We know everything about the Lindbergh through some evil Famitsu scans, with some of the games referenced in a post below. As Sega told this summer, their new arcade system is not based on any of the next-gen consoles. It's more in the same vein as Taito's Type-X board - it's a PC-based arcade board with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, a NVidia GPU, 1024MB of memory, games on protected DVD-ROMs, USB controllers and a big effort put on its LAN capacities. Whereas rumors presented the Lindbergh as a successor to the Chihiro (which had an XBox-based architecture), Sega's new board is a quite "neutral" system - its NVidia environment perhaps giving the PS3 a slight potential edge for future ports. A new project by Yu Suzuki is also joining Afterburner, Power Smash 3, The House of the Dead 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 in the Lindbergh's line-up. The game, Psy-Phi (pronounced like 'Sci-Fi'), is described as a "versus action-shooting game" apparently using a tactile screen.
This was just revealed on Sega's page for the Tokyo Game Show 2005. With the name Shooting Love ~Trizeal~ [!], the last DC game and one of the best examples on how to ruin the classic shooting formula with an inconsistent audiovisual department, is in production at the moment for the Sony console, joining Chaos Field (already announced for the PS2) for the cause. Not a dying genre, it seems.
In its latest issue, Famitsu Magazine published a long list of forthcoming titles for the current generation consoles, specifically lots of sequels/remakes of well known classic games. Some of them had been already revealed at E3, some were just rumored, and others are quite surprising. This is the case of Gokumakaimura (or is it 'Kyokumakaimura'?) for the PSP, Capcom's sequel to Chohmakaimura [Super Ghouls'n Ghosts], which is confirmed to have 2D gameplay. Xenosaga is also coming back as a DS game, as is Bokujou Monogatari [Harvest Moon] and Street Fighter Zero 3 (subtitled 'Double Upper', meaning that we could find some new characters), both for the PSP. Also, more than one game based in the Sakura Taisen universe is currently being made for the PS2, as is Sega Rally 2005. There will be a new Crazy Taxi for the next generation systems, Power Smash 3 [Virtua Tennis 3] (ARC) and a new Afterburner (ARC). These two titles will supposedly be supported by the Lindbergh system and be presented at tomorrow's AM Show, along with the previously announced Virtua Fighter 5 and The House of the Dead 4.
Albeit supported by a rather dubious character design, Illusion Blue is a nice doujin vertical shooter from Hysterical Bonfire, with a clever close combat system and various weapons taking inspiration from brawlers. There's even a useful tutorial for understand the robots' handling and different meters, as Illusion Blue uses up to four action buttons, which is quite a lot for a shooter. Vector has a streaming movie of the game, and you can download the latest version of the game here.
The website Boxing no Machi ("boxing town") is unsurprisingly focused on the noble art of boxing, which would be as revelant on IC as a link to a guy who can turn local subway tickets in X-Wings, if it weren't for its webmaster's ability to produce copious freeware in his favorite genre. Some of the weirder efforts include boxing "games" using your computer's clock or hardware performances to decide the outcome of a match. One can also find valuable software such as Card de Boxing (which sums up everything with its name), Kuroi Punching Ball! (a punching ball simulator with a combo counter), and the recent Jisha Boxing ("live action boxing") which is a more exhaustive boxing simulation but is only available as a demo on the website - the full version is 500 yen. All of these programs are avaiable on his software download page (right click disabled).
Our newspost on the Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra apparently caught the attention of numerous people. 1UP.com mentions the brown-haired half of Jaune Frčres in their new feature on game influenced musicians (also covering other familiar IC favorites such as The Minibosses). The Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra will also be part of the cultural event Game Hotel 2005 next september in Paris through a first-ever live performance, and took part in the soundtrack of a very stupid fan project I'll detail soon. To avoid hurting Boulette's bandwith and also to celebrate his sudden surge in celebrity, Tanguy's musical website Miniclash (regrouping his different solo and band projects) will be updated by tomorrow with most of his work.
Now that its public presentation is approaching, Grev has put up some new screens of its forthcoming shooting game, and a hi-res cabinet instruction card where we learn a bit more about the game's system. Nothing amazing, though!
News: Ketsui ~Kizuna Jigokutachi~ and Mushihime-sama DVD announced
A perfect replay DVD of two of the latest Cave games has just been announced via Cave's website. Also, while the release date is still not known, Puzzle! Mushihime-Tama (you can find some new screens on the same page) is now scheduled for September 27th, according to River Service. Both products will be presented at the AM Show 2005.
