Two weeks ago I was walking around with a friend in Hong Kong who has a DS, but didn’t care for the plain look. I met up with her in Mong Kok, a major shopping district, to check out clothes,…

Whether you know it as Mega Man Powered Up or Rockman Rockman, Capcom’s PSP remake of Mega Man just turned two years old. However, Capcom is releasing a new version of Rockman Rockman in Asia with Chinese text. Capcom Korea…

At the Hong Kong Electronics show there was a demo of a PC ping pong game that reacted to controller swings. I didn’t get a chance to try it out, but it looks like another company is trying to emulate…

I had a chance to try out Otomedius, a shmup from Konami, which feels like a spiritual successor to the Parodius series. Similar to Gradius V the graphics, including character models, are in 3D, but you don’t fly a ship…

I don’t frequent McDonalds, but I have noticed groups of PSP owners huddled into a booth when I stopped in once for a late night snack. I wasn’t aware that this was common in Hong Kong. According to weekly game…

Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited set up a boot camp for aspiring game developers called the Hong Kong Digital Creation Camp. The program consists of weekend courses in game design taught by Sony specifically for PlayStation 3 production. One…

Young'uns might not remember handheld LCD games, but before the Game Boy these crude devices were handheld gaming. Tiger Electronics was the king of licensing franchises like Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man only to butcher them into rudimentary diversions with…

To celebrate Easter Play-Asia is dropping 20% off everything as long as it is on their shelves. This deal comes at an opportune time for eager Nintendo Wii owners who just got a Freeloader. Many Japan-only Wii games like Eyeshield 21,…

Like a fly to a bright light I rushed out to get Echochrome. Not the primal PlayStation 3 version. No, I had to have the whole Echochrome package.   I grabbed the PSP release because it has “more” puzzles.  …

When I saw this…     … I found a relatively familiar character on the bottom row. It might be Pikachu. It might be Purin. It might be a strange hybrid between the two. Only the child who created it…

I was at a redemption centric arcade with skee-ball, UFO catchers and saw this Pokemon themed arcade game.     You’re supposed to move Pikachu riding a Lapras with the steering wheel on the scrolling river. The further you go…

On the weekends Hong Kong’s Xbox division is busy throwing events at Langham Place. The first one occurred last weekend where a few families stopped by to play Sonic the Hedgehog and compete at Mad Tracks, incidentally called Mad Truck…