A week ago, Sega announced it was working on a music-adventure gamed called Rhythm Phantom Thief R for the 3DS, and was planning a Winter 2011 release for Japan. Well, it looks like Ralph has international plans as well, as he’s coming to North America and Europe too as Raphael in Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure. I guess we won’t have to worry about region-protection and importing after all! Granted, we’ll have to wait until 2012, but a few months is no big deal.

Raphael became a Parisian thief for a very specific reason – to find his father…

Nintendo confirmed to VG247 what Nintendo Japan’s tech support said exactly one week ago – the 3DS will be a region-locked system. The company has reasons for it though. Nintendo is doing it so each region’s system is tailor-made for that area.

There will three 3DS variations – one for Japan, one for North America and the last one will cover Europe and Australia…

It’s wonderful when rumors come true. Back in April, 2010, information was discovered that suggested Square Enix was going to be releasing the DS game Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden outside of Japan as The 4 Heroes of Light. Now, a little over a month later, Square Enix has announced that the good news is true with a press release heralding the forthcoming fall debut of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light.

While Square Enix’s press release only makes mention of a European release, it’s safe to assume that North America will also be enjoying the adventures of Brandt and friends this year. The Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light website is a big giveaway – it has links to the North American and European sites. A quick click over reveals an October 5, 2010 release date and an ESRB rating of Everyone 10+, along with three enlarged screenshots. In case you’re curious, the European site is identical, only with slight differences in terms of release date and rating. Europe only has a vague Autumn 2010 release window at the moment…

For quite a while now, Mistwalker has been teasing and tempting fans with news about a new RPG it’s working on, and at Nintendo’s Q3 2009 investor meeting some solid details were finally revealed. Mistwalker has been hard at work on The Last Story a Wii RPG.

So far, we know that The Last Story is a Wii RPG that Mistwalker has been working on since Spring, 2009. Mistwalker’s head is Hironobu Sakaguchi, who created Final Fantasy, and the company has worked on the RPGs Blue Dragon (Xbox 360), Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360), Blue Dragon Plus (DS) and A.S.H.: Archaic Sealed Heat (DS). Nintendo also announced that there will be major announcements concerning The Last Story in March, 2010.

As Siliconera points out, Nintendo has already trademarked the title, The Last Story in both North America and Europe…

The Gaming Edition of the Guinness Book of World Records will hit book stores on March 11, 2008, stuffed with some interesting video game records and facts. But it might not feature the feat achieved by Nintendo’s first-party title Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which has become the fastest selling Wii title to sell 1 million more »

If PS3 Fanboy is to be believed, the 80 GB PS3 might be soon retired by Sony in North America, the only major territory where it is even still available. An anonymous Best Buy employee leaked an internal letter to the website, which informs employees about the discontinuation of the 80 GB PS3, which is priced at $499.

The letter reveals that the “80 GB PS3 version is going closeout and won’t be replaced at this time.” The letter further notifies the Best Buy employees that the 80 GB version will…

In November 2005, RedOctane launched the first Guitar Hero game which was an instant hit and changed the music game genre forever. It is to music games, what Wii is to video gaming in general – a breath of fresh, innovative air. In the 26 months the Guitar Hero series has been around it has more »