Posts tagged japanese 
Taking care of a child: Four minutes of Heavy Rain footage
It's not every day that Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere decides to show off four minutes of gameplay from the developer's upcoming PS3 adventure Heavy Rain. This video, shot for Japanese audiences, goes into great detail about Ethan -- the character of focus in the last trailer for the ...
Xbox 360 version of FFXIII may be monolingual
As far as we can tell, there are two types of people who care about whether the North American version of Final Fantasy XIII has a Japanese voice track (in addition to an English one) -- RPG-loving hipsters who strive for complete, unwavering authenticity in everything they say and do, and ... ...
Square Enix teams with V Jump mag on 'epic' project
Japanese isn't exactly our strong suit here at Joystiq, though one intrepid staffer has the ability to make those crazy shapes interpretable. And he's explained that the teaser for next month's issue of J-mag V Jump has some enticingly vague information about an upcoming collaboration between the ...
The best thing you'll see today: Japanese Dead Rising Wii trailer
Oh, dear reader, we don't even know where to begin. In this Japanese trailer for Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop for Wii, a zombie punk band entertains the entire cast of the game, zombies included. Witness flying chainsaws, slap-happy security guards and a very pushy, mic-stealing Frank West. The ...
Famitsu: Xbox 360 nails four spots on 'Top Stories in Japan of 2008' list
You're Famitsu, a popular Japanese video game magazine that speaks directly to the ultra hardcore gamer base of the Far East and you want to know, "What blows Japanese-gamer minds?" The only way to know for sure would be to surgically remove test subject brains and, after years of rigorous ...
My Japanese Coach: Konnichiwa and beyond
Just as we did with My French Coach, we're taking a long, hard look at the recent My Japanese Coach -- but with one key difference. This time, instead of just lowly little me, slaving along with some knowledge of French, this time I'm struggling with a language I know very little of, and I'm working ...
My Japanese Coach needs a release date coach
It's a little odd when Amazon is the main source of information on a game, and when it comes to My Japanese Coach, nearly all the substantive news has come from the online retailer, from screenshots to release dates. According to Amazon, the training title, which was originally scheduled for ...
Japanese 360 sales return to normalcy
After witnessing the oddness that was record breaking Japanese console sales thanks to Tales of Vesperia's release and the subsequent 360 sellout in all of Japan, we actually had a glimmer of hope that the 360 would finally get a foothold in the Japanese market. But, depressingly enough, the record ...
Items of Import: Rhythm Tengoku Gold part 2
The final gameplay keyword is the one you see above. Possibly the most important mechanic in the game, flicking the stylus across the touchscreen is used so often in most minigames that it must be mentioned here. As I've written in the Japanese, you'll often find different versions of the "flick" ...
Items of Import: Rhythm Tengoku Gold
No one should have to burden themselves with waiting for Rhythm Tengoku Gold to arrive Stateside. Aside from the fact that Nintendo of America still hasn't announced a specific release schedule for the game (we're looking at you also, Jam With The Band), any title with rhythm as the main focus of ...
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Huffpost Live tackles Xbox One with our reviews editor, Richard Mitchell [Update: watch the replay]
Posted on May 21st 2013 6:15PM