Japan Gaming Guide

August 30th sees the release of One Piece: Gear Spirit for Nintendo DS. Based on the hugely popular pirate animé, the fighting game will let you play as all your favourite characters. As well as just fighting, you’ll be able to collect over 130 cards and use them to up your stats, RPG style. You’ll […]

Guess who’s winning? You probably guessed right.. DS Lite 141,967 Wii 109,854 PSP 37,578 PS2 15,777 PS3 13,493 XBox 360 2942 Game Boy Micro 294 Game Boy Advance SP 138 Game Cube 106 DS 15

Fans of shmups will want to keep an eye on Blast Works. The abstract side scrolling shooter is a Wii port of Tumiki Fighters, a freeware PC game, available here. Siliconera interviewed the game’s creator, Kenta Cho – follow the link if you fancy reading it. [Read, via WiiFanboy]

We found a ton of new screens for Devil May Cry 4 on this Japanese website. The latest game in the Devil May Cry series features Dante’s brother Nero taking over as the lead character, although Dante will still be playable at some point in the game. They look pretty similar at first glance, although […]

Hudson are going on a tour of Japan, and they’re taking their caravan with them. The caravan will be stopping at major Japanese cities from July until September. If you’re lucky enough to catch one of their stops you can buy limited edition goodies, and get your hands on Otodamaster, a game for DS and […]

Tired? Lethargic? On death’s door? All common problems – hard to solve in real life but very easy to deal with in the mystical realm of videogames. Take Final Fantasy for example – all you need to do to recover from a near deadly attack from a giant Cactuar is take a quick swig of […]

If Nintendogs whetted your appetite for all things canine, you might want to check out Pet House DS. The new digital doggy simulator lets you choose from 47 breeds, including Poodles, Siberian Huskies, Dachshunds and Chihuahua. The emphasis seems to be on re-creating your real life pets, as well as creating new ones. Judging from […]

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be released in Japan this October, and will be shown off at the Tokyo Motor Show. There’s now an official website for the game, featuring screenshots and a video. Apparently the game is going to feature some kind of Playstation Home interactivity, but we don’t know the details of that […]

This is awesome! Somebody has actually built a real Transformer, it can change from a robot into a four wheeled vehicle and back. Wonder when these will be available in toy shops? [Read]

We found this great coin catcher in Osaka’s Namco City arcade. Donkey Kong Banana Beat features a coin dropper with swinging bananas sweeping the coins left and right, making it a bit more challenging than usual. There’s also the usual Pachinko style screen in the background, where you can win bonus coins and special play […]