If you’ve been keeping up with world news you may have heard of the Sichuan earthquake, which devastated a region of China last week. Individuals and corporations throughout Asia have been pitching in with donations including Sony Computer Entertainment Hong…

Senjou no Valkyria better known as Valkyria Chronicles in other regions comes out in Japan next week. Sega is kicking off the launch with a promotional swag. If you purchase the PlayStation 3 game on April 24 (the release date)…

When Persona 3 FES came out in Japan Konami released a snazzy bundle containing the game, a stuffed toy, poster and audio technical headphones similar in style to what the protagonist wore.   The full contents of the Persona 4…

So Big Daddy was walking around on the kitchen table scoping out a giant container of ADAM for his Little Sister when all of a sudden Generation 2 Megatron popped out and said, "STFU! That's my energon, jerk!"  So he…

You might have a Phoenix Wright plushie, but only Japan gets Gyakuten Saiban playing cards. Maya, Mia and new characters from the Apollo Justice arc are featured as kings and queens or in Edgeworth’s case the number “3”. Phoenix and…

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is old news for Japan and most of the world. It’s on the Japanese PlayStation store for anyone with 4,500 yen ($45) in their account to download. But if Japanese isn’t your forte and you can…

In only a few months, Japan gets to play a brand new Chunsoft dungeon RPG starring Shiren, the mysterious wanderer. Are you excited? Sega thinks so because Shiren is coming out in a number of different bundles. I’ll skip through…

Next Level Games, the developers of the Mario Strikers series, is doing something for the greater good that isn’t getting much attention. To celebrate their fifth anniversary some of their artists created skateboards based on popular video games. All of…

Ryu Kazama sent over (thanks!) a few pictures of Kotobukiya’s Devil May Cry figures. The Dante and Vergil figures are looking sharp, but they are quite expensive. The Vergil figure goes for 8,190 yen ($71) when it comes out this…

Working Designs was known for their elaborate goodies and their Elemental Gearbolt Assasin’s Case is one of the more pricey pieces of Playstation Swag. At E3 ’98 Working Designs held an Elemental Gearbolt tournament where fifty winners won the mock…

I was pretty flustered during the cocktail reception at the beginning of E3. In fact, I just hung close to blogger-in-arms (and friend) Spencer who seemed to know everyone. As a first-timer is was pretty intimidating.   But while I…

A few nights ago I was looking around my apartment, it became glaringly clear that my life pretty much revolves around games. No matter what direction you look in there's some gaming console, statue, magazine, painting, etc.    So what…