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It's the year 2022, but somehow or other people still want to make games for a classic 16-bit console that's hard to find these days. The latest? Yuzo Koshiro. The composer, who is known for making awesome music for Revenge of Shinobi and the Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle series back in the 90s for the 16-bit era of gaming, is making a new Megadr...
By Alisha Alix|October 31, 2022|0 Comment
What better way to celebrate Halloween, the 31st of October, than immersing yourself in horror titles this year? After several hands-on experiences with some of the latest games delving in this genre, here are our top 5 picks for 2022. For more Halloween Horror experiences, check out our previous features about the scariest gaming moments and ho...
Platform: PC (version played) Genre: Corridor first-person shooter In the indie-made first-person shooter Scathe, you're the title character with the Shooter McGruff protag personality whose goal is to kill off your demigod twin brother by going through a maze filled with demons and other monstrosities. You have weapons galore to play with and ...
A Legacy of Kain return could be in the cards thanks to a new survey being pushed out by Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics. The developer has been asking fans what they want to see from a modern take on the action-adventure title featuring vampires and epic storytelling. The survey asks about familiarity with the series, and whether the nex...
Fighting game fans who stuck with Guilty Gear Xrd through thick and thin will finally get their much-requested wish. Arc System Works announced during fighting game tournament CEOtaku that Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 and Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator will be getting rollback netcode. Instead of, you know, a Guilty Gear Strive character reveal which a good...
Capcom unveiled a ton of gameplay and new announcements during Tokyo Game Show 2022, like the entire 18-character launch roster for Street Fighter 6. Not only that, but we get to see a lot more gameplay for recurring characters Ken, E.Honda, Dhalsim, and Blanka. Here's a video of the four newly-revealed character's Super Arts with their previous...
If you missed the Sega 2D platformer classics Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion, this new D23 Expo announcement will make you jump for joy. Disney and DLaLa Studios (Battletoads reboot) will be making a new 2D platformer named Disney's Illusion Island, which features co-op and four different playable Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Goofy...
You may not be familiar with the name Mitsuhiro Yoshida, but you should know the work he has done: the River City Ransom series of games, or the Nekketsu titles in Japan. Mitsuhiro Yoshida passed away on 30 August. He was the president of Miracle Kidz, but he was remembered more for creating the Kunio-Kun games like River City Ransom and Super D...
Update: River City Girls 2's release date is added. WayForward has dished out more info about its upcoming 2D beat-em-up River City Girls 2. First up, there's a bit more gameplay of the main characters Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, Riki, Marian (Double Dragon ex-damsel-now-badass), and Provie. You also get to know the villains of this entry: the crim...
Sad news for gamers looking forward to a skating/bicycling and graffiti-tagging mix of shenanigans: Team Reptile will be delaying Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Billed as a spiritual follow-up to Jet Set Radio/Jet Set Radio Future, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk will be pushed from its 2022 release window to Summer 2023 instead. The delay is due to additional develo...
The recent announcement of Dotemu and Tribute Games' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is another addition to the awesome wave of new-yet-kinda-old beat-em-ups we've been seeing since 2019's River City Girls. It's also a stark reminder that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had been a merchandise juggernaut since the 90s, video games ...
Sega has announced two new game movies they want to make: Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone. https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/1560745169091117056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1560745169091117056%7Ctwgr%5Ef169df603131f668528a8c9c39236eb6f8e0dd48%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.videogameschronicle.com%2Fnews%2Ftwo-o...
Sega will be releasing its second 16-bit mini console, the Sega Genesis Mini 2 and Sega Megadrive Mini 2, later this 27 October. With that classic mini console comes a ton of Japanese and North American titles that made the system what it was back in the roaring 90s. And there's a plethora of them for each console region. Here's the full list, a...
Sunsoft are known not just for their awesome 90s NES titles, but also arcade games like Ikki, where you play a farmer fighting off the daimyo and his army of ninjas in pixel art shooting glory. It wasn't that good, but Japan seems very fond of the classic. Which is why Sunsoft is bringing it back as a "roguelike" called Ikki Unite. Instead of on...
If you've been gaming since the 80s, chances are you've heard of Sunsoft. The company is known for making classic games like the Batman adaptations, the cute-but-tough platformer Gimmick, and the ex-Terminator 2D run-and-gun Journey to Silius. All of them have awesome soundtracks that still hold up today. The classic game devs have somehow been ...
We previously talked about the classic fighting game The Rumble Fish 2 being ported to current platforms, but didn't mention which ones. Now we know where and when we can get our fix. Publisher 3goo and developer Dimps will be releasing The Rumble Fish 2 digitally for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (...
Platform(s): PC, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 3D platformer with a grapple hook in the form of a frog's head on a gun The wave of 3D platformers for this generation with 90s aesthetics continues, with some of them featuring some semblance of quality behind its aesthetics. OUr next entry? The endearing-looking Frogun, which may seem typ...
Some games age like fine wine. Others may not be the hot title when it first came out, but end up becoming better in retrospect, arguably being a title ahead of its time. At Kakuchopurei, we may cover a lot of new games, but we always fall back to the classics, be it the incredibly old ones or recent titles from a few years past. There are a bun...
Veteran British actor Bernard Cribbins, known for his recent Doctor Who works, is dead. He was 93. This news was made public via Cribbins' agent Gavin Barker Associates. He is known for being a notorious guest in hit TV show Fawlty Towers, being the narrator in The Wombles, and also starring in films and TV shows like The Railway Children, Carry...
Publisher Curve Games and developer Pixadrome are bringing a new pixelated brawler into 2022 with Chenso Club. Side-scrolling roguelike brawler Chenso Club is 2D and pixelated all the way, and will definitely appeal to anyone who likes the recent Ninja Turtles game and Streets of Rage 4. The game will be out for PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, an...
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