Andriasang reports that the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu lists Cave's two Vita projects as cancelled. Announced at last year's Tokyo game show but never seen in the flesh, one was a shooter, the other a social game. More >
This HD remake includes the 2010 arcade original, with an optional 4:3 mode for purists. From next Monday, Rising Star will publish a series of tutorial videos to help newcomers find their feet at the source link below. More >
2Revered shooter developer Cave has defended the pricing of its smartphone games and advised developers of core-focused mobile titles to follow its lead, saying: "People will pay premium prices as long as it's a good product." Ever since Cave released its first two iPhone games - ports of EspGaluda II and DoDonPachi Resurrection - it has stuck defiantly to a premium pricing model despite the common consensus that games on the App Store are more likely to succeed if they are priced as cheaply as possible. More >
3Revered Japanese shooter developer Cave has confirmed that two new games in the Dodonpachi series are in production for smartphones. More >
Revered Japanese shooter developer Cave has put some of its current projects on hold and said it will focus more on social games after lowering its sales forecasts by over 15 per cent. More >
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More projectile paradise than bullet hell, Cave’s latest iOS shooter is another perfectly judged port.
The legendary developer on its continuing quest to bring bullet hell to the touchscreen generation.
2Japanese bullet-hell specialist Cave released a version of 2005 arcade shooter Espgaluda II for iPhone last year, but is now set to release an HD version for iPad 2. While most of Espgaluda II's graphics have been remastered in HD some, including backgrounds, remain in standard definition. More >
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Following the announcement last week that it is to publish Cave's Xbox 360 shooter Dodonpachi Resurrection in the UK later this year, Rising Star Games has told MCV that it hopes to bring more of Cave's games to these shores in future. "Deathsmiles performed well for such a niche game and met expectations," product manager Yen Hau said. "It certainly performed well enough for us to return with another game from Cave. Dodonpachi is Cave's flagship series, and carries a bigger reputation among the community...As such we expect it to outperform Deathsmiles. I am confident this will lead to other Cave games in our library."
Cave's bullet-hell shooter was released in the west on iOS devices, but the Xbox 360 version, released in Japan last November, was not expected to follow. Rising Star Games has now announced plans to localise and release the game in Europe this autumn, but there's no word on a North American release.
In a post on its development blog - translated by Andriasang - Cave development head Makoto Asada reveals that the developer is at work on a shooter for Windows Phone 7. The iOS ports of Cave's bullet-hell shooters have been well received, but WP7 users may be in for a wait: Asada says the game, which is an original title and not a port, is only 20 to 30 per cent complete.
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We chat to four of the men who are bringing that most hardcore of genres, the bullet-hell shooter, to Apple's touchscreen generation.