Japan Gaming Guide

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 […]

Majesco have announced that Furu Furu Park will be getting a North American release this autumn. The collection of Wii minigames saw an April release in Japan. Many of the games are based on old Taito hits like Arkanoid and Bubble Bobble. The original games include ‘Safe Cracking’ and ‘Love Challenge’ where players ‘compete to […]

There’s a trailer up for The Last Remnant. This game could turn out to be very big indeed. Square Enix’s new IP will be released simultaneously in Japan and North America next spring. That’s a first for the company. It’s also the first of their games to use the Unreal 3 engine. The trailer shows […]

The long rumoured Nintendo DS camera is soon to become a reality. The killer app? Face Training! The game is the work of Intelligent Systems, with input by Japanese beauty expert Fumiko Inudo. Presumably aimed at helping beautiful women get even more beautiful, players must move their features to match the face pictures on-screen. The […]

Beautiful Katamari, the forthcoming roll & collect em up from Namco Bandai, is rumoured to be coming to the Wii. In case you hadn’t noticed the Wii has been selling quite well in the land of the rising sun. Looks like Namco Bandai decided to go where the money is. The rumour also says the […]

Pokemon and Lego are probably two of the best things in the world. We were pretty impressed then, when we saw that Azumu Kawasaki had not only thought to combine the two, but posted the pictures of a whole range of Lego Pokemon on the web. More than 40 are pictured, including Pikachu seen here. […]

No surprises in the June hardware sales figures. Over 270,000 Wiis were shifted, compared to 41,628 PS3s and 17,610 Xbox 360s. Reuters points out that’s a 6-1 advantage to the Wii, compared to the 4-1 advantage in April and a 5-1 advantage in May. Nintendo’s charge saw them briefly overtake Sony’s share price to break […]

A new action slasher from Koei will be coming out in September. Set in feudal Japan, Sengoku Musou Katana will use an interesting control system for a sword based game. Instead of just swinging the Wiimote wildly around, we’ll be using it to aim, and shaking the Nunchuck to fire arrows. We’re still waiting for […]

There’s some good stuff coming out on Virtual Console next month. Wave Race 64 heads a good selection of titles: Famicom Star Soldier Flappy Akumaj? Dorakyura (Castlevania) Mario Open Golf Super Famicom Militea Hajimari no Mori Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren (Mysterious Dungeon 2, a roguelike game) N64 Waverace 64 Mario Story (delayed […]

Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil games has come out in support of the Xbox 360. Famitsu magazine asked a number of people which game console they would work on, if given a free choice. Mikami put the 360 first, ahead of the Wii, stating: “from the stance of a game maker, if you’re […]