Gegege no Kitaro, an anime series about a ghostly boy and his eyeball bound father, is getting a Nintendo DS game on July 10. Gegege no Kitaro: Youkai Daigekisen is one of many games based on the character. This one…

Japan already has two Haruhi Suzumiya games in stores. Both of them fit snugly in the text adventure niche. The third game doesn’t have a proper name yet, but I like to think of it as the Musical of Haruhi…

It’s easy to imagine Naruto Shippuden: Shinobi Retsuden 2 as a portable version of Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2. Shinobi Retsuden 2 contains many of the same characters. It uses some of the same jutsu animations, only with…

Add one to the number of improbable PlayStation 2 localization list. I can confirm the listing for Shining Dragon on Gamefly is indeed Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon. The PlayStation 2 fighting game known for ripped clothes is based on a manga/anime,…

Supernatural high schools are quite popular in video games now, but the Tokyo Majin Gakuen series has been using the setting for ten years. On August 21 the latest installment in the series, Tokyo Majin Gakuen: Kenpuuchou, will be released…

I mentioned Dungeon of Windaria before mainly because the source material is such odd choice. Mystery dungeon games don’t need licenses. Izuna and Shiren are fine without anime co-stars. To be fair, the recently released Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of…

Earlier this month I mentioned Success Corp’s Nintendo DS lineup, which appeared to have the interesting addition of Livedoor licenses. I was right on target. Success announced two Nintendo DS games scheduled to come out on July 24 and both of…

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan put a downloadable demo of Bleach: Heat the Soul 5, which PSP Fanboy is conveniently hosting with clear instructions on how to get it on your PSP. This is a first for the Bleach: Heat the Soul…

Namco Bandai is adapting the short anime series Afro Samurai into a PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 video game. Samuel L. Jackson returns to do the voice of Afro and RZA from Wu-Tang is providing the soundtrack. The music supposedly…

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni started life as a doujin software, which eventually sprung a well of manga, anime, drama CDs and more games. Alchemist, known for publishing and distributing visual novel games in Japan, ported some of the games…

Soul Eater will be the second series from Shonen Gangan to get a console game published by Square Enix. Fullmetal Alchemist was the first. Shonen Gangan has plenty of other properties, but it seems like Square Enix is only using them…

We have seen Success adapt flash games like the Crimson Room and Colpile into budget friendly SuperLite 2500 Nintendo DS games. Now it looks like they are snapping Livedoor Net anime licenses. Out of the blue, their updated list of Nintendo DS games has…