The Madman's Cafe, one of the inspirations for insert credit's birth, has reached 10,000,000 hits today. Joe Randal made a nice 10m pic, which you can see the larger version of here. We've had love-fests with the MMC in the past, as you can see here and here.
Some crazy guy with a lot a free time coded a flash version of Chokkan Hitofude (a.k.a. Polarium)'s quite excellent puzzle mode. A nice, albeit not very legal way to discover one of the earliest games on the DS, designed by Mitchell for Nintendo. In case you enjoy this flash yet would rather fall for the upcoming and damn cute Famicom-colored Gameboy Micro, a GBA adaptation titled Tsuukin Hitofude will be released next october 13th in Japan, exactly one month after the Micro. Thanks to G_G for the link to the flash game.
With one of the lousiest name tweaks found recently (the actual kanji reading is 'Mirai Eigou' -'Future Eternity'- but they want it to be read like 'Mirai he Go' -'Go to the Future'?-), X-Nauts has put up a pre-site for the fifth episode in Psikyo's Hot Gimmick mahjong series. They already said it was coming as an arcade game for Taito's Type-X system (so not everyone hates the platform), but now they reveal that five artists are doing the illustration works. Jun Tsukasa seems to be one of them, but also... Range Murata?
Says so Dengeki Online, at least, according to Sega's list for the Show. It may well be a new Atomiswave game as was promised, despite the recent rumors about this system being canned. Arc System Works' Hokuto no Ken (also published by Sega) will also be there, along with Grev's Under Defeat.
Today's Falcom Newsletter has a bunch of interesting information. First, it gives a link to a more exhaustive version of the Xanadu Next webpage, providing vital information such as what mindboggling goodies will be featured in the traditional "first press". This time, faithful buyers will be rewarded with an enclyclopedia of the Xanadu universe, an arranged soundtrack of various episodes in the series, and a port of the acclaimed PC Engine version of Densetsu no Xanadu I&II. Also available are new screenshots and information on the game's system (unsurprisingly it looks pretty close to your everyday hack'n'slash, yet with a distinct Xanadu touch).
A more surprising announcement is the presence of two Falcom IPs at the upcoming 43rd Amusement Machine Show, held next September 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The games presented will be arcade versions of dungeon crawler Sorcerian Legend and tactical marvel VM Japan (which had a port on PS2 earlier this year that turned out to be very disappointing, Iggy tells me).
Recap's Note: Falcom's arcade titles VM Japan ~Maboroshi Furan Senki~ and Sorcerian Legend are being produced and developed by Aruze, as they announced the past year after both companies' agreement.
Of all of the interviews I've done in recent months, this is my personal favorite. Takayoshi Sato created all of the CG for Silent Hill 1 on his own, and is the principal person responsible for the story, art direction, and some of the gameplay in Silent Hill 2. Recently, his work has been a bit more entrenched, with his latest work being in Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, for EA. This is one of the most candid explanations of the japanese game industry inner-workings that I've seen, and is even quite honest about what it's like to work in a behemoth american company. Here's an excerpt.
"Not many people believe that I did it myself – and it wasn’t like I wanted to make it all from scratch! I just had to do it in order to get credit. Plus, you don’t want to be credited in your game as assistant artist if you did everything. So it wasn’t easy. I didn’t go home for three years, almost. I lived there. I slept under the desk, and that midnight time I talked about, after everyone went home, was a real chance for me to work, because I had access to all of the computers in the office. We had over 150 computers or something like that, and at the time we were using the Unix operating system. So after everyone’s gone home, I can operate all of these computers to render my stuff. Yeah…I couldn’t go home."
And if you check his personal site, you'll see his early work on goldeneye. At the top, you see the final model, but take a look at his earlierideas. Now that's a character caught between worlds, who's fighting against his friends, as the protagonist is supposed to be, eh?
Stella, the popular 2600 emulator, has come to the PSP. Here's the info included with the demo: "This is a port of the Stella Atari 2600 emulator to the PSP. Original code by Bradford W. Mott, Stephen Anthony and Jeff Miller and many others. This PSP port was made by Alysa Habraken (aka Aenea). It's not very optimized and not all games run or at full speed. Some have a little flickering, but this will be resolved in upcoming versions."
