Posts tagged nocturne

Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 3/10-3/16

by Candace Savino (Mar 21st 2008 3:00PM)

"If you bundle a game with a special brush stylus, they will come," the heavens whispered to Nintendo. While we expected Beautiful Letter Training (also known as Bimoji or Calligraphy Training) to do well, we didn't expect it to sell 66,000 copies in its first week. This first-party effort by ...

Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 3/3-3/9

by Candace Savino (Mar 14th 2008 6:00PM)

Japan loves Doraemon, and it shows. Not only did the manga-based robot cat have a successful DS baseball game, but now a game based on the manga itself debuted in the top ten. Soma Bringer was still the top dog for the handheld, though, selling a total of 68,000 copies in two weeks. Are numbers ...

Housewife Superstar: home-ec minigames

by JC Fletcher (Mar 6th 2007 12:00PM)

This looks totally strange, and totally endearing. Insert Credit's Brandon Sheffield found this poster at GDC, for a DS game called Housewife Superstar, developed by Studio Nocturne. It looks like a minigame collection, but based on the idea of becoming the perfect (stereotypical) housewife. There ...