An Appeal to Professor Layton Guide Writers, Take Them Down

That’s what the official site’s put up a notice about. Level 5 doesn’t want players using guides like mine, where you can just look up the answers, when playing their “Professor Layton” series of puzzle games. They want players themselves to figure them out so that they can get a taste of how fun it [...]

Makoto Shinkai Finishes Storyboarding His One Minute Short Animation for “AniKuri 15″

In his latest website update, Makoto Shinkai talks about how he will be moving to London to stay for a while early next year, at an English language school dorm. He doesn’t know how long he’ll be staying for but, anything up to an entire year which is what his visa will allow him. During [...]

Persona Trinity Soul to get Premiere Screening on Christmas Eve

Vol. 1 of the Persona Trinity Soul newsletter was mailed out today and here’s what was in it.

The official site is now accepting applications for the première screening event which will be held on Christmas Eve in Tokyo. 130 lucky winners will be able to watch the first episode of the Anime show, listen to [...]

Interchannel to Release Ys I & II DS Remake in February

Ys fans can now mark down February 28th 2008 as the day when the Ys I & II DS remakes will be out in Japan. I’m actually kind of disappointed they’re not selling the two as a single package considering the size these ARPGs will probably end up as and that Falcom already sells a [...]

Fragile, Everyone Ends Up Thinking They’re All Alone

Do they? I guess I’ll find out by playing “Fragile: Sayounara Tsuki no Haikyo”. The official site for this spooky looking Wii “exploration RPG” is now open and greets you with the following:
This planet is so vast,
Its world overflows,
With so many people yet,
Every person ends up thinking,
“Why am I all alone?”…
That mini paragraph’s already caught [...]

Katsura Hashino Reveals Persona 3’s Early Battle System

In Atlus’ Volume 23 of Creator Works, Persona 3 Director Katsura Hashino (also producer of the Trauma Center series) reveal videos of what the battle system looked like during the early stages of development.
Due to the fact that P3 is different than previous MegaTen games with its dynamic menus and comic-like visuals, the staff had [...]

Endless Ocean Review, A Peaceful Swim with the Ocean Life of Manauria

One of the rare games that Europe gets first before NA.
Otherwise known as “Forever Blue” in Japan, Endless Ocean allows you to explore the fictional ocean depths of Manaurai while learning about real sea creatures. I’m sure the beautiful blue boxart alone already catches attention.

Yggdra Union Blog Mini Game and 8000 Free Demo Discs for Grabs

Lets see… Until December 12th 2007, all you have to do is access the Sting Station website via your Japanese mobile, register and you can get a free demo disc of the upcoming Yggdra Union PSP remake. First come first served basis and both paid and free subscription members of the service are eligible.
Collector’s alarm [...]

A Month until I get the 5 Centimeters per Second Novel?

I was hoping to get a hold of the 5cm novel a week after its release but unfortunately, my Japanese penpal is away on holiday so that’s not going to be possible.
I don’t plan on paying Amazon US$34 for P&P when the book only costs US$12 so, I decided to ask a friend in HK [...]

Contact Nintendo for your Super Paper Mario Replacement Copies

I was wondering when they were going to give us more info. It’s been two months since Nintendo confirmed the bug in Paper Mario and now we finally have details about how to get replacement copies. I’ve e-mailed their service centre for instructions but I’ve yet to receive a reply.
I wonder how long this will [...]