January 21: wallet threat level Gilbert

Posted by on January 21, 2013 in Games

The Cave is the first game from Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert since he hooked up with the folks at Double Fine. It’s out this week.

Shootmania, the shooter from the folks who made Trackmania, is intended to be a flexible construction kit for players to make a variety of different game types. But if I know online shooters, it will be a bunch of dudes free-for-all deathmatching, first to fifty frags wins.

The PS3 exclusive JRPG Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a collaborative effort from Studio Ghibli and Level-5. I would have played it by now if the Playstation 3 that I got to replace my dead Playstation 3 hadn’t died within days of getting it. If this happens eight more times, it’ll rival my failure rate with Xbox 360s.

  • anon

    Shootmania is the most promising competitive fps in ages. That’s not necessarily saying much however, and unfortunately it’s tied to the Maniaplanet service and thus not on Steam.

    Strike Suit Zero, mechs in space! Music by him wot did Homeworld.

  • Peter Michelsen

    If The Cave turns out to be bad I’m gonna be very upset.

  • Barac Wiley

    Ni no Kuni looks fantastic. And by that I mean the screenshots I’ve seen all pretty much looked like anime instead of game graphics. I’m kind of iffy on JRPGs and console games in general anymore, though, so I’ll have to wait and see. Plus, while I used to think Level 5 were some of the most reliable developers in Japan in terms of turning out quality games, things like White Knight Chronicles have done a lot to diminish their stature in my eyes.

    I preordered The Cave.

  • http://larsenb.tumblr.com Larsen B

    I’m actually buying TWO of the games listed in a Wallet Threat post. This feels like a big moment for me and the games industry.

    Ni No Kuni as an RPG seems functional at best but the localisation (a Welsh buddy!) and the art should take it over the top like Dragon Quest VIII.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Guillermo-Matías-Gumucio/100001506489937 Guillermo Matías Gumucio

    Very, very eager to start playing “The Cave”, as anyone from late 80s/early 90s!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Guillermo-Matías-Gumucio/100001506489937 Guillermo Matías Gumucio

    ~70 on Metacritic. :P