At the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, publisher Marvelous Entertainment made a splash yesterday by announcing that Suda51’s beam-wielding otaku Travis Touchdown would return in a Wii-exclusive sequel to No More Heroes. Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle is apparently laser-cut from the same cloth as its predecessor. It will feature the same [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Word out of Japan is the Open Beta for PlayStation Home is likely still on track for a mid-November release. More accurately, SCEJ has today issued a press release that says that the service will arrive “within this calendar year,” and that the company will “start the final stage of a large-scale closed beta test [...]
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Japan loves the Xbox 360. Just a short while after sales had been extremely sluggish in Nintendo and Sony’s home turf, Microsoft is now claiming that sales are exceeding projections. “We’ve done better than we forecast. We are finding that we have a shortage of hardware,” said Microsoft’s John Schappert in a Reuters report this [...]
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Just over a month ago, we brought you the news that in Japan, the PlayStation Portable was receiving some very desirable new online functionality, in the form of a direct PSP store for digital downloads, and an infrastructure mode to allow formerly adhoc-only PSP titles to be played over the internet. While we still haven’t [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 6, 2008
MadWorld looks like Sin City. MadWorld lets you impale victims with a signpost. MadWorld has a boss named Herr Frederick von Twirlenkiller. Rad? You bet, but unless you’ve been stuck under a rock — or perhaps, on a pike — you’ve heard it all before. So at the 2008 Nintendo Media Summit, we set out [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
UPDATE: Nintendo has confirmed the DSi for North American release. However, Reggie says “As far as 2008 is concerned, the Nintendo DSi story is strictly Japan related.” We won’t see the DSi until “well into 2009,” because Nintendo believes there’s still a respectable market for the DS Lite, stateside. At the Nintendo Fall Press Conference in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
Japanese tech news site PC Watch is reporting that as a cost-saving measure, Sony “has begun seriously considering” basing the upcoming PlayStation 4 on the same Cell processor that currently powers the PS3.
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
When contacted for comment earlier today, Nintendo representatives in all major territories would not lend credence to reports that a new Nintendo DS will arrive in Japan before the end of the year. Mind you, they’re not denying it either…
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
Japan’s Nikkei newspaper (via NeoGAF) is reporting that a new Nintendo DS — featuring an integrated camera, music player and enhanced wireless connectivity — will be released in Japan before the end of the year. The device is expected to retail at a sub-200,000 yen (sub-$190) price point, and expected to look nothing like Yannis [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
In some ways, it’s really a shame that Microsoft decided to cut the price of the Xbox 360 in Japan last week– because if they hadn’t, we could say with some degree of certainty that Microsoft’s strategic RPG initative is working wonders for the system’s traditionally stagnant Japanese sales. According to numbers compiled by Enterbrain (via [...]
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