“It looks like the market is shrinking, right? But the total number of sales are not really shrinking. Metal Gear is still a multi-million selling title,” Tak Fujii said to Siliconera.

Hudson reveal new details on their upcoming 3D Bomberman game.

A new Bomberman game is being developed for release on the Nintendo 3DS in Fall.

Starting today and until December 2 you can get a selection of PlayStation Network games for of the half price.

Bomberman Live sold over 500,000 copies. Not bad for a digitally distributed game. We usually don’t divulge into sales numbers, but there is an interesting story behind the downloadable Bomberman games.

Outside of Japan third party DSiWare support has been lukewarm at best. The platform needs more games and less Mario clocks.

In addition to PsOne games, Japan has TurboGrafx-16 titles in their PlayStation Store. We confirmed with Hudson emulated TurboGrafx-16 games are coming to North America too.

What happened to the Virtual Console? The digital distribution platform was initially exciting, but the “Wii-kly” updates seem to have forgotten about bringing us classics. Nintendo has a closet full of old code they could put online, especially games that didn’t get released over here. We might not see games like Devil World (it was [...]

Bomberman 2 is the European name for Custom Battle Bomberman, the latest Nintendo DS Bomberman game. The highlight of Bomberman 2 seems to be mixing and matching parts to make the ultimate Bomberman. There are 160,000+ futuristic looking combinations to play with and you can take your custom creation into eight player Nintendo Wi-Fi battles. [...]

We’ve dressed Bomberman up before, but in Custom Battler Bomberman the parts you choose actually affect your performance. Different arms, helmets, and legs alter your fire power, number of bombs, and running speed. Once you unlock the right parts in the games mission mode you can bring your custom Bomberman online and challenge others over [...]

The PlayStation 3 is the only console without a dedicated Bomberman game, but that’s changing this winter with the release of Bomberman Ultra over the PlayStation Network. Like Bomberman Live, Bomberman Ultra supports eight player online matches, customizable characters (we’re up to 150,000 combinations now), and includes 14 arenas to play with. Actually, Bomberman Ultra [...]

At the end of the Game Boy Advance’s life span Nintendo released the Bit Generations series. These simple and stylish games were never released outside of Japan, but it looks like they are being remade for WiiWare. This week Art Style: Orbient is a surprise game from Nintendo where you control a star that can [...]

Custom Battler Bomberman takes the dress up system in Bomberman Live a step further. In the upcoming Nintendo DS game the costume you choose affects Bomberman’s abilities. You can create an agile Bomberman or a Bomberman built for war armed with a bunch of bombs. Mix and match parts to make the best Bomberman for [...]

Hold off on renewing your Xbox Live account. Xbox Live subscription bundles are imminent. Microsoft just announced one for Japan which contains 12 months of Xbox Live, a headset, Bomberman Live usually sold for 1200 Microsoft Points / $15, and 200 Microsoft Points for 6090 yen ($56). All of this stuff sold separately adds up [...]

Bomberman Blast takes advantage of the Wiimote controls by adding a couple new items. The rocket item allows players to shake the Wiimote when they’re in a tight spot to blast off the screen for a few seconds. Those…

Next month Bomberman Blast or Wi-Fi 8 Man Battle Bomberman as its known in Japan is scheduled to come out on WiiWare. Hudson has it slated to come out on September 30, five days after a retail version of Bomberman with a full story gets released for the Wii.   We just got an e-mail [...]