Japan Gaming Guide

We knew it was coming, but now it’s official. Wii Fit is on the way. The game will come with a wireless balance board, capable of measuring your weight amongst other things. The title will feature over 40 activities. Much has been made of Wii Sports‘ ability to get us lazy gamer types of the […]

It seems you can’t please some people. Not impressed by the $100 PS3 price drop, Konami have dropped some hints that the long and happy relationship between Solid Snake and the Playstation may be about to end. Snake needs to see other people, he still loves Playstation, it’s just, life is short – he doesn’t […]

From time to time we’re going to post videos of new titles that appear on the Japanese Virtual Console, and we’ll focus on those of them that are exclusive to Japan, as information on those might be hard to come by. Today we’re looking at Star Soldier on the NES, available for 500 Wii Points. […]

Visitors to Nintendo’s official site can now hear the music to Archaic Sealed Heat, the forthcoming tactical RPG from Mistwalker. The music is pretty grand, we look forward to hearing it through the DS speakers. We don’t know too much about the game, but we hear it will involve time travel and burning stuff, both […]

The training game trend on the DS shows no signs of abating. The latest entrant in the genre is this Origami training game. You’ll be able to view animated examples of paper folding, which you can then try to emulate. There’s also the option to increase the animation speed and challenge yourself to keep up. […]

Nintendo’s Chibi Robo website was just updated with a few new pictures and movies. The DS title just came out in Japan, and is headed stateside in September. You play a small robot, who runs around spreading love and cheering everybody up. Even by Nintendo standards this looks like being one heck of a happy […]

The venerable Edge Magazine has just released a supplementary issue containing their all-time top 100 games. Edge is a strong contender for the best gaming magazine in the English language, so their opinions are always worth reading. Click the links if you want to see the listings. We won’t spoil the surprise for those of […]

It’s fair to say the Nintendo DS has been a phenomenon. Jeux-France recently published a list of million selling games in Japan. There are 18 of them! Sega’s Love and Berry Collection is the latest game to join the list, topped by the 5 million selling Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. With sales figures like this it’s no […]

The infamous witch touching game, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan has just been released. If you feel like prodding young girls with your stylus then get to the shops now. [Read]

The Xbox 360 Elite is on its way to Japan. The console will retail for a cool Y47,800. The Elite has a bigger hard drive and HDMI support. We wouldn’t be suprised if Microsoft hadn’t sorted out all that ring of death stuff as well. So, who thinks this will be a hit? Anyone? Sales […]