More third-party retail games are headed to the Nintendo eShop in Japan.

Tecmo Koei will re-distribute Dead or Alive: Dimensions’ downloadable costumes twice for people that missed out on them the first two times.

Dead or Alive feels like someone at a manga publisher sat down and came up with a bullet list of items that mainstream shounen manga fans would like. Then, they made a martial arts movie out of them.

Our Dead or Alive: Dimensions playtest won’t go up until the coming week, but I did want to post some brief notes on the game.

Akiba’s Trip and Dead or Alive: Dimensions take the top two spots in this week’s Japanese software sales chart.

“Next time I want to make software that involves 3D in the game design,” says Team Ninja head, Yosuke Hayashi.

Bosses are playable in Dead or Alive: Dimensions. Here’s a look at Tengu, Raidou, Genra, Alpha-152 and Kasumi Alpha.

At launch, players will be able to download free costumes for Dead or Alive: Dimensions using the SpotPass feature on the 3DS.

I jumped right into arcade mode and tried the new control system in Dead or Alive: Dimensions, the touch screen combo interface.

Team Ninja will be providing 28 different free downloadable costumes for Dead or Alive: Dimensions after launch.

Gamestop have listings for Nintendo 3DS bundles with Dead or Alive: Dimensions, Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition and Samurai Warriors: Chronicles.

A Kasumi vs. Ayane battle along with many, many screenshots of various other fights.

Take a look at the list of selectable characters in Dead or Alive: Dimensions, and some of the stages in the game.

We’ve already seen this Dead or Alive: Dimensions trailer in the past, but this is the localized version with English voices and captions.