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    Edited By BlackLagoon

    It's August, and admittedly still a bit late because my first version of this post was accidentally deleted. While there was a ton of new games to keep track of, I've stared doing the less pleasant housekeeping work going through the older announcements and checking to see which ones have been officially canceled, which are still in development, and as often happens - which have just faded away into vaporware. But more about that a bit later, as we get into my monthly list of current and upcoming titles for the PlayStation Vita. As usual it is focused on the North American market, with Europe and Japan exclusive titles in their own sections below.

    New releases this month include adventure game The Dreamlands: Aisling's Quest, puzzle platformer TETRA's Escape, word search puzzle game Word Search by POWGI, and Super Life of Pixel - an expanded port of the retro platformer originally released on PlayStation Mobile.

    New titles added are pixel horror game The Long Reach, Punch Out inspired indie Pato Box, shoot 'em up Full Blast, and retro platformer Sigi - A Fart for Melusina.

    And so we come to the previously mentioned housekeeping section. I went through a dozen or so of the oldest announcements, and most of them ended up being moved to vaporware - Snapshot (one of the first games announced as part of the "new" indie friendly PlayStation), James Pond 2, Death Ray Manta, The Chaos Engine, Yatagarasu/Legend of Raven, Samurai Gunn, and Road Not Taken. For many of them there were simply no news for years, possibly even since the original announcements. It may also seem as if the developer has moved on, or even shut down. While of course sometimes it will turn out that a developer was simply quietly plugging away at the port and it suddenly shows up on the PSN store one day, that seems increasingly unlikely with these titles so off to the vaporware section they go.

    I've also removed the "Unconfirmed" section. Infinifactory was as it turns out confirmed as canceled by the developer on Twitter, and Kero Blaster and King of Dragon Pass never went anywhere beyond the initial rumors.

    And I think we're done. Come back next month for adventure game/visual novel/anime tie-in Punch Line. While it is created by Zero Escape's Kotaro Uchikoshi, it's probably... not quite what you'd expect.

    August

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    Vaporware

    • Orc Attack - Console version released Oct 2013. No news of the Vita version.
    • Starbound - PC version is having development problems, making the Vita port unlikely to happen.
    • C-Wars - Retro RTS thing (abandoned in early access since Mar 2016)
    • SilverQuest: Gaiden - Previously MiniFlake (abandoned in early access since Mar 2016)
    • Smash Derby - Indie vehicle combat arena (no updates, removed from developers page)
    • A Clumsy Adventure - Indie platformer (dev website down, no twitter updates since Dec 2015)
    • Action Henk - Physics puzzle runner? (Vita not listed on homepage, PS4 came out in Mar 2016)
    • Ascension: Chronicle of the God Slayer - Card game (no updates since original annoucement Aug 2014)
    • Rain World - Survival (Out on other platforms, Vita version not mentioned any more)
    • Cloudberry Kingdom - Platformer (No news since 2013, no mention of Vita since, studio moved on)
    • Enter the Gungeon - Procedural dual-joystick shooter (Not cancelled but port low priority for the time being)
    • Snapshot - No news for several years, dev seems to have moved on.
    • James Pond 2: Robocod - Remake by System 3 (no news since 2013)
    • DiscStorm - Top-down arena combat (no news since 2015)
    • The Next Death Ray Manta - New version of the indie dual stick shooter (dev seemingly shut down)
    • The Chaos Engine - Port of the Amiga classic (no news since 2013)
    • Legend of Raven - 2D fighting game from former King of Fighters devs (no news since 2013)
    • Samurai Gunn - 2D deathmatch thing (dev seemingly moved on)
    • Road Not Taken - Procedurally generated puzzle game (held up by middleware problems, fix presumably never coming)

    Europe

    (Titles out in Europe with no American release announced.)

    Japan

    (Japanese titles from the last 2 years that have yet to be announced for western release)

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    #1 eccentrix

    Sad to hear about Snapshot, but Punch Line looks great.

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    #2  Edited By BlackLagoon

    @eccentrix: Snapshot's an odd one, I believe at one point early on in the Vita's life there were even demo stations with a selection of games, and I think a development version of Snapshot was one of them. Then it kept getting delayed, and when I was about to remove it the dev insisted that it was still coming on twitter so I left it on. But there's been no news since then, so I'm pretty comfortable declaring it vaporware at this point.

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    #3  Edited By EnomotoShards

    Bloodstained Ritual of the Night got cancelled for Vita. :(

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