According to Anime News Network, Bandai Channel started streaming the first 7 minutes of the new Gundam OAV “Gundam Unicorn (or U.C. in the USA)” (i prefer the japanese name ). This new Gundam is a long awaited sequel in the Universal Century (U.C.) timeline.
To quote ANN: “The Gundam UC anime adapts Harutoshi Fukui’s 10 novel volumes of the same name, which are set in the same Universal Century (UC) timeline as Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise’s first Mobile Suit Gundam science-fiction television anime series and its sequels. Bandai Visual’s first Blu-ray Disc volume for the series will ship on March 12 simultaneously in several countries with Japanese and English dubbing, as well as Japanese, English, French, Spanish, and Chinese subtitles. The first of six DVD volumes will ship on the same day with Japanese dubbing as well as Japanese and English subtitles. The first 58-minute episode, featuring the English dub, will premiere in America at San Francisco’s Viz Cinema theater from March 19 to March 25.”
It’s a shame we might not get that broadcast over here on the east coast, but there might be hope.
To quote even more: “Bandai Channel has begun streaming the video on the YouTube website without subtitles in multiple languages.”
So without further ado, here’s the video (if you want to watch it with subtitles, or in higher quality on ANN’s Website click the reference link at the bottom of this post):
If you want to read more about it, go to the link below:
Nicholas Puleo over at Co-Optimus has some nice words to say about Kino One. Here’s a bit of an excerpt:
“While we tend to cover a lot of popular co-op games on Co-Optimus, there’s a whole indie scene where cooperative gaming is just as popular. Xbox Live has their Indie Channel, we’re starting to see iPhone titles pop up as well, but the place where this movement is most evident is on the PC. This week we take a look at a small title from developer ItBGames called Kino One.
Kino One has great attention to detail right from the start, you can see the developers really wanted to convey a certain style and atmosphere to the game. The first screen you are greeted with is an 8-Bit Department of Justic Seal and a don’t do drugs message. This was something that was popular back in the 1980’s in arcade games, so it’s definitely a nice touch. This not so serious theme is carried into the game’s story, which uses over the top voices and MANGA style animation…”
The guys over at Gnome’s Lair checked out Kino One, and gave it a ‘thumbs up’.
“Kino One can be described, in a nutshell, as the illegitimate child of a classic single screen shoot-em-up arcade game with a late 90s bullet-hell Japanese shmup, conceived after a particularly wild night of sake drinking. This is of course a good thing. Or at least it should be considered one by most indie-minded retro gamers, that tend to appreciate both these sub-genres and the overall anime aesthetic of the game. Especially as some R-Type inspired mechanics have also been thrown into the mix.
After all, Kino One, knows and loves its audience, and doesn’t try to appeal to the casual gaming crowd. It features lovely cell-shaded graphics to appease the little Japanese loving nerd that lives inside you, excellent comic book styled cutscenes, great video game humour, an intricate scoring system, and a brilliant virtual arcade sporting some truly well remade versions of Pong, Pac-Man, Arkanoid and more…”
We’re rather happy to say that Thomas Cummings over at HarryBalls.com, an indie game review and rating site, has given Kino One his blessing. He gave Kino One a 4/5 Rating. Short info below:
“Game Rating = 4/5
Kino One is the perfect blend of classic gaming and remastered material. It will provide hours of addicting, humorous game play that will take you back to the good old days. With picturesque 3-D graphics and an exhilarating soundtrack to accompany the immersing action, Kino One is an all round good game; it more than earns the rating of 4/5…”
Well we’re back from Va’cay but I got the Left 4 Dead 4 pack so Glen and me will not be getting much work done So I guess it’s a good thing that we released Kino One already. But we are getting new PCs and software ie; a new game engine so that means better games for everyone, Yeh!!! But till then we got more undead to waste!!!
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Hello all, Jonathan and I are taking a break for the Christmas holidays. We may drop in and post a thing or two during this break, but we won’t be back full force until January. Also, as the name suggests here are some ideas for what you could get you and yours for christmas.
First of all, Bytejacker has some suggestions for games at and under $5:
Remember, Kino One is also only $4.95 and just in time for christmas, so pick up a copy if you like classic arcade shooters, especially if you like co-op gameplay.
We apologize, Kino One was unable to be up on Game Du Jour on the 21st of December, however it will be up soon. We will post an update stating when the game will be up. And it will be for half-off still so be on the lookout!
And, on the 21st of December Kino One will be half off on Game Du Jour! If you want to pick it up for less than $2.50 then snatch it up on the 21st. The special will only run for 24 hours so get it as soon as you can.
Also, check out these links for more ideas on getting cheap games:
Well, we had some big issues…I had to reinstall the blog completely, but well…
We Are Fixed!!! That means that all your RSS feeds and stuff should work right now, the blog has been completely reinstalled and all. If you are not 100% sure, or you deleted our Feeds from your system, you can re-subscribe. Also any of you that were registered before need to re-register, because we were unable to keep the old members with the changeover. Other than that we are working again!!!
And see, The Doc is happy. Who’s The Doc?
Well the funny thing is while our blog was down MangaPage released a new game, Kino One(that’s a link to the website). The game is also available via Direct2Drive (click that link there).
). This new Gundam is a long awaited sequel in the Universal Century (U.C.) timeline.
So I guess it’s a good thing that we released Kino One already. But we are getting new PCs and software ie; a new game engine so that means better games for everyone, Yeh!!! But till then we got more undead to waste!!!
