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Yukes And Their Musical Robot Racer

By Spencer . April 7, 2009 . 2:14pm

An upcoming project from Yukes, or should we say their digital download division Akinai Games, leaked on the Internet. Their ESRB rated Beat Runner, a WiiWare game, and offered the following description.   “This is a racing game in which…

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Neverland Card Battles: Shuffling Through Loading Times

By Louise . November 3, 2008 . 2:37am

Neverland Card Battles, true to its name, is a card battling game. Imagine an SRPG where instead of picking moves and skills from a set list, you pick them form a deck of cards; that’s the gist of a card-based…

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Origins Of Neverland Card Battles, The Yuke’s / Idea Factory Connection

By Spencer . October 6, 2008 . 10:58pm

  Yuke’s is bringing us Neverland Card Battles to us on October 28, which is actually before it comes out in Japan. Since the game is still in development I caught up with Ken Koyama, Product Manager at Yuke’s Company…

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Yuke’s gives Idea Factory a chance with Neverland Card Battles

By Spencer . August 7, 2008 . 9:30am

Cardinal Arc Portable is coming out in Japan on the PSP in September and it is portable version of Idea Factory’s PlayStaton 2 hybrid card battling / strategy RPG game known as Cardinal Arc. Yuke’s Company of America decided to…

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Double D Dodgeball rated D for Dull

By Louise . July 28, 2008 . 6:32pm

In honor of the Double D Dodgeball review, I've crafted a simple haiku that summarizes the game nicely.   Video game dodgeball with some retro-like graphics. It's still just dodgeball.   Double D Dodgeball attempts to bring the fun of…

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Yuke’s talks digital distribution and Double D Dodgeball

By Spencer . June 25, 2008 . 7:25pm

There are only a handful of original Xbox Live games developed Japan that aren’t arcade ports or based on a franchise. Yuke’s Double D Dodgeball is one of them and I spoke to Ken Koyama, Product Manager at Yuke’s Corporation…

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Retro style dodgeball coming from Yuke’s

By Spencer . May 29, 2008 . 8:40am

Yuke’s is no stranger to digital distribution. They developed Go! Sports Ski and Go! Sports Skydiving for the PlayStation 3, both of which were published by Sony. With their first Xbox 360 game, Double D Dodgeball, Yuke’s chose to stick…

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Future media creators work on an Xbox 360 dodgeball game?

By Spencer . March 20, 2008 . 9:45pm

Besides Neves and Sixaxis controlled downloadable PlayStation 3 games we haven’t seen much from Yuke’s. However, it looks like Yuke’s American subsidiary is working on a project and it’s a dodgeball game. The OFLC has a rating for Double D…

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Test out tangram puzzles, try Neves with a PC

By Spencer . March 20, 2008 . 12:46am

Last year Yuke’s released Neves, a touch screen version of tangram with no pieces to clean up. We liked Neves on the DS and if you haven’t tried it here is your chance.    Yuke’s got around to making a flash…

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Neves: Tangram with a touch screen

By Louise . November 19, 2007 . 7:39pm

Like all great ideas, Neves on the DS is so obvious that I don't know why someone didn't think of it sooner.  Neves (which incidentally is seven backwards) is basically a game of tangram on the DS.   What exactly…