Japan Gaming Guide

The latest Japanese sales figures just came out. There’s no surprise about the biggest selling game of the week – it’s the fantastic Super Mario Galaxy. In second place, amazingly, it’s an Xbox 360 game! Ace Combat 6 flew off the shelves this week, selling over 70,000 units. Super Mario Galaxy Wii 250,585 Ace Combat […]

Here’s a pic of the new controllers for the Scene It game on Xbox 360. Aimed at being family friendly and, dare we say it, capturing some of the Wii’s market share, the Scene It game is an interactive movie quiz, more commonly seen on regular DVD players. Fortunately the controllers are included in the […]

This is amazingly cool. Remember kids, you’ve never had it so good! [Read, via Wonderland]

Famitsu, the Japanese game magazine leviathan has published a list of its readers all time top 100 games. The list is dominated by epic RPGs as you can imagine. Non-Japanese games barely get a look in with GTA: Vice City scraping in at number 76, and Japanese conversions of Wizardry, Sim City and Tetris hovering […]

Jack Thompson has become the figurehead of the anti-gaming movement that is currently stoking the fires of the world’s politicians. Barely a week goes by these days without Thompson’s latest soundbite hitting headlines. He’s been villified in the gaming media, but we have to hand it to the guy: he’s not afraid to confront his […]

Capcom have officially announced that Monster Hunter Freedom 2G will be coming to the PSP in March. The last Monster Hunter game sold over a million copies in Japan, and is the most successful PSP title to date. The new edition will feature network play, and will enable you to carry over your character data […]

The all time classic Sensible World of Soccer has been expected on the Xbox Live Arcade for some time now. It has been delayed a few times, but developers Codemasters are hoping the game will make it out by the end of the month. The problem has been the famously laborious certification process for live […]

Jenga is on the way for Wii, and some new pics are out. Follow the link to see more! [Read, via GoNintendo]

Real weather will be visible in parts of Nights: Journey of Dreams, according to Sega Japan. The title will be able to interact with the Wii Weather Channel, and display in-game conditions that reflect those outside the player’s window. Only the Artificial Life section of the game will include the feature, but the creatures will […]

Sony are starting to make some headway in terms of hardware sales. The PS3 sold 47,183 units in October compared to 110,415 Wiis and 18,717 Xbox 360s. The Wii is still outselling the PS3, but it is much cheaper, and the gap is narrowing. We’re still waiting for an absolute must-have exclusive PS3 game, but […]