Download it here. Thanks to Wraggster for the news.
The NES Fun Club in San Francisco has a redesigned website, as well as a new T-shirt contest. We will alert you the next time we'll be attending one of these events.
Here's something interesting from Richard Horsman. He basically takes 2D sprites, blows them up, then makes the Pixels into various 3D objects, with odd, sometimes disturbing results. Check the gallery for maximum gains!
ShaperMC sent this from the KonamiStyle newsletter - release info for Beatmania IIDX 10th Style for home release.
Game comes out November 17th
88 total songs
All 54 songs from 10th Style
7 CS exclusives
Dan courses and Beginner's Mode are in
First batch include a special Happy Sky e-amuse card
The indefatigable R. Belmont has released, after what seems like a shortish eternity, a new version of his M1 music player. If you don't already know, it's a music player that uses MAME sound emulation to play music from over 1100 arcade games. This newest release adds a lot of great games, and incorporates the newest MAME sound cores as well as support for the newest ROM sets. Thanks to Toby Broyad for the news.
Not exactly the most predictable move in the current craze of company mergers: Taito may be on its way to being absorbed by Square-Enix, which itself was already one of the stronger business alliances in the japanese industry (after Sega Sammy). Game Watch reveals that Squenix is buying out 247.900 Taito actions, which will make it the main shareholder with 67% of all shares. Taito and its current major shareholders agreed to the deal, and most of the transaction will be completed some time around september. The deal can be explained by Taito's game catalogue being complementary with Square-Enix's and also by Taito's presence in the japanese amusement machines business through some arcade centers, numerous popular games, and their recent Type-X board. It might be coincidental, but Taito has also been in charge of adapting and releasing some Falcom role-playing games on the PlayStation 2 (though Konami has been doing it in the
US). Were they to continue that policy, Square-Enix would further strengthen its position as the major RPG publisher on consoles.
So you can have fun wondering what insane crossovers might come out of this merger, here is a list of various Taito intellectual properties: Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble, Elevator Action, Darius, Qix, Rastan Saga, Hat Trick Hero, Cadash, Layer Section, Violence Fight, Camel Try, Power Blade, Lightbringer, Estopolis (a.k.a. Lufia), Chase H.Q., Cleopatra Fortune, Runark, Metal Black, Don Doko Don, Kurikinton and Battle Gear among many others. Most of them can be found on the recent Taito Memories compilations for PS2 which we have mentioned numerous times on IC.
A while back we got an email from a reader, regarding a conversation he'd had with SNK - his source seemed accurate when it stated that Twinkle Star Sprites, while it had been evaluated for the US market, was deemed too risky, and won't be released here. One wonders if High Octane will be able to release the game in Europe, then...
Card Fighters Clash 1 and 2 are pretty widely regarded as one of the Neo Geo Pocket's best 'killer apps', on top of being among the best card battle games in general. Even though the question was answered with a 'no' when we asked SNK at GDC, there are new rumors that a new card game is in the works from SNK, based on an interview in the hong kong-based 'game next' magazine. The original interview is transcribed on orochinagi.
Simon tipped me off to this odd site - Tiptonium. Not totally sure what it is, but it certainly has a lot of odd Neo Geo-related flash movies with various degrees of obscurity and strangeness. Really weird stuff. Also includes the top 100 engrish games!
Over at Guardian Unlimited, there's an interview with Ueda (of ICO fame), regarding his childhood influences, and various other fruity things. There's a tendency in the article to deify him a bit, but it's largely a good read. Thanks to Ollie, who probably conducted it, for the link.
Thanks to various tips pointing out that the new Gamepark XGP (not to be confused with Gamepark Holdings' GPX2) has a face beyond the "Coming Soon!!!" website. Check out some screens of the new handheld (with two models! though apparently only type-b will be used for final production), complete with flip-and-twist screen and cell phone number pad. You can also download a video from our old pals GPzigi. Not sure if this is actually out, or coming soon, or...what.
It's open, after the announcement that it will be at the AM show. So far, story and character sections have limited data, with one additional illustration in the images section.
News: Home Trackball designer working at radio shack
Headline according to Frank Cifaldi's latest 'catching up' piece, with Dan Kramer, who made the first home trackball controller. He's got a new company now, White Fusion. But one wonders how many other talented designers are working in retail now - much like how most old metal guitarists now install cable (and do hilariously great limited reunion tours with album names like recovered or resurrection).
