VG247: According to Treasure's site, Ikaruga's going to be published on XBLA this Wednesday. If you don't know, this means you should definitely buy it, although we say that with some caveats after the fiasco that was Mr Driller Online. Still, great news.
Ikaruga is a vertical shooter which was originally developed for the arcades before being ported to the Dreamcast and eventually the Nintendo GameCube. It is currently being re-worked for a release on the Xbox Live Arcade.
"It seems the April issue of Official Xbox Magazine has some information about the highly anticipated XBLA release Ikaruga. Specifically, it sounds like the game will be coming out very soon, as the magazine notes the game is already available with a graphic that reads "Out Now." It doesn't get much clearer than that. Unfortunately, given the nature of magazine lead times (people get April issues in March, etc.) it's hard to say exactly when Ikaruga will show up, but it's probably safe to say it should be out before the end of April. Oh, and for what it's worth, OXM gave Ikaruga a 9 out of 10, so things are looking up.
Nintendic writes: "Publisher SEGA and developer Chunsoft are teaming up to bring the first, but surely not the last, ever port of a game from the PlayStation 3 console to Nintendo's far-weaker Wii system. The game? A reworking of Imabikisou from last year, which shocked many by charting quite high in the Media Create Top 10 upon launch, but plummeted out of sight very quickly indeed soon afterwards."
Lair isn't the only remote play title in town. Watch Impress tested out other Playstation 3 games and they discovered Chunsoft's sound novel, Imabikisou, can be played on your PSP. With the latest firmware you can boot your PSP from a WiFi spot and play Imabikisou anywhere in the world. Since the game is light on rendering it probably won't suffer graphically either. Grand. Mainichi Issho, the downloadable game with the Sony cat works too just in case you want to show people how cool your Nyavatar is in a coffee shop.
The demo for the Japanese Horror game is now available to download in the Japanese Playstation store. The Demo is 903MB.