505 Games are publishing Naruto Shippuden: Nin-rittai Emake! Saikyou Ninkai Kessen in Europe this year.

Naughty Bear publisher 505 Games appears to have two Blu-ray hybrid packs planned for North America.

Nintendo DSi exclusive games are sprouting in the West too starting with Hair Salon from 505 Games.

Nintendo DSi exclusive games are coming to the West too with 505 Games leading the charge in PAL regions. They just announced Hair Salon, a makeover game developed by the creators of From the Abyss.

Poor Evil has it pretty rough. In Pinky St Kira Kira Music Hour, the DS dancing game based on the Pinky St line of figurines, she thought she’d be picked by Ange as the successor and lead dancer for Club Angela. Instead, some “green girl” named Puuchi came along, learned from dancers in other districts and outdanced Evil to inherit Ange’s position in Angela.

Battle Fantasia is coming out in North America this September, but for the Xbox 360 only. A PlayStation 3 version is already out in Japan, but the story is obviously in Japanese. For a fighting game, Battle Fantasia has an unusually high amount of text since it’s a fusion of an RPG and a 2.5D [...]

The Korean developed RPG, Magna Carta, didn’t fair so well in North America, but in Japan Banpresto ported the PlayStation 2 game to the PSP. That happened nearly two years ago and by now Softmax’s legacy is a forgotten memory. However, the PSP version may matriculate in English care of 505 Games.   The PEGI [...]

505 Games (i.e. the company who published Cooking Mama and other Atlus games in Europe) snagged the rights to Crayon Shin-Chan for Europe and they are working on a localized version of Crayon Shin-Chan: Saikyou Kazoku Kasukabe King. The Shin-Chan licensed party game debuted as a Wii launch game in Japan, which makes it over [...]

After Nintendo’s success with Brain Training tons of publishers made clones and then came niche clones. I Did It Mum from Starfish is targeting the younger crowd, make that the younger preschool crowd. In the twelve mini games you do simple challenges like tapping instruments and play with toy trains… if you’re a boy. I [...]

There are a couple of points to note on Nintendo’s Q2 European release schedule. Super Swing Golf Pangya is going to be published by Nintendo under the name Pangya! Golf with Style. Kirby Squeak Squad is being renamed Kirby Mouse Attack and there is an entry for Pop’n Pop by 505 Games. Pop’n Pop is [...]

Ubisoft took a risk when they localized the quirky puzzle game Exit. It didn’t really pay off for them since Exit was largely ignored, despite its originality. While Mr. ESC’s adventure seemed to end Taito announced that a sequel, Kangaeru Exit was in the works and the emphasis would be on thinking rather than action. [...]

  505 Games who is known for publishing Atlus releases and the Simple 2000 games in Europe announced that they picked up the Destiny of Zorro for the Wii. Players take on the role of Zorro in 1800’s Spanish California where they battle Calavera, fight a mob boss and discover the origins of the masked [...]