Cave often goes in deviant directions when it comes to the setting and art for their games. This is the company who made a bullet hell shooter where you command an army of flying pigs. Canned Dogs points us to Japanese…

Natsume is a developer and publisher in Japan. In North America they are only known as a family friendly publisher. However, Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume’s US subsidiary, has dreams of making games, ballroom dancing games. He teamed…

Speaking of Cave, we are going to see a game from them this year in English. Natsume picked up the rights to Ohimesama Debut, which will be literally translated into Princess Debut when it comes out this fall. The Nintendo…

Liked Super Dodgeball Brawlers (pictured)? The game was developed by Million who purchased the rights to the Kunio-Kun series after Technos fell into financial ruin. Aksys confirmed at their Anime Expo panel another project with the developer is in the…

Sometime before 5bp announced they were bringing Ketsui to the Xbox 360, Arika (side note: this is the same company who developed Dr. Mario Online Rx and Forever Blue) announced a DS version of the Cave shoot ‘em up. Not…

Before hearing about the Xbox 360 ports of Ketsui and DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label, I wasn’t aware of 5pb. After looking at their list of adventure-style roots I’m pretty surprised they decided to tread into new territory with arcade…

In an unlikely turn of events the Xbox 360 is becoming *the* premier console for shmups. Besides being a home for a library of classics like Time Pilot, Triggerheart Excelica and in the future Ikaruga, the list of new bullet…

Cave has been branching out from shmups with games like Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine and now Ohimesama Debut (Princess Debut). Their ballroom dancing / princess adventure game is a distant cousin from their usual bullet hell shooters, but the gameplay should…

After a bit of a hiatus, Cave's highly regarded DoDonPachi series will be making it's return at the AOU2008 Amusement Expo on February 15-16. Well…sort of. It will be unveiled at the show. No word yet on whether or not it…

Death Smiles gives you a choice between three characters and since the cursor was already on Windia, I picked her. She’s the girl in the white dress with the owl on her shoulder. The snow white owl isn’t just there…

I normally do not enjoy window-shopping. Whenever I visit a store, whether game-related or otherwise, I always go there with the intention of buying something. But there are two stores in Akihabara which I’ve visited countless times, and from which…

Taito is re-releasing Mushihime-sama, a shoot ‘em up game developed by Cave at the budget price of 2,980 yen ($26) on August 3rd. The game is a PS2 port of the arcade version with a few extra additions like an…