Missing at E3 was Soul Calibur 4, the next and final installment in the Soul Calibur series. It’s coming out in 2008 and here is an early look at some of the concept art for the fighters. Tira, one of the characters introduced in Soul Calibur III, looks notably different with long hair and Nightmare [...]

Nintendo has a really clever bonus for fans of Inis’ beat tapping series. If you have Ouendan 2 you can hop over to the Touch! Try! DS stations and download the character models from Elite Beat Agents team. Once you get the download the models are permanently available in the game and you can switch [...]

Lillet Blan, the protagonist of Grim Grimoire begins the game only with the skills to summon Glamour familiars (as seen in the first article). Within the first few hours of the game Lillet also learns how to control phantom warriors and Necromancy magic. Necromancy units are mostly in ethereal form, which means some deal less [...]

  Atari’s Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 doesn’t look that much different from number two or for that matter Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 1. Besides changing up the motion control for the Wii release Atari is adding in a handful of new characters for DBZ fans and here is a look at a [...]

Part (most?) of what is grabbing a lot of people’s attention towards Itadaki Street DS is the mash up of mascots. From the Square-Enix side you have Dragon Quest characters, redrawn to look younger and from Nintendo you have characters from the Mushroom Kingdom. Here is a glance of what characters are going to appear [...]

Also developed by Vanillaware (remember Odin Sphere?) is Grim Grimoire, a side scrolling RTS that NIS America is releasing in North America later this month. The story is about Lillet Blan who is caught in a time loop, trapped between five days inside the Silver Star Tower. Lillet is a young sorceress and she doesn’t [...]

The Super Smash Brothers Dojo has a few updates with Pit from Kid Icarus and screenshots of him in Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Two of Pit’s special moves are explained too. His basic special is Palutena Arrow where he shoots an arrow of light that can be controlled by players. Pit also has the ability [...]

Nippon Ichi and Hitmaker are teaming up again to make Dragoneer’s Aria, another action RPG for the PSP. This time they have a little extra help with the character design from Juno, one of the artists from Lineage. The character art looks fantastic, but the descriptions for the heroes seem a little hollow. A knight [...]

Namco Bandai is about to release the second installment of the .hack//GU series next month. Before you pick up the game have a look at some of the heroes that Haseo, the main character will encounter in the second chapter of the three part series.       Haseo (Adept Rogue) – Haseo is the [...]

Instead of talking about the gameplay we’re going to take a look at Heavenly Swords heroine, Nariko. The picture above is concept art for Nariko and there are more illustrations of her below. After you take a glimpse of the sketches there are some new pictures of Heavenly Sword to check out. See how Nariko [...]

  Nintendo and Square-Enix’s latest mash up brings Enix’s old Monopoly-like board game series Itadaki Street, Dragon Quest characters and Mario into one Nintendo DS title. Itadaki Street DS is scheduled to come out in Japan on June 21st. So far eleven characters have been announced for the game: Slime, Jessica, Ryuuoh, Pudding, Bianca, Angelo, [...]

If you were wooed by Odin Sphere’s art style take a look at Grim Grimoire. Both games are being developed by Vanillaware. While Odin Sphere is a 2D action game with role playing elements, Grim Grimoire is a coined as a real time strategy game. The world is somewhat reminiscent of a certain famous wizard [...]

It sounds like many of you want to know more about NIS America’s upcoming SRPG Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. Before we get into the battle system here is a glimpse of the story and some of the characters you are going to meet.   Long ago an evil overlord wreaked havoc upon the [...]

Since XSeed is working on Wild Arms V I thought you might want to see what the characters look like. Below is Dean Stark, the protagonist in Wild Arms V who lives in Capo Bronco. Along with Rebecca Streisand he watches the impossible, a golem arm falling from the sky.