You might have a Phoenix Wright plushie, but only Japan gets Gyakuten Saiban playing cards. Maya, Mia and new characters from the Apollo Justice arc are featured as kings and queens or in Edgeworth’s case the number “3”. Phoenix and Apollo are aces. There is a super neat canon tie-in related to Apollo Justice: Ace [...]

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is old news for Japan and most of the world. It’s on the Japanese PlayStation store for anyone with 4,500 yen ($45) in their account to download. But if Japanese isn’t your forte and you can read Chinese perhaps the Asian version is a better bet. Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong [...]

In only a few months, Japan gets to play a brand new Chunsoft dungeon RPG starring Shiren, the mysterious wanderer. Are you excited? Sega thinks so because Shiren is coming out in a number of different bundles. I’ll skip through the smaller ones and jump straight to the most expensive one, the DX Pack. For [...]

Next Level Games, the developers of the Mario Strikers series, is doing something for the greater good that isn’t getting much attention. To celebrate their fifth anniversary some of their artists created skateboards based on popular video games. All of the decks are currently in a silent auction and the proceeds are going to the [...]

Ryu Kazama sent over (thanks!) a few pictures of Kotobukiya’s Devil May Cry figures. The Dante and Vergil figures are looking sharp, but they are quite expensive. The Vergil figure goes for 8,190 yen ($71) when it comes out this December. Also coming soon are a bunch of Devil May Cry 4 shirts and jewelry [...]

Working Designs was known for their elaborate goodies and their Elemental Gearbolt Assasin’s Case is one of the more pricey pieces of Playstation Swag. At E3 ’98 Working Designs held an Elemental Gearbolt tournament where fifty winners won the mock gun carrying case. Packaged inside the suitcase was a copy of the game, a red [...]

I was pretty flustered during the cocktail reception at the beginning of E3. In fact, I just hung close to blogger-in-arms (and friend) Spencer who seemed to know everyone. As a first-timer is was pretty intimidating.   But while I may have been too nervous to speak to people (it's like I was back in [...]

A few nights ago I was looking around my apartment, it became glaringly clear that my life pretty much revolves around games. No matter what direction you look in there's some gaming console, statue, magazine, painting, etc.    So what crosses my mind when I realized this? I need more of it. As if a [...]

Square-Enix is giving people who pre-order Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker a dangling DS charm. But wait there’s more! (said in an infomercial voice) The tool contains a map that you have to presumably fold out to get access to, which doubles as a screen cleaner. Somehow I don’t think this is going to get Dragon [...]

Remember all the goods that are going to be online at the Square-Enix store? Some of them are going to be sold during Comic-Con before the store officially opens. Lulu’s stuffed moogle, Kingdom Hearts figures and the Knights of the Round summon will be available to purchase at the Square-Enix booth. I was told the [...]

Publishers produce interesting swag to promote their games and Gamesniped seems to find all of it. Usually it’s something related to the game like the syringe pens Atlus passed out at this past E3. Deviating from the trend is the promotional tabletop zen rock garden for Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legacy complete with a [...]

To promote Konami’s Gamestop is giving away a Dewy plush to everyone who pre-orders the game before it is released this fall. The tiny version of Dewy is about 20 centimeters tall and it is the same pre-order gift that Konami is giving out in Japan.   Also Konami updated the Japanese Dewy’s Adventure site [...]

Gamesniped who always has a multitude of interesting video game auctions found someone is selling one of three wooden swords signed by Itakagi, the creator of Ninja Gaiden. The custom sword was a prize in the Ninja Gaiden Master Tournament Tecmo and you had to be in the top three to earn it. Remember how [...]

Capcom is going to release Monster Hunter Freedom 2 in September and there is some swag if you pre-order the game. If you reserve the game at Gamestop you get a bonus Watermelon Pet Poogie. Last year Capcom had a similar promotion with Monster Hunter Freedom where everyone that reserved the game also got a [...]