Japan Gaming Guide

Japan’s most popular Xbox 360 title is heading to the PSP later this year. There are a whole load of idolmaster pics over at Famitsu. [Read]

We always have to bite our nails on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday as the titles we’re hotly anticipating don’t always turn up in Japan. Our manicurist breathed a sigh of relief when Braid arrived as expected this week. Braid is attracting a lot of attention – and deservedly so. It’s the kind of game that’s […]

Game Watch have over 90 screenshots from the forthcoming SOCOM:Confrontation on PS3. The snaps show off the game’s dense urban environments and cool looking explosions and smoke effects. [Read]

Another fantastic looking online game in Beta right now is Magical Smash. It’s a tennis game with huge helpings of anime madness. Weird and wonderful characters compete in bizarre competitions on surreal courts. Click through to see a few more pics, including a guy with the ultimate tennis accessories: handguns. [Read, via Game Watch]

Siren: New Translation has been out here for a few weeks now. Famitsu have been running a blog specifically for the game, filled with creepy details. The latest post shows several photos of the female zombies in the game, and a picture of an actress in zombie make up. You can see why the graphics […]

Here’s a great free RPG parody: Hikkimori Quest, via Kotaku

Another multiplayer board game drops onto Wiiware today. This time it’s Othello. Othello is hugely popular in Japan, there are even TV shows discussing tactics and strategy, as with Shogi. Yours for 1000 Wii points. [Read]

So what’s coming out in August? Xbox 360 7th – Tales of Vesperia 26th – Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway 28th – Too Human 31st – Mercenaries 2: World in Flames PS3 5th – Monster Madness: Grave Danger 26th – Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway 28th – Afrika 31st – Mercenaries 2: World in Flames […]

We’ve all been there. Halfway through a particularly impressive tripple jump Mario stops in midair, the Wii beeps, and up pops a little picture of an empty battery. Gaaah! Since wireless controllers became all the rage a few years ago we’ve started going through batteries like chimps go through bananas and it has to be […]

The Wii shopping channel now has a ‘redeem software’ area. As far as we know the feature isn’t in use yet, but it seems gamers will be able to enter codes they get with games and use them to get free Wii points or virtual console titles. This is an added bonus for Japanese Nintendo […]