If you haven’t been paying attention to the Ace Attorney live-action movie adaptation, you may want to start. It turns out it won’t be trapped in Japan. Takashi Miike, the director, was on hand when the movie was shown at the Netherlands International Film Festival Rotterdam and said that it will be released worldwide. Granted, more »

Good news for Type Moon fans, it’s time to test out A Magician’s Night: Witch on the Holy Night! That’s the latest Type Moon visual novel. An updated version of the demo has just been released and is waiting to be sampled

The Summer 2012 arcade release of Gunslinger Stratos is getting close, which means more details about the game’s abilities and development process are trickling out. Square Enix and Byking just revealed a pretty interesting tidbit today, in fact. It turns out this arcade shooter was made using the Orochi Engine developed by Silicon Studio. It more »

Suikoden Tierkreis may have only enjoyed a little success when it was released in North America, but it obviously did well in Japan. At least, it did well enough to merit a follow up. Suikoden: The Woven Web of a Century (Genso Suikoden Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki) will be keeping the Suikoden spirit alive in more »

There’s one consistent problem that plagues 3DS owners. No, it isn’t lack of worthwhile games, as that was remedied in the second half of 2011. It’s the battery life. If you’re still playing with the stock battery, you’re probably feeling lucky if you’re able to play for four hours without recharging. It’s disgraceful. Thankfully, third more »

Prepare yourself, as the march of limited edition 3DS units is about to begin. The DS was known for all of its assorted incarnations in Japan, since many major game releases also had custom, limited edition bundles released alongside them. It seems the 3DS will see a similar situation. The first custom 3DS units included more »

January’s a great month to sit at home and relax, enjoying the various presents you received back in December and staying in out of the cold. Granted, winter this year has been pretty mild, but the sentiment is still the same. It’s a month to kick back and start planning what you want to do more »

So, how about that NSFW Soul Calibur V ad? It’s a known fact that sexism is alive and well when it comes to fighting games. The female character appear in the skimpiest outfits possible, even though they’re usually participating in deathmatches, more often than not with deadly weapons. Soul Calibur is no exception, and through more »

Sony’s Vita isn’t turning out to be everyone’s favorite handheld in Japan. It’s having a rough start, to say the least. Despite selling 324,859 units when it launched, the following week’s sales dropped sharply to 72,479 units. You would have thought stores panicking and dropping the price of the 3G/Wi-Fi model to almost the same more »

We already know that the Vita isn’t doing as well in Japan as Sony would have liked. Not to mention hackers have already found exploits in the device that allow emulation. Not to mention the 3G Vita has a 20mb download cap and rather disappointing download and upload speeds. So the sight of some stores more »