Japan Gaming Guide

There are a few good demos knocking around Xbox live marketplace at the moment. Blue Dragon, Stranglehold, Beautiful Katamari and Harry Potter are all downloadable now. If there’s one demo you absolutely have to check out at the moment it’s Bioshock. Bioshock is going to be a really strong candidate for game of the year. […]

As we mentioned in an earlier post, there are plenty of demos doing the rounds on Xbox live at the moment, so we thought we’d post a very quick round up of them. Bioshock See the post below. This is one of the best demos we’ve seen in a long, long time and we can’t […]

More good news for DS owners, Majesco have announced that Cooking Mama is getting a sequel. Dining with Friends will up the ante somewhat – this time arround you have a bunch of dinner guests to keep happy. They’ll all let you know what they think of your cooking and are sure to have their […]

The latest Chocobo game is on the way – you’ll soon be able to guide your feathered friend through randomly generated dungeons and explore the City of Forgotten Time. If you want to hear all about it (in Japanese) follow the link for some video footage and an interview with a couple of the devteam. […]

  Star Soldier R on Wii was the real crowd puller at Hudson’s Caravan tour of Japan. The game will be instantly familiar to series fans with the level design and enemies matching previous titles closely. The designers have gone out of their way to make a hardcore shoot-em-up, eschewing the idea that gamers need […]

If you enjoyed the surreal magic of Ouendan and the adventuring of Phoenix Wright, you might want to keep an eye on 13 Sai no Hello Work DS. You have to travel through time to help people that have become disillusioned with their jobs. The hapless career people in need of assistance include a soccer […]

  The Hudson Soft caravan came to town yesterday. In a blaze of yellow the team showed off their latest titles such as Otoda Master for the DS and Star Soldier R for Wii. Flamboyant company president ‘Master’ Takahashi was on hand to introduce Star Soldier R, acting as MC for the high score competition. […]

  We got the chance to try out Otoda Master at the Hudson caravan tour in Osaka. It looked pretty fun. You use the DS mike to summon Pokemon Otoda which you can then send into battle against another team of creatures. There are 3 ways to summon creatures – one is to make a […]

The new weekly hardware sales figures are out. A bit of a slump this week as the summer heat kicks in. It’s just crazy hot at the moment – not the weather for lugging a games console back from the shops. Still, it’s holiday week now, maybe things will pick up.. DS Lite 135,729 (150,584) […]

Those of you that were successfully using Datel‘s Freeloader to play games from different regions on the Wii could be in for a shock if you download the latest firmware update. The update stops Freeloader from working, and Nintendo have no plans to correct the issue. We guess Nintendo president, Hiroshi Yamauchi is too busy […]