I interviewed the goth man in the cowboy hat (director of all things Castlevania) for gamasutra - you can read it here. I kind of like it. Here's an excerpt!
2D gameplay is precise – it can come down to one pixel of accuracy for attacking, defending, jumping, any sort of platforming element. In the 3D gaming environment, appreciation of distance is much more subtle, and control has to be looser. In 2D, the distance between the player and the enemy is very important, and can be planned carefully. In 3D, distance isn't the important thing, but rather timing.
For those in the San Francisco area, the NES club we mentioned a bit ago is actually having its first meeting tonight, from 6-8 pm at rockin' java on haight. While we might not totally be on time, there will be at least three insert credit reps there, in the form of myself, aaron meyers (frontpage topbar creator), and alex vo (onetime reviewer, now runs treasure site SFKosmo). Check the official site for more details. Say hi if you show up!
The game is scheduled for September 22nd and the site now has proper content, with story, character, and screenshots sections. But the best part is the 'staff message', where we learn that this version's main programmer hadn't even heard of the game before Atlus' entrustment, and that he's concentrating on making an accurate port to do the original game justice. In the meantime, the creator of the original Princess Crown is still looking for a graphic artist to work on a PS2 action RPG for his own company.
Mak Japan has revealed the very first Espgaluda II flyer, which will be used to announce the game's presentation at the forthcoming Amusement Machine Show. This is the third game Cave will bring to the September exhibition, along with Mushihime-Tama and Online Tank Battle. The flyer tells us about a new artist for the game's artwork, Masaki Hirooka, and that AMI will be behind the distribution labor again - the game will run on Cave's customized hardware like its recent titles. Check it out here and here.
As Zepy and Fabien noticed, Retsuzan's new game for this weekend's Comicket is a clone of Data East's popular Flying Power Disc (better known in the western world as Windjammers), which spiced up the initial concept of Pong and came out on the Neo Geo arcade, home cartridge and CD versions. Like most recent games from Retsuzan, Crazy Power Disc should cost around 1500 yen upon release. You can already check the website's character and screenshot pages for more information. Looks promising.
Rag Doll Kung Fu, the mouse-driven fighting game that has you eating strangely colored mushroom and leaping 20 feet in the air with a flick of the wrist, is set to arrive on gamers' desktops via Valve's Steam distribution system. Designer Mark Healy's site doesn't say anything about distribution currently, but the latest from Valve tells us that pricing and a release date we'll be released in the coming weeks.
The editor of the stinger report has posted his AM Show (JAMMA arcade show in japan, starting september 1st) preview on the Madman's Cafe. The stinger reports an 80% hit rate for their preview from last year, so it's possible that this may be semi-accurate - but the list claims that Street Fighter 4 will be coming out on the Atomiswave, which is very difficult to believe. Time will tell! Also mentioned is Cave Online's 'online tank battle', which the preview indicates will be hitting arcades. We discussed that game a bit back in July.
Eric-Jon plays World of Warcraft for a short period of time, then gets cranky. Don't believe me? You're quite the skeptic. Read his review then, if you think you're so smart.
Watching the most recent trailer on the Heavy Metal Thunder site has informed me that the for the opening theme, Japanese schlock rock group Sex Machineguns will be playing with Michael Shenker, of Scorpions and MSG fame (he's inexplicably popular in Japan, and referenced in pop culture as easily as Jimmy Hendrix would be). Also featured, Marty Friedman from Megadeth and Hawaii.
According to Gamespot, the game is command-based robot fighting, called 'robo-ress' (a play on puroresu, short for 'pro wrestling'), and features a young lad named 'denki akahibara'. Akihabara is of course the big electronics district in Tokyo, also referred to as 'electric town'. Denki indicated electricity, so there's a dual pun there. The game seems high on cheeky humor, and will likely never come to the US, given how long it took to explain just those two elements.
Here's a new PC indie game with some mighty powerful graphics in it - perhaps not typical ic fare, but certainly is pretty. War World is the game, and the team is apparently composed of ex-Rare folk. Their 'softology' page certainly seems to suggest it. Thanks to ffwd links.
Latest from Play Asia - the game of the week is the Japanese version of Rez, for $20. Hard to argue with that. Next, Jump Superstars is out, and has been reviewed decently. Also, the Japanese version of Sonic Gems collection is out, which has the unlockable Bare Knuckle games intact, which will be omitted from the US version. Presumably, the game will also feature the japanese version of the Sonic CD soundtrack.
