1980 (which you should still totally buy if you haven’t already). Florent Gorges in-depth history of one of the greatest forces in gaming was packed full of facts you (probably) didn’t know about Nintendo, along with images of many of their pre-video game products.

The second volume of the series, The History of Nintendo Vol. 2 – 1980-1991, which exclusively covers the Game and Watch line up, will be available on March 9. You can preorder the book here.

This should be an excellent book, if the first is anything to go by.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: South Park

By
Matt Keller
– February 18, 2012

Throwing snowballs at turkeys: the video game.

South Park for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC was the first game based on the now long running animated comedy. Acclaim picked up the license and had Iguana Entertainment churn out a quickie first person shooter. The result was not pretty – and it’s actually the best one Acclaim published. After Acclaim’s third abysmal South Park game (South Park Rally), series creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone refused to license the video game rights to the series for almost 10 years.

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PS2 Classics now available on Australian and European PlayStation Stores

By
Matt Keller
– February 18, 2012


A couple months ago we ran a story about PS2 Classics like God Hand being re-released for download on the US PlayStation Store. Well after a long wait, they’ve finally come to the SCEE run stores.

We’ve got a much larger initial line up of games too, though the quality greatly varies. Games are priced between $AU4.25 and $AU15.95. Here’s the list of what’s currently available:

  • A-Train 6 ($AU15.95)
  • Arcade Classics ($AU8.45)
  • Bust-A-Bloc ($AU8.45)
  • Cel Damage: Overdrive ($AU8.45)
  • Chicken Little ($AU15.95)
  • Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe ($AU15.95)
  • Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey ($AU15.95)
  • Donald Duck: Goin’ Quackers ($AU15.95)
  • God Hand ($AU15.95)
  • Golden Age of Racing ($AU8.45)
  • Gungrave Overdose ($AU8.45)
  • International Super Karts ($AU6.25)
  • Kim Possible: What’s the Switch ($AU15.95)
  • Maximo ($AU15.95)
  • Maximo vs. the Army of Zin ($AU15.95)
  • Meet the Robinsons ($AU15.95)
  • Mr Golf ($AU11.45)
  • MX World Tour ($AU8.45)
  • Neo Contra ($AU15.95)
  • Noble Racing ($AU8.45)
  • Road Trip Adventure ($AU8.45)
  • Seek and Destroy ($AU8.45)
  • Skyscraper ($AU4.25)
  • SSX On Tour ($AU15.95)
  • WWI: Aces of the Sky ($AU8.45)
  • WW2: Battle Over the Pacific ($AU8.45)

While it’s certainly a case of quantity over quality, I recommend God Hand, the two Maximo games and Neo Contra.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Resident Evil

By
Matt Keller
– February 17, 2012

You almost became a Jill sandwich!

Resident Evil is the first game in one of Capcom’s biggest franchises. It seemingly came out of nowhere in 1996 and took the world by storm – one of the first games of the then new fifth generation consoles to really break out. It was originally intended to be a remake of Capcom’s 1986 Famicom horror game Sweet Home.

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Blip Festival hits Melbourne this weekend

By
Matt Keller
– February 16, 2012

The world’s premiere chip tune festival, Blip Festival, will be making its Southern Hemisphere debut (February 17 and 18) this weekend at the Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy. The festival has popped up all over the world since 2006 in the United States, Japan and across Europe – now it’s Australia’s turn.

Chiptune creators from across the world will be playing at the event – a combination of local talent, and many who are playing in Australia for the first time.

You can read more about it at the official website.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Grand Theft Auto: Director’s Cut

By
Matt Keller
– February 16, 2012

Ah, the top down days.

Grand Theft Auto: Director’s Cut is a compilation pack which includes the original Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto: London 1969. It does not have the PC exclusive London 1961 pack.

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