According to Ascii Media Works, the release of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS hasn’t just been good business for Square Enix. It’s been good news for Nintendo as well. The market research firm says that in the week before the game went on sale, Nintendo shifted 51,601 DS handhelds. But last week, after…
Hero Adol returns once again in Nihon Falcom’s action role-playing-game franchise Ys. Slated for this September in Japan, Ys Seven features a brand new battle system for this PSP title. Rockin’ music, too.
Screams coming from inside a New Jersey house prompted a woman taking a stroll to call the cops. Police arrived on the scene and knocked on the door. That’s when things got bizarre. The resident said he was screaming because he was playing video games. According to MyCentralJersey.com, the man became “irrational” and more police…
Today in Brighton, UK at conference Develop 2009, Sony has shown off its new PS3 motion controller, which was first debuted at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles (pictured). Sony promised to display “a lot more of the new controller” and give “several real-world examples of such techniques as used in recent and soon to…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak isn’t just a rich, cuddly nerd. He’s also an avid gamer. Mostly card games, sure, but also Defender. Which he plays really well. Oh, and Tetris. Dude’s a Tetris purist. Geek Cruising with The Woz [Boing Boing Gadgets]
Oh no! Songstress Christina Aguilera hit her hand while playing the Nintendo Wii. It gets worse. She apparently bruised herself. The horror. Showbiz Spy brings us this tragic, tragic story: “Christina loves her Wii as a fun way to do a little work out,” a source said. “Now she’s a mother, it’s perfect for her.…
Teased title The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote is traditional turn-based role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. A very cute one at that. Have a look at the game’s gameplay footage. The title follows a boy out to save a princess and will be out in Japan this fall.
We know how Dragon Quest IX the game did in Japan. It did great, selling 2.3 million copies. But how did Dragon Quest IX the guide book do? Great. Walk-thru book Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky NDS Version Big Adventure Player Guide is the number one selling book on the Japanese Oricon…
Max Factory’s latest Figma figure should be one well-known to Persona fans: it’s Persona 3’s android beauty, Aegis. As with other Figma pieces, it’ll come with multiple, interchangeable appendages and faces. No word on a release date or price, but if it’s in line with other Figmas, it should be between $30-$40. 本日は久々のfigma新作発表！！[Figma Blog, via…
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Yes, that version of Resident Evil 4 on the iPhone is real. And it’s coming soon, with Capcom hastily scrabbling together a release date timeframe following the game’s accidental reveal earlier this week. The game will be out on the Japanese App Store towards the end of this month, with the “rest of world to…
Capcom’s last ad campaign features a trio of Japanese celebs playing Monster Hunter. One of them has played MH games a bunch. Another, not so much. Starring in the ad are model Anna Ishibashi, Japanese Academy Award nominated actor Satoshi Tsumabuki, and comedian Satoshi Inoue. Ishibashi has logged a mere three hours with the Monster…
By day, Herbert Lowis works as an artist at Propaganda Games, the team currently working on the new Pirates of the Caribbean game. But by night? He’s capable of stuff like this. Seriously, this is a sculpture made by a single man. Not a $300, commissioned piece of adult collectible finery. It’s just…something some guy…
Guitar Hero 5’s tracklist water torture continues today, with Activision announcing 22 more tracks for the game, along with shots of the game’s new drum kit. The drums themselves look a lot like the old drums except for one key feature: the cymbals, which now look normal, as opposed to something you’d find on an…
Stay with us, here! Don’t stop reading. At the Develop conference, Lemmings and original GTA designer David Jones recounts how the game is just like Pac-Man: People said to me that GTA was just like Pac-Man — he eats the dots, while you drive over the dots in GTA. The police chase you like the…
If you’ve got WiiConnect24 hooked up on your console, it should be glowing blue right about…now, with Nintendo having just pushed through firmware update 4.1 Unless you’re adverse to this type of business (ie you’re the homebrewing type), you might want to grab it, especially if you’re planning on getting Wii Sports Resort, because when…
Crackdown was awesome! And it had a Halo 3 multiplayer beta key included! So it did great business for Microsoft and developers Realtime, right? Nope. Not even close. “With Crackdown we sold about 1.5 million copies, but even at that we pretty much only managed to break even,” says Dave Jones, boss of developers Realtime…
To achieve the 3D character modeling for PSP title Hatsune Miku -Project Diva-, SEGA enlisted the help of 13-year-old child star Yui Ogura. Here is a video clip of her (and her game counterpart) in action. No, she does not get in the car and drive away. Ogura Yui – Project DIVA Motion Capture [Moetron]
I loved the Red Faction demo, but have been holding off on picking the game up on console because, well, I’d rather play it on PC. Which has been tough, what with the PC version delayed and all. But that long wait will soon be over, as THQ have finally gotten around to announcing a…
The superstar offers his pearls of wisdom in the latest issue issue of Wired. He touches on really important stuff. Stuff like looking at porn at work, peeing while on the phone and Rock Band. Let’s cut to the chase, here’s Pitt doing his best “Dear Abby”: Our Rock Band bassist sucks. Am I a…
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