Amazon is cutting prices from selected PlayStation 3 games and Blu-ray movies today. Some of the deals like Motorstorm: Pacific Rift are OK at $39.98, but the real highlight is Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. CyberConnect2’s cel-shaded fighter goes on sale for an unknown price at 6:00PM PST. Don’t worry about missing the pre-order downloadable [...]

CyberConnect2 has always tried to make their Naruto fighting games more than just fighting games. It started with Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 which introduced a pseudo RPG mode with mini-games and fights as keys to unlock characters and abilities. Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm expands on this foundation with a substantial single player mission mode [...]

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm is easy on the eyes. CyberConnect2 did a fantastic job translating the look of the anime series into a PlayStation 3 game. What was their secret? Partially, the number of polygons used to make the character.
 
Take Naruto as an example. In the PlayStation 2 Naruto games his entire model was [...]

That’s right free. Namco Bandai will release downloadable content packs containing a new support character and a single player mission starting with Shizune. Players will be able to add her on November 6. Two extra support characters/single player missions will be released each month until March 5. However, the First Hokage and Second Hokage are [...]

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm looks gorgeous and the graphics aren’t the only thing CyberConnect2 modified for their PlayStation 3 Naruto game. The fighting system has been upgraded to full 3D, a first for the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series. Nobu Taguchi, Localization Manger at Namco Bandai, explained to us their 3D fighting system is designed so [...]

Namco Bandai has at least two kinds of downloadable content planned for Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm extra partner characters and single player missions. Pre-order the game at Gamestop and you get a card to unlock the First Hokage as a support character plus a single player mission. Or you can pre-order the game at [...]

Namco Bandai seems to adore Steelbook cases. Special editions of Tales of Vesperia, Soulcalibur IV, and now Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm came in a metal tin. The other extra items in the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm limited edition are a soundtrack disc with 18 songs, two exclusive trading cards for the Naruto trading card [...]