Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Launch Trailer March 22, 2013

Two days away from its launch, Nintendo has released the official launch trailer for the 3DS exclusive game, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon.  The game is a 3D sequel to the Nintendo GameCube title Luigi’s Mansion.  In it, the player takes control of Mario’s brother, Luigi, who has to investigate a spooky mansion haunted by malevolent and mischievous spirits while armed with the most powerful ghostbusting equipment he can get his hands on, a Nintendo DS and a Vacuum Cleaner.

Here’s the game’s official TV commercial.  I thought it really harkened back to some of the great Nintendo commercials of the past twenty years.

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon is coming March 24th, 2013 exclusively to the Nintendo 3DS.  If you’re checking out PAX East 2013 this weekend, I have heard that convention goers have a chance of picking it up a few days early.

Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut Release Date March 22, 2013

A few years ago, I caught a video produced by The Spoony One just before he left for that year’s E3.  He did a short Let’s Play of the opening of a game I wasn’t familiar with at the time.  The game was called Deadly Premonition and it was a very interesting game which took the staple conventions of horror and put its own twist on it.

Seeing Spoony’s Let’s Play of the game before being exposed to some more famous games that would be considered staples of console horror like Silent Hill 2, I didn’t know what to make of the game at the time.  Now, having played those games, I got all the more appreciation for Deadly Premonition, and sought it out.  I actually picked up the original version of the game on the Xbox 360.

Now, developer Rising Star Games has announced that they are working on Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut, which will update the original game and feature entirely new features and scenes for the game and it is coming exclusively to the Playstation 3.  Rising Star Games has also hinted to the possibility of more things coming to the game via DLC.

So what’s coming for this new Director’s Cut?  Take a look at the game’s latest trailer!  Welcome to Greenvale.

Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut is coming out April 26th, 2013 in Europe and April 30th, 2013 in North America exclusively on the PS3.  Don’t forget, you can get the non Director’s Cut of the game on the Xbox 360.