Sunday X Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine takes characters from rival manga magazines Shonen Sunday and Weekly Shonen and throws them into a baseball battle on the DS. The mix of characters almost makes sense since the Shonen Sunday side has characters from baseball manga like Major, Ace of Diamond, Touch, and Star of Giants. [...]

Licensing issues are the main reason we haven’t seen a Detective Conan Case Closed video game in English. However, PAL publisher Nobilis made a deal with Marvelous Entertainment and whoever owns the rights to the series in Europe to release  Meitantei Conan: Tsuioku no Gensou (Detective Conan: Mirage of Reminiscence) on the Wii. The [...]

Detective Conan: Kieta Hakase to Machigai Sagashi no Tou, the latest game starring the pint-sized sleuth, comes out on April 3rd. Unlike many other Detective Conan games this Nintendo DS title is not an adventure game. Detective Conan: Kieta Hakase to Machigai Sagashi no Tou is essentially a repackaged version of Machigai Museum (aka Quickspot [...]

Namco has had some success with their spot-the-difference Machigai Museum series in Japan. When it got localized as Quickspot for North America it barely made a blip on the radar. In 2008 Namco Bandai is trying a new strategy, pitting the star of Case Closed in a mistake spotting DS game. Since Conan is a [...]

Marvelous is getting ready to release a Detective Conan (aka Case Closed in the USA) game on the Wii next month. It’s an adventure game and there are also four additional mini games that come with it. One of them is Pluck Pluck Panic Room, which plays kind of like whack a mole and you [...]

 
Bandai Namco Games is working on a Detective Conan game for the Nintendo DS called Detective Conan: Tantei Ka-Trainer (Detective Conan: Power Detective Trainer). Unlike the other Detective Conan games you’re not cracking cases. Instead Detective Conan: Tantei Ka-Trainer is a collection of brain teasing mini games. In one game you pick out [...]