News: 44th AM Show begins

September 14, 2006, 11:41 AM

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While it won't be open to the non-professional public till tomorrow, the 44th issue of the AM Show started yesterday, and some sites are already reporting the event, so let's see what can we steal from them. The most commented-on news has come from the Taito booth, where it has announced its new agreement with SNK Playmore, which will be developing the next episode in the King of Fighters series (namely 'XII'), as well as another couple of games for the PC-based Type-X 2 system, after finishing its relationship with Sega-Sammy (Brandon's note: Those games are KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A and Samurai Spirits Sen). This confirms the company as a mere 'third party' in the arcade game industry, which seems to have lost the potential to publish its own games.

Taito also presented its brand new non-dedicated cab, the Vewlix, with a 33'' LCD monitor supporting 16:9, 4:3 and 3:4 displays. The star of AMI's booth was, as usual, Cave's latest game. Ojakan has some videos and the new flyer of Mushihime-sama Futari which you should check out. For better-quality videos though, (and English-lettered impressions) you may prefer to go to Insomnia's article on the recent location test. AMI also presented Compile Heart's Takoron (which you might remember from this newspost and which also seems to be scheduled for the Wii). Sega had the new iteration of Out Run 2, Guilty Gear Accent Core and Melty Blood Act Cadenza Ver. B (based on the PS2 version and adding a new character), among others. Bandai-Namco, Banpresto and Capcom were also there, showing some new and not-so-new machines that you can see in the usual reports from Game Watch, G-Para, and Kobayan, while for a good selection of flyer scans, you can visit Alpha Station's homepage.