Since Square Enix already reserved the rights for The World Ends With You in the West back in 2007 and Subarashiki Kono Sekai in 2006, we’re curious why Square Enix Japan filed this trademark two months ago.

Kingdom Hearts and The World Ends With You creator, Tetsuya Nomura, addresses Neku’s appearance in Kingdom Hearts 3D.

This is a first for Kingdom Hearts, as the series so far has typically only featured original characters, Final Fantasy characters and Disney characters.

Or, as he puts it, Nomura would “love to” work on a follow-up to the game.

The art style and seven day time limit gives Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor a The World Ends With You vibe. During an interview I asked Atlus if one game set the stage for the other.

1994 marked the first time for many listeners in English-language regions that videogame soundtrack albums became available. Through promotional offers in gaming magazines, Nobuo Uematsu’s…

The party has progressed through the Game, imprinting memes on people in the Realground, and completing the tasks set by the Reapers. Day Six begins…

The Players made it to Towa Records, but not without taking considerable losses to the Reapers.  Both protagonists, bitter about how events have unfolded, lose…

With A-East up and running, thanks to a last minute intervention by Beat and Rhyme, chapter four begins with a scene between a bespectacled woman…

Having cleansed Hachiko of its curse and warded off the Reapers, chapter two ends with Neku turning against his partner in an attempt to escape…

Having scanned scramble crossing, Neku finds himself afflicted with a troubling case of amnesia.  You can hear the clatter of trains passing overhead on the…

While we’re discussing the World Ends With You, did you notice how Square Enix crafted the equipment system? Instead of regulating “threads” (read: armor)…

The World Ends With You begins with loner Neku Sakuraba entering one of the most densely crowded corners of Tokyo.   The character’s bulky headphones and…

One of the clever features about Grand Theft Auto franchise is seeing familiar landmarks. You enter Las Vegas, I mean Las Venturas in San Andreas…