Well, if there was an intro that would solidify my purchase of? a Vita, this was certainly it. I love it we developers/publishers treat their IPs with this kind of? respect and fan-service. Well done, Studio Liverpool!
We are getting ready to post our video for Best Games of 2011 on our YouTube channel. While you wait, take a look at the teaser for our ++Good Games 2011 Video Game Awards presentation.
If you can’t wait to hear who we’ve chosen, feel free to download our podcast or stream it straight from Noizbeam.com.
The ++Good Games team celebrates the best of the best in 2011 with their second annual video game awards ceremony. Paths may cross once or twice, but there are plenty of surprises in store as we discuss:
Best New Character in Gaming
Biggest Surprise of the Year
Best Voice Acting
Downloadable Game of the Year
Best New IP
Best HD Remake (New Category)
Developer of the Year
Handheld Game of the Year
Console Game of the Year
We would also like to take a moment to thank all of our guests, listeners and game developers who have taken part and supported our show in 2011. Another round of thanks to all of our fans, twitter followers and friends who have made this pastime so utterly enjoyable.
For a complete rundown of our choices we’ll soon be making a list of categories, winners and runner ups available for download.
Sincerely,
The entire ++Good Games team
Just how many games can come out in one quarter? How about all of them! Q4 2011 will go down in the record books for most money generated in the video game industry. We’re talking a half a billion dollars in sales…IN ONE DAY (more like “Economic Up-Up-Up-Up-Turn,” am I right?)!
A special thanks to all of our fans for sticking with us and helping us break the 250,000 download mark. While it pales in comparison to a half a billion dollars in sales, that number is worth more than gold to us. Thank you for all the emails, tweets, mentions, calls and text messages over the last few weeks. Your support and dedication is what keeps our fires burning to get these episodes out and we can’t tell you how much we appreciate your efforts in spreading the word about the show.
IT’S TGS WEEK…
…and we have boatloads to say about Nintendo prior to the show…seriously. We celebrate episode 45 by spending 45 minutes talking about the 3DS, Monster Hunter and more. In typical ++ fashion it isn’t all sunshine and lollipops with our Nintendo coverage. We spend some time on Nintendo’s design-challenged 3DS Slide Pad Expansion peripheral. Even if they aren’t responsible for developing it, they are responsible for approving it.
ATLUS IS ON A ROLL…LITERALLY!
You just can’t stop Atlus these days. Rock of Ages debuts this week and will soon be followed up with KoF XIII and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2. Not to be stopped, Atlus has just showed the first trailer for and Arc System Works’ fighting game based off the Persona 4 franchise. We should be hearing more regarding Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena at this years TGS.
SQUARE KNOWS WHAT THE FANS WANT
Square Enix has just showed off a special version of the Final Fantasy Type-0 Collectors Pack for PSP which will be sold exclusively through the Japanese Square Enix e-Store. This set contains a book of 24 post cards with character bios plus a three disc soundtrack CD wrapped in a very ‘display friendly’ box. The only question that remains for us is who will lend us $130?
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We really need more games with this kind of animation style. There’s much more beauty and elegance in this kind of work.
This video showing the Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright crossover title (no release date set for US/UK…YET) is a goosebump factory. Every time I see Wright’s coy smile and loud “OBJECTION”, my cheeks raise up so high that they block my vision. That same feeling of happiness occurs again when Layton says, “I think we’ve been making a horrible mistake.” So much goodness in one game…I think I feel faint…
*swoon*
To celebrate our addition to the NoizBeam family, the ++Good Games crew would like to share their picks for the Top 50 video games of all time. This podcast was originally broken up into five individual episodes, but for the NoizBeam audience we have compacted the show into one gianormous episode of epic proportion-ocity.
Our Top 50 should give everyone on NoizBeam an idea of who we are, where we are coming from and why we play the games we do. Grab a box of coffee and enjoy!
This week the team at ++Good Games is both proud and honored to join the ranks of Noizbeam. In addition we talk Sonic Generations, timed demos and could Batman Arkham City be the game of the Year?
Capcom has been on a roll lately and instead of resting on their laurels and pumping out the same ‘ol same, they are actually working on some pretty interesting games that circle around new technology. Case in point, Capcom’s upcoming “sound adventure” entitled Nazo Waku Yakata is game where you explore a mansion with your ears.
The story was originally brought to light by the tireless Anoop Gantayat over at andriasang.com (seriously, does that man ever sleep?!?) about a game that does not make use of buttons and uses the 3DS’s microphone to communicate to the residents of the “Nazo Waku” mansion (or “Yakata”). The sad part for we western gamers is that this game is likely to never leave Japan. :(
Fear not console and PC gamers of the west, this technology looks to be coming stateside thanks to the efforts of Nikunj Raghuvanshi, John Snyder, Ravish Mehra, Ming C. Lin, and Naga Govindaraju. Their work with “Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes” (yes, that is what they are calling it) has yielded some pretty aurally-staggering results as displayed in the video below:
What you are seeing (and hearing) is a method for real-time sound delivery based on source, context, reverberation (walls and objects), movement through a simulated 3D scene. You can get a more detailed explanation of what is actually happening by watching the video and reading the text on their YouTube channel but trust me, unless you are a PhD, our description is far more digestible.
With Sony’s announcement that console development my be pushed back a few years, it is technologies like these that will breathe new life into our gameplay experiences. Plus, with the money you aren’t spending on a new console, you can get some really nice headphones. ;)
For more information on Nazo Waku Yakata, check out Capcom’s Japanes website: http://www.capcom.co.jp/nazowaku/
For all the information we have on Nazo Waku Yakata, be sure to check out the ever-updated, always-brilliant andriasang.com.
