Omega Five is a horizontal shooter for the Xbox Live Arcade, featuring an unlockable retro mode, during which both the graphics and sound are stylized to imitate 16-bit hardware.  The soundtrack represents a new take on the sidescrolling shooter by…

I don’t know how Ruby can fly around in the Glacial Fortress without freezing to death because she is wearing leggings. Or why Tempest has four arms and only carries one gun (seriously?). But I do know Omega Five is…

New horizontal shmups rarely appear on the market and once in a blue moon they matriculate in North America. However, the titles that appear outside of Japan don’t have alien samurais flying around with giant lasers. Omega Five does. Why?…

Around the time of Tokyo Game Show Hudson set Omega Five’s release around November. It’s the end of the month and it’s obviously a no show since we’re getting Asteroids instead of a horizontal shmup with cyborg ninjas. So what…

When you kick off Omega Five you can choose between two characters I opted for the heavy shooting space pirate at the beginning, but I found the cybernetic female more my style. She has a 360 degree laser beam and…

It looks like Hudson had a party and one of the games at their event was Omega Five. There is an interesting partnership behind its development, Natsume (the people behind Harvest Moon) and Hudson teamed up to make this side…