Earlier this year Lost Regnum slipped into stores in Japan with little attention. After a lackluster welcome it didn’t look like any company was going to pick it up and localize it. But here we are with Mercury Games in Europe who picked up the rights to it and gave it a new title, [...]

I’m surprised to see that Mercury Games worked out a deal with Ertain to publish a series of titles known as the “Zen Series”. These aren’t traditional games, they are barely games at all. Let’s say the Zen series is relaxing Nintendo DS software. In the line up so far is Paint by DS where [...]

Something I’ve been messing around with is Kokoro ga Uruou Birei Aquarium DS by Ertain. It’s a portable aquarium program, but instead of raising “regular” fish you take care of penguins, dolphins and sting rays. There is another Kokoro ga Uruou Birei Aquarium DS program with guppies and stuff you can find at the local [...]

 
A war related game that isn’t a FPS or a real time strategy game? Tamiya is making one for the DS where you paint tanks and planes with the stylus. You can choose to use colored pencils, water colors or oil paints to color a picture. Ertain is publishing the title who previously released another [...]

Ertain next non game DS title, Kokorogauruou Mirei Aquarium DS is a portable aquarium in your pocket minus the water. It looks like a 3D After Dark screensaver, but there is some interactivity. You have to care for your fish by cleaning the tank with the stylus and you have to feed your fish. Kokorogauruou [...]

 
More and more developers are bringing RPGs to the PSP. Some are going unnoticed like Ertain’s Lost Regnum: Makutsu no Koutei. It is coming out this week on January 25, 2007 with a Chinese language version coming out on February 15 (now that’s rare!) and barely a word has mentioned it. Lost Regnum is a [...]