City Connection recently announced that horizontally scrolling shoot ‘em up Akai Katana Shin will be released on Nintendo Switch, PS4, Steam and Xbone on 15 December. Originally released for arcades in 2010, Akai Katana received multiple updates and a home port on Xbox 360 in the form of Akai Katana Shin. This upcoming release includes all three versions of Akai
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On Thursday, City Connection released Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great Yokai Battle + Hell on PC via Steam. The game is a 2D action platformer based on JALECO’s classic 80s game, Ninja JaJaMaru-kun, but The Great Yokai Battle + Hell features more than 20 playable characters, including both yokai (spirits) and ninja families, and can be played by one or two
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Strictly Limited Games and City Connection have announced details for a physical release of Zombie Nation on Nintendo Switch. Also known as Abarenbo Tengu in Japan, Zombie Nation is a bizarre 2D shooter originally released for the NES in 1991. In Zombie Nation, players control the floating disembodied head of a samurai to save America from a horde of “zombies”*
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At the 2021 Shooting Game Daikanshasai event, City Connection announced that Deathsmiles I & II will launch for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on 16 December in Japan. Deathsmiles is an arcade style shoot-em-up series with a gothic aesthetic. The collection will include the following: Deathsmiles• Arcade• Version 1.1• Normal Deathsmiles Mega Black Label• Arcade• Version 1.1• Normal Deathsmiles
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During the Tokyo Game Show, publisher City Connection and developer Zerodiv announced that Psikyo Shooting Collection (tentative title) will be coming to PS5, though no pricing or release date were confirmed. City Connection and Zerodiv also confirmed that many of Psikyo shoot ’em up titles are coming soon to both PS4 and Xbox One. Several Psikyo shoot ’em ups are
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Abandoned in 1998, 2-D fighting game The Fallen Angels will finally see the light of day both on consoles and in arcades. At the 10th anniversary event for the Takadanobaba Mikado Arcade on Sunday, City Connection announced that they intend to partner with exA-Arcadia to finish the incomplete 2-D fighting game The Fallen Angels (known as Daraku Tenshi in Japan),
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Bandai Namco recently trademarked several logos in the United States prominently featuring the word “rad”. Check them out for yourself below. As Gematsu points out, the logos feature fallout shelter and mushroom cloud imagery, suggesting that Rad may refer to “radiation.” Pfffft! Thanks for the expert analysis guys, but if you’ll allow us to speculate wildly for just a sec,
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The Splintering 