Sakura Note struck out, but Fate/Extra has a chance to come out overseas. Ignition is looking at the PSP game.

Years, many years, ago The 3rd Birthday was announced for mobile phones, but now it’s a PSP game. How did The 3rd Birthday evolve? I asked the development team.

Instead of throwing attendees into the world of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light without any context, Square Enix created a fourth wall breaking demo just for tradeshows.

While the characters I played with — Matthew, Karis, and Terrell — were new, battles felt familiar. Djinn and psyenergy, elements from past Golden Sun games returned in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

Back in April, Shinji Hashimoto tweeted about Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI for the Nintendo DS. Neither game was officially announced, but Hashimoto said the titles had “technical problems”.

NIS America brought a partially localized build of the PlayStation 3 game to E3, which had English voice acting. Sample those by watching the first English trailer.

And when they found out they couldn’t they created new content for the West.

Sega isn’t the only Japanese publisher with a third person shooter. Square Enix has Mindjack, which is also slated for October.

What makes Vanquish different from other cover to cover third person shooters? Power suits.

Steel Diver puts you in control of a submarine, but instead of using buttons Nintendo turned the touch screen into an admiral’s control panel.

Wii Fit watch out, Kinect Adventures! could double as a family fun fitness game.

Last year, Microsoft announced Joy Ride as a cash-op car game with avatar support for Xbox Live Arcade. Last week, Joy Ride re-emerged as a retail, Kinect powered, kart racing game.

What separates this game from the plethora of third person shooters on the market is “mind hacking”.

When the first Kingdom Hearts game came out, Pixar had a Disney contract. Now Disney owns Pixar. So, how about some Pixar characters or worlds in Kingdom Hearts, Nomura-san?