Destineer is quickly becoming a new home for anime licensed titles. They released Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy and according to the ESRB it looks like they picked up a Samurai Deeper Kyo game for the GBA. There is a market for the title since the manga has been in circulation care of Tokyopop and the [...]

Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + was just released today in Japan and it comes with a bonus disc with a remake of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The PS2 remake moves Chain of Memories into 3D and it has a new opening video. Don’t let the English credits fool you though, the text in [...]

After the whole GDC was over I strolled around San Francisco in search of a go board. While wandering around I stumbled upon a shop with a massive supply of pirated Game Boy Advance multicarts sitting in the display counter. Besides having the usual hodgepodge of GBA box art on the cartridges there were some [...]

Three games won prizes in the entertainment division in the 10th annual Japan Media Arts Festival. Rhythm Tengoku, Wario’s musical microgame collection for the GBA, and Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi, the DS cooking guide earned excellence prizes. The grand prize was awarded to Clover Studio’s Okami. Why did Okami receive the award?   “An aspiring [...]

While grocery shopping I saw a Game Boy Advance shaped case with “3D Nintendo gummies”. Since the packaging was clever I picked it up and took a picture of the candy pieces. From left to right you can see Mario, Yoshi, Link, Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong.   Something else neat about the package is [...]

In an interview with MTV News, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about Metroid Prime 3 which will be delayed until later this year. That’s pretty bad considering a lot of fans were eager to get their hands on Samus’ latest adventure and experience it on the Wii; but considering how good Nintendo is with delays (Twilight Princess [...]

Square-Enix has been on a remake spree, but most of the time they stick to the original concept art. The notable exception from this rule is Final Fantasy III DS, which has a new look for the main characters. Seiken Densetsu (aka Final Fantasy Adventure or Mystic Quest Adventure if you’re in Europe) has gone [...]

  There’s a bounty of beta Game Boy cartridges on eBay. Seller devwan has prototype cartridges for Heroes of Might & Magic 2, Army Men 2 and Games Frenzy, which was only released in Europe online. The games aren’t that interesting unless you’ve been fishing for a copy of Rox. However, he has two items [...]

The “new” translation for Final Fantasy VI Advance is really a mixed bag. On one hand this is the only version of Final Fantasy VI (aka III US) that has the correct Esper names, Cait Sith instead of Stray and Carbuncle is properly spelled out instead of being crunched together to Carbunkl. The abilities are [...]

Even though the Mega Man Battle Network series has a following in North America, Capcom decided to pass on publishing Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation outside of Japan. Unlike the other games Rockman EXE 4.5’s focus is on controlling your net navis, indirectly. You can’t direct your net navis with the D-pad instead they move [...]

  Besides letting the word “death” back in the game Final Fantasy VI Advance has many other changes. Like the other Final Fantasy Advance games the enemies are being renamed, the purple flying bugs known as “Mind Candy” in Final Fantasy III on the SNES are now called “Rock Wasp” in Final Fantasy VI Advance. [...]

  Next month Nintendo is releasing Final Fantasy VI Advance in North America after a couple months of a delay. When VI was released as III for the Super NES there were family friendly edits like changing death to doom, replacing pubs with cafes, renaming holy to pearl (pearl?) and instances of minor nudity were [...]

Did you see the video of a Nintendo Wii being played on the tiny GBA screen? Some people cried foul and thought that it was a pre-recorded movie run off a Play-Yan or other movie playing cartridge. Actually, it’s real and this video takes away all of the magic because it’s just an adaptor that [...]

Sure they’re another version of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II, but the enhanced PSP ports look slick. The games are played in widescreen format and are the best looking version of FF1 and 2 until they’re ported over to the next system. The randomized “Soul of Chaos” dungeon where you battle classic Final Fantasy [...]

A bunch of new covers were posted online for Mario Party 8, Wii Play, Custom Robo Arena, Hotel Dusk 215, Wario: Master of Disguise, Final Fantasy VI Advance and God of War II. Look at the bottom left hand corner right above the ESRB logo, there’s a character with a microphone. Does anyone recognize it? [...]

This year there were plenty of awesome (triple A titles if you must) on the marketplace. Gears of War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII and New Super Mario Bros. immediately come to mind. However, each year there are some great games that fail to grab the [...]