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Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce footage murderously arrives online

by Ben Gilbert { Dec 17th 2009 at 6:40PM }

Would you believe us if we told you that Koei's first Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce trailer had to brutally slice its way through an army 1,000 strong to arrive where you see it today, resting atop this post? It's the truth! It joined up with three friends online to "infiltrate heavily-armed enemy strongholds" and "slay dragons" and ... oh, who're we kidding. It's a trailer for one of the many upcoming Warriors games, and certainly not one of the historical characters littered throughout the series, bent on murdering all that stands in its path. It does, however, feature all of the aforementioned excitement. So there's that, right?

Gallery: Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3/360)

Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce brings the crowds online in February

by JC Fletcher { Nov 19th 2009 at 5:10PM }

Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce, the upgraded PS3 and Xbox 360 port of the PSP's hit Dynasty Warriors game, will launch in North America this February, according to an announcement from Koei. We understand that keeping all the upcoming Warriors games straight may be confusing to people not keeping a close eye on the series, so we'll break it down.

This isn't the Fist of the North Star one, and it's not the Wii one game that Shigeru Miyamoto is peripherally involved in. This is the Dynasty Warriors with the crazy Dragon Ball Z-style transformations. This is the one that features Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 characters on PS3 and Warriors Orochi 2 characters on Xbox 360. Most importantly, this is the Dynasty Warriors with online multiplayer for teams of up to four players!

Gallery: Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3/360)

See North Star Musou's gory details in video teaser

by JC Fletcher { Oct 16th 2009 at 3:30PM }

Tecmo Koei opened a teaser site for the new North Star Musou, featuring a brief clip of in-game action. If you're familiar with either Fist of the North Star or the Dynasty Warriors games, you know exactly what to expect: a little post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque wasteland, and one giant guy exploding a horde of identical thugs with his bare fists and feet. The combination of these two licenses is doing a pretty good job of renewing our interest in both!

See the footage after the break. If you squint, it kind of looks like a high-definition God Hand sequel.

Gallery: Fist of the North Star

[Via Andriasang]

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Koei Tecmo's new game is North Star Musou

by JC Fletcher { Oct 13th 2009 at 9:56AM }

The new game being teased by Koei Tecmo -- the one with the flowers? Um, yeah, it's actually about punching people: As predicted, the game's been revealed by Famitsu as Fist of the North Star Musou (officially, just Hokuto Musou, or North Star Musou) combining Koei's populous Dynasty Warriors series with the venerable manga series, and it's the smartest thing Koei has ever done with the Warriors series since the original idea.

The Fist of the North Star franchise follows a martial artist named Kenshiro who wanders around a post-apocalypse Earth, using his "Hokuto Shinken" style to fight gangsters that prey on hapless innocents. Why is this series so perfect for Warriors? Because it's a well-known universe in which it's perfectly believable for one guy to beat up a couple hundred enemies with his bare fists. This license will not require much adapting in the transition to a Warriors game.

Hokuto Musou, according to the magazine, will be out sometime next year on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Koei Tecmo teases new game with dead flowers

by Griffin McElroy { Oct 10th 2009 at 2:30PM }

Man, Koei Tecmo, you really know how to confuse the hell out of us. You've proven your capacity to perplex with your billion-dudes-on-screen action franchises -- now, you're diversifying your riddlecraft with a teaser site for a heretofore unannounced game. Based on context clues, we're guessing it's the long overdue revival of everyone's favorite classic franchise: Pretty Flower, Dead Flower, Falling Girl.

We're kidding, of course. Judging by the Big Dipper which slyly appears at the end of the teaser's video loop, and the fact that the entire Musou (or Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors) team will be in attendance when the game is revealed on October 14, we're guessing it's actually Fist of the North Star Musou. Shame, really -- we were so excited about a current-gen reimagination of PFDFFG.

[Via IGN]

Stoic silence on the battlefield unless you install Dynasty Warriors 6 PSP data

by JC Fletcher { Oct 7th 2009 at 2:15PM }

Okay, a little background: Dynasty Warriors 6 is being ported to the PSP. The same Dynasty Warriors 6 that was the basis for Strikeforce, which came out on the PSP first and is now being ported to the Xbox 360 and PS3. This PSP version of DW6 includes elements of Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires. This isn't totally relevant to the news at hand, but it's really complicated and we're kind of proud of ourselves for (presumably) untangling it.

This latest Dynasty Warriors 6, Dynasty Warriors 6 Special, won't require users to install data to the Memory Stick, but will have benefits for those who do. If you install the 260MB data, the speech in the game will be voiced. If you don't, your allies and enemies on the battlefield will communicate via text windows.

Actually, now that we think about it, not having a thousand dudes yelling at you all the time seems a lot better. Thanks for the option, Koei!

Hands-on: Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (360/PS3), Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii)

by JC Fletcher { Oct 5th 2009 at 9:30PM }

I played two games in Koei's prolific Warriors series at TGS: the Wii-exclusive Samurai Warriors 3, and the PS3/360 port of the PSP's Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce. The two games were as different from one another as two Warriors games could be, though, of course, both games stuck to the Warriors foundation of controlling a historical war hero as he or she beats several thousand enemy soldiers on a crowded battlefield. Both seem like high-quality entries, each offering compelling reasons for lapsed combatants to return to the fight.

