Today it was announced that the legendary shooter Ikaruga will hit Xbox Live arcade this Wednesday, April 9. Featuring improved HD graphics, replay saving, leaderboards and online co-op, I’d say that it’s worth the 800 Microsoft points ($10).
If you are unfamiliar with Ikaruga, I must warn you it is impossibly hard. If you don’t believe me feel free to check out videos of it on Youtube.
The full press release is after the jump. Continued…
This Wednesday Triggerheart Exelica will be arriving on Xbox Live Arcade.
Triggerheart Exelica is your standard top down shooter, ala 1942 and Ikaruga. The game will cost you 800 Microsoft points ($10.00) and will feature a classic and a remastered HD version. Unfortunately there is only single player and the only online feature is a leaderboard.
If you are down with crazy hard, anime style, top down shooters this might be the game for you. Personally, I’m cool with not having seizures.
An intrepid hacker by the alias drkIIRaziel got Sega’s Naomi BIOS running on a Dreamcast emulator. For those of you who don’t know the Dreamcast is the parent system of the Naomi board.
While the BIOS crack is a big deal, you can’t run your favorite games yet. A lot more needs to happen behind the scenes before games are actually up and running–a BIOS alone does not make a system.
Still, you can always hope to play such Dreamcast classics as Ikaruga, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Ferrari F355 Challenge on your computer in the future.
Here’s a video of drkIIRaziel running Naomi bios on the Dreamcast emulator nullDC (though if you don’t speak machine code you’ll probably have a hard time making heads or tails of it): Continued…
