Velocity Fast Approaching Release

A new space-shooter called Velocity will be making it's way to the PSN Store courtesy of Futurlab, developers of manic crab-em-up Coconut Dodge. The game will be available for the Vita, PSP and PSP and will release sometime in March. According to Playstation.Blog it is "a portable-friendly shooter that is packed full of innovative ideas, designs, sounds and gameplay, a genuine, high quality homage to the classic games us older folk remember fondly ;)"

This nostalgic blast from the past isn't just tried and trusted gameplay either, with the introduction of a teleport element that after the developer's prototyped, knew had to be included. The game looks frenetic enough as it is but the mind-bending teleportation mechanic serves to tip it over the edge.

James Marsden, Game Director, said of the games mechanics on PSNStores.com, "With regards to balancing, we ensure the game is accessible by giving ample room for you to get to grips with the teleport controls, and then we ramp it up slowly over plenty of levels, adding other mechanics along the way, so by the middle of the game you are pumping the fuel, flinging bombs left and right, teleporting over enemies and their bullets to nip across a bit of space station wreckage, snagging a survivor and a weapon pickup, and then hurling a bomb backwards to disable the final switch in a series, which disables a laser field that was blocking an area of the map you hadn’t explored yet..."