"Capcom is planning to release Gyakuten Saiban 5 (Ace Attorney 5) in the West. We'll have more news soon," Capcom confirmed to Kotaku today. They then confirmed that "West" refers to Europe and North America.
Capcom has not yet announced an official release date.
Yesterday, we told you how PS Vita is the best way to play PSOne games. But there's no denying the US PlayStation Store in particular is very lean in terms of PSOne games you can actually download directly to your Vita. Yes, the 1.8 Firmware does allow you to transfer most PSOne games from a PS3's hard drive and play them without any problems on Vita, but that just makes the list of only 9 directly downloadable games so bizarre, especially when the EU store has a list of over 100.
Well, after contacting Sony for comment, Sony's US office has replied and this is what they have to say:
Each territory is completely unique and must go through its own individual processes for approvals in order to be available for purchase directly on PS Vita through PlayStation Store. We work collaboratively with all parties involved, including third party publishers, to ensure that we are following the proper protocol. As of right now, there are nine PS one classics titles available on the PS Vita store, however we are working hard to expand this list as soon as possible.
So it sounds like they're going back through and making sure all of the publishing deals and licenses are still valid before making them available for republishing to a Vita. Either SCEE has just assumed it's all fine or started way ahead of the US office, but that is quite a disparity in terms of the two territories.
Like we said yesterday, it's been a bit of a palaver, but at least SCEA is actively trying to rectify the situation. And it is worth the effort. We'll get there in the end.
343 Industries' boss Frank O'Connor has responded to fan concerns over the length of Halo 4.
After yesterday's achievement list leak pointed to the game containing just eight missions, O'Connor explained on NeoGaf that this didn't reflect how long each would be.
The main campaign is substantial and will compare favorably with previous entries in the series.
Posting as 'Stinkles', he wrote that the "Number of missions has no bearing on the length of the campaign. It's a Halo sized campaign. PLUS [Spartan Ops] etc."
His words were then added to by 343 Industries' designer David Ellis (as lybertyboy) who claimed that "[Spartan Ops] season alone is longer than [Halo 3: ODST].
"Spartan Ops and Campaign are completely separate teams. As Frank mentioned earlier, the main campaign is substantial and will compare favorably with previous entries in the series."
Spartan Ops is a new story-driven game mode set to feature in Halo 4 and will replace the Firefight mode that appeared in Halo 3: ODST. Gamers can play it on their own or co-operatively with up to three other players, and the first Season of Spartan Ops plans to deliver five new objective-based missions and cinematics each week over a 10-week period. It's this content taken in isolation that Ellis has claimed will consist of more content than Halo 3: ODST.
So it seems if you were concerned after yesterday's news then there's no need to panic. Halo 4 launches on Xbox 360 on November 6.
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