“What’s the story behind the Konami Code, anyway,” Shigeharu Umezaki asks. “There isn’t one, really,” Kazuhisa Hashimoto answered. “Because I was the one who was going to be using it, I made sure it was easy to remember. “

Konami picked up Scribblenauts and localized it for Japan as Maxwell’s Marvelous Notepad. Japan got the Nintendo DS game this week and players discovered Konami went a step beyond translating.

Cave, finally has a game available for PlayStation 3 owners. DonPachi, the PsOne version of it, is now available on PlayStation Network in Japan.

Konami may have come down with a case of shoot ‘em up fever and have a new Gradius game in the works called Gradius Arc.

This revision modifies the scoring system, enhances the graphics, and adds background music.

Speed up! Gradius ReBirth finally arrives after being released in Japan six months ago and nabbing an ESRB rating in October. Konami’s shooter sticks to…

Virtual Console releases are getting scarcer every month. Next month Wii owners in Japan can look forward to torturing themselves with Mystery of Atlantis.…

You didn’t think Konami would skip releasing Gradius Rebirth in North America did you? Well, if you were pessimistic good news is sitting in the…

Hudson should be bringing us Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou. The TurboDuo import is reported to have a pre-Nintendo press release date of October…

Konami hasn’t said much about Gradius ReBirth, but it’s one of next week’s three WiiWare titles in Japan. Midnight Bowling (aka Hamaru Bowling) and…

I almost missed this during the gauntlet of E3 meetings, but Arcade Renaissance caught Konami’s first internally developed WiiWare game. Gradius Rebirth is a new…

Yujin is releasing a sweet set of ships from classic shmups. You can get the Vic Viper 301 from Gradius, the Silver Hawk from Darius…

Last week Konami released three more shoot ‘em compilations in Japan. You can pick up Twinbee Portable, Salamander Portable and Parodius Portable (< – favorite!)…

The rumor about Konami cancelling some of their PS3 line up is false. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu and the tentative Gradius title are still in…