After ten years of planning, Nostalgia finally made it to North America. Since Nostalgia took so long to develop we asked Naoki Morita to look back and tell us more about the game’s development cycle.

It’s the 19th century, but not the 19th century you studied in history class. Nostalgia is set in an alternate Earth where airships rule the skies and you’re a kid with Indiana Jones as your father.

It’s been awhile since we heard anything about Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love so we checked in about the game’s winter 2009/2010 release window.

Red Entertainment, the studio behind the Sakura Wars series, Winds of Nostalgia, and Agarest Senki, is working on something brand new. Something called Secret Princess.

Agarest Senki Zero. Like the first game, this PS3 game is one part strategy RPG and one part dating sim. You take on the role of dashing Jack Heit, a promising soldier who travels with a harem.

NIS America will release the first Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) game in North America this fall. You may know the PS2 game by the name Sakura Taisen V. The surprise is NIS America also commissioned a Wii port.

We always have our eyes on Ignition Entertainment. Why? Out of left field they release games that don’t seem like they have any chance of coming over. Today, they picked up Winds of Nostalgia, you know that airship RPG for the Nintendo DS.

After an Xbox 360 port, the Agarest Senki series (wow, this is a series) returns to the PlayStation 3. Agarest Senki was an early PS3 strategy RPG now best remembered for its “virtual date and mate to character create” system. Agarest Senki Zero expands on the Soul Breed system with generations of offspring.
 
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Tecmo, demonstrating they have projects outside of Team Ninja, unveiled Nostalgio no Kaze (Nostalgio’s Wind). It’s a joint RPG project with Red Entertainment (Sakura Wars) developed by Matrix Software, best known for the DS Final Fantasy remakes. Besides being in 3D Nostalgio no Kaze has airship on airship combat as seen in this screenshot. My [...]

I dug up T-rex and triceratops skulls in Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (We are Fossil Holders). The experience is very reminiscent of Spectrobes, down to the removing the dust by blowing on the screen. In the demo I could only whack the ground with a hammer, chisel with a drill, blow dust away and scan [...]