Gaming Furever - Furry Game News

Recently, at the Independent Games Summit in San Francisco, Die Gute Fabrik's Douglas Wilson showed off what he dubbed a "deliberately stupid" game, which demonstrated how the PS Move technology could be used in a more canine way.

Dog the Wag, which is gracefully demoed in the video below, requires plays to attach the Move controller to a string, which is tied to their rumps. Players then get down doggie-style and begin to wag their 'tails' as furiously as possible to earn points. Making the game even more murry, I mean merry, sometimes the Moves' orbs will flash, signaling that a player is vulnerable to attack. The other players can then try to pounce the player and press a button on their blinking controller, causing the pounced player to lose points.

Yep. Real demo. Real game. 

Source | Photo courtesy The Center for Neuroscience/University of Trieste

Sega, who bought Arkedo studios last year, creator of Big Bang Minis, has released information about their mysterious "Project Hell Yeah" project.

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is a cartooney, violent and gory platforming adventure starring Ash, a very angry rabbit who is also the prince of Hell. Ash is propelled on a mission of bloody vengeance when his nemesis - Fat Rabbit - posts incriminating sex pictures of the Prince and his rubber ducky on the 'Hellternet'.

Check out the debut trailer!

 

 

Sanzaru Games, the developer's behind the new entry in the Sly Cooper series, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, were recently interviewed by the crew at Playstation.Blog about their game. Thieves in Time is going to be the first original title in the series for the PS3, and the first not developed by  Sucker Punch Studios.

The game lets you explore Sly's history, granting you control of Sly’s infamous ancestors - the Cooper Clan members named in the Thievius Racoonus book. Each new chapter has unique characters to play as, each with special abilities and places to explore. There will be a plethora of quests, costumes to collect, and worlds to explore.

Check out a video of the full interview, complete with gameplay, below.

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You know what we love here at Gaming Furever? Tails. Not just any any tails either. THE Tails. He returns in glorious 2D fashion in Sonic 4: Episode 2, which is scheduled for release on May 16, 2012. A new gameplay trailer, featuring a robot panda, roller coasters, and of course, much running.

As part of yesterday's Nintendo Direct streaming event, where Nintendo announced and detailed many upcoming Wii and 3DS releases, they surprised us with a previously announced furry game. Well, shelled game. 

Dillon's Rolling Western, previously known as The Rolling Western, is now available on the Nintendo eShop for $10. We hear it's pretty fun, and features elements of action-adventure, tower defense, and racing. It features a tough looking armadillo and many anthropomorphic characters throughout.

Trailer below!

Just Add Water is having a tough go at trying to get Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. The studio has been pushing for the game to be published by Microsoft or self-published, but that route seems to have stymied:

“We’ve basically run everything dry in terms of going some kind of first-party route with Microsoft, be it them publishing it or be it us publishing it ourselves, so we’re now having to go down the third-party route...We’re speaking to two or three different publishers at the moment about taking it on for us. I think we’ll probably have some news on that by Easter, I hope.”

JAW's problems with getting the game onto XBLM come from the inability to get the game below the 2 GB limit. The PSN version of the game has been out since December.

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Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I chat chat chat and I chat chat chat! Terry Cavanagh, the developer behind VVVVVV and At A Distance, has created another indie masterpiece. After a huge budget went into the development *removes tongue from cheek* they have released ChatChat, a free browser-based multiplayer chat simulator... "cat" simulator. You can play it over at Kongregate RIGHT NOW!

Head over there, enter a kitty name, and start meowing and searching for mice! It's not a complicated game, but is strangely addicting. Explore alleys, dash through forests, and chat with other cats. If you've ever wanted to dive into the 8-bit world of a cat in cyberspace, now is your chance.

The wait is over for more Ottsel action! If you've ever waited to play the Jak games, or perhaps they were a little bit before your time, here is your perfect opportunity to play these outstanding games. The game will scamper into stores on February 7th in North America, and will include all three games in the series. They have been remastered in HD and delivered on a Blu-ray disc. The game will run you $39.99, but for three full games, that's not shabby at all.

All three games have been enhanced with trophies as well, and Mass Media has crafted custom Trophies for you to earn. "The team at Mass Media has created intricate Trophies, each featuring a unique variation on a design theme based around its mission type. There are over 100 to collect including three Platinum Trophies, so you completionists will have hours of Trophy-hunting fun to look forward to."

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Those hoping for some good news this Monday now have it! A blog post on the website for Guild Wars 2 confirmed that in this "year of the dragon", Guild Wars 2 will be releasing. The news post went on to detail the plans for future beta tests of the game; "In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year."

We can't wait to get our paws on this game, and I for one can't wait to play as a Charr.

Meow.

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Have you been one of the many waiting for a chance to get your paws on TERA Online? If you have, then you'll be excited to know that beta signups have just begun in North America and Europe! As far as relevance to the furry fandom, two of the races in the game are the Poporis, a bear race, and the Elins, who bear various animal ears.

Let us know if you get in and what you think!

North American Signups

European Signups

 

The developers of the critically-acclaimed Scribblenauts, 5th Cell Media, bring iOS users a new platforming and puzzle-solving experience today with the release of "Run Roo Run." From the developer's website:

Run Roo Run follows a mother kangaroo traveling across Australia from Perth to Sydney in search of her captured Joey.

