Japan Gaming Guide

This is amazingly cool. Remember kids, you’ve never had it so good! [Read, via Wonderland]

Famitsu, the Japanese game magazine leviathan has published a list of its readers all time top 100 games. The list is dominated by epic RPGs as you can imagine. Non-Japanese games barely get a look in with GTA: Vice City scraping in at number 76, and Japanese conversions of Wizardry, Sim City and Tetris hovering […]

Jack Thompson has become the figurehead of the anti-gaming movement that is currently stoking the fires of the world’s politicians. Barely a week goes by these days without Thompson’s latest soundbite hitting headlines. He’s been villified in the gaming media, but we have to hand it to the guy: he’s not afraid to confront his […]

Capcom have officially announced that Monster Hunter Freedom 2G will be coming to the PSP in March. The last Monster Hunter game sold over a million copies in Japan, and is the most successful PSP title to date. The new edition will feature network play, and will enable you to carry over your character data […]

The all time classic Sensible World of Soccer has been expected on the Xbox Live Arcade for some time now. It has been delayed a few times, but developers Codemasters are hoping the game will make it out by the end of the month. The problem has been the famously laborious certification process for live […]

Jenga is on the way for Wii, and some new pics are out. Follow the link to see more! [Read, via GoNintendo]

Real weather will be visible in parts of Nights: Journey of Dreams, according to Sega Japan. The title will be able to interact with the Wii Weather Channel, and display in-game conditions that reflect those outside the player’s window. Only the Artificial Life section of the game will include the feature, but the creatures will […]

Sony are starting to make some headway in terms of hardware sales. The PS3 sold 47,183 units in October compared to 110,415 Wiis and 18,717 Xbox 360s. The Wii is still outselling the PS3, but it is much cheaper, and the gap is narrowing. We’re still waiting for an absolute must-have exclusive PS3 game, but […]

This game is looking better every time we see it. Soda 51’s ultra-violent free roaming assassin simulator is hard to pigeonhole – but looks full of originality, and will provide something stylistically very different to what we’re used to on the Wii. Famitsu just posted some new screens and info, mostly concerning the skills you’ll […]

The video game release schedules are always geared towards the Christmas period, with the majority of top quality titles coming out at the end of the year. This time around it seems to be a lot busier than usual with a whole load of must-have games either just out or around the corner. We’ve had […]