Racketboy

Simonc over at the excellent GameSetWatch was digging around GameFly (the Netflix of Gaming) and stumbled over a number of games that have not been released yet here in the US. Some of them were old-school-friendly, so I thought I would share the highlights…

PSP

• Riviera (Atlus, April 26th) – a PSP version of the acclaimed GBA RPG, and extremely likely because it’s already out in Japan.

PlayStation 2

• Guilty Gear XX Slash (Aksys, July 31st) – part of the Aksys ‘mystery’ which includes Wii Guilty Gear, of course, but this is certainly the kind of title that a smaller localization-friendly U.S. publisher like Aksys _would_ pick up. We’ll see.

Xbox 360

• Tetris Evolution (THQ, March 21st) – already mentioned this one further up the story, and it sounds pretty likely to me – though THQ did famously have an almost-finished DS version of Tetris cancelled a year or two back. I was hoping this would be Tetris: The Grand Master Ace, but I rather think it’ll be an original THQ product, hopefully better than the lukewarm Tetris Worlds.
• Senko No Rondo (Ubisoft, May 31st) – this report has wandered around the Internet already, and given it’s already out in Japan, this v.cool fighting shooter would be easy to bring across. Let’s see!

Wii

• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Aksys, July 30th) – we’ve talked about Aksys already, so I won’t belabor the point, but it’s believable.

DS

• Hoshigami Remix: Ruining Blue Earth (Aksys, May 31st) – the semi-cult Japanese RPG making an appearance in the West on DS? If this is true, then it’s also unannounced in Japan. I say too random to be untrue – you choose!