Japan Gaming Guide

There’s a thriving indie game scene here in Japan. There are also a lot of people making games using tools like RPG school to quickly turn their sparks of imagination into full blown epic adventures. Plenty of these games are available for free and have surprisingly high production values. Today’s offering is Parhelion, a SNES […]

Bedroom coders got a shot in the arm recently when Microsoft announced plans to sell homebrew XNA games over Xbox live. XNA game studio has been freely available for some time now – users can create and distribute Xbox 360 games to other fledgling developers. The new service will see games listed for 200-800 Microsoft […]

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is sending giant cats into Tokyo to try and woo the public into buying lots of cat related stuff on the Playstation store. On Sunday the cats danced and let the braver kids have their picture taken alongside them. If you missed them they’ll be back again on August 16th. [Read]

The Japanese version of chess has a great deal to offer players of the Western variant. A number of the pieces share similar moves, although the character of the game is markedly different. All the pieces can be powered up when they get in the opponents half of the board which means sudden attacks can […]

The new DS game Legend of Starfish came out a couple of weeks ago. We haven’t tried this but you might want to take a look at the official site. Looks like a cute and cuddly action game. [Read]

While most of the world’s eyes have been on E3, the China Digital Entertainment Expo quietly went ahead in Shanghai. The annual event features a lot of the online titles popular in these parts. Booth babes are still very much in evidence here – no surprise then that one of the most popular games on […]

There’s a new Harvest Moon game coming to Wii this year. Famitsu published a whole bunch of screenshots. There are all sorts of animals to populate your farm with this time around. There are cows, sheep, horses, ducks, goats and of course your faithful pet dog. According to the text the farmyard animals will be […]

The latest Wario game comes to Wii later this month, Wario Land: Shake is coming out July 24th. Unsurprisingly, the game will involve shaking the Wiimote. A lot. You’ll shake to attack, grab items and shake enemies so that they drop those o so lovely coins. [Read]

Schoolkids in a Tokyo school got hit with the lucky stick recently. The Nintendo DS is being used to teach them English in classes. The whole thing is part of a trial by Nintendo – participating schools get 40 free DS consoles and English training software. English teaching is a bit patchy in Japanese schools, […]

Rainy season is in full swing – so why walk to the shops when you can download these: Famicom (500 points) Chack ‘n Pop Donkey Kong 3 Super Famicom (900 points) Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Master System (500 points) Space Harrier Mega Drive (700 points) Shining Force 2: The Ancient Seal PC Engine (600 points) […]