Recent Posts Tagged With 'japan'

• Nintendo announces new Pokemon spinoff, new Wiimote colors, hardware bundles at retailer event

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 18:00 in japan, articles, wiimote, bundle, tales-of-graces, samurai-warriors-3, pokepark-wii

  Nintendo of Japan held a retailer conference during which it announced some new products and dated important releases for the Japanese market. The biggest new game announcement is Pokepark Wii: Pikachu's Big Adventure, coming out in Japan on December...

• Lock on to new Sin and Punishment 2 screens

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 15:15 in japan, articles, treasure, rail-shooter, sin-and-punishment, sin-and-punishment-2

  We may die of an acute case of jealousy. Treasure’s Sin and Punishment 2 is still on track to be released in Japan on October 29, and it still has that amazing box art. Dengeki has posted a nice selection of screens showing the spectacular visu...

• Lost Magic sequel finds a home on cell phones

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 15:30 in japan, Mobile, articles, taito, lost-magic

  Taito's Lost Magic was an early standout on the DS, released in the Dark Ages before the system became ubiquitous. A Wii sequel of sorts was released in Japan this May, called Takt of Magic. Then, this summer, another Lost Magic-related trademark app...

• Square Enix’s ‘Game with No Name’ broken up for DSiWare

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 17:45 in japan, articles, dsiware, face-training, nanashi-no-game, noroi-no-game

  The sequel to Square Enix's retrogaming/horror game Nanashi no Game (The Game with No Name) features a "cursed" platform game, an 8-bit sidescroller with creepy axes everywhere. That game-within-a-game is being brought to DSiWare in Japan on the 9th ...

• Japanese Nintendo downloads: The worm returns

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 14:15 in japan, articles, xevious, virtual-console, vctuesday, earthworm-jim-2

  After last week's massive update in Japan, WiiWare is taking some time off. That means that the spotlight falls directly on the okay Virtual Console lineup for this week. Earthworm Jim 2 arrives as an import, which demonstrates two really wonderful t...

• Little Burger King’s promotion for Little King’s Story

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 15:00 in japan, Marketing, articles, marvelous, burger-king, cing, little-kings-story

  Marvelous is taking an extra step in Japan to market the upcoming release of Little King's Story, and it's one that makes a lot of sense: the company is partnering with Burger King to promote the strategy game. Burger King restaurants in Japan are di...

• Japan’s SaGa 2 Collector’s Edition box art brings us back to our youth

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 14:00 in japan, articles, square-enix, collectors-edition, master-system, saga-2

  Square Enix's upcoming Nintendo DS-exclusive SaGa 2 Hihou Densetsu: Goddess of Destiny (Final Fantasy Legend 2) is getting the collector's edition treatment, with box art that brings us back to our childhood days. While the classic Master System-sty...