Hop, skip, and jump your way across unique obstacles in the Australian outback! Run Roo Run is a micro-platformer featuring single screen levels and easy to learn, one-touch gameplay. Play for a few minutes, or a few hours; your journey to Sydney always picks up where you left off!

Discover unique abilities like double jump, ridable clouds, gravity-defying umbrellas, invisibility, tire swings, and more to get through over 20 chapters with 15 basic levels and 6 extreme mode levels each. Share your scores with friends in this Game Center-enabled title.

Features:

• Over 400 levels and 100 extreme levels
• Easy to learn, one-touch gameplay
• Game Center-enabled
• Automatically get 10 free new levels every week
• Tons of fun power-ups!

 

For those of you who love BlazBlue, and are wanting a bit more from the experience, Aksys games has released more information about what is going to be available in the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 limited edition packages for BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend Limited Edition (Long name.)

• 2012 Calamity x Continuum Calendar

• 40-page, full color art book with event scenes, artist illustrations, and art of the newer characters

• 17-song Soundtrack CD (Tracklist after the jump.)

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND ships to stores on 2/14/2012. The limited edition packages are only available for PS3 and 360. The PS Vita version will not have one.

Ever since Dust: An Elsyian Tail won Microsoft’s 2009 Dream.Build.Play competition, we've been waiting with baited breath for the anthropomorphic character centralized XBLA game. We finally have an update, even if it's just a small one, in the form of a 'Noogy' post on the NeoGAF forums. Noogy is the creator of the game's alias, and he had this to say in reply to a forum post by a user about the game:

"Man, I have to play that every day.. Oh, wait, I mean it's great :) It's coming out in 2012, promise."

 

Here's hoping this promise comes true! 

Link to: Elysian Tail website | Source

More Animal Crossing 3DS news today was revealed through a developer's roundtable video posted on YouTube. Producer Katsuya Eguchi sat down with members of the development team answering questions from the fans about the upcoming game. They revealed that you'll be taking over the position of mayor of your village, and as mayor, you'll be able to design your village.

You can also customize your character's pants now! Female characters can wear pants, and male characters can wear skirts. Along with reevaluating the main character designs, the village's animal inhabitants have also been redesigned. The smaller species are now noticeably shorter than the taller ones.

The new StreetPass feature will allow people you pass by to have your home appear in others' games as model homes, watched over by Tom Nook. There's a performance at the end of a new song by the "real" K.K. Slider, composer Kazumi Totaka.

G4TV has posted a thorough guide concerning playing a werewolf in Skyrim. They lay out the perks, caveats, and details about how to fully enjoy your violent n' furry experience in the game. We personally love the ability to transform into the quick and slashy beast, especially since this werewolf, unlike many werewolves recently, has a fluffy tail! But I am definitely not an unbiased source of appreciation for tails...

Hop on over to G4's article by clicking this link: http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/718438/skyrim-werewolf-guide-hairy-deadly-fun-in-the-elder-scrolls-5/

 

For those in love with Fruit Ninja, now you can claw your way through your favorite fruits as a cat in Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots. As part of its Cyber Monday promotions, Amazon will offer Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots as the Free App of the Day. Following the promotion, Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots will be available through Amazon Appstore for $0.99.

Stepping into the boots of the swashbuckling feline hero, Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots brings the trademark Spanish flair to the famed Fruit Ninja franchise, offering two exclusive modes, unlockable weapons and Spanish-themed backgrounds inspired by DreamWorks Animation's hit motion picture "Puss in Boots." The furry fighter slices his way through Desperado Mode, which adds Magic Beans and enhanced waves and scoring, and Bandito Mode, a four-tiered challenge adventure where players must work through a number of increasingly difficult and varied puzzle-style slicing games.

A bevy of new characters are being announced for Soul Calibur 5, and one of them has caught our eyes. The usual lizard man character has made an appearance, this time bearing the name "Aeon" and coming equipped with wings and fire breath.

Screenshots of him in action are featured below! You can check out the other characters Yoshimitsu, Cervantes, and Sheba here.

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 Another new playable character has been announced for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, or Sly Cooper: TiT for short...though that seems inappropriate...anyways!

Part of playing the new Sly Cooper game is getting to explore and learn about the part of the Sly Cooper lore the new ancestor is in. Glen Egan, President of Sanzaru Games, explains:

"The first ancestor we want to show off is Rioichi Cooper, the master of the Ninja Spire Landing! We were introduced to him back in the original Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and learned about his cool Ninja ability. Now, when you get to play as Rioichi, you will see how much more powerful the original master’s techniques are. For instance, by focusing his energy Rioichi can execute his Leaping Dragon Technique and span great distances between spires."

More pictures of him in action in the full article!

Everyone's favorite theiving raccoon will be available in a new format this month with the release of The Sly Collection on PSN. The three games will be available though PSN on November 29, Sanzaru Games president Glen Egan announced today. The digitally distributed version includes everything that was in the retail title, including support for Trophies and stereoscopic 3D.

The collection can be purchased as a bundle on PSN for $29.99, or as individual games for $9.99 each.

 Sony Entertainment of America has confirmed recent reports that a Jak and Daxter Collection for the PS3 is planned for a future release.

SCEA said, 

"We can confirm the Jak and Daxter Collection is coming and will have more news to share shortly."