Japan Gaming Guide

The official site for Disaster: Day Of Crisis is getting a slow drip feed of new stuff. The game, by Xenosaga developer Monolith, is due out on September 25th. The game takes place over 24 hours, with 23 levels. The player has to contend with various natural disasters as well as a terrorist organisation. [Official […]

Pokemon Platinum has, inevitably, gone platinum, almost selling the required million copies within two days of release. The appealing collectible creatures are still hot property, twelve years after the original release of Pokemon red and green. [Read, via Kotaku]

USB keyboards are near must-have accessories for gamers these days. With everything from the Wii browser to Xbox live messenger integration asking for regular text input, using a joypad to slowly select key after key can eat loads of your time. If you want something game themed you could go for this – a space […]

Sega showed off some of their new graphics technology at the recent CEDEC conference. Some impressive screens for Sonic World Adventure were displayed, in both pre-rendered and realtime versions. This is the only shot involving his spiky blueness, but follow the link for plenty of screens showing off the lush Mediterranean style environments of the […]

Shuhei Yoshida is not happy about the state of third party PSP games. Yoshida, the president of Sony Worldwide Studios, told IGN that third party support was ‘disappointing’ and that he’d ‘like to see more’. We can’t argue with that really. The PSP is a lovely piece of kit but still lacks a selection of […]

Here are a couple of pics of Inazuma Eleven. The game is a soccer RPG for the DS from Level 5 software. It has been out a few weeks in Japan and looks pretty fun. You have to find and recruit players to your team. The recruits have different skills and special abilities that you […]

An enterprising seller on Yahoo Auctions decided to put this cute little guy on the market. It seems like the recent Pokemon Platinum has whetted a few appetites, since the closing price for the wee beastie was over 900 billion dollars. That seems a little steep to us, although we’re not sure if it was […]

Not us that’s for sure. Pro Golf Saru (Pro Golf Monkey) is one crazy looking beast. If Tiger Woods and his oh so serious games don’t float your boat then this might be for you. There are three characters to choose from. Geronimo, who can power up his shots by downing bottles of cola, Titan […]

Gamasutra published a very interesting interview with one of the designers of Sonic the Hedgehog. Hirokazu Yasuhara, who also worked on Jak & Daxter and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has a lot to say on the subjects of game design psychology and the differences between audiences in different parts of the world. [Read]

A shrine near Akihabar, Tokyo is offering a blessing service for computers. Shinto priests perform cleansing ceremonies on laptops and other hardware. The blessing offer protection against hard drive failures and other problems. Maybe Xbox 360 owners worried about the dreaded red ring could pay these guys a visit next time they’re in Tokyo? [Read, […]