Mostly known on the freeware scene for last year’s surprising hit EveryExtend, Omega released his latest effort this weekend. The (catchy) name is DAN! DA! DAN!, and the game is once again a brillant 2D shooter, this time evoking Hudson’s Famicom classic Star Soldier. Expect some nifty discussions and tactics in the forums, as usual.

VTF-INO has a new video up (direct link), displaying his now familiar insane skills on the arcade version of Chaos Field, the recent Naomi/Dreamcast shooter which, despite a lukewarm welcome from shooting fans, was released on the japanese Gamecube last week.

Torus Trooper got updated while I wasn’t looking. (Or maybe it was while I was playing Nanaca Crash. Probably…) New features include a cool replay mode, so-smooth-it’s-smoov color shifting, and various fixes for bugs I never got to experience in my previous travails.

And it’s FASTER. Meaning: it’s REALLY easy to get past 10000 km/h now. Wow.

More insanity at the insanely slow-rendering web page known as insani. Today, the group released their 100% English patch of the retail release of Key’s Planetarian. Remember, this is just a patch, so you’ll need to purchase the game (or content yourself with the Trial Edition… or… well…) to see what makes this novel so kinetic rather than visual. Yes, there is a difference.

Note: Just so that everyone is on the same page here: while Key is pretty famous for a game catalog which includes many adult games, Planetarian has no adult material.

SNKP is bringing Twinkle Star Sprites to the PS2. It has a new sub-title (La Petite Princesse), so it’s remotely possible that this is either a sequel or an updated. I’d bet on the latter. Thanks to Iggy for this news.

In related news, KOF MI, SSV and KOF94: Rebout are confirmed for Xbox Live play. Rockin.

Jeux-france has a copy of the brilliant french commercial for the Nintendo DS. Check it out here, but be sure to check out the original site, since this is a direct link. This commercial should be used globally, I think.

As they hinted not long after the cancellation of Sam and Max: Freelance Police by LucasArts, TellTale Games, founded by the people in charge of the abandoned project, had a trick up their sleeve in the form of an adventure game based on the praised Bone comic book series. This will be the second title in their young history after interim ‘casual’ game TellTale Texas Hold’em Poker, released earlier this month. [2/27 update: There's an interview avaiable at adventuregamers.com]

There’s now an official site for Tokimeki Memorial Online, the dating sim MMO. Though, it might be a bit less point and click, and a little more sims-esque. They call it a community game, and you actually take part in a school, joining clubs, doing homework (one can easily imagine a student skipping real homework to do their virtual homework, which would be quite insane). Regardless, the screens are interesting, and the concept, once more is revealed, may be something curious.