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Fatal Frame snaps a selfie on PSN this week

Jessica Conditt — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:30:00 EST

The original Fatal Frame is scheduled to launch on PSN this Tuesday, as revealed on the PlayStation Blogcast. Fatal Frame enters the PSN Store as a PS2 Classic, and it never leaves because that's how horror works.

Tecmo's first installment in the Fatal Frame series introduces Miku, a young girl who can see spirits. Her brother, who shares her powers, goes missing, and Miku tracks him to a derelict mansion. There, she picks up her mother's Camera Obscura, a device that captures souls on film, and must navigate out of the mansion while still searching for her brother.

Be on the lookout for Fatal Frame's official announcement in the PSN drop this week.

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Report: 3DS Fatal Frame spinoff uses 3DS cameras as in-game camera

JC Fletcher — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:00:00 EST

It's kind of the perfect idea: match the Fatal Frame series, in which characters see and fight ghosts through a camera lens, with AR tech like that in the 3DS. And, if early reports out of the latest Famitsu are accurate, we'll soon get the opportunity to see if that idea is executed perfectly.

Called "Spirit Diary," the game interacts with an included "AR Notebook" whose functions are curently unknown. In the game, you and a young girl investigate the cursed book. Other modes include AR minigames and a battle mode in which players fight using "spirit pictures" of themselves.

It is currently unknown whether this game will be published by Tecmo, who handled most previous Fatal Frames, or Nintendo, who published the Wii Fatal Frame -- and then neglected to release it outside of Japan.

[Image: Fatal Frame 4]

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Footage of Nintendo's 3DS, DS and Wii lineups

JC Fletcher — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:05:00 EST

Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture

Nintendo produced a few slick videos of its various console lineups for its conference, now embedded after the break.

In addition to footage of known 3DS games, including Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition and Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle, the 3DS video reveals a second Resident Evil game, Biohazard: The Mercenaries 3D. The Wii video offers the first look at the new Fatal Frame and Rhythm Heaven games, among many other first- and third-party titles. And though you have to wait until the end, you will see clips of the new Kirby game and Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS in the DS video.

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New Rhythm Heaven, Fatal Frame games announced for Wii

JC Fletcher — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:10:00 EST

Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture

Nintendo's conference today wasn't all about the 3DS. The publisher has also announced new DS and Wii titles. Mistwalker's The Last Story was given a January 27 release date, but more excitingly, two new Wii sequels were announced -- one for the GBA/DS Rhythm Heaven series, and one for Zero, known here as Fatal Frame.

Both games are scheduled for 2011 releases, and screens of both are available in our galleries.

Gallery: Fatal Frame (2011) (Wii)

Gallery: Rhythm Heaven (Wii)

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