Category Archives: Japan

Okami could be getting a sequel or a release on other formats, according to an announcement tease from Capcom’s official Okami Twitter feed. Famitsu has also teased something that may or may not be related. Judge for yourself here.

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Nintendo has posted full-year profits of ¥7 billion for 2012, which is half of the company’s ¥14 billion projection. Regardless, this is an improvement over last year’s loss of ¥43.2 billion. The projection slump has been attributed to weak global sales of both Wii U and 3DS .

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Corpse Party: Blood Drive is heading to PS Vita, according to Famitsu. The game is said to be a continuation of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows’ 8th chapter, entitled “Blood Drive”. Fancy that.

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Nintendo has announced it plans to release an app in Japan for 3DS which will allow users capture screenshots from select game titles. Users can then share the screencaps through Tumblr and Twitter. The app will be available for Tomodachi Collection and Animal Crossing: New Leaf to start with, and likely other titles will be implemented should it take off. There’s no word just yet whether the app will head west or not. Thanks, GoNintendo.

Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon has retained its place at top of the Japanese charts, and has broken through 500,000 lifetime sales.

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Phoenix Wright 5 developer Capcom has revealed the 3DS game’s box art, screens and photos of special edition goodies ahead of its July 25 launch in Japan.

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A Luigi themed Nintendo 3DS LL will be released in Japan, pre-loaded with Mario and Luigi: Dream Team, it was announced today during Nintendo Direct Japan. The white handheld releases on June 18 and contains little green silhouettes of Luigi. It’s rather adorable, but then again, so is the Animal Crossing: New Leaf Hardware Bundle out June 11 in US, June 14 in the UK. Thanks, D’toid.

Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has rated his team’s performance over the past five years in a new interview, and has expressed disappointment in the studio’s sales. He has also laid bare aims to expand the company’s focus moving forward.

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Drakengard 3 director Taro Yoko has discusses why his series has included a string of rather controversial topics and themes – including incest – in a new, rare interview.

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Atlus’s parent company Index Corporation has posted a large loss as part of its Q2 financial report. The Japanese firm has enjoyed a great deal of sales success stories recently, but it hasn’t been enough to reverse the slump.

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Tales of Symphonia producer Hideo Baba believes that the 2003 Gamecube RPG was the best-received ‘Tales’ game to date in Western markets.

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Pokemon Rumble U’s second wave of NFC figures have been revealed by The Pokemon Company. The figures can be scanned into the Wii U game using Nintendo’s GamePad controller, much like the figures in Disney Infinity or Skylanders.

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Tomb Raider is getting a Japanese voice-over pack on Steam. It includes both subtitles and spoken Japanese. It will cost $30, where as the version which lands at Japanese retail will have support included.

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Dragon’s Crown developer Vanillaware has released another new trailer for its PS3 and PS Vita brawler, this time focusing on the sorceress class. She looks a bit … oh Japan.

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Duke Nukem Forever has been voted one of the worst games released in Japan in 2012.

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The Japanese games market grew by 1.2% during financial year 2012. That’s the claim of a new report based on figures released by score-keepers Enterbrain. It is the market’s first growth in five years.

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Farewell Umihara Kawase publisher Agatsuma Entertainment, – the same folk behind recent 3DS release Code of Princess has confirmed it’s bringing the popular Japanese series to the west.

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Atlus will be bringing more of its titles to European shores following a deal with publisher NIS America. It seems fans of series like Etrian Odyssey, Shin Megami Tensei and much more will have a lot to look forward to in future.

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It is okay to be envious. Japanese Club Nintendo members are getting a pretty sweet Gold and Platinum level reward – a 3DS dungeon crawler called Nintendoji. Destructoid‘s translation of Japanese reports suggests the exclusive title uses a card battler system and is sprinkled with Nintendo references.

J-Stars Victory VS is the cross-over fighting games from Namco Bandai, pulling together a roster of Shonen Jump regulars and locking them into deadly anime combat. The first teaser trailer is out now ahead of the game’s PS3 and PS Vita release in Japan later this year.

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