Posts tagged genki 
Disney's Spectrobes find a new home on Wii
Disney Interactive's Spectrobes series, the company's action-RPG take on Pokémon featuring creatures that must be excavated from the ground, is expanding to Wii this fall with the upcoming release of Spectrobes: Origins. In an interview with IGN, producer Kentaro Hisai revealed the Genki-dev...
VC Friday: Lonpos finally leaves Japan
Oh goody, Nintendo slashed the price of a WiiWare game in PAL regions. Oh, it's ... Lonpos. The only neat, semi-interesting thing we can bring ourselves to write about Lonpos is that it was a launch title for the Japanese WiiWare service (but for 1,000 Wii Points), and that buying the starter pack a...
Super Punch-Out!! and rare Ogre Battle rated by ESRB
That copy of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen you stashed under the mattress to partly fund your early retirement just got a whole lot less valuable. The ESRB has rated the rare Enix RPG for a Virtual Console release, along with another, more widely known SNES gem: Super Punch-Out!!. Is N...
Lonpos hates your wallet
While you already know our stance on Lonpos's downloadable content, you probably didn't realize how much wallet maiming would actually be going on. In Japan, nine puzzle packs were released this week. While that might seem like good news at first for the puzzle lovers in us all, it's not. Each puz...
Lonpos may be bad for your blood pressure
Lining up beads in a tray sounds easy, yeah? Don't be fooled. While we can't read the text that pops up in this video after every instance of failure, we can take a guess at what it says. "Damn," maybe, or perhaps, "Son of a-- stupid beads," or even "SCREW THIS GAME!" Only, y'know, in Japan...
Microtransactions coming soon to Nintendo Wii
And the infernal circle is complete. Microtransactions will finally be making their way to the Nintendo Wii, largely by way of the upcoming WiiWare service. The Wii was the last of the three major consoles to not support microtransactions, and now no consumer is safe from the incessant nickel-and-...
