Sin and Punishment: Star Successor

Legendary action/shooter developer Treasure makes really good games, most of them of the “old school shooter you need to play right now” variety. We’d like to give you a moment to go play one – let’s say Radiant Silvergun – to get in the mood and then come back to finish reading this, but the odds of you being skilled enough to finish it in a timely enough manner is a little fishy, so let’s just carry on...

The rumors were true, the highly anticipated Metroid: Other M for Wii has been delayed till late August. The rumors started swirling yesterday of an impending postponement, fortunately those reports indicated a nebulous “TBA” release date as opposed to the more solid August 31, 2010 according to Nintendo’s official statement...

Summer is set to sizzle with some epic game launches in the latest line-up of action packed games from Nintendo for Wii, officially revealed in full. Get starry-eyed over the captivating galactic world of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the fast paced shooting action of Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies, both exclusive to Wii.

The cult Japanese arcade game, played in chapters, follows the mysterious story of Isa Jo and Kachi as together they fight a battle for humanity between Inner and Outer Space. The two characters can fly above the ground and perform feats of fast shooting as they dash and glide on jet packs and flying boards, battling to repel the hordes of enemies with guns, swords and a powerful bomb.

VG247: Nintendo's just announced an April 23 release date for Monster Hunter Tri in Europe, as well as a May 7 release for Sin and Punishment 2.

Nintendo has dated Sin and Punishment 2 for North America.

In the most recent Iwata Ask, Treasure talks Sin and Punishment 2 and how the Nintendo told them to up the difficulty, how the game will run at 60 fps,and how they started making the game with the Gamecube controller in mind.

Matthew Razak from Destructoid writes here's some news. The game is looking better -- much better.

1UP writes: Visiting acclaimed Japanese developer Treasure has now officially become a pre-Tokyo Game Show must for us (we spoke with them last year and the year before), so today we dropped by the Treasure offices once again to check in on one of our favorite studios. We spoke with Treasure president Masato Maegawa to get an update on the company's games in development -- including the just-announced Sin and Punishment 2. While we'll bring you further pieces of our interview in the future, here's a rundown of some of the main topics we discussed and his answers for each. As you'll see, there's plenty of good news -- though also some bad news for fans of the developer.