DCJY Insideout: Last Hope Pink Bullets

The updated re-release of NG:Dev.Team's indie shooter Last Hope arrived in the mail yesterday. It comes in the brightest pink DVD case you'll ever see, and the manual is still mostly in Japanese despite not coming from there.

The game has definitely had improvements: most important of all being that it now has a lot more difficulty settings and has been re-balanced so not so expert gamers like me can actually play it through! In the original It's far more forgiving this time around, and as the title suggest the enemy bullets are now pink so they don't blend in with the explosions and your own bullets like they used to.

If they decide to do the same with a more forgiving version of Dux, can I trade my old one in? I still can't beat the first level in that! XD

Goat Store announces Irides (another indie release)!

Now how did I manage to miss this? Not only did RedSpotGames reveal the release date and pre-orders for Rush Rush Rally Racing on 9/9/09, but Goat Store has something new due for release too! Above is the trailer for the iPhone version, but pre-orders are up now for a Dreamcast release of this puzzle game for $22, and pre-orders include a poster and free download of the iPhone one. Goat Store a few years back started the indie commercial Dreamcast thread with games like Feet of Fury, Cool Herders and Inhabitants (which i have yet to catch up on, need to pick them up sometime me thinks). More info over at it's official website and you can pre-order at Goat Store.

Bandwagons Ahoy! Part 2

It seems that everyone is having a crack at lamenting the Dreamcast's demise on this, the 10th Anniversary of it's (US) birth. It's mostly all crocodile tears, I hasten to add - where were these so-called 'supporters' when the DC still had a weak pulse and the tiniest of sections scrunched into an unlit corner of Electronics Boutique? Bah! Fucking hypocritical Judases. It seems that even MSN is getting in on the act though, featuring the Dreamcast in it's 'Dead Tech we would Resurrect' feature. Go and have a look.

Did you read it? Did you cough your half-chewed toast all over the fucking keyboard? I almost did - where the hell did they dig up the cretin who wrote that load of bile? Well, more on that later, but I for one didn't realise the DC was the follow-up to the Mega Drive (apparently, the Saturn never existed); and check out this quote:

"...A combination of mistrust with game developers and the emergence of the PlayStation spelled an early bath for the Dreamcast. Even the brilliant Virtua Fighter could not save it..."

Now, I'm not one for abbreviations or text speak - indeed, I believe it to be a grisly mutilation of the English language - but W.T.F.?! This horse shit would be acceptable (just) on some nomark blog written by a 15 year old wanabe games journo in his bedroom, but this is on MSN - one of the biggest and most widely read web portals on the fucking planet! Wanna know what's even more noose-preparingly depressing? The guy who wrote it is called Michael Sawh. And he works for T3.com.

The mind, as ever, boggles.

ScrewAttack's Dreamcast Top 10

Video Games | ScrewAttack | Top 10 Dreamcast Games

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

As I've said before, looks like everyone joined the party. This particular top 10 actually surprised me in a positive way. I love screwattack, but I got to admit they're a bunch of nintendo fanboys at heart, and sometimes they just make weird choices for their top 10's (the no. 1 in this top is no exception), but overall this list is very well done and they showed a lot of devotion to the system that I felt was truly sincere. Enjoy.