Gamepark Holdings, apparently separate from Gamepark and soon to change company name, has a contest in which you can name the console. The prize is the unit itself, plus, it's not that often you get to name something like this yourself!
A small bit of emulation news: the Scumm engine has been ported to the DS. This makes classic Lucasarts games such as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle playable. Apparently you actually play via the stylus, which is quite something!
It's probably the most successful shounen animation series in Japan at the moment, so it's not surprising that we're receiving a Bleach-based game avalanche these days. The DS will its Bleach game too, of course, and will be subtitled 'Souten ni Kakeru Unmei', and, interestingly enough, it's Treasure's current project for Sega. This is not surprising either, with Treasure's recent rash of license-based games, but it is interesting to see how the game somewhat resembles the MD Yuu Yuu Hakusho ~Makyoutou Itsusen~. So this makes another planned 4-player 2D vs. fighting game (along with Jump Superstars), to be available next January. The official website opened today, along with Treasure's own announcement.
Since BitTorrent is too often known for illegal (or semi-legal) file distribution, one of my side-projects is the fairly self-explanatory LegalTorrents site. But up until now, though a game-related documentary or two made it on there, there haven't been any actual video games available. Fortunately, that's now changed, and you can now grab Creative Commons-licensed versions of formerly commercial 2D adventure The Adventures Of Fatman (.torrent), newly released IGF finalist and 'interactive narrative' innovator Facade (.torrent), and anime-inspired horror adventure title The White Chamber (.torrent). So jump on and help distribute these creator-approved .torrents - and get some smart games for free at the same time.
Perpetually odd, perpetually small and obscure developer Artdink is developing the latest version of their ancient (also obscure!) series A-Train, for the Xbox 360. Entitled A Ressha de Gyouku X, or A-Train X, the series at large is a simulation game/railroad management/urban development game, according to the latest site, for A-7. The series has hit numerous platforms in its life, from the NES to the Amiga to the PC Engine, to multiple iterations on the PlayStation 1 and 2. Glad to see they're still getting work. Who else could give you trains, Lunatic Dawn and Typing of the Evangelion?
Thanks to Spoon on the mmcafe bbs for pointing out this Chinatown-originating candy, which he imagines could be an inspiration for Killer7. Goichi Suda, AKA Suda51, might be drawn to the numerical values, while his seven personalities, each with the name smith, might enjoy the branding.
In college I majored in overexplaining simple jokes.
DragonShadow Industries, who ported Decaying Orbit to the Nuon from the Yaroze PlayStation development environment, is bringing two more Yaroze games to the console, using the libaries he developed during the DO port. The games are Ben James' Katapila and Philippe-Andre Lorin's Invs. Curious how true those PlayStation-Nuon comparisons were, way back when the console was alive, if porting is this possible. Thanks to Nuon-Dome for the link.
Psikyo/X-Nauts' popular gal's mahjong game has come to cellphones in japan, according to Game Watch. One wonders if the naighty bits are retained - at least the Jun Tsukasa artwork remains, as seen left. Thanks to Radish from the mmc for the link.
Just refreshed the external link banners on the right site - now Recap's site is now linked, as is jiji's. All urls have been updated as well (Zepy, Rid, Alex). So! Click away!
News: Summon Night Extase ~Yoake no Tsubasa~ launched
Today the latest game in the Summon Night series was officially released, an action RPG with hi-res sprites and 3D backgrounds, nicely received by Japanese media. The official website has some promotional and gameplay Flash videos showing superlative animation sequences, too. An unusual mainstream game with 2D 128-bit graphics which will probably remain unknown for the Western public.
As hinted in their summer issue, Edge will focus on the PSP's homebrew development scene next september and (apparently) more specifically on the emulation scene, such as the fantastic NeoGeo CD emulator that runs most games perfectly. Speaking of which, its french author (going by the moniker YoyoFr) teamed up with another french guy (thunderZ of the GP32 scene) to develop a new Super Famicom emulator for PSP. A first draft was released yesterday and the results are quite impressive for an early version. Not perfect yet, but a nice alternative to its famed opponent "uo_Snes9x for PSP". A bunch of future upgrading releases have already been announced, including wi-fi multiplayer.
