The news has come that Pac-Man will be included in the fighter roster for the new Street Fighter x Tekken game. Unfortuneately Pac-Man is a Playstation 3/Vita exclusive. Now in the past I never fell for the whole "buy this game for "x" system to get "x" characters," but this inclusion of an iconic arcade character just might have me choosing the Playstation 3 version. Check out the pictures of Pac-Man in action riding a giant Mokujin!
Getting ready.....
The Lunge
Charging up?!?
BAM!!!
A Winner is You!
To see the trailer for the exclusive Playstation 3/Vita roster head over to:
http://m.ign.com/articles/1217354
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Hey folks! Just throwing this one out so all will see it. Here's my good friend Chris Bucchi with first part of his review of Stern's Transformers: Limited Edition. Right off the bat you can see all the extra goodies like the rotating Starscream on the ramp that can block the target, the Ironhide Mini Playfield and the Megatron scoop is now protected by a drop target, so you need to shoot it down before you go for the locks. The Megatron also transforms (kinda) when the multiball mode begins.
When part two gets uploaded I'll be sure to share it here!
Hey folks, Nick here with a quick update. The fine gents over at Pinball News got the very first videos of AC/DC Pro in action from IMA Show in Germany. The game is on very early code. Sadly one video is less then a minute long and the other video shows off a little gameplay but they cycle through the music. Seeing it in action gives me a real T2 vibe with the motorized "For Those About To Rock" cannon and the looping shots. You can see a lot of Steve Richie's style in this.
As I said, it's just the Pro model, so this lacks some of the extra goodies like the lower "Underworld" playfield, drop targets, "Rock N' Roll" Train and even the TNT Plunger goes down in the LE's. Speaking of LE's the folks at Pinball News also have the first photos of the game's LE version in the prototype "whitewood" that you can view at the link below. Being a fan of Steve Richie's games I hope I'll get to play the LE or "Premium" version when it comes out.
Just incase you guys and gals missed out, CAVE released "Bug Princess" aka "Mushihimesama"
on December 15th for iOS devices. I've only had a chance to play the light version, but regardless I am hooked and looking to pick up the full version very soon.
And for all you Apple haters out there, CAVE has been making great strides with Android hardware. Some of their shmups will be making there way over to Android devices. No dates or which games yet, but a recent update to one of their iOS games may hide a clue:
Espgaluda 2
Smartphone mode instead of iPhone mode?!?
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Here's the teaser trailer for Stern's new AC/DC Pinball machine. It's been rumored for months that this game was coming and now we've got the set list. Of course, just like the first Transformers teaser, no picture of the actual machine itself. So I guess we'll have to wait and see about what the game will look like. I've been hearing rumors it's going to be a multi-level machine like Black Hole, but considering on how Stern has been leaving a lot of features out of their normal "Pro" models, I doubt they would have that. They also list Limited Edition and now a "Premium"version. As I've stated before I am not a fan of the multiple models of machines because 99% of the time if you find one in the wild it's going to be a pro model, as the others are taken from collectors.
The other problem I have is that this game has 12 songs from the band, which is a lot more then The Rolling Stones had. But what really gets my goat is that they were able to get 12 songs from AC/DC but if you look at what happened to Tron, they were only able to get THREE tracks.... Since I loved Daft Punk's score of Tron Legacy I was really hoping to hear a lot of Daft Punk and quotes from the characters in the movies. So we only got three songs and half the characters.
::RANT MODE OFF::
Well, as always we'll keep you posted on any new news on AC/DC and also on Jersey Jack's Wizard of Oz and whenever we hear about Stern's new Avengers game.
Update!!
Well, that didn't take very long. Today (Monday January 9th) Stern Pinball put up pictures of the Pro model up on their website. Judging by the pictures, what I said above is 100% true. The Pro playfield lacks the mini playfield that would go in the middle. What's left there is....well you should click and judge for yourself. Thanks to the folks over at Pinball News for having them up!
