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[danmaku]

Fantastic news! So their 360 exclusive game will be an XBLA? Os is this another one? Anyway it's stunning, we're going from no games at all to a flood of 360 releases from Cave. My wallet's gonna cry :lol

 

[adversesolutions]

Looks like IGN did a preview of the game today:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1068618p1.html

Not too hostile! Good to see.

 

[Princess Skittles]

June? ;_;

 

[Daigoro]

I just posted this over at CAVE-STG, go go cross-post!

Interview with Asada, Famitsu 360 (March 2010)

・New project will be revealed at the end of February.
・Mentions that CAVE's dev speed for 360 has improved since their first try with Deathsmiles and they've managed to shave 3, 4 months off dev time.
・Mentions a port of one of CAVE's "well-known titles" after the new project reveal.
・Mentions an Xbox LIVE game which will be an original title. He wants to make it based on co-op play, 16:9 hori shooter that recalls "Moero Twin Bee".
・LIVE plus package releases: 4 games total in 2010. New project will be revealed at the end of February.
・Mentions the NA Deathsmiles release, says it will be on sale the second half of 2010. Translation is done. This is a first for CAVE but fun for them.
・They've messed around with Natal a bit, but he doesn't offer any concrete plans for it.

SHIT!

wow wow wow. incredible stuff here.

 

[LiK]

June? ;_;

changing text is hard work!

 

[Hunahan]

Wow. Sounds like Cave's really kicking it into high gear.

 

[vgachi57]

changing text is hard work!

actually, localization is a pretty tedious task. not only does the text need to be translated and culturally appropriate, sometimes fonts just don't fit so that needs code fixes for additional line support. plus, once localized, the game needs to go through the entire testing process again for that region. it's not like since it passed xbox japan, they can just pass the translated text to xbox na, have them look over it and give the green light.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

Good they're coming over. Hope they bring more over. I don't like the idea of paying $80 at Play-Asia for an import even though they're region-free. $80 for five levels that lasts five minutes each isn't worth it.

 

[danmaku]

Good they're coming over. Hope they bring more over. I don't like the idea of paying $80 at Play-Asia for an import even though they're region-free. $80 for five levels that lasts five minutes each isn't worth it.

I hope you're being sarcastic...

 

[InfiniteNine]

Good they're coming over. Hope they bring more over. I don't like the idea of paying $80 at Play-Asia for an import even though they're region-free. $80 for five levels that lasts five minutes each isn't worth it.

-looks at his copy of DeathSmiles- HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Are you serious man?

 

[sixteen-bit]

I just posted this over at CAVE-STG, go go cross-post!

Interview with Asada, Famitsu 360 (March 2010)

・New project will be revealed at the end of February.
・Mentions that CAVE's dev speed for 360 has improved since their first try with Deathsmiles and they've managed to shave 3, 4 months off dev time.
・Mentions a port of one of CAVE's "well-known titles" after the new project reveal.
・Mentions an Xbox LIVE game which will be an original title. He wants to make it based on co-op play, 16:9 hori shooter that recalls "Moero Twin Bee".
・LIVE plus package releases: 4 games total in 2010. New project will be revealed at the end of February.
・Mentions the NA Deathsmiles release, says it will be on sale the second half of 2010. Translation is done. This is a first for CAVE but fun for them.
・They've messed around with Natal a bit, but he doesn't offer any concrete plans for it.

That XBLA stuff sounds nice. I'd love to peruse thier back catalog, having never played the likes of Guwange, Dangun Feveron, and ESP.Ra.De.

 

[RickA238]

ESP.Ra.De is incredible, Dangun is really fun and really hard (this is coming from someone who 1CC'ed DDP and Ikaruga), Guwange is meh IMO. Not a big fan of the ground-walker shmups.

Great to hear all this info about one of my favorite shmup companies. I really need to get back into 1CC'ing these. I was at a 3CC ESP.Ra.De about a year and a half ago, then I fell off. XBLA releases would be awesome and would beat the hell out of MAMEing on a lap-warmer.

 

[souvlakispacestation]

Deathsmiles 2 was announced today for the JP X360. Release May 27th, 2010. Hope you have a JP X360, because this sucker will be region locked!

 

[InfiniteNine]

Deathsmiles 2 was announced today for the JP X360. Release May 27th, 2010. Hope you have a JP X360, because this sucker will be region locked!

OH HELL YEAH! Time to wait for the pre-orders to go up at the usual place.

 

[andymcc]

That XBLA stuff sounds nice. I'd love to peruse thier back catalog, having never played the likes of Guwange, Dangun Feveron, and ESP.Ra.De.

MAME? :lol

i swear to god, the 360 is becoming the shooter console of the forever. this is the first time cave has ever self-published games on a console, right? and so many!! microsoft must be throwing them tons of monies.

 

[andymcc]

i don't know if anyone else saw, but at the STG Festa in Akihabara, CAVE confirmed Guwange is coming to XBLA.

 

[Mr Jared]

Guwange is coming to XBLA.

 

[hipgnosis]

i don't know if anyone else saw, but at the STG Festa in Akihabara, CAVE confirmed Guwange is coming to XBLA.

So will it be available for European or US gamers?

 

[andymcc]

So will it be available for European or US gamers?

dunno. since cave is working on the translation to Death Smiles themselves, i'd imagine it'll be a global release, as most xbla games are.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Release is in 8 days. Anyone doing an official thread?

 

[Cmagus]

Release is in 8 days. Anyone doing an official thread?

waaah holy crap didn't realize it was this soon just pre-ordered it on amazon

 

[Coin Return]

WHERES MAH OFFICIAL THREAD?!

 

[sixteen-bit]

WHERES MAH OFFICIAL THREAD?!

here

 

[nextgeneration]

Yay for Aksys. Thankfully, we still have publishers like Aksys that brings games like this to the US.