The first batch of PsOne Simple Series games are coming to the PlayStation Store this week.

Namco Bandai’s take on Monster Hunter Freedom is leaving Japan, but Namco Bandai Games America won’t be publishing the PSP game. D3 Publisher is handling God Eater in North America.

Namco Bandai expected to be in the black with a profit of 8.5 billion yen ($94 million). Instead they reported a total loss of 31 billion yen ($343 million).

The Bioshock franchise has been shopped around in Japan, and not very smartly at that. Cyberfront picked the PC version up and are only localizing the manual.

D3 Publisher’s hostess dating sim Dream C Club is inspired by the success of The Idolm@ster, but the link between the two titles may be deeper. Let’s take a look at character art from both games.

Winter Sonata, a super popular and super sad Korean drama has a Nintendo DS game thanks to the folks behind The Onechanbara and Earth Defense Force.

Not sure if you want to purchase D3 Publisher’s campy demon slaying game, The Exorsister? Demo it first.

D3 Publisher has a quirky city planning game set in Japan. It’s called Machi-ing Maker 3 and it includes real-life brands like Tsutaya and Uniqlo.

D3 Publisher learned from The Idolm@ster that selling costumes is *the way* to make money with Dream C Club, their hostess dating sim. Gradually, they’ve become more revealing.

Puzzle Quest Galactrix? That was a sci-fi spinoff. Puzzle Quest 2 is the direct sequel to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords and it’s coming in spring 2010.

Both games are published by the same company in Japan.

The ESRB leaked Super Pocket Tennis and Beta Bloc, which appear to be localized versions of The Tennis and The Block Kusushi Quest Dragon Kingdom.