At the Spectrobes event Kentaro Hisai, the producer of Spectrobes, flew over from Japan to talk about the title to the group of lucky Gauer elementary school students. He introduces the card input system where you place cards with holes over the DS’ touch screen and poke holes in a sequence to unlock new creatures. [...]

Earlier today I was at Disneyland where Disney Interactive held the world premiere of Spectrobes. To celebrate the event a group of forth graders from Gauer Elementary school came by to try out the game a few weeks before it hit store shelves. On top of missing a day of school and hanging out in [...]

After four extra months of waiting Namco Bandai released Lumines II in Japan. The licensed song list has been floating around the internet and it is missing a couple songs. “Regret” from New Order, "Lose Control" by Missy Elliot and Beck’s “Black Tambourine” are notably absent. Gwen Stefani’s awkwardly included song, “Hollaback Girl” and the [...]

Disney Interactive is getting ready to release Lumines Plus next week an enhanced version of the PSP game for the Playstation 2. However, there hasn’t been much information about what’s going to be new for the PS2 release. We learned that there are going to be nine songs from Lumines II in Lumines Plus 100 [...]

Disney Interactive Studios (previously known as Buena Vista Games) has an interesting tactic to hook people into their Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG. Instead of going for a cash op system or forcing monthly fees when too many games doing that they are giving away the adventure for free, sort of. If you don’t want [...]

This new trailer of Spectrobes shows off some quick CG clips of Rallen and some gameplay footage with him paired up with two Spectrobes in combat. In between the usual footage you can see a glimpse of how the Spectrobes evolve from their cutesy youth form to their battle ready “awakened” forms. Probably the most [...]

Buena Vista Games has two new games from Q Entertainment scheduled to come out on February 27, 2007. The first is Lumines Plus for the Playstation 2, an extended version of Lumines with some “elements” from Lumines II. Perhaps all new skins? FMV video? Then there is Meteos: Disney Magic, a new version of the [...]

I had the pleasure of sitting in on a call about Buena Vista’s upcoming game Spectrobes. It’s being developed by Jupiter who you might recognize as the developer of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. In Spectrboes you play as the planetary patrol scout, Rallen, who is given the ability to excavate Spectrobes from the Earth. [...]

Nintendo updated their first quarter release schedule with twelve games on the list. There are some key titles like Wii Play, Sonic and the Secret Rings and The Godfather: Blackhand edition that are coming out in the next few months. However, Mario Party 8 got pushed back and Cooking Mama, which was supposedly coming out [...]

In March 2007, Buena Vista Games is releasing Spectrobes in North America. It’s an action RPG designed by Jupiter who made Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. These screenshots show how combat takes place where you have two Spectrobes by your side to command. Another screenshot past the break shows a Spectrobe being excavated by rubbing [...]

Lumines was the reason I got my PSP. Q Entertainment’s stylish music X puzzle game was as innovative as it was addictive. When Buena Vista Games announced they were releasing Lumines II, I was a little skeptical. What more can BVG add to the Lumines formula? Apparently not much. While Lumines II is a really [...]

Probably the biggest change from Lumines to Lumines II is the change from being an underground house music venue to a Top 40’s hangout. Mainstream music might sell Lumines to the masses more than Mondo Grasso’s pieces, but the extra sounds don’t mesh as well in “Hollaback Girl” as they do in music designed specifically [...]

As part of Microsoft press event today they announced future titles coming to the Xbox Marketplace. On the list are six Atari classics: Centipede, Asteroids, Missile Command, Battlezone, Warlords and Tempest. All of the Atari remakes will have the original and an Xbox 360 enhanced “evolution mode”. The evolution mode varies from title to title, [...]

After we posted up a sizable list of new skins in Lumines Live I discovered that these skins were hardly exclusive to the Xbox 360. A representative from Buena Vista Games told us, “We can confirm that all the skins in Lumines Live will be in Lumines II — plus more.” There are a total [...]