Gallery: Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii)

Gallery: Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3/360)
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TGS 2009: Koei announces Dynasty Warriors Online for PS3

by Griffin McElroy { Sep 25th 2009 at 10:57AM }

Even from our poorly lit offices, some 6,500 miles away from the Tokyo Game Show floor, we heard shouts of jubilation coming from the Koei stage. The reason for the uproar was due to the announcement made just moments before: Dynasty Warriors Online, an MMO-Samurai-Warfare-Sim for PC, will be making its way to PS3 next year in Japan. Wait. We hear those cheers again! Man, our windows are closed! What's going on?

Details about the title are few, though the official DWO teaser site confirms that while the title will get a retail release, players won't have to shell out for any irksome subscription fees. Instead, Koei will be supported by the community's purchase of Musou Coins, which can be spent on special items and furniture. Furniture? Does this mean we'll finally be able to play as ... the Ottoman Empire?

Ninja Gaiden characters to appear in Dynasty Warriors, vice versa

by Griffin McElroy { Sep 23rd 2009 at 4:57PM }

Merged game companies rarely fuse their franchises together, but when the two partnered entities' action-genre focus overlaps as much as Koei and Tecmo's do, inter-brand cameos come naturally. That's why we weren't shocked to hear that Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa and Warriors Orochi's Nu Wa would make appearances in the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, respectively, of Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid. In addition, Multi Raiid's Sun Shang Xiang and Zhao Yun will appear as costumes in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

At this rate, we expect the many, many ninjas from Koei and Tecmo's respective properties will soon be thrown into a "ninja pool," which players of any their titles will be able to choose from. For the record, we're strong advocates for this ninja unionization. Fairer wages for our shiruken-slinging brethren!

Revamped Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce headed to 360, PS3

by Richard Mitchell { Aug 3rd 2009 at 5:45PM }

GAME Watch (translation) has revealed that Koei plans to bring a new version of Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (subtitled Multi Raid in Japan) to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Previously released on the PSP, Strikeforce introduced some new features to the series, including RPG elements and the ability for characters to transform into super-powered alter-egos. The console versions will feature upgraded graphics as well as online play for up to four players with both text chat and voice chat.

The game is expected to hit Japan on October 1, and we imagine it will travel west before too long.

[Via Siliconera]

Trophies: Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires

by Andrew Yoon { Jul 10th 2009 at 5:10PM }

	1 Platinum 2 Gold 5 Silver 43 Bronze	Difficulty: Easy Online Trophies? No Time to Completion: 20 hours DLC Trophies? No
	View Trophy List	Read More About the Game

Gallery: Dynasty Warriors 6

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Dynasty Warriors 6 heading to PSP

by Andrew Yoon { Jun 24th 2009 at 6:30PM }

Have you killed thousands of mindless soldiers lately? No? Then let KOEI fill in that void with yet another Dynasty Warriors 6 game. PSP will be getting a new version of Dynasty Warriors 6, based on the PS2 game of the same name. The enhanced port will include ad-hoc multiplayer, new costumes and Meng Ho from the newly-released Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires.

The PSP game is currently only announced for Japanese release, but a US release is likely. KOEI has released almost every Dynasty Warriors game in the States, with a notable exception of Warriors Orochi Z.

Tecmo/Koei crossover games possible [update]

by JC Fletcher { Jun 18th 2009 at 12:55PM }

According to what Gigazine claims to be scans from the Nikkei Corporate Quarterly (a book that provides snapshots of information about Japanese companies), the new Tecmo Koei Holdings is planning to combine IP in at least one new game.

Andriasang translated the relevant blurb: "New Games: Will release games that combine Tecmo and Koei titles. The aim is to reach fans of both." The identity (or number) of games, and the identity of the titles that Tecmo and Koei plan to merge are unknown, which means we can amuse ourselves briefly by coming up with our own, like Dead or Alive: Xtreme Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Rygar's Ambition, Dynasty Monster Ranchers, Gitaroo-Man Gaiden Sigma, and Mighty Bomb Genghis Khan.

We've checked in with the North American branches of both Koei and Tecmo in an effort to find any additional details about the plan.

[Update: Tecmo declined to comment, indicating that the US office didn't know any more than we did about this.]

Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires getting US release in June

by Jason Dobson { May 19th 2009 at 9:30AM }

Even in this crazy Kotec world it's refreshing to know the sun still rises in the east, Wheaties is still the breakfast of champions and Koei and the Dynasty Warriors are still best buds. Some things, you see, never change.

The latest in Koei's venerable action strategy franchise, Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires, will arrive on June 23 for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, promising character editing and a return to series' button mashing heroics set in China's good old days. Equally ancient is the game's multiplayer mode, with just two players supported offline and apparently no online mode at all. Still, with its boots stuck in history, it sort of completes the symmetry to have the whole experience cemented in the distant past.

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce demo out tomorrow

by Andrew Yoon { Mar 25th 2009 at 12:30PM }

Strikeforce is a rather radical departure for the aging Dynasty Warriors series. Yes, you'll still be unleashing massive combos on hordes of enemies, but now you'll be able to do so with stylish, outlandish moves. Taking a page from Monster Hunter, this iteration of the series encourages 4-player multiplayer.

A demo will be available on the PlayStation Store tomorrow, featuring "the strongest warriors of the Three Kingdoms." You'll want to grab three other PSP-owning friends in order to best tackle this experience.

Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce will be out in April in the US, May in Europe. Check out a trailer after the break.