With 3D becoming increasingly dominant, people are starting to ask questions that they never would have before. Questions like: Are you considering releasing the game in 3D? That’s what some dude asked Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase. “We don’t know how possible it is to build the game in 3D but we are interested…
The Hughes brothers, best known for their urban crime drama Menace II Society and more recently The Book of Eli, will be bringing the cyberpunk Akira manga to the silver screen, says New York magazine. The screen version will be penned by Iron Man writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.…
Imperial Hot is our nickname for Square Enix president Yoichi Wada. Big important guy like him, managing an international corporation, he probably has no idea about the internet meme we started, right? Wrong. See Yoichi Wada has begun twittering (feel free to follow him, he’s @yoichiw) and answering questions in Japanese from regular folks. Questions…
By “shooters”, I’m not talking about third-person or first-person shooters. I’m talking shooting games. You know, bullet hell. Late last month, Osaka-based developer SNK Playmore, best known for The King of Fighters series, released a vertical KOF shooting game called KOF Sky Stage. The title features fighting characters like Kyo and Mai Shiranui in a…
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Inazuma Eleven is the soccer role-playing game from Professor Layton and Dragon Quest IX developer Level-5. Embedded is the anime’s opening. The Inazuma Eleven debuted back in October 2008. The kids love it. レベルファイブの新卒者向け会社説明会にお邪魔してきました—目指すはエンターテイメントブランドとしての”世界一”（レイトン教授と魔神の笛） [4Gamer via ANN]
If you’ve spent any time on the internet (welcome!), then you have probably come across leetspeak and internet slang. But what is online lingo in one culture might be different in another. None of this matters if you are still learning the standard language. This South Korean text book is not just teaching words like…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Toy Fair That’s Micro-Bash. He’s 1 and a couple months old. And today he got his first library card. His older brother, Mini-Bash, has had a library card for a couple years now and really enjoys going to the library — more so now, because he has learned to read.…
A few days before last Christmas, a line stretched around a Tokyo bakery. The customers were waiting to buy Christmas cake. But they weren’t waiting to buy just any cake. In Japan, Christmas is akin New Year’s in the U.S. — secular and spent with friends. Yes, there are Japanese Christians who celebrate the religious…
People like BioShock 1. People seem to like BioShock 2. Know what that means? We will probably see another BioShock game. And then another. And another. Of course publisher 2K won’t confirm that, because 2K like most big companies seems to like surprises that aren’t really surprises. “Rapture is probably one of the most unique…
Characters Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers will be joining Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition as Mercenaries Reunion characters. The two appeared in the original Resident Evil and have made cameos in the titles that followed, points out game site CVG, and Rebecca Chambers even starred in Resident Evil Zero. Forhtcoming Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition…
It’s not confirmed, but a Demon’s Souls sequel would seem like a no brainer, especially considering the attention the game got. As web forum NeoGAF points out, a podcast from Japanese gaming news source Dengeki hints that a sequel for a challenging and hard game released last year would be coming out this fall. The…
BioWare role-playing game Mass Effect 2 has a survey for every planet and star in the game. Here’s a snippet about Yamm: With over 90 percent of its surface covered in oceans, Yamm is a habitable nitrogen-oxygen world, but its extremes can be quite hostile to sapient life. The heat from its extremely long days…
Namco Bandai is bringing Yamato to pachislot machines with Uchu Senkan Yamato (trailer here). Dubbed Star Blazers in English, the sci-fi military anime originally ran in the mid-1970s in Japan. Pachislot is a fancier version of classic slot machines in which the player must stop the reels himself — this is called “skill stop”. While…
This month, SEGA is bringing Super Monkey Ball, the series designed by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, to the Nintendo Wii Balance Board. But remember kids, YOU MUST STAND ON THE BOARD. The floor doesn’t detect motion. Well, yeah, anyway.
Beside the economic downturn, third-party peripheral maker Mad Catz is doing just fine. The company posted net sales increase 19 percent to US$48.8 million during the third quarter of fiscal 2010. That’s the second-best quarter sales in the company’s history! Gross profits were also up 51 percent to $15.9 million. “These results reflect our success…
When a bunch of Phantasy Star Portable 2 panty shots appeared online, I thought, surely the game developers don’t design the characters down to their underwear. Turns out I was wrong. They do. The game’s “making of” type book shows original art of the characters and just how much planning goes into their design. Yes,…
The Gundam Vs. series doesn’t really venture far outside of the Gundam universe. You know what you are getting into: Gundam. Take, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon, Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam or Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next. Notice a pattern? These games are great if you know your Zeta…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Loooooove This morning a family friend said that she bought something from an eBay shop, but then decided that she wanted to cancel or something like that. I looked online and it said that you cannot cancel an order per se (she has not finalized her purchase yet), but have…
For the upcoming Dragon Ball DS2 Totsugeki! Red Ribbon Gun, Bandai released this web ad that features hands, a copy of the game, a Yamaha piano and singers. It’s classy. The song is DB ending them “Romantic Ageruyo.” The game will be out February 11 in Japan. The theme song will live on in our…
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