The Japanese software charts heat up with a line-up of several significant new releases, including LovePlus +, Atelier Totori, and Monster Hunter Frontier for the Xbox 360.

Steins;Gate for Windows was originally meant to launch July 30th. When Nitroplus and publisher 5pb release the delayed PC port of the hit visual novel this August 28th, players will require a PC connected to the Internet in order to complete an online certification process before they can play the game. Unsurprisingly, 5pb are citing [...]

5pb and Nitroplus’s breakout hit visual novel is getting the novelization treatment.

Keeping with their summer release window, 5pb set July 28 as the date for Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku.

The June issue of Tech Gian magazine confirms a PC port of the critically-acclaimed visual novel. Beware, NSFW post.

Bayonetta is a multiplatform game so a hardware bundle may not sway Japan towards Microsoft’s console. Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi Extra, like all of Cave’s games, is an Xbox 360 exclusive.

Thanks to 5pb, the PlayStation Portable is getting a doujin horror game called Corpse Party: Blood Covered… Repeated Fear.

5pb’s much delayed console version of Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi might be close to completion. Retailers in Japan report it goes on sale on April 22.

Hot on the heels of the Microsoft x Capcom press conference, 5pb has a new Xbox 360 title.

5pb, the publisher of the Xbox 360 Ketsui port and visual novels like Steins;Gate, are developing a horror adventure game called Corpse Party: Blood Covered… Repeated Fear.

Introducing Ketai Sousakan 7 (Mobile Phone Investigator Seven), a Japanese TV show where an anti-social high school freshman and his friend, a talking and walking mobile phone named Seven fight cyber crime. Strangely enough this TV show is getting a Nintendo DS adventure game where Keita, the human character, and Seven chat and play mini-games. [...]

Since Uraken first began DJ’ing, his electronic music has been described as powerful and uplifting. In addition to appearing at live performances, beginning in 1996 he organized a monthly event called “Hardcore Kitchen.” The first of its kind in Japan, it introduced Tokyo to the UK Hardcore scene. The musician has since toured Britain and [...]

When looking at the magnitude of music composed by Yuzo Koshiro for the Etrian Odyssey series of role-playing games, its breadth amounts to a small kingdom of sounds. The original soundtracks for the first two titles make up five discs. In addition, a drama CD, two Super Arrange records, a piano collection and an album [...]

In May of this year, the Tokyo-based band The Outer Rim published their self-titled debut album. Composed primarily by bassist Jeff Curry, the musician imagined the spoken drama that bookends the music tracks, which are performed by professional videogame voice actors, as a dark and brooding outer space tale reminiscent of James Cameron’s Aliens. Over [...]