Posts tagged japan 
Capcom: None of the canceled games had been announced
Capcom's recently revealed slew of game cancellations didn't involve anything previously announced. In a follow-up conference call to last week's financial statement, the company clarified that most of the canceled games were due between April 2014 and March 2015, although a few were scheduled for ...
Corpse Party: Blood Drive takes the celebration to Vita in Japan
Corpse Party: Blood Drive, a new game that continues chapter eight of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, is on its way to the Vita in Japan, Siliconera reports, citing a translation of Famitsu. The game is set to launch this year and will include the end of the series' story, according to the ...
Rumor: Rare 'Pluto' prototype variant of Sega Saturn shown
Someone claiming to be a former Sega employee, calling himself Super Magnetic (after the Dreamcast game) posted pictures on the ASSEMbler forums of a device purported to be the previously unseen "Sega Pluto," a prototype Sega Saturn variant with a built-in NetLink modem. The modem was released ...
Level-5 and Grasshopper's 'Liberation Maiden' becomes an adventure game
Grasshopper Manufacture and Japanese game publisher 5pb are adapting Liberation Maiden, the 3DS/iOS game in which the teenage president of Japan shoots down enemy structures from her flying mech, into a visual novel for PS3. Liberation Maiden SIN stars Kaido Kiyoto, chief of staff to president ...
Luigi 3DS XL coming to Japan, has so many Luigis
Japan is getting a 3DS XL we aren't (yet): a 3DS XL covered in other-Mario-brother. The Luigi-themed portable, revealed during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, comes with a 4GB SD card and a pre-installed copy of Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. It leaps onto Japan's retail shelves (the highest ones, since ...
Japan's Nintendo Direct is a Luigi Special, Wii U update next week
This morning's Nintendo Direct broadcast for Japan is bringing the Luigi love, and maybe the kind of Luigi love that spills more details on the 'New Super Luigi U' DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U. Nintendo is calling 2013 'The Year of Luigi,' and so far the year's brought us a new Luigi's Mansion ...
Pokemon Scramble U's second line of NFC toys dated
A new set of near field communication-enhanced toys for the Wii U action game Pokémon Scramble U will come to Japan on May 25. The game has yet to be announced for release worldwide, but it's a Pokémon game, so you should expect it. The second series of toys includes Eevee, Mewtwo, ...
Japanese voiceover pack coming to Tomb Raider PC ... for $30
Rather than waiting to localize Tomb Raider into Japanese, Square Enix will sell a Japanese voiceover pack for the Steam version already available in Japan through the Western stores. That part is cool and kind of forward-thinking. The part that's less cool: the pack costs $30, on top of the ...
Report: Ace Attorney 5 out July 25 in Japan
Capcom may not be officially ready to announce the release date for Ace Attorney 5, but investigators picked up evidence of a July 25 release in Japan. A page advertising an upcoming Q&A session originally said the game would be available on that date, before Capcom noticed its mistake and ...
Dragon Quest X Wii U has weak launch at Japanese retail
Dragon Quest X's Wii U release sold 33,302 copies at retail in its first week in Japan. Granted, that first "week" lasted two days, as Media Create's weekly ranking period ran from March 25-31, and Dragon Quest X was released on the 30th, but that's still low for a Dragon Quest game. The Wii ...
