Hudson is moving full throttle into digital distribution with import TurboGrafx-16 games on the Virtual Console and plenty of Bomberman. I had a chance to ask Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment, a few questions about…

Omega Five is a horizontal shooter for the Xbox Live Arcade, featuring an unlockable retro mode, during which both the graphics and sound are stylized to imitate 16-bit hardware.  The soundtrack represents a new take on the sidescrolling shooter by…

With Tecmo Bowl, Splatterhouse and Bionic Commando getting revivals, 2008 suddenly feels like 1988. Capcom is going one step further with the Bionic Commando franchise by looking backwards. On top of developing an all new entry in the series they…

Now that our Deca Sports interview with Mike Pepe, Brand Manager at Hudson Entertainment, is complete I should have asked one more question. It would have made a snappier headline.   On the plus side, I covered quite a bit…

Since Dragon Ball Z came to North America there have been so many Dragon Ball Z games. We get at least one a year and each new hardware cycle the games get closer to the look of the anime. In…

The Pomona based publisher first came on my radar when they released Raiden III. I really started to keep a close eye on them when we discovered GameFly listings for The Monkey King and Kiki Kai World. Fast forward a…

kt2 composes music for Tama-Soft, a developer of Japanese text-based PC games.  In 2001, his original soundtrack to the title No Reality was released, followed by the image album For you… from here the edge in 2002, and game soundtracks…

Yesterday, we saw Agetec listed LOL for sale “online only.” LOL will be “hard to find.” When I asked Hiro Fukuoka, the Producer of LOL at Agetec, he candidly confirmed there is a limited supply of LOL for North America. I’m…

Gabe and Tycho, creators of Penny Arcade Since the webcomic premiered nearly ten years ago, the vision behind Penny Arcade has brought about PAX, an annual convention in Seattle, and Child’s Play, a charitable organization that provides toy drives to children's…

On March 25, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 leaps into North America with a Japanese language track. This option is a first for the series and I got a chance to ask Andrew Davis, Associate Localization Producer at Namco Bandai Games…

The first part of my chat with Lesley Mathieson from High Impact Games was focused on reader questions regarding the PlayStation 2 version of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. After we took care of those we switched gears to Secret…

Tokyo native Takayuki Nakamura is a self-described music lover and technophile.  As early as junior high he was experimenting in radio through a school program, started a band, and began broadcasting his own songs.  He developed an affinity toward electronic…