Japan Gaming Guide

It looks like the arcade version of Blazblue was a hit. Not only is it getting converted to PS3, but also to Xbox 360. Let’s hope the home versions are just as good as the arcade original, keeping the spectacular 2D fighting gameplay intact. [Read]

Inside Games has published a few screenshots that it claims are from Tales of VS, the new PSP game, but one of the shots is clearly the logo from Tales of Graces, the forthcoming Wii game. Whatever their origin, they should be of interest to tales fans. [Read]

Final Fantasy VII has just been released on the Japanese PSN, and is available for 1500 yen. Naturally the game is Japanese only. If you do speak Japanese then it’s pretty much a must buy. First released almost twelve years ago on the original Playstation, FF7 brought the JRPG into the mainstream and remains one […]

The guys remaking Zelda Link’s Awakening have moved their 3D dream a bit closer to reality with the release of a debug demo. It all looks very impressive, given that many had doubts the project would ever see the light of day. If they’ve got to this stage, surely they can finish it off. We’re […]

A surprise from Nintendo today. Like a bolt from the blue, they’ve launched an official site for a game we’ve never heard of. Takt of Magic is coming out on May 21st for Y5,800. It looks like standard RPG fare, but for the cool looking magic system – spells are cast using Wiimote gestures. It […]

Wonderland found some great World of Warcraft themed masks. With the recession still going strong, how about getting your halloween stuff in the off-season? [Read, via Wonderland]

It’s a mini space-invaders bank. You can actually play it too, it takes Y100 coins. What a great way to encourage saving! It has little controls, and even the bands on the screen to make it look like it’s in colour. This costs a mere $60, wonder how much a full size one would be? […]

Raucous game show Tokyo Friend Park 2 is coming to the Wii this month. The range of crazy events make it perfect mini-game fare and sure enough we’ll be able to enjoy such classics as Wall Crash and Hyper Hockey. Coins earned in the games can be traded for darts to throw at the grand […]

Strong evidence has turned up that Netflix intend to launch their movie streaming service on the Wii. Nintendo Japan already has its own trailers streaming to the console, so launching this would seem like an obvious move. The US service will require a $10 disc to run. No news yet on a Japanese equivalent, but […]

Capcom produced an interesting presentation for the Game Developers Conference. “IV Style: Returning to the Roots of a Fighting Game Classic” went through some of the considerations that went into updating the franchise. A lot of the slides are available to view here. Many of the pictures illustrate the design choices and challenges they had […]