Japan Gaming Guide

Battalion Wars 2 arrived on the Wii last week. Kuju’s game is an unusual action-strategy hybrid, and doesn’t attract much in the way of hype – but it’s a worthy purchase in a genre that isn’t exactly saturated on the Wii at present. The game is a distant cousin of the fantastic advance wars series, […]

Mario Party DS is coming out on November 8th in Japan, just a week after Super Mario Galaxy launched on the Wii. The game’s official page is being regularly updated. There’s going to be a 4-player wi-fi mode (from one cart), a story mode and 60 mini games. Some puzzle games are also included which […]

The PS3 has made it into the Guiness book of records. Stanford University’s Folding@Home project is the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. All those PS3s working together produce a combined output of 1 petaflop, which is quite a lot of flopping – the equivalent of doing a quadrillion sums in a second. Over 670,000 […]

We heard about a Final Fantasy XI event in Osaka, yesterday and headed down there to get a few pictures. The event was much bigger than we were expecting, and was a massive sellout, so we couldn’t get tickets. The queue outside was pretty colossal, and what we could see of the show floor looked […]

The DS is to get its very own Chipmunks game! Fans of the squeaky voiced musical beasties will be pleased to hear that the game is going to be a rhythm action title – and will have you guiding the furry ones through a 40 song battle of the bands. Alvin and the Chipmunks is […]

Someone built a giant Super Mario made of cans. It’s for charity, and it’s Mario, so you gotta love it. [Read]

The first two episodes of the Blue Dragon Anime are coming to Xbox live in Japan. The episodes will be free to download between November 15th and January 1st. The downloads coincide with today’s budget release of the game. Later this month you’ll also be abe to get your hands on the latest DVD in […]

Super Mario Galaxy went on sale today in Japan. We went along to Osaka’s Yodobashi camera store to get our copy. hoping there might be some kind of promotional stuff going on, but although there were a couple of Galaxy displays, Ace Combat 6 seemed to be getting more attention from the public. A quick […]

There is perhaps no better use for that Y100 coin you have cluttering up your pocket than the gashapon pod. These things are everywhere in Japan, they’re found around shops of all kinds. They branded cheap stuff based on whatever happens to be popular with the kids at the time. It’s mostly kids that use […]

Kick, punch, punch, block, kick! If that grabbed your attention, you’ll want to know about a couple of PS2 announcements from SNK. World Gorgeous Heroes is coming out as World Heroes Anthology in North America. Fatal Fury Battle Archives Volume 2 is also in development. Decent games and decent value for fighting purists. [Read]