Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground was a sweet, little hack and slash dungeon crawler Xseed localized for the PSP last year. The twist was players got to create their own dungeons instead of exploring random levels. I asked Xseed if they picked up the sequel Global A released in Japan last year. They didn’t, but other [...]

Last year at E3, Nintendo’s yearly release calendar leaked Crows was coming to the Wii care of O3 Entertainment. Earlier this year, Milestone Shooting Collection came out in Japan and few people seemed to notice it missed its launch date. The trio of shoot ‘em ups included on the disc were all released for the [...]

Insert Credit found a Famitsu article confirming an arcade port of Raiden IV is on its way to the Xbox 360. The news “officially” slipped last year while UFO Interactive was fomenting interest in Raiden III. In an interview a product manager casually mentioned Raiden IV was coming to the Xbox 360 and their plans [...]

UFO Interactive just released The Monkey King: The Legend Begins on the Wii following a theatrical introduction to the mythological Chinese hero. As most of you know, the game is really a localized version of Shin Chuka Taisen, a shoot ‘em up sequel to a late 1980s arcade game developed by Taito. I speculated why [...]

The Pomona based publisher first came on my radar when they released Raiden III. I really started to keep a close eye on them when we discovered GameFly listings for The Monkey King and Kiki Kai World. Fast forward a year and Heavenly Guardian (aka Kiki Kai World) is half out the door. The PS2 [...]

With a name change and a temporary absence from UFO Interactive’s homepage it’s hard to keep track of Heavenly Guardian. We won’t have to scour for release dates much longer since UFO Interactive is releasing the Nintendo Wii version on April 22th. The PlayStation 2 release? Yeah, that was scuttled out the door silently months [...]

After vanishing from UFO Interactive’s page I thought the Wii version of Heavenly Guardian (better known as Yukinkoto Daisenpuu in Japan) got the axe. Chris over at Cosmos Gaming informed me (thanks!!) this is far from the case. UFO Interactive has Heavenly Guardian on track for a Q2 2008 release in North America. Heavenly Guardian [...]

Starfish released Yukinkoto Daisenpuu, a spiritual successor to the Kiki KaiKai (aka Pocky & Rocky outside Japan) series, for Wii owners in Japan back in December. UFO Interactive was supposed to release this in North America as Kiki Kai World. They even made official packaging for it.   Fast forward to 2008 and Kiki Kai [...]

The story of Kiki Kai World has been a long journey stemming back to a cancelled sequel. Since Starfish couldn’t secure the official rights, Kiki KaiKai series they had to go with a spiritual sequel for the Wii and the Playstation 2. The Wii version is scheduled to arrive in Japan this December as a [...]

Recently UFO Interactive has been the center of underground attention in the USA since Kiki Kai World and The Legend of the Monkey King have been announced. However, the news doesn’t stop there! UFO Interactive is opening up UFO Creative HK to design games rooted in Chinese culture. They already have two projects in development: [...]

Earlier today we discovered the box art for The Monkey King: The Legend Begins. Now Wired news confirmed with UFO Interactive that the game is coming out along with Kiki Kai World! You might remember a little Super Nintendo game starring a Raccoon and a Shrine maiden called Pocky & Rocky. In Japan the series [...]

I hate to disappoint anyone counting down the days until Shin Chuka Taisen: Michael to Meimei no Bouken comes out for the Wii, but it’s been delayed. Starfish who is the developer of the tilt controlled shmup had the release window set for August. It’s September and there is no sign of the game in [...]

I got to hand it to UFO Interactive for coming up with a clever title for another mini game compilation, O.M.G. 26 – Our Mini Games 26. The title isn’t listed on their site and it hasn’t been officially announced. But Gamefly has it on theirs, so it’s probably real. The question is where did [...]

I’m making a guess here, but Gamefly has a listing up for Monkey King: The Legend Begins as a Wii game. This looks like it might be a localized version of Starfish’s upcoming, tilt screen Shin Chuka Taisen: Michael to Meimei no Bouken. UFO Interactive, who is acting as the US publisher already has a [...]