Japan Gaming Guide

Rumours that full DS games would be appearing on the Wii download channel have turned out to be false. The rumour allegedly came from Nintendo America’s Reggie Fils-Aime, but Nintendo have released a statement saying that he said nothing of the sort. Of course you’ll still be able to download demos from the channel, due […]

A load of new info has just come out regarding Just Cause 2. Interviewed by Playstation World magazine, lead designer Peter Johansson revealed that the sequel will aim for “more scope for exploration and experimentation than the original.” Side missions have been ditched, which will hopefully make the game’s much vaunted freedom less of an […]

The Xbox original section of the live marketplace is set to expand heavily over the coming year. According to Surfer Girl, over 100 titles are coming including such classics as Jet Set Radio Future and Panzer Dragoon Oorta. The unconfirmed rumour is pretty exciting for those of us eager to play older games without having […]

This is pretty old, but we just found it and it made us laugh: [Read]

As the season of goodwill draws to a close it’s time to stop worrying about loving your neighbour as thyself, and get back to doing everything you can to ridicule and humiliate your friends and neighbours. In most years that would require a degree of effort and creativity, but this year you can satiate your […]

New Year is a time for us to reflect on things and think about how we can make ourselves that little bit better than we were last year. Donate to charity, shed some pounds, learn a language. As if! Why worry about improving yourself when you could improve the whole world? Everybody would have to […]

Happy new year! Super Smash Brothers Brawl will, er, smash its way onto Japanese Wiis later this month – here’s a trailer:

It’s fair to say that 2007 stank for Sony. Everything they did seemed to go wrong. Their financial performance and sales figures left a lot to be desired. Their marketing and rhetoric was pretty desperate. Most importantly the games that came out for the system just didn’t cut it. It wasn’t that it didn’t get […]

2007 was an incredible year for games, that’s for sure. New releases came thick and fast. There were more quality games than most people will have had time to play. At the end of the year we were spoiled with the likes of Halo 3, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty 4, Drake’s Fortune, Super Mario […]

Some random boxart. Time Crisis 4 with the guncon controller is going for a mere 9,286 Yen over at amazon at the moment. [Read]