DHGF: FINALLY, The House of the Dead 4 comes to consoles. No longer will light gun game fans have to engage in futile searches for an arcade near them that might possibly have this. Even better, Sega has also thrown in The House of the Dead 4 SP as an unlockable, which has long been a Holy Grail for light gun game fans to find in North America. Now for less than ten dollars, you get both games. The graphics and gameplay still holds up, although the SP experience has been changed dramatically to work as a console game (The original experience simply can’t be duplicated outside the cabinet). Both games are a lot of fun and it’s wonderful to finally have these to play at home – and for crazy cheap to boot! Now we just need Sega to re-release the first House of the Dead and the entire series will finally be available for a single system instead of spread out across multiple cabinets and consoles. Get to it Sega!
"While arcades have seen an unfortunate decline in usage over the past years, many of the games have had a profound impact on gaming culture. Here is a quick list of ten of the most influential arcade games."-Amanda from Leviathyn.com.
+ Posted by Morgan Haro // Community Manager, PlayStation Network:
April was a close race for the top spot: PSN exclusive Journey continued to see major play, with fighting game par excellence SkullGirls and emotionally exhausting survival epic The Walking Dead Episode 1 following close behind. But it was Ubisoft’s harrowing tale of one man’s survival amidst catastrophe that claimed the top spot — I Am Alive was this month’s most-downloaded PSN game.
Warren at El33tonline writes:
"Before the age of armchair gaming, massive multiplayer meet-ups and 3D handheld gaming, ordinary folk would gather in arcades, their pockets heavily burdened with game tokens while queuing in line for their favourite game. There would always be at least one shooting game with those bright coloured plastic guns promising a few fleeting moments to absolutely annihilate hordes of monsters, zombies or general bad guys.
Sega brings back those fond memories, drags all that action into your room of living and trades those plastic guns for the PlayStation Move controller in The House of the Dead 4."
