Big time movie studios have been going game crazy of late. For better or worse, game titles are making the leap to big screen. Japanese online polling site Secret Survey has quizzed 5,000 users about which video game title they’d like to see turned into a major motion picture. Drumroll please, because… Here’s the top…
Prolific Japanese music producer Mitsuo Terada (aka “Tsunku”) is best known for producing idol J poppppp group Morning Musume and helping to launch the career of singers like Aya Matsuura. He also created Rhythm Heaven. How did candy pop wizard Tsunku add smash-hit game designer to his already impressive resume? Terada tells Wired that it…
The PS3 is not only getting previous Xbox 360 exclusive Tales of Vesperia, but also a new ToV pirate girl character named Patty Fruel and a bunch of other stuff. While other stuff like “full voice” seems 100 percent unique to the PS3 version, there are doubts about the new character. Patty was referrenced in…
Former Morning Musume singer Mari Yaguchi, apparently. The first of her “blog-like” serialized columns will appear in the issue going on sale May 1. Yaguchi often touches on gaming in her personal blog — writing about extremely important issues like whether she looks like Final Fantasy XIII characters. Japanese game magazine Famitsu, which has been…
In 1991, SEGA of America whipped up “The Sonic Bible”, an internal document that provided a history and philosophy for Sonic and his universe. Based on nothing from SEGA Japan, the end result of this entirely localized and invented character origins is fascinatingly awesome (think corporate fan fiction). One draft is like Charles Dickens-meets-I-don’t-know-what-the-fuck: Sony…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Seriously. Please tell me the rest of this week is going to be easy. Please. Because today was rough… What you missed last night Baby Pulls Off Zangief’s Double German Suplex New Halo Project To Span Console, Web & Mobile Closer Look At tri-Ace’s Multiplatform RPG Cute Arcade Fighter Gets Not-So-Cute…
Over the weekend, Square Enix held private screenings of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete at the Ginza Sony Building in Tokyo. Square Enix offered this chance to 800 silver members of its online site Square Enix Members who have reserved the Blu-ray movie or the movie’s special PS3 bundle at the Square Enix e-store.…
Those going to Tokyo Disneyland, be sure to bring your Nintendo DS. Starting April 25, the portable can show you around shopping, dinning and entertainment complex Ikspiari at Tokyo Disney Resort. Visitors can download the “Ikspiari Nintendo DS Guide” to their DS, DS Lite or DSi platforms. The download contains a guidebook for the whole…
It was only a matter of time. Erotic game Tech48 is using face tracking technology to let players do things like look at in-game heroines from various angles — that, and up their skirts. Developed by eroge maker Teatime, the game uses a special webcam and face tracking software to locate players’ faces. So when…
If you are going to sell a game, especially a Monster Hunter game, best to use a talking cat and a talking pig. Monster Hunter G was originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004, and is getting a Wii version later this month. Pig and cat not included, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD BE.
This generation, it’s hard to make a truly multi-platform. EA Sports exec Peter Moore explains why. At a recent conference, Moore stated, “You simply can’t take what you’re doing on the Ps3 and Xbox and port — thats a dirty word — down to the Wii.” Instead, developers must build Wii games “from the ground…
Japanese game developer tri-Ace has teamed up with SEGA for a new, multi-platform role-playing game called End of Eternity. It was announced last week in game magazine Famitsu, and Famitsu.com has now posted screens as well. While these same screens ran in the magazine, blurry scans meant it was hard to get a closer look…
Chick fighter Sugoi! Arcana Heart 2, which features classic moe girl archetypes duking it out, looks great in Japanese arcades. On the PS2, it looks less so. Sugoi! Arcana Heart 2 went on sale April 9 in Japan — complete with Hori fighting stick. While screenshots for the AQ Interactive PS2 port showed graphics on…
EA: Wii MotionPlus So Accurate It Can Be *Too* Accurate Comment by: Erode Nominated by: SuperD Hey now! You can exercise by playing tennis on the Wii. You….well…you swing your arms a bit; that’ll get your heart racing…eventually. And, you know, sometimes you have to lean sideways. That…does something, I’m sure. A Simulation Of Resident…
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SEGA title Valkyria Chronicles has spawned toys, an art book, an anime. Next up? The inevitable sequel. Maybe. Even though the game’s sales were disappointingly low, VC producer Ryutaro Nonaka has expressed interest in making another title. This isn’t confirmation of another Valkyria Chronicles, but the producer admitted that he didn’t want to show at…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Busy Day We went to the supermarket to buy dinner, when we noticed that in the car next to ours in the parking lot, there was a very, very small infant. The windows were cracked opened, the hatch-back was a mess of empty drink cans and food wrappers, cigarette butts,…
Guns N’ Roses latest album Chinese Democracy was released last November. People waited 15 years for it! Thankfully, Rock Band downloadable content is faster. The Chinese Democracy album will be released in its entirely on the Rock Band Music Store. One album track, Shackler’s Revenge, already appears on Rock Band 2 — foreshadowing! Tracks on…
Or play it on your PSP, even. That is, if you have a Japanese PSN account. Today, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VII International on the PlayStation Network. Final Fantasy VII International is how Square Enix re-released the new and improved American version in Japan on the PlayStation. The International version featured improvements like on-screen…
Just-released-in-Japan Wii title Muramasa: The Demon Blade maybe be rated 12-years-old-and-up, but that doesn’t mean it can slip some stuff under the radar. The hand-drawn-style action role-playing-game is set in traditional Japan and stars katana-wielding heroes Kisuke and Momohime. According to Japanese game magazine Famitsu, the game’s story features no real climax… Apparently Famitsu has…
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