After a period of absence, Eighting is heading back to the arcades with Fate Unlimited Codes. Their fighting game is based on the Fate/stay Night license, which Capcom currently holds. Fate Unlimited Codes is slated to appear next year, but you can catch a sneak preview of it if you are near Akihabara. Hey will [...]

Capcom isn’t done with the Fate/stay Night license after releasing a single PSP game. Next year, Fate/stay Unlimited Codes heads to arcades. Eighting, well known for Bloody Roar and the Naruto Gamecube games, is taking a lead role in developing the game’s engine. Between Fate/stay Night and Melty Blood, Type-Moon is making quite a name [...]

As promised, here is a look inside Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution’s mission mode you are only going to see on Siliconera. Past the break is a video that shows the cutscene between Neji and Naruto before their Chuunin exam bout. Check out the dialogue that leads up to the fight. Also watch the beginning [...]

On November 29, the third Naruto fighting game will appear on the Wii and this one has a much larger selection of characters than Naruto: Shippuuden Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX. Newcomers like Sai, Yamato and post time-skip Sasuke are added to the cast. You can see them in a blurry YouTube version of the trailer [...]

On Sunday I hinted we were going to go inside the mission mode in Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution and since the holiday is over it’s time to delve right into it.     The mission mode in Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution will take you through the story of Naruto from the beginning of [...]

I hopped on Eighting’s new version of Naruto and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of blank character spots. If the demo is accurate we should see at least 30 characters in the final game. I took a chance to play Sasuke first. He has a wide fireball attack like Itachi and a powered [...]

In case there wasn’t enough Naruto news already, Famitsu posted a handful of screenshots. One of the screenshots shows a new purple cavern stage and another screen shows Sasuke’s upgraded Chidori.

Kylara was kind enough to send in an extra large scan from Shonen Jump with the latest info on Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2. Thanks! Obviously, more playable characters are going to be in the second game and Tomy is making a pretty big jump. Sai, Yamato, Kabuto, Orochimaru and timeskip Sasuke are [...]

When I swung by Tomy’s headquarters I tested out the four player mode and I’m glad to say it’s a huge improvement over Naruto Shippuden: Geiktou Ninja Taisen EX. Eighting fixed the issues with the choppy frame rate with tweaks like playing with the shadows. The graphical differences are barely noticeable, but the frame rate [...]

You knew it was in development and it was only a matter of time until Tomy announced it. However, I didn’t think it would be so soon. Tomy has Naruto Shippuden: Geiktou Ninja Taisen EX 2 scheduled to come out sometime this year. There are going to be 30 characters in the game, way more [...]

Take a first look at Naruto and Sasuke in D3 Publisher’s upcoming Wii game, Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution. The video uses the two screen Konoha village battlefield from Naruto Shippuden: Geiktou Ninja Taisen EX and near the halfway mark Naruto slams Sasuke into the next screen. The kunai repelling move that Sasuke uses is [...]

D3 publisher has a predicament with the Naruto license. Since retailers are cutting back on Gamecube shelf space and the Naruto episodes in Japan are years ahead of the rest of the world, they can no longer rely on localizing Eighting’s Japanese games. Instead Tomy, D3 and Eighting have to work together to develop Naruto [...]

Sony is going to release Bleach: Heat the Soul 4 in Japan on May 22. The fourth edition in Eighting’s fighting game series adds in a few characters like Hollow Ichigo to the roster and tweaks the controls for calling out partner characters.   [youtube]HC93_25Bbmc[/youtube] 

Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX barely takes advantage of the Wii remote in the fighting mode, but the three mini games are a different story. When you start the game only the shuriken throwing game is available, but by playing that mini game you can unlock “Shadow Clone watching” and “Rasengan Training”. Past the [...]