The composer of Secret of Mana and Koudelka has a new album scheduled to go on sale at the end of February.  Hiroki Kikuta's fifteen-track Concerto will be available on his privately owned label Norstrilia.  Including songs from Concerto Gate,…

If I were to ask you what you remember most about Secret of Mana, what would your response be? Would it be Hiroki Kikuta's score of the game and how it's perhaps the best score you've ever heard in an…

When I first learned of the Nintendo DS and its touch screen, I thought, "Hey, the touch screen would be a great control scheme for RTS games!"  I'm surprised it took so long for an RTS to come to the…

Square-Enix released a new batch of screenshots from the US version of Heroes of Mana. After playing Dawn of Mana I have my doubts about the Mana series, but Heroes of Mana has a new take on it. As Roli…

It seemed as if Square had totally ditched the Mana series, which served as one of the major three pillars of Square (the other two being Final Fantasy and SaGa). Seiken Densetsu 3 was considered by many Mana enthusiasts and…

Dawn of Mana has been out in North America for a week now much to the disdain of video game critics. I’ve been playing it too and as much as I want to say something glowing about it I can’t.…

It’s hard to ignore the caustic criticism that Dawn of Mana has received since it was released in Japan. I’ll admit that after hearing that the game was “broken” by people who imported it I cancelled my order. As a…

Is the wait for Heroes of Mana’s localization killing you so much that you’d do just about anything to get your hands on its import version? Whatever your idea of “do just about anything” may be is beyond me, but…

A lot of Square-Enix’s North American buzz is about Heroes of Mana today, but before you mass your army of rabites, Dawn of Mana is going to be released on the Playstation 2 on May 22. For a limited time…

Square-Enix announced that the strategy RPG / RTS hybrid, Heroes of Mana, is coming to North America in “late summer”. In the game you command an army of rabites to gather resources with the touch screen and summon armies of…

Of all the fans of a given video game series/franchise, Mana fans have had it worse. Once Mana fans realized that the original Secret of Mana games would never come to be, many became distant with the franchise and have…

Square-Enix has been pretty quiet about Dawn of Mana, it seems like all of the attention is going to Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales. Either way it’s getting ready for a release in late May and here is the North…