Sumioni is particularly interesting because Xseed shares ownership of the intellectual property with Acquire. A representative from Xseed confirmed this news with Siliconera.

Ragnarok Online host, GungHo, have acquired Tenchu and Shinobido developer, Acquire, the company announced today.

Class of Heroes 3D has a new group of characters like Krahe, a freshman who aspires to become a righteous pirate and Thistle, a half-dragon girl who is majoring in tsundere studies.

At last, a Wizardry game is leaving Japan. Xseed is localizing Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, a PlayStation 3 dungeon crawler, for North America.

The Shinesengumi set has costumes based off members in the historical shogunate police force. You can get original weapons and outfits to style your samurai as Isami Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata.

At GDC, Tenchu developer Acquire was meeting with publishers behind closed doors. One of the projects they were showing off was Alpha Arcanus.

Akiba’s Trip’s protagonist knocks his opponents flat on their faces after exposing their bodies to sunlight.

The PSP game blends fantasy and reality by putting vampire-like creatures into the streets of Tokyo’s electric town. Why vampires? That’s one of the questions I asked Luke Rideout, Associate Producer of Akiba’s Trip, at Acquire.

The developer of action games including Way of the Samurai and Tenchu: Shadow Assassins wanted to design a game that went beyond beating up an enemy.

You can visit a blacksmith to temper your weapon further increasing its durability and attack power, but there is a limit to how far tempering can strengthen a sword.

Akiba’s Trip has upskirt photography of maids.

Acquire’s upcoming PSP game wasn’t always set there. “The decision to set it [Akiba's Trip] in Akihabara came quite a while afterward,” Luke Rideout, Assistant Producer, tells Siliconera in an interview.

The pale skinned girl with long and slender limbs is Rui Fumiduki. She rarely laughs, but isn’t shy about lending a helping hand.

Acquire created a system where players automatically upload their character data online, which is then transferred to another player’s game.