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The Silent Hill HD Collection for the PS3 and Xbox 360 didn’t get fantastic critical reception despite the fact that it’s a port of two highly acclaimed games, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams and Silent Hill 3. Even the Silent Hill art director, Masahiro Ito complained about how poor the port was, complaining about the fog effects. Well now fans have something to blame it on.

The producer of the game, Tomm Julett, revealed that the HD Collection were based on incomplete code. In an interview, he talked about problems concerning the development of the game.

“We got all the source code that Konami had on file — which it turns out wasn’t the final release version of the games.”So during debug we didn’t just have to deal with the expected ‘porting’ bugs, but also had to squash some bugs that the original team obviously removed prior to release, but we’d never seen before. A lot of assets such as textures and sound had to be taken out of the compiled game, and that brings with it a host of unique issues, especially taken on top of the tricky coding workarounds at play in the original games. We certainly had our hands full. I think at one point Heather was blue.”

It’s a shame that it didn’t reach its full potential because these are two fondly remembered games that really raised the bar for the survival horror series. I’m sure many hardcore gamers wanted to relive Heather’s sexy beam in full 720p.

Via: CR and 1up

A Japanese site just opened up for the 25^th anniversary of Final Fantasy. It has a discography with every game and port as well as a section for related products. Square Enix CEO, Yoichi Wada, has a column on the site on the Creator’s Voice section.

“We’ll take the 25th anniversary as an opportunity to begin our walk towards the next 25 years,” wrote Wada. “In order to make the fans happy, we the developer have just one promise we can make. Outside of talent and ability, we will also make sure development is handled exclusively by creators who feel love of the FF series stronger than anyone else.”

It will be interesting to see what he actually means by this because the vague comment seems somewhat noncommittal, whether it is a remake or a small game or a collector’s set. The possibilities are infinite (except for a Final Fantasy VII remake).

Via. Andriasang

To celebrate Jo Jo Bizarre Adventure’s 25^th anniversary, ice cream bars will be sold featuring three different packages taking art from different story arcs. They will be sold in Japan on June 12 and selected ice cream paddles from the Crunch Bar ice cream will be marked for prizes. There are 1,000 commemorative stamp sets and 500 memorial panels to be won.

In addition, Almond Crush chocolate bars, Giant Caplico treats and Karujaga potato snacks are also being promoted and for every two confectionaries, customers will receive a memorial card and be in the entry to win one of 250 complete card sets or albums.

If that wasn’t enough the Dororich coffee jelly drink brand will also be giving the opportunity to get one of 4.000 pins or 250 complete pin sets.

Via. ANN

Eri Kitamura, a voice actress well known for roles such as Karen Araragi from Bakemonogatari and Kirie Kanoe from Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, has announced a new music album. It will feature 13 songs, nine of which are completely new, and will be released on July 25 for approximately $35.

via. CR

On Tuesday, Girls’ Generation fans will be pleased to learn that the Korean girl group will be featured in Club Sunday, which is a new manga series that will be on Shogakukan and will be on their free publication online part of the site. The manga Ent., will as well have a feature of famous groups. Being featured will be SHINee and TVXQ.

The real names of the group members will be used.

The series will revolve around an online high school write that is very famous. It will also focus on his classmate, who is a vocalist for a new group from SM Entertainment in secret.

The series will show in Korean July 4^th on Naver Webtoons. The story is handled by Park Mi-Suk, Ylab is in charge, and the artwork will be done by Kang UnYeong.

Via: ANN

The seventh volume of Gangan magazine, which is put out by Square Enix, that comes out June 25th will be featuring a manga adaptation of the novel, Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden by Kazuki Sakuraba. The manga will be entitled Satomi Hakkenden Ibun.

Summary: In the novel Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, the story centers around eight samurai who take orders from the Satomi clan in the era of Sengoku. The samurais also happen to be reincarnations of spirits who the Princess named Fuse took care of alogn with the help of a dog called Yatsufusa.

In Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden, Hamaji, a girl hunter, hunts down Fuse along with her brother. This starts the karmic cycle, which started with the Satomi family, back up.

Along with the manga adaptation, an anime movie called Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō. The movie will premiere in Japan in October and features Masayuki Miyaji as director, Ichiro Okouchi as script writer, Okama and Seiichi Hashimoto as designers, and music composed by Michiru Oshima.

Via: ANN