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Practice Fighting Phony Heroes In Dissidia: Final Fantasy’s Story Mode

Spencer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:49 -0600

Underneath the excitement of seeing Final Fantasy characters from different games spar in Dissidia: Final Fantasy is a single player story mode that takes place on game board. Players spend Destiny Points (DP) to move their piece towards a goal…

WiiWare Digital Manga Has English Subtitles

Spencer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:45:10 -0600

Months ago we reported Sunsoft, a subsidiary of Sun Denshi, was working on a manga delivery service for WiiWare. On January 6, 2009 it goes live with Princess Ai as the first title. The first three chapters cost 500 Wii Points…

Xbox Live Video Marketplace Opens In Japan Next Year

Spencer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:49:07 -0600

In the US we have been enjoying downloading videos over Xbox Live for about two years now. Parts of Europe and Canada got access to it last year, but not Japan. Considering the size of the user base it's easy…

No Cave Shooters From 5pb This Year

Spencer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:55:02 -0600

Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label Extra won't be coming home for Christmas. 5bp announced a last minute delay changing the Japanese release date from December 25 to a vague "this winter". Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Taichi Extra is sort of being delayed too.…

Persona 4: Dungeon Explorer

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:02:53 -0600

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 has random dungeons, but they aren't like the cubicles in Persona 3. The dungeons in Persona 4 feel more like mazes since they have narrow corridors and doors to open. Each dungeon has a theme…

First Touch Of DJ Max: Technika

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:35:47 -0600

I heard DJ Max: Technika was in some arcades so I rushed to try it out. I came to the machine armed with experience from Pentavision's most recent DJ Max game and noticed plenty of songs overlapped between Technika and…

Let’s Look At The Games In Let’s Tap

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:43:10 -0600

Let's Tap is another mini-game compilation for the Wii, but the unique concept of tapping a cardboard platform to control the games makes it stand out. Unfortunately, Let's Tap only has four games so it's a micro mini-game collection. I…

Sega’s First WiiWare Game Coming This December

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:48:28 -0600

Lots of small publishers championed WiiWare while big guns like Electronic Arts, Capcom and Sega strayed away from it. On December 16 Sega will take their first step onto WiiWare with Let's Catch, a project done with Yuji Naka's studio…

Nokia Would Like To Remind You Resident Evil: Degeneration Is A Game On N-Gage

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:55 -0600

Resident Evil: Degeneration will infect DVD players at the end of this month and sometime in the future the CG flick is getting a video game tie-in on the most unlikely platform. Nokia partnered with Capcom to make a game…

Prinny Platformer Really Is Tough As Nails

Spencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:48:05 -0600

NIS America wasn't kidding when they said Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? is hard. Their first platformer has insidious level design akin to an NES Mega Man game. Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? doesn't have deadly…