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News Sony Preparing 80 PlayStation Vita Kiosks For Tokyo Game Show
As expected, Sony is giving the imminent PlayStation Vita a huge push at this year's Tokyo Game Show
The platform holder has already announced that it will have over 30 titles playable at its booth, and as a result it is bringing over 80 PlayStation Vita units to the show. Insane. The device is expected to release later this year in Japan. [Thanks...
News Valkyria Chronicles 3: Extra Edition Trailered
SEGA's announced Valkyria Chronicles 3: Extra Edition, an updated version of the third PSP-exclusive entry in the strategy franchise
The package comes with the original game and a bunch of new missions and DLC packs pre-included. In short: if you haven't played the game, you might want this. The game's currently set for a Japanese release on...
Report Namco X Tecmo Announcement Is A One Piece Dynasty Warriors Game
You may recall Namco Bandai and Tecmo putting up an announcement countdown website earlier in the week
The website caused huge speculation about what the duo were about to announce, but Andriasang claims to have uncovered the secret. The website has scans confirming a PS3-exclusive Dynasty Warrior game based on the One Piece manga series. The game's...
News 'Magical' Ni No Kuni PS3 Ain't So Magical As Far As We're Concerned
We think it's great that Sony's regularly shipping unique PS3 hardware in Japan, but after some fantastic bundles, we're not too hot on Ni No Kuni's supposed 'magical' edition
It just looks garish to us. Does anybody actually like it? It's out November 17th.
News 18 New Vita Games to Be Revealed at Tokyo Games Show
What could they be?
Mid-September heralds the arrival of Tokyo Games Show, one of the calendar's biggest annual gaming events. This year Sony's pledging to go all-out, showing off no fewer than 31 games for Vita. Only 13 games have been announced so far, leaving 18 as-yet unknown titles heading for a big reveal in two weeks' time. Here's the list of...
News Sony's On Fire, Bringing 18 Unannounced PlayStation Vita Titles To TGS
Sure Sony's first-party stuff looked great, but where were the third-party games?
A couple of weeks before GamesCom, everyone was worried that the PlayStation Vita was going to get very weak software support. But since then there's been a tirade of announcements. Starting with Ubisoft's launch window offering, through to the more recent Persona 4:...
News Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Sells Almost 300,000 Copies In Its First Week On Sale
Japan loves Monster Hunter
Loves it. Thus it's no surprise to see such a simple up-port as Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD scoop up close-to 300,000 sales in its first week at retail in Japan. The monster numbers — as reported by Media Create via Andriasang — was enough to put the game top of a PlayStation dominated software chart, in which...
News Here's Your First Look At Persona 4: The Golden On PlayStation Vita
Famitsu's released the first screens of Persona 4: The Golden -- a PlayStation Vita remake of the PS2 classic
The screens themselves are fairly low quality — the game's certainly not showcasing Vita's power like some of Sony's first-party content — but will delight fans of the series. Catch the full set over on Famitsu's official website.
News Persona 4 Fighting Title Looks Amazing In Its First Screenshots
In addition to confirming a Persona 4 port for PlayStation Vita, Japanese developer Atlus also confirmed that it is handing its popular series off to BlazBlue developer Arc System Works in order to create a brand new fighting game based on the series
Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena is set two months after the events of Persona 4, and sees...
News Ni No Kuni Nets 'Magical' PlayStation 3 Bundle In Japan
With Level-5 and Studio Ghibli's Ni No Kuni just weeks away from its Japanese release on PlayStation 3, Famitsu has revealed a new PlayStation 3 hardware bundle to celebrate the release of the game
Entitled the 'Magical Edition' the special hardware package comes in white and gold. ¥33,780. [Thanks Andriasang]
News Resident Evil Bundles Shirt And Book For 15th Birthday
The Resident Evil series is turning 15, which is almost old enough to bypass the rating recommendation on the majority of its titles
To celebrate, Capcom is bundling some swag together for you tireless fans. Under it's Japanese Biohazard label, developer and long-time publisher Capcom is throwing in a groovy T-shirt and a book featuring 112 pages of...
News Namco Bandai Teases Crossover Announcement With Tecmo Koei
We haven't posted a countdown teaser for a while
More's the pity. Thankfully, Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei aren't giving up hope on the much overused video game announcement tool, teasing a joint venture that's due to be announced seven days from the time of writing (so, roughly September 5th). What could it be? We'll eat our head if its Tekken X...
News Playstation Vita Gets Malicious
Developer Alvion has announced a possible Western PlayStation Vita port of its downloadable PS3 title Malicious
In a story originating in Famitsu, the Vita release of Malicious will see a similar downloadable release to its original product (naturally), though it will contain plenty of new content. Malicious