Apparently, someone other than me bought Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, because Success has announced that they are making a sequel. Izuna is a rougelike game in the same vein as Torneko, or Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon. here’s hoping it gets picked up for a U.S. release. Thanks to Insert Credit for the news.

According to a rep on their message board, Capcom USA will be releasing two Phoenix Wright soundtracks, titled “Ace Attorney Meets Orchestra” and “Ace Attorney Meets Jazz”. I humbly speculate that one is an orchestrated arrangement and the other is a Jazz remix. Well, they’ve been out in Japan for some time, but it’s great [...]

The word “Obscure” gets tossed around a lot in gaming media. I don’t know if it’s because professional journalists only play mainstream games or if it’s because they don’t think gamers want to read about actual obscure games, but when gaming magazines refer to “lesser known games”, they are talking about games you see all [...]

Hardcore Gaming 101 has released their first podcast. Hardcore Gaming 101 is known for covering lesser-known game series’, using a level of detail that is unrivaled. In their first podcast they discuss Odin Sphere and Shenmue amongst others. Go to their site and check it out if you like heaps of interesting facts about games. [...]

There are few reasons for people not fluent in Japanese to own a Wonderswan. Most WS games are either black and white versions of games already on other consoles, or RPGs/interactive novels in Japanese. The Wonderswan Crystal is conveniently tiny, sexy looking, and will run forever on a single AA battery, but it performs only [...]

Sadly, when one googles “Apprentice”, they are not presented with a great video game. Well, if I had my way, googling anything would yield a great video game. But no, in this case you would find some TV show about a rich narcissist who yells at people who aren’t rich because if he feels their [...]

Odin Sphere defies all logic. Sure, we still see 2D games on the DS, but this is different. This is a full budget PS2 game with high-res graphics and flawless animation. No attention to detail was spared as every last little corner of every screen is meticulously, beautifully hand drawn. Layer upon layer of vibrant [...]

In this article, we (and by we, I mean I) examine (and by examine, I mean self-indulge in) the pure delight games brought to us as children, and look for an equivalent in today’s gaming selection. Expect a lot of old fogey-ish whining about how rubbish today’s games are. Wading through that will yield five [...]

But why should you care? Fate/stay night is the best selling visual novel in Japan. Quite frankly, the story is so deep and compelling that it’s very hard to stop once you’ve started reading it. And now the kind people at Mirror Moon have began translating it to English so that all may enjoy this [...]

No doubt you all downloaded the beta version of the Wii Opera browser and found it to be far superior to surfing the internet on a computer. I bet you’re reading this post on your Wii right now. Well, hold on to you pants because -you’ve got a good firm grip on them, yes? -because [...]