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PSN Tuesday: Awesomenauts, Dead Nation on PS4, South Park on PS3
The PSN update this fine Tuesday includes Awesomenauts Assemble and Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition for PS4, as well as South Park: The Stick of Truth, Master Reboot and NASCAR '14 for PS3. Vita gets Hatsune Miku Project Diva F, and PS3 owners can now enjoy dragons, prohibition-era crime and the ultimate pessimistic detective with the HBO GO app. We learned about Awesomenauts Assemble late in January, and it includes seven new characters, a new map and "improved" controls, Ronimo Designer Fabian Akker said. It goes for $10 on PS4. For PS3, Master Reboot is a neon-covered, sci-fi horror game dealing with death and computer viruses, and it's $15. South Park is $60, and it speaks for itself.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f syncs up release dates, price
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f - that's a little f for Fita, er, Vita - is laying down its handheld beats on March 4 in North America, and March 12 in Europe. The Japanese rhythm game starring the world's most famous virtual pop idol/aqua-haired pop idol is priced at $30 on North America's PS Store. While the game itself isn't cross-buy, Sega is at least making it so that any DLC purchased for the game's PS3 version will automatically unlock on its Vita sibling, and vice versa. The DLC packs, which include the Snow Miku 2013 set, and the Extra Songs and Extra Character Modules, will all be available when the game launches next month. [Image: Sega]
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f debuts on Vita in March
Virtual pop idol Hatsune Miku will hit the PlayStation Vita in North America next month in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f, a portable adaptation of Sega's chipper rhythm-action arcade game. Project Diva f will premiere digitally via the PlayStation Network, boasting a separate trophy set from the PlayStation 3 version of Project Diva that debuted in North America last year. Sega plans to expand the game's 37-song tracklist with a collection of DLC packs previously released in Japan, including the Snow Miku 2013 DLC, the Extra Character Modules Pack, and the Extra Songs pack. All DLC will launch alongside the core game in March. [Image: Sega]
Synthetic singer goes portable in Vita's Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F
The cute-as-a-button rhythm game action found in the PlayStation 3's Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F is now making its way to the Vita handheld. For those unaware, Hatsune Miku is the name attached to a popular synthesizer program designed to resemble and replicate Japan's young, female pop idols. Hatsune Miku is not now, nor has ever been a real person, but this hasn't stopped the electronic being from being featured in video games, anime series and albums bearing her faux-human likeness. While all of this is quite novel in a Gibsonian futurist sort of way, the gameplay in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F is not. Our review of the PlayStation 3 version of the game said it was "about as basic as a music game can get" and that in lieu of any major flaws, "it simply fails to do anything particularly interesting." The Vita incarnation of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F is slated to debut in North America during the early part of 2014.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F review: Rhythm and hues
Remember Clippy, the virtual "assistant" that drove thousands of innocent cubicle drones to despair back in the late 90s? Imagine that instead of becoming a running joke and an omen of Microsoft's cultural obsolescence, Clippy instead became a multimedia icon with his own TV show, energy drink and video game series. That's what happened to Hatsune Miku, the bobble-headed mascot for an obscure voice synthesizer program who went on to become the world's first bona fide virtual pop idol. The future is here, ladies and gentlemen, and it's basically Clippy crossed with an autotune machine. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F may superficially resemble the pop music shovelware that haunts the bargain bin at your local Walmart, but there's a degree of artistry here that puts it above the usual Celebrity: The Game slop. That's not to say you'll like Project Diva F if you're not the proud owner of a pair of Miku-brand underpants. The virtual dollhouse segments will likely leave you bewildered, but there's a competent music game at the heart of Project Diva F that may keep even non-fans entertained.
Hatsune Miku takes the stage in Project Diva F's launch trailer
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F launches for the PlayStation 3 in North America today, marking the first time the popular rhythm series has seen an official release outside of Japan. Sega commemorates the occasion with this new trailer, giving a quick look at some of the game's quirkier features. Vocaloid fans will recognize many of Project Diva F's featured tracks, including ryo's "Black*Rock Shooter," kz & Hachioji's "Weekender Girl," and...yes, that infernal Nyan Cat song. After tapping along to Miku's live performances, players can cool off backstage in the Diva Room customization mode, giving the starring Vocaloids a chance to kick back and enjoy sugary desserts in between rounds of rock-paper-scissors.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F synthesizing North America this August
Sega has announced that its rhythm game/simulated-girl simulator Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F will be released for "both PlayStation 3 and Playstation Network" sometime this August, with a demo available June 11, according to the PlayStation Blog. Originally released for the Vita last August, Project Diva F includes 38 jams by Miku and her Vocaloid friends, as well as "over 90 different costumes and accessories" with which to customize her look, in addition to an Edit Mode that allows players to create their own Miku music videos. The North American version of the game will be equal to the most-recent Japanese releases in terms of graphical updates and feature parity, according to the announcement. For those of you outside of the thriving digital-girl loop, Hatsune Miku is a Japanese pop star that doesn't actually exist. She was created as a mascot by Crypton Future Media, and her voice is fabricated entirely by Yamaha's Vocaloid 2/3 software. During her live shows – yes, live shows – she appears as a holographic projection, much to the chagrin of her enthusiastic, die-hard fans. If that sounds at all familiar, don't get it backwards: Tupac got the idea from Miku, not the other way around.
Sega polls fans about Western release of Hatsune Miku Project Diva F
At E3, Sega showed off Hatsune Miku Project Diva F in its booth, tricking me into thinking it was being localized, when instead it was there just because. It felt like a cruel tease.Sega is now teasing fans more directly, asking them to "like & share" on Facebook to register their interest in a western release of the PS3 version of the music game, which stars the implausibly popular mascot character of musical voice synthesis software.As of writing, 3,969 people have "liked" it on Facebook, although many of them, in the way of all Internet fanbases, used their comments to ask for other games. While the fate of this game is in question, you can interact with the character via the Japanese Domino's Pizza app, which is inexplicably Miku-themed, and inexplicably available in the US.
