In July, music publisher Team Entertainment announced a best-of battle remix album would be offering up reinterpretations of themes from Namco Bandai's "Tales of" series.  The album is on sale today in Japan, and the official webpage has been updated with six energetic-sounding samples. They can be found at the bottom of the [...]

As Spencer already mentioned, Namco-Bandai is throwing some Tales love to both the DS and the PSP. Tales of Hearts will feature 2D graphics with 3D backgrounds and realistic character illustration, while Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 will be a direct sequel to the PSP original complete with character customization options and cameos [...]

In my last article, I took all you Siliconera fans out there along on the beginning of my journey through Konoha in Ultimate Ninja 3's Ultimate Contest mode. This time, I'm going to give those of you who have never played the Ultimate Ninja series an insight into how a normal battle flows. One [...]

Ahh, another anime game. Seems to be my forte, no? Reviewing anime games can be a harsh job. Anime games oftentimes fall victim to what I call the "anime game curse". That is, when a game ends up being nothing more than an excuse to use an anime's license to sell copies to uninformed fans [...]

The latest scans from Famitsu have revealed some surprising new information about Namco Bandai's upcoming Monolith Soft-developed Nintendo DS RPG Endless Frontier Super Robot Wars OG Saga. Namely, that KOS-MOS, star of the Xenosaga series, will be appearing in the game. And not just KOS-MOS, but Reiji and Xiaomu, the protagonists of Namco X [...]

The latest issue of Famitsu magazine confirms a "slip up" that set the Internets semi-ablaze this week; Eternal Sonata, an Xbox 360 title, will now be headed to the Playstation 3 in Spring of 2008. The differences between the PS3 version and Xbox 360 version are not only the ability to change your character's clothes [...]

If there's one thing that can't be denied about One Piece Gear Spirit, it's that it's very pretty. Indeed, the game sports some of the cleanest 3D graphics I've seen on the DS. It also sports quite the heavy roster, weighing in at 20 characters. On the gameplay side of things, however, One Piece Gear [...]

While we’re on the subject of anime games coming to the Nintendo DS, Game|Watch has a gallery of screenshots from Deltora Quest: 7-tsu no Houseki. One of the new features is there is an alchemy system where you drop ingredients into a pot and stir them together with the stylus. You can also craft [...]

 
A while back, Namco-Bandai announced 4 new Tales games, one of those titles being Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatoskr, a new entry in the Tales of Symphonia universe. Aside from a somewhat grainy Famitsu scan, not much was known about Knights of Ratatoskr's "graphical quality" and whether or not it'd be a spiritual successor [...]

Back in December 16th of 2004, Namco released Tales of Rebirth, a Tales game that widely differed from Tales of Symphonia, on the Playstation 2 in Japan. What made Tales of Rebirth so different from Symphonia is how Rebirth somehow returned to the traditional linear motion battle system found in Phantasia, Destiny, Eternia, and Destiny [...]