Meanwhile, there's now a port of Nethack avaiable, and a coder appropriately nicknamed Snatcher released a nice unofficial upgrade to Osakana's fMSX for PSP, allowing a few more games to run such as the translated MSX version of Snatcher by Daniel Caetano. The Gameroom Blitz has a load of interesting tips to share on the subject.
Dayjob alert: here's an interview I did with Jack Niida from Nippon Ichi, on Gamasutra. The man's unbridled optimism about the sustainability of SRPGs and potential market glut is really admirable, even if I'm somewhat skeptical myself.
also! I should mention that eric-jon did an excellent writeup of the advertising in games event, also for gama, and wound up being rather skeptical. Shocking.
Yuki Enterprise, developer of the Samurai Shodown V and V Special games, has a couple of interesting recruitment ads on their homepage, which indicates that the company is working on a new game with 2D characters and 3D backgrounds. As an interesting aside, Iggy notes that when Yuki hired employees for the SS games, they did so on the SS webpage, which seems to indicate that at the very least, this game is not in the Samurai Shodown series.
Doujin shooter fans rejoice, Murasame has released a new game. hitogata happa is the name, and the demo is available for download at the bottom of the official page. The full game will be sold on CD Rom, presumably at the next comiket, for 1,000 yen (less than US $10).
We know everything about the Lindbergh through some evil Famitsu scans, with some of the games referenced in a post below. As Sega told this summer, their new arcade system is not based on any of the next-gen consoles. It's more in the same vein as Taito's 
Albeit supported by a rather dubious character design, 
The website 
Our 
Now that its public presentation is approaching, Grev has put up some new screens of its forthcoming shooting game, and a hi-res cabinet instruction card where we learn a bit more about the game's system. Nothing amazing, though!
A perfect replay DVD of two of the latest Cave games has just been announced via 
The 
With one of the lousiest name tweaks found recently (the actual kanji reading is 'Mirai Eigou' -'Future Eternity'- but they want it to be read like 'Mirai he Go' -'Go to the Future'?-), X-Nauts has put up a 
Today's Falcom Newsletter has a bunch of interesting information. First, it gives a link to a more exhaustive version of the 
Of all of the interviews I've done in recent months, 
Stella, the popular 2600 emulator, has come to the PSP. Here's the info included with the demo: "This is a port of the Stella Atari 2600 emulator to the PSP. Original code by Bradford W. Mott, Stephen Anthony and Jeff Miller and many others. This PSP port was made by Alysa Habraken (aka Aenea). It's not very optimized and not all games run or at full speed. Some have a little flickering, but this will be resolved in upcoming versions."
Here's something interesting from 
Not exactly the most predictable move in the current craze of company mergers: Taito may be on its way to being absorbed by Square-Enix, which itself was already one of the stronger business alliances in the japanese industry (after Sega Sammy). 
Scary, but 
Thanks to various tips pointing out that the new 
It's 
The game is scheduled for September 22nd and 
As 
Stupid website for jerks 
Our old pal 
Here's a new PC indie game with some mighty powerful graphics in it - perhaps not typical ic fare, but certainly is pretty. 
Cokestyle will be doing another game tie-in, this time with Wipeout Pure for PSP - the free downloads go 
A small bit of emulation news: the Scumm engine has been 
It's probably the most successful shounen animation series in Japan at the moment, so it's not surprising that we're receiving a Bleach-based game avalanche these days. The DS will its Bleach game too, of course, and will be subtitled 'Souten ni Kakeru Unmei', and, interestingly enough, it's Treasure's current project for Sega. This is not surprising either, with Treasure's recent rash of license-based games, but it is interesting to see how the game somewhat resembles the MD Yuu Yuu Hakusho ~Makyoutou Itsusen~. So this makes another planned 4-player 2D vs. fighting game (along with Jump Superstars), to be available next January. The 
Since BitTorrent is too often known for illegal (or semi-legal) file distribution, one of my side-projects is the fairly self-explanatory 
Thanks to Spoon on the 
Psikyo/X-Nauts' popular gal's mahjong game has come to cellphones in japan, according to 
Just refreshed the external link banners on the right site - now 
Today the latest game in the Summon Night series was officially released, an action RPG with hi-res sprites and 3D backgrounds, nicely received by Japanese media. The 
Ben Heckendorn is at it again - this time he's created a 
As hinted in their summer issue, 
Doujin shooter fans rejoice, 
