With Death Note vol. 1 available for free at launch. Paid manga available for $4.99 per volume.

Typical Japanese game trailer. Very shounen-esque with a great cheesy J-pop soundtrack blaring in the background. Time Hollow gave me a similar vibe when it was first announced. This…

Konami shuttled L: The ProLogue to Death Note into Japanese stores yesterday, but they kept the ultimate Death Note fan package as a Konamistyle exclusive. The Konamistyle bundle comes with a DS Lite jacket, touch pen, poster, two movie tickets, nifty ticket holders plus the game. Of course, this package costs more and it is [...]

Coinciding with the third Death Note live action movie is a new video game from Konami where you play as L, before the events in the anime series. Compared to the other two Death Note games for the DS, L the proLogue to Death Note, has more in common with a run of the mill [...]

After two games Konami is going for a modified graphical adventure for L: The Prologue to Death Note – Rasen no Wana, which I feel is a fitting style. As the title explicitly points out, the events in the game prelude Death Note and you get to play as a younger L cracking a case [...]

Death Note just started airing in North America, but Japan is done with it. Finito. Well, except for Konami who holds the license to make Death Note games. The third game is another DS title called, L the ProLogue to Death Note Rasen no Wana is being coined as a battle adventure game. Quite different [...]

Earlier today, Death Note anime aired its final episode in Japan and while the series has yet to debut on TV, Viz Media is planning to sell the episodes online. The first sixteen episodes will appear on Totalvid.com for $1.99 a piece on June 28. These episodes of Death Note are straight from Japan and [...]

Death Note: L o Tsugu Mono comes out next month on July 12 and this terse TV spot shows a little bit of gameplay. In Konami’s follow up players step into the shoes of Kira and with the help of the touch screen players draw a path for Ryuk to catch criminals. Like the other [...]

Next month Konami is releasing another Death Note game in Japan for the Nintendo DS, Death Note: L o Tsugu Mono (Death Note: L’s Successors). The gameplay looks different from Death Note: Kira Game, Death Note L’s Successors has players plan out Kira’s path on a wireframe map of the city on the touch screen. [...]

A day after announcing that they picked up the license for Blue Dragon, Viz Media announced they picked up the rights to the Mega Man Star Force anime series.   In the year 220X, a new technology has been developed to enable contact with extraterrestrial life forms. A mysterious accident occurs during the first communication [...]

In nearly one week (Feb. 15, 2007!) Death Note is getting its first video game and it is coming out for the Nintendo DS. Death Note: Kira Game is an investigative game where you try to figure out who the identity of the enemy is. You can discuss the case with characters from the series [...]