Here we go, the newest Dragon Quest IX trailer. Right here, you can watch it. The game is due out next month in Japan, but doesn’t have a release date for outside The Land of the Rising Sun. Alrighty, who’s excited for DQIX?
Famed female manga collective CLAMP is designing exclusive costumes for the PS3 home version of TEKKEN 6. Fitting as TEKKEN 5 on the PS2 also had costumes by various artists. The CLAMP outfit is for Jin Kazama and pictured in this week’s Famitsu. Whaddaya think? CLAMP To Design Special Costume For TEKKEN 6! [SD TEKKEN]
Reports surfaced that inmates in HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire prison had their PS3 consoles “outlawed”. Thing is, there have never been PS3s in this correctional institution. The Guardian reported that the console with built-in modem and Bluetooth could be used by prisoners to communicate and plot escape plots. The UK Ministry of Justice issued a…
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Final Fantasy XIII is not out yet, and it won’t be in Japan until this December. Know what that means? Let’s start the marketing blitz right now. Looks like Square Enix will be releasing figurines of various characters (of various quality!) from the upcoming title. Pricing is and a release date is still unannounced —…
Attack of the Show! host Olivia Munn is the “Babe of the Month” for Playboy, appearing in a non-nude pictorial and on the cover. We knew that. On tonight’s ATOS, Munn revealed the cover: Her in a red bikini. Pretty sure we’ve seen her in a bikini, though maybe not red and definitely not on…
Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind Wii franchise No More Heroes, is working on a PS3 game — perhaps that rumored Kafkaesque title? Who knows? President of Marvelous Interactive, Yasuhiro Wada, does. Marvelous publishes Grasshopper’s games in Japan, and the exec says this about that mysterious PS3 title: “If we do that [game] we might go…
Compared to the number of funny movies, the number of funny games is quite low. Good comedy is hard! Harold Ramis is a funny guy, and he’s writer and/or directed a bunch of funny movies: Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. Why does he think are the challenges of making games funny? You would think comedy…
Starting on June 20th, the following DQIX ad with musical act SMAP will be shown nationwide in Japan. Well into their thirties, SMAP is the country’s biggest boy band group. Back in April, SMAP singer Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was arrested for indecent exposure. When police officers approached him, Kusanagi replied, “What wrong with being naked?” After…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: B-Day HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISH! Hope you had a nice one!! Since Micro-Bash is allergic to flour and eggs, Mrs. Bashcraft can’t eat flour and eggs as she’s still breast feeding. So! I’ve tried to cut back on my flour and eggs, too, because I kinda feel bad for her —…
Earlier this week, tragedy struck when Japanese pro wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa was killed in a freak ring accident — suffering lethal spinal damage from a suplex. Considered one of the greatest pro wrestlers ever, Misawa’s popularity in Japan rivaled Hulk Hogan’s in the West. Besides being a fantastic wrestler, he was also a gamer. A…
Microsoft is working on the human-body-controlled Project Natal. Nintendo has the Wii Remote. Sony, well, showed a new motion controller that will be out next spring. A new, nameless controller, that is. Compared with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, Sony Europe’s Andrew House seemed much more non-fussed about the competition. I’m not unduly worried and I think…
Shinya Arino, star of reality program GameCenter CX, is set to do a live 24 hour episode of the show. From the show’s official blog: “Finally… Really… Truly… a live 24-hour broadcast has been decided.” The show hasn’t worked out the details yet and is taking requests from fans of the show. Back in fall…
There are loads of DS holders. Here’s one that looks like girl’s athletic shorts. Those who pre-order the limited edition DS title Strike Witches will get a “bloomer” pouch. Bloomers (buruma) are the gym shorts schoolgirls in Japan typically wear. Strike Witches hits the Nintendo DS this September. DS版ストパン特典ブルマポーチ「心に染みるブルー！」って、いやいやいや！ [AkibaOS]
Today, Konami is releasing a new stage and an old character for Metal Gear Online. The third expansion for MGO‘s “SCENE EXPANSION” brings Metal Gear Solid 4‘s “Old Snake” to the fight as well as a new stage “Icebound Inferno”. The stage is MGS4‘s windy blizzard Shadow Moses stage. 『メタルギアオンライン』の拡張パック”SCENE EXPANSION”に、オールド・スネークがユニークキャラとして参戦 [Famitsu]
Digital games might mean “short”, but does it mean “small”? Not necessarily. “For right now, there is a culture of downloadable titles being smaller and generally ‘shorter’, but I think this is destined to change,” explains ThatGameCompany programmer Rick Nelson. “Companies will always compete with each other by offering more and higher fidelity content, on…
Max Payne is back — with facial hair and a bald noggin. One thing that won’t be back: the first two games’ voice actor, James McCaffrey. Rockstar Vancouver thinks it needs someone older, but doesn’t plan on replacing the voice actor with an established star, and will relay on casting — something, VP of development…
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Final Fantasy XIII is a multi-platform game — which has some people worried about a dip in quality. Square Enix is here to ease those fears. That’s nice! “The team is targeting to create an equal experience on both the 360 and the PS3, so there are no limitations,” says Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori…
The Nintendo Wii uses a controller dubbed “the Wii Remote“. Microsoft’s Project Natal uses a controller called “the human body”. What does Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto think? I don’t think I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don’t have something to hold in your hand, if you don’t have something like force…
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