Square Enix is giving the Dragon Quest series a 90 minute event during the two public days of Tokyo Game Show. Head to the event stage at hall 8 to catch Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Special Stage at 1:00 – 2:30 on Saturday, October 11 and 10:30AM – 12:00 Sunday, October 12. Attendees will catch [...]

If you’re around the San Francisco area Sega is throwing a pre-launch Valkryia Chronicles event at the PlayStation Store in the Sony Metreon this Friday, September 26th. Ryutaro Nonaka, the Valkyria Chronicles Producer at Sega Japan, will be on hand to answer your questions and sign posters provided at the party. Sega will be giving [...]

Nintendo blasted the media, including us, with an announcement about an event taking place on September 18. That’s this Thursday. Instead of flat out explaining what they are doing Nintendo left a bunch of clues. According to “authorities at Nintendo” a celestial event will be visible at a handful of locations. The event only takes [...]

Twenty years ago, Nintendo published the first issue of Nintendo Power, filled with previews, reviews, tips, and tons of maps. In celebration, the magazine (now published by Future) joined with the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan to hold a party on Saturday, September 13th, filled with upcoming Wii and DS games.     Arriving at [...]

Last year, 5pb Records organized a concert during which prominent videogame composers performed renditions of their own compositions and remixed their favorite tunes from the history of videogame music. The free range of the selections at the Extra – Hyper Game Music Event has made a planned DVD release unlikely due to licensing issues, but [...]

This weekend Capcom is throwing a Mega Man summer shindig at the Tokyo Fashion Town Building. If you’re in Japan take the Rinkai or Yurikamome line Kokusai-tenjijo on August 24. At the event you’ll get to try out Mega Man 9 and Mega Man Star Force 3. You get a Mega Man 9 sticker sheet [...]

The Disgaea Panel at Anime Expo '08 featured Mr. Takehito Harada (the artist of Disgaea), Ms. Taniel (the character artist for Blade Dancer: Linage of Light), Mr. Hojo (CEO of Hit Maker), Mr. Steven Carlton and Mr. Phoenix Spaulding (NIS editors), and Mr. Jack Niida (localization editor).   First they covered some basics of Disgaea [...]

The big news from Atlus yesterday night was Persona 4’s release date. Fifty minutes before we saw the Persona 4 trailer Yu Namba, Senior Project Manager at Atlus, and veteran Editor Nich Maragos talked about the history of Shin Megami Tensei. The discussion wasn’t as in depth as Hardcoregaming 101’s excellent retrospective of the Megaten [...]

Arc System Works should just have a booth at Anime Expo. In addition to BlazBlue two other Arc System Works titles will make their debut at the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend. Battle Fantasia, a 2.5D fantasy fighting game, and Guilty Gear 2 will be playable at the show. The brief post doesn’t say [...]

Visit the Velvet Room in Akasaka BLITZ. Artists tied into the Persona series are going on tour for one night only in Japan. If you're around Tokyo, specifically Akasaka, on August 22 @ 7PM you can listen to Yumi Kawamura sing Burn My Dread, maybe. She's scheduled to be at the show along with Lotus [...]

In addition to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm at Namco Bandai’s booth, Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 and Naruto: Path of Ninja 2 will be playable this weekend at Anime Expo. No specific playable characters have been announced, but you can bet Naruto will be one of them. Hopefully, Kurenai (pictured) or one of the [...]

Bring your “Will you release Persona 4 in America?” questions to Anime Expo. Atlus is holding a panel at the Los Angeles Convention Center conference solely focused on the Shin Megami Tensei series. The pictured invitation has all the details sans the special gift, but it isn’t the only video game panel that day. Aksys [...]

Two English subtitled episodes of Game Center CX will be at the New York Asian Film Festival starting this Saturday. One video has Shinya Arino playing the frustrating Famicom game, Atlantis No Nazo (Mystery of Atlantis). The other challenge is Katcho vs. Ghost and Goblins. If you are around the New York Metro area the [...]

At last night’s Metal Gear Solid 4 event in West Hollywood Louise and I briefly ran into the first two people to purchase the game at Konami’s event. They both got their copies autographed and hear David Hayter use his Solid Snake voice. Unfortunately, a few weeks earlier his PlayStation 3 was stolen. So even [...]