At the Square-Enix approach on localization panel, Richard Honeywood spoke about doing more than simply translating text when localizing Square-Enix titles. For Chocobo Racing they added rails to make the game easier to play and for the Bouncer they did extra motion capture sequences so players would not have a hard time understand foreign [...]

This weekend New York City Comic Con is taking place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (655 West 34th St) and gamers can spend some hands on time with Naruto: Ninja Council 3. Naruto: Ninja Council 3 is a multiplayer arena fighting game for the Nintendo DS known as Naruto: Saikyou Ninja Daikesshu 4 [...]

Five years ago Eidos Interactive announced their “Fresh Games” label which was supposed to take risks on “Japan-only” games and bring them to North America. They picked up Mr. Mosquito (aka Ka or simply Mosquito), Mad Maestro (Bravo Music) and Legaia 2: Duel Saga. Even though all three of these games sold enough copies to [...]

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 [...]

  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. [...]