VGW: At first, the July 2012 video game releases might look just a bit anemic, but upon further examination, you might be surprised. Sure, Microsoft has its annual Summer of Arcade promotion on Xbox Live, but it brings us great shock to make the following statement: The month of July easily belongs to the Nintendo 3DS. And no, we’re not joking. More specifically, however, this month belongs to Square Enix, as the three titles we’re featuring for the 3DS are all hotly anticipated games from Square Enix.
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory was almost a game in the Theatrhythm franchise according to a newly-translated interview with the game's producer and directors.
A new interview with Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Director Tetsuya Nomura, Co-Director Masanobu Suzui, and Producer Ichiro Hazama reveals many of the upcoming details about this new game. Melody of Memory will feature very different gameplay than what fans of the franchise would expect, but it has a lot in common with another one of Square Enix's franchises: Theatrhythm.
Lol okay..sure as heck looks and feels like a mee-too template based rhythm game (regardless of how your consumer gamer brain thinks). All that name dropping and “history lesson” took this article to new realms of “techraptor does not make any money doing this anyway”. Just consider that. You do this crap for free. Winning.
BitCultures examines some of the best musically inspired video games.
App Trigger: "It's almost 2018. The Nintendo Switch has surpassed the Wii U's sales in Japan and is going on a year old. Its voice chat stinks, but Nintendo needn’t look far for a fix."
I can’t take Nintendo’s online efforts seriously when it lacks basic universal standard functionalities such as this
