GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON)

Cave managed to get in on the IP360 initiative: they've been given a 50% subsidy grant (up to ¥40M) for the global localisation of an as-yet-unrevealed new project/s https://contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/37600/2b012aa0/2fd1/4f9d/93fb/80d4f491dc47/140120261023555427.pdf 🇯🇵

plenty to scrutinise with this one https://www.unico-usa.com/pages/unico-arcade-raiden-19 but let's start here: Dark Mist?

Sakura Taisen x Puyo Puyo Quest collab merch, bc it's most efficient to do nothing with two series at once https://midoccolybeyond.shop-pro.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=3000535&csid=0&sort=p 🇯🇵

G-MODE's Zoku Portopia has been dated, it'll be out on Switch 2/Switch/PC on March 4 (JP-only) https://store.steampowered.com/app/5137520/Portopia_Serial_Murder_Case/ Japan's getting standard & LE physicals; as with Okhotsk ni Kiyu, they'll exclusively include a reissue of the OG FC version

pining for the glory days when YK-2 used to lovingly plagiarise by hand

a few months after being delisted, Cosmo Machia's reupping Fantavision 202X on PS5 & PC from tomorrow, as well as cutting the base price they won't be reprinting the physicals, but they are selling their remaining JP physicals on steep discount while supplies last https://cosmomachia.base.shop/ 🇯🇵

out today on the JP Switch eShop https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000126112 in addition to replacing all of Motoaki Furukawa's music, they've also made numerous additions & tweaks to base & scoring systems, bosses, stage layouts, added simultaneous 2P, etc

the hits keep on coming from Mebius: the Dual Orb duology, coming to Switch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twstalker.com/tanin1971/status/2111805007398060480 these are noteworthy as footnotes in the history of NIS (Prism Kikaku) & as wider reissues from the relatively dormant I'MAX catalogue, but they aint good

this week's Arcade Archives title: Ace Driver: Victory Lap, the successor to Namco's recently-reissued F1 racer Ace Driver, now featuring more than one circuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR-qPAQsQ3c as always, the 4p split-screen multiplayer functionality's exclusive to ACA2 (PS5/Switch 2)

Continuing in the Halloween spirit, this week we have a big spooky collection of developer interviews for Parasite Eve! shmuplations.com/parasiteeve/

heads up, Simple dorks: the upcoming EDF popup shop will be offering made-to-order screen-printed shirts based on a couple dozen D3P games: mostly bigger & modern titles, but they threw in THE Table Game & THE Daibijin https://bandainamco-am.co.jp/crossstore/store/crossstore_tokyo/news/20261015.html

out now! https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/eggconsole-the-screamer-pc-8801-switch/

Korean publisher H2 Interactive's striking while the iron's hot on physical publishing, starting with a Re-Volt port for Switch (also coming digitally for PS5/Switch Re-Volt's one of those games that found outsized popularity in Korea & has been owned by a succession of KR companies post-Acclaim

Touhou EoSD New Classic's getting Switch 1+2 physicals in Japan, out Dec.17: game, stickers, reversible sleeve with classic EoSD cover design, & some sot of Marisa-themed print item that, I would guess, might present like the ancient pre-2002 omake files? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tg3kxX64DY

this week's Console Archives title: The Drug Store (PS), the unbranded Major Wave reissue of Human's 1998 drugstore simulator originally released with the branding of real-world drugstore chain Matsumoto Kiyoshi (another JP-language-only game, in case this needs pointing out)

looking over Cave's financials... in addition to PC, they mention Switch as a target for their "refine project" initiative, so expect DFK Reignite etc to get Switch ports in due course

8ing's best dodging game's out now on Switch 1+2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7iGohHpWU

Just in time for the Halloween season, this week we have a Resident Evil interview from 1999 with director Shinji Mikami! He talks about his early Disney games, Sweet Home, Romero's zombie movies, and the kind of horror he wanted to explore in Resident Evil. shmuplations.com/residentevil/

oh that looks like a Sega Amusements cab, but I wonder who's handling the actual dev...?

reason #4444 why [thing] has stalled for so long: having to spend increasing amount of time talking about/trying to minimise talking about a| horseshit you'd think having the same convo over & over would at congeal down into some sort of routine over time but no, it's exhausting

one brave soul finally dared to ask: what if Sandlot made a Fuuraiki (that is, mecha ADV with real-life photographic backdrops taken around Yokohama) https://store.steampowered.com/app/5239710/_ROCK_N_ROLL_SUICIDE/ as with every other JP indie, check the gena| disclaimer...