So Cave cancelled their Vita shooter.

[Deca]

How is Touge 3? I've always wondered but never heard anything about it. I'm a huge fan of Kaido Battle (and everything else GRP does) as well as Battle Gear and Initial D, how does Touge stack up?

[Teufel_in_Blau]

As someone on the Cave-STG Forum already said IKD should really consider leaving Cave, grab a handful coders like Yagawa and try to launch a new Arcade shooter centric company. I'm sure he could make a decent living out of making one or two arcade shooters a year and later porting them to consoles/phones. Cave as a whole is just too big for this kind of games.

[Cuilan]

Another solution is for the board of directors to fire all of the upper management, and replace them with people who actually care about the company as a whole and make some effort to understand the markets they cater to.

[KAI]

Touge 3 is a Shit, compared with Touge Battle 3.

[newguns]

CAVE's latest investor relations info is out:

http://contents.xj-storage.jp/contents/ ... 071781.pdf

This one says that income from Dodonpachi Saidaioujou, Akai Katana international version and clearing out the CAVE shop led to an upwards earnings revision.

The quarterly review is out too:

http://contents.xj-storage.jp/contents/ ... 902978.pdf

Looks like they're concentrating more on their existing social/online games while developing a social game with "action/shooting elements" (page 18).

[BulletMagnet]

A short interview with Asada states, among other things, that Cave's "canceled" Vita shooter will actually be released for tablets/smartphones instead.

[VixyNyan]

And not Windows Phone. Figures. ^^;

I do want to play Bug Panic too. x.x

I'm all for any new projects coming, I just don't have any other "smart phones" yet to play on.

[Despatche]

They specifically mention Windows 8 being important... I wonder how porting things from 8 or RT to Phone 8 would work.

[Illyrian]

And not Windows Phone. Figures. ^^;

I do want to play Bug Panic too. x.x

I'm all for any new projects coming, I just don't have any other "smart phones" yet to play on.

Bug Panic is rubbish, you're not missing anything.

[MX7]

Yeah, bug panic isn't even an 'interesting experiment' or whatever. The story mode in particular is just painful to play.

The score attack modes are kind of cool though. Just would have worked much better as a twin stick arcade game.