Japan Gaming Guide

To celebrate US Labour day, Microsoft is halving the price of some games on Live Arcade. The cuts will run from noon on Sunday until one minute before midnight. We heard this from Eurogamer, suggesting the bargains will be available outside the US, although we don’t have confirmation for a Japanese price drop yet. The […]

Not a lot happening today, so let’s break up the midweek monotony with a couple of tetris blocks duking it out in Mexico:   [Read, via Samurai Soapbox]

The PAX ’07 Show is in full swing in Germany at the moment. As well as the usual games and booth babes, there have also been some interesting panel discussions on various gaming topics. The Culture of Japanese Gaming Panel Discussion covered a number of things including game adverts in Japan, the arcade scene and […]

We get through a lot of gaming parephanalia here at JGG, and because we’re so astonishingly generous, we’ve decided to give some of this random crap unique gaming treasure away to you, our loyal and faithful readers. First up is this fantastic Pokemon fan. Featuring Pikachu on the front, with a few of his cousins […]

Fish Tank based Theta is the latest aquatic title from Nintendo. It’s official website just launched, with pics and a gameplay movie. From what we can make out, the player starts off by mixing groups of multi coloured ‘atoms’ together, coaxing them into place with the stylus on the bottom screen. These form ‘molecules’ which […]

Here’s our round up of some more of the demos we’ve seen on Xbox live recently. Skate Very, very promising. The control system is really well thought out and has a very intuitive feel to it. Plays a lot more realisticly than Tony Hawk, but is it more fun? That’s a tough question. The real […]

Holiday week in Japan saw record breaking temperatures, but that didn’t stop people buying consoles. No change in the running order, the DS is still on top and the 360 on the bottom: DS Lite 153,189 Wii 73,938 PSP 33,715 PS3 21,720 PS2 15,240 XBox 360 2,445 [Read]

Super Mario Galaxy is getting ever closer. A whole load of new screens just went up – check them out. [Read]

Now that everyone has trained their brains with Dr Kawashima, gamers should be a pretty smart bunch. So now Nintendo is bringing out a chess game for Wii. We’ve just got a chess game on Xbox Live Arcade as part of Spyglass Boardgames, it’s going to see how Nintendo’s effort compares. Game specific friend codes […]

Aliens are always trying to take over the earth. Every time you switch on the TV or go to the movies, there they are. Giant robots, bug eyed monsters – they come in all shapes and forms, but they are always defeated. Robots can be smashed, monsters can be killed, but what the hell would […]