Itemania is out now!

We are pleased to announce that Itemania is now available on the appStore!  Hours of item finding fun for only $0.99!

iTunes link
For those who currently don’t have acces to iTunes

Custom Joystick!

I’m really into fighting games, and I’ve been working on my first custom stick off and on for the past few months. It isn’t truly custom since I didn’t build the box (jtuyen from the SRK forums makes some great stuff!), but I don’t have the tools to put a box together myself.

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We’ve just released our trailer for Itemania!  Please look forward to more information and videos on how to play Itemania soon!

AniCombo is proud to announce that our main site has gone live with the announcement of our first casual game title, Itemania!

Itemania is a Hidden Object game for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch platforms.  We’ve introduced a new twist to the genre allowing players to rotate and zoom around full 3d levels to find objects! Of course, there are also classic 2d levels available as well. You can find Itemania in the AppStore around July 31st!  Fans of casual games and object hunting shouldn’t miss out!

Screenshots and videos of the game will be available soon, so please check back again!

TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arborea (Bluehole Studio, Hangame)
http://tera.hangame.com/ (view with IE if site doesn’t load correctly)

Upcoming MMORPG for the PC by Korean developer, Bluehole Studio, and to be published by Hangame, TERA (Project S1) recently debuted at the 2009 Hangame Invitational along with Continent of the Ninth (Studio Cloud 9), Kingdom Under Fire II (by Blueside and Phantagram), and Warhammer Online (Mythic).

So what’s the big deal?  It looks amazingly awesome, but then again so do a lot of upcoming Korean games.  TERA utilizes an exciting, action-oriented gameplay system, but so does Continent of the Ninth, Blade & Soul (NCSoft), Dragon Nest (EyeDentity), and others.  What’s interesting for me is that the developer, Bluehole Studio, is made up of a lot of former heavy-hitters from NCSoft.  I won’t divulge anymore than that, but suffice to say this is a very impressive group of developers and the results show it.   If western gamers paid any attention to the incredible development of Korean games lately, they would probably liken this to a bunch of ex-Blizzard guys out to make their own blockbuster game…  x10. (more…)

Oboro Muramasa Youtouden is the latest 2d Action RPG being developed by Vanillaware, makers of Princess Crown and Odin Sphere.  The beautiful painted visuals caught my eye ever since it was first announced, and the retro side-scrolling gameplay makes it one of the few Wii games that remind me I even own the system.

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Valkyria Chronicles (WOW Overworks/SEGA).  PS3 (Sony Playstation 3).
http://valkyria.jp/
http://www.sega.com/valkyria/us/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_of_the_Battlefield

What I like:

• Beautiful, watercolor style art. Everything is wonderfully done.  Also, there is a cool option to view all the game models (with plenty of background info to read about).  The designs for all the uniforms, weapons, and vehicles are fantastic.  The characters themselves are deceptively simple, and surprisingly expressive.
• Original Japanese dialogue. It’s a shame so many companies leave this out of localized titles…  there are many games I’ve wanted to play, but have not simply for this reason.  It’s always fun to hear voice actors/actresses from anime lending their voices to games.  The subtitles aren’t always very accurate, and are tailored for western audiences, but at least it’s an option.
• Story. It plays like watching an anime television series.  Plenty of nicely done cut scenes, and you can tell that a lot of work was done to flesh out the setting and the inhabitants of this fictional world. (more…)