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Duke Nukem: Critical Mass Trailer

Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:11:06 +0000

Deep Silver have published a trailer for the first Duke Nukem game to see the light of day in quite a long time. Duke Nukem: Critical Mass is the first game in the Duke Nukem: Trilogy for the DS and PSP. Chain Reaction and Proving Grounds make up the remaining games in this trilogy, should they ever get released!

In this new game, the King of action (where did he get this name?) is pitted against his old nemesis – Proton – in a fight to the death across 28 levels. The trailer below even includes some in-game action.

Critical Mass also features some co-op multiplayer action for when you get bored with the main game ;-) The PSP version will be released in a couple of months.

Duke Nukem: Critical Mass is released on the 8th April 2011 on DS and on the 1st July 2011 for PSP

R-Type Dimensions – Available on the 4th Feb 09

Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:56:41 +0000

R-Type is back. Well R-Type I and II are back with added 3D shenanagens. From tomorrow all you lucky Xbox 360 owners with 1200 MS points to burn will be able to play the classic R-Type games.

So what do you get for your MS points:

R-Type I and II
Classic game mode – Yay. Play them just how IREM designed them to be
3D and 2D graphics – You can flip between the 2 modes on demand
Single or co-op play – For the first time ever, play R-Type with a friend!
Infinite game mode – Claims to assure game completion regardless of how useless you are
Statistics tracking – Track your vital stats (i.e. see how many times you died – probably)
2 gamer pictures – Available to all, no skill necessary (according to the press release)

Time for some nice screenshots:

R-Type Dimensions will be available on the 4th Feb 09 for 1200 MS Points on XBLA only for the Xbox 360

Omega 5 now available on Xbox Live Arcade

Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:35:12 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to playing this side scrolling shooter for a while now. You can’t have too many side-scrolling shooters as far as I’m concerned. Fortunately, the grand daddy of all shoot-em-ups R-Type is available on the Wii’s virtual console. And now we have this little fella marauding about the 360 with Ikaruga on the horizon. Things are looking pretty rosy for shoot-em-up fans.

Omega 5 certainly looks nice with it’s high-def visuals. It promises to be quite tough too with the ultra-challenging “++ Mode”, where you’re only allowed one hit. You can also play with a friend, but only from the comfort of your living/bed room. Shame. Online co-op would have been quite fun.

It’s out now on Xbox Live Arcade, and costs 800 Microsoft points. Which I will buy using a pre-paid points card since I’m currently removing my card details from Xbox Live.