Metal Slug 3 and Other NEOGEO Classics are Coming Out to the PS Vita

The 25th anniversary of the NEOGEO AES and MVS are next year and to celebrate the special occasion, SNK PLAYMORE (With help from SCEA 3rd Party Productions.) will be releasing Metal Slug 3 for the PS Vita and PS TV. For those who are attending the "PlayStation Experience" in Las Vegas this weekend will be happy to know that you will be able to play test the game there at the SNK booth.

Metal Slug 3 is not the only NEOGEO classic that SNK wants to bring to the PS Vita. There has been a poll that has been setup where fans can vote for classic games that they want SNK to re-release on the PlayStation Network. The list of games that you can vote for are listed below along with the link to the poll;

– ART OF FIGHTING 2
– FATAL FURY SPECIAL
– GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES
– THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’97
– THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2000
– THE LAST BLADE 2
– METAL SLUG X
– NEO TURF MASTERS
– REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2: THE NEWCOMERS
– SAMURAI SHODOWN II
– SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL
– SENGOKU 3
– SHOCK TROOPERS: 2nd SQUAD
– TWINKLE STAR SPRITES
– THE ULTIMATE 11: SNK FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Vote for one or more of these titles to re-release on your favorite handheld right now! Which games did you vote for? Tell us in the comments below!

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation Release Date Announced

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation will be available on January 27th in North America in both physical and digital formats! It will be available for download in Europe on January 28th, and in stores on January 30th. 

Hatoful Boyfriend Soars Its Way to the PS Vita in 2015

The bizarre visual novel, Hatoful Boyfriend, is heading its way to the PS Vita in the second quarter of 2015. Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel / avian dating sim from the mind of Hato Moa.

Want Volgarr The Viking On Your Vita?

For those of you who never heard of this game before, Volgarr the Viking is a popular hardcore 16-bit style action side-scroller made by Crazy Viking Studios. The Crazy Viking Studios team, Kris Durrschmidt and Taron Millet, has previously worked on titles such as The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night for the GameBoy Advance and Shinobi on the 3DS.

Live from PlayStation App Comes Out Tonight Along with Firmware v3.35

A new firmware update will be available for PS Vita and PS TV tonight, which includes 4-player Remote Play support for PS TV, as well as the Live from PlayStation app, which allows you watch game streams from PS4 on both your PS Vita and PS TV devices.

Senran Kagura Bon Appétit! Will Hit PS Vita Next Month

XSEED Games has announced that the rhythm/cooking game Senran Kagura Bon Appétit! will be available as a PlayStation Network exclusive on November 11, 2014 in North America.

[Updated 10/28] Ekoro Is PlayStation Mobile Bound

As you might begin to expect from the image above our heads, Ekoro is a game that involves ROBOTS! Not only will it include robots, it'll incorporate pollution into the game as well.

This is a game about ecology, after all. According to the developer's blog, "Ekoro is drawn from the Japanese word エコロジー (Ecology)."

Ekoro was originally destined to be be a game on the iOS platform, but the Ekoro team switched gears and decided to launch the game on the PlayStation Mobile store.

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As of this article posting there was no available release date for the game, but it had been in development for a year so the game was expected to be well on its way to seeing a timely release.

This inference was recently confirmed  by a tweet sent out by the developer in reply to this article's posting on Twitter, we now know that Ekoro has a planned release window of early 2015!

The developer will be releasing a gameplay video soon, at which time I'll update the article so you can see what its like.

Ekoro is a game mixing elements of the puzzle and tower defense genres, so it'll certainly be interesting to see how that is implemented. 

If you'd like to hear more from the developers as they release information, you can follow them on the game's Twitter account, @ErokoGame.

Anyone intrigued by this game? 

Ivent Games is Considering Bringing Strength of the Sword 3 to the Vita

After exchanging some tweets with the developer's official twitter account about bringing the game to the Vita, I became quite curious about how this game would be received in the Vita community.

Some games are received quite well, a la a Phoenix Force which I previously tossed up to the Vita community and will be coming to the Vita soon as a result.

Other games like Ray's The Dead have not had the same such luck in terms of support from Vita owners, so it is certain nothing is a guarantee. (That game is actually coming to the Vita, by the way. Cross-Buy with PS4!)

No matter the result, I have the platform with which to seek this information, so why not?

Better to try and fail than to not try at all.

I've looked over the game extensively in preparing this article and it seems like a quite fun and imaginative game with quite a bit of difficulty one must overcome in mastering it. I've never played it before, but I might just pick it up even if it doesn't come to the Vita. The price tag on it is certainly attractive enough.

Since its release, Strength of the Sword 3 has had a so-so reception with critics, garnering a 67/100 on Metacritic through a total of 15 reviews were submitted to the site.

This places the game as a solid playing experience and an above average game, so there could indeed be far worse games to be brought over than something like this.

At this time, Strength of the Sword 3 is an exclusive game for the PS3, but both the Vita and PC are in its sight as potential destinations depending on what turns out to be the better option when all things are considered.

There was gonna be #PSVita version, then there wasn't. IDK. The game fits the medium, but is it worth the dev cost. pic.twitter.com/3cwJxzU7cb
— Ivent Games (@IventGames) October 24, 2014

If you are a PlayStation Plus Member you are currently entitled to the game for only $1, but if you aren't it'll run you a bit more at $4.99.

Given its low cost, why not give it a go up close and personal to see if its something you'd like to have on the go?

If interested in purchasing it, you can find it here on the webstore or through your PS3.

I asked if the game could by any chance become cross-buy if it made it to the Vita, obviously making picking it up now a an even more appealing option, but have not yet received a reply as of yet. 

I'll update the article should I receive a reply on this matter or have any other useful information. 

Strength of the Sword 3 was created by a small development of two people, Lyubomir Iliev
& Georgi Rakidov, over five years. Five. That's a long time.

You can watch the announcement trailer for the game below to get a feel for what was put into the game by these devs. 



SotS3 is a "challenge-driven Sword Combat game" where "the player assumes control of a blade-toting, magic-fueled war-machine from the heavens and take on the Dark Mechanism and his minions"

You can view some gameplay in the YouTube video below.



The game has 12 stages to fight your way through featuring four different bosses you'll need to overcome as well.

Weapon and defense diversity isn't the most varied you'll find in a game, but there is a noteworthy amount of 5 weapons and 5 shields for you to try out throughout the game.

For a full list of features and a variety of screenshots of the game, you can visit Ivent Games' official website.

So, with what you know now do you want this game on the Vita, PC, or perhaps even both?

Well, make it known!

You can tweet the devs, comment on here, tell your friends, or, if you're feeling particularly ambitious, do all three.

Mouse Bounce Is Bouncing Onto The PlayStation Mobile Store

Made with Unity 3D and expected to release in a week, Mouse Bounce is a "Fun, Addictive and Cheesy Mobile Arcade Game" which will also be available on Android and iOS.

In about a weeks time Mouse Bounce will be out on #PSVita via PlayStation Mobile and #unity3d! pic.twitter.com/r0dmosaOyk
— Cat Trap Studios (@CatTrapStudios) October 21, 2014

Mouse Bounce will release at £0.79/$1.28 and contain no in-app purchases or ads, according to the developer.

The game will additionally feature a top 100 leaderboard from Scoreoid for you to challenge yourself and your friends to best one another on.

Mouse Bounce will be Cat Trap Studios' third foray into the world of PlayStation Mobile, the company's other two titles being Castle Invasion and A Bad Opera-tunity

The Circus Is Coming To Town: Ring Run Circus Gets Nod From Sony

Ring Run Circus will be making its way from the iOS App Store to the PlayStation Vita soon, according to Ciro Mondueri, a designer at Kalio, the makers of the game. Kalio Ltda.'s other works include TriDefense, an award winning tower defense game also available on the iOS App Store.

The game has currently only passed certification testing in the North American region at this time, but there is little reason to doubt that it should be held up in any other region such as Europe. 

I can’t F***ING believe it! Ring Run Circus was just approved by Sony to be released on the PS Vita. First “real” console game we make :)

— Ciro Mondueri (@cigumo) October 20, 2014

Ring Run Circus is described as a "dream world of connected circus rings" where the player will "perform as three star acrobats and solve more than 50 tricky, skill-based puzzles in the world’s first RING-FORMER."

There are approximately 55 events for you to complete which are spread across four worlds with "surprises" spread out throughout the game.

Here's the minute long trailer for the game, back when it released onto iOS.

   

While playing Ring Run Circus, you'll have three characters, seen below, at your disposal - Nina, Ned and Nelson. Each of whom have distinct abilities to help you progress in the game.

Due to this recently occurring, there is no word at this time about the game's launch window or pricing of the title. (For reference, it is $4.99 on iOS.).

To get more information on the game, ask questions, and to get all the latest details as the happen be it the game's official release date or something else, be sure to follow the Kalio Official Twitter account.

PlayStation Store Gets An October Flash Sale

PlayStation has announced a flash sale of games and movies through their blog earlier today.

The flash sale will run from now until October 20th (Monday) at 12:00 PM Pacific. 

This event is extremely light on Vita games, featuring only one full Vita and a PSP game playable on the Vita, but that one full Vita game is one that packs an extraordinary punch being one of the most popular games on the Vita.

While the Vita game section doesn't have a lot of fluff, the video library certainly does. Five Resident Evil movies are on sale along with dozens of others.

There should be something for everybody available!

You can access the flash sale via the web store by clicking here.

Do you see anything that catches your eye?

Title	Sale Price	Original Price
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (PS Vita)	$11.99	$29.99
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PS3/PS Vita/PSP)	$1.49	$5.99

Title	SD Sale Price	SD Original Price	HD Sale Price	HD Original Price
All Cheerleaders Die	$7.99	$12.99	$7.99	$16.99
An Empress and the Warriors	$4.99	$9.99	$4.99	NA
Bedevilled	$2.99	$9.99	$4.99	$12.99
Black Rock	$5.99	$12.99	$6.99	$17.99
Boarding Gate	$3.99	$5.00	$6.99	NA
Catwoman	$7.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Colombiana	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Fast Girls	$9.99	$12.99	$9.99	$16.99
Girlfight	$8.99	$7.99	$9.99	$12.99
Grindhouse: Death Proof	$4.99	$9.99	$4.99	$12.99
Grindhouse: Planet Terror	$4.99	$9.99	$4.99	$12.99
Haywire	$6.99	$14.99	$8.99	$19.99
Heavenly Sword	$8.99	$9.99	$10.99	$12.99
Kill Bill Vol. 1	$6.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Kill Bill Vol. 2	$6.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Killshot	$4.99	$9.99	$4.99	$13.99
La Femme Nikita	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	NA
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life	$6.99	$9.99	$10.99	$17.99
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	$6.99	$9.99	$10.99	$17.99
The Long Kiss Goodnight	$7.99	$14.99	$9.99	$19.99
Million Dollar Baby	$7.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Painted Skin: The Resurrection	$2.99	$9.99	$4.99	$12.99
Raging Phoenix	$4.99	$9.99	$6.99	$12.99
Resident Evil	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Resident Evil: Afterlife	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Resident Evil: Apocalypse	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Resident Evil: Extinction	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Resident Evil: Retribution	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Salt	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
The Four	$2.99	$9.99	$4.99	$12.99
This Girl Is Badass	$4.99	$9.99	$6.99	$12.99
Ultraviolet	$6.99	$7.99	$9.99	$12.99
Underworld (2003)	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Underworld Awakening	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Underworld Evolution	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	$8.99	$9.99	$9.99	$12.99
Vanquisher	$4.99	$9.99	$6.99	$12.99
Violet & Daisy	$5.99	$9.99	$7.99	$12.99

Free-To-Play Endless Runner Run Sackboy, Run! Speeding Onto Vita This November

November is certainly the month of the PlayStation Vita Free-To-Play as Fat Princess: Piece of Cake's release window was set for the same time and Run Sackboy, Run! got the same designation today.

Run Sackboy, Run! was originally planned for an October release on all three platforms per the PlayStation Blog, but that plan fell by the wayside for reasons unbeknownst to us. 

@BrokenBoy331 November :)
— Tom O'Connor (@tommyconker) October 17, 2014

The platform-survival game has spent the last few weeks being soft released on iOS in New Zealand where some crafty people who switched their iOS accounts over got to try their hand at the game. 

There is a built-in social feature where you can challenge your friends to get higher scores than you in the game. 

Additionally, playing this game on any mobile device will earn you exclusive costumes for  LittleBigPlanet3, which will be playable on the PS3 and PS4.

Here's the Android/iOS GamePlay Trailer for you to get a little more information on what to expect:




Anyone looking forward to this release?

Puzzle Platformer Nihilumbra Is Making Its Way Onto The Vita

Nihilumbra, which is currently available on iOS and Steam, has been announced a short time ago to be receiving installments on several new platforms with the expected arrival window for the game's release being Winter.

This winter Nihilumbra for Wii U, Android and... pic.twitter.com/qgYb1hqCvH
— Nihilumbra (@Nihilumbra) October 17, 2014

In the game you take on the character of Born who is trying to escape 'The Void', where he was created. While playing you'll be able to change the ground physics of the game using colors, of which you'll have five at your disposal.

Nihilumbra features an original soundtrack made by the award winning composer Álvaro Lafuente, which if you enjoy you have a variety of options to obtain.

Here's the trailer for the game:

For more information on the game, you can go to their official website.

If you'd like to get a better feel for the game, you can play the Nihilumbra demo here.

Anyone looking forward to this game's release?

Update 10/25: Fat Princess: Piece of Cake Slated For November Release

Already on platforms such as the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store, it seems as though we're a little bit closer to seeing Fat Princess: Piece of Cake on the PlayStation Vita.

As you can see, earlier in the day Sony's Santa Monica Studio received a tweet asking about the game's availability on the Vita. To this the anticipated release window was replied.

@GamerChronicles Vita will be early Nov
— Santa Monica Studio (@SonySantaMonica) October 16, 2014

Fat Princess: Piece of Cake is a Free-To-Play offshoot of the popular PS3 game, Fat Princess. Whereas the original Fat Princess was an "action real-time strategy" game, this new installment in the series is a "strategic match-3" game.

Downloading and playing Fat Princess: Piece of Cake has been confirmed to entitle you to the original PS3 game. There is no word yet on how it will be obtained, but on the iOS and Android platforms the code was received after playing through level 15.

You can get a look at the title's gameplay by watching a video of the game from TouchGameplay.



Anyone looking forward to this game's release?

South Park Tables Out Tomorrow for Zen Pinball 2

Experience classic South Parks moments in a new way.

New Releases For 10/14/2014

A weekly update of new videogame releases.

PlayStation Now Debuting on the PS Vita This Tuesday

Play PS3 games instantly on the PS Vita.

Tales of Hearts R Pre-order Bonuses Detailed

Cosplay as some fan favorites in Tales of Hearts R.

Minecraft PSVita Edition Also Coming to North America Next Week

North Americans can also join in on the mining goodness next week!

OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood Revealed

Skate or Die in Olliwood.