None of Mistwalker’s upcoming works have been announced, but thanks to Watanabe, one their artists, we may have an early look at one of them.

While Amazon has it available for $18.76, it’ll only cost you $15 to pick it up directly from Aksys.

Character illustrations from Valkyria Chronicles 2 popped up on Sega’s official blog. Take a look at rough illustrations of Avan, Jerry, and Cosette, the three lead characters, next to their final design.

Speaking with Tomy USA I learned Toshinden is being planned as a mixed media project similar to .hack. Dream Factory, the developers of Ehrgeiz and Tobal No. 1, are working on the game.

New characters for crossover RPG, Trinity Universe, are out, but these are not cameo characters. They’re original designs from cameo artists.

My favorite thing about art books is commentary from the creators. How else would you know the bust size of the Luminous Arc witches? The Tome of Lost Souls book shares equally insightful information like how the Knights are designed.

Choose your allegiance to Cosmos or Chaos with the Dissidia: Final Fantasy package art. One side has all the Cosmos and all of the Final Fantasy heroes as imagined by Tetsuya Nomura. Flip it over and you have villains.

Marvelous teased an image scroll as a pre-order bonus for Muramasa: The Demon Blade in Japan. Individually, each picture is tiny. Strung together the scroll is over five feet long. Characters are on the front. Enemies and stages are on the back.   Xseed hasn’t said if they will offer the same bonus when Muramasa: [...]

Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike takes place before the events of Tales of Vesperia with Yuri Lowell as an Imperial Knight. Production I.G. is handling the film which is said to tie in with the PS3 version. While the film revolves around Yuri other faces from Tales of Vesperia will be in the movie. [...]

A few weeks ago a drawing circulated from Kimihiko Fujisaka, an artist employed at Mistwalker. He is working on a new project, but this drawing has nothing to do with it.   In his creator page Fujisaka explains the armored warrior and skeletal dragon is merely a single drawing he did recently. Fujisaka also laments [...]

What does Yoshitaka Miura , the art director of Sonic and the Black Knight, do in his spare time?   He makes snowmen. Sonic the Hedgehog snowmen leading a pack of tiny snowmen. While tiny Miura’s snow sculpture gets bonus points for keeping Sonic’s spiky hair, a lingering sign of Sonic’s ‘tude.    

After many delays, Little King’s Story is almost done. Rising Star Games really is releasing it this spring and Europe will be the first region anywhere in the world to get Little King’s Story when it ships on April 24.   Great to see Rising Star Games and their parent company Marvelous push to premiere [...]

Since the Mega Man Star Force series began new games were released in Japan during the holidays and Capcom USA brought them here the following summer. Capcom isn’t breaking the trend with Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace and Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker. Both games are scheduled to come out in [...]

We described the first round of classes in Dragon Quest IX before and now you can see the male and female versions of them. Before you begin your adventure you get to choose your gender. If you decide on a female warrior you can wear a practical chain mail tank top bikini combo. We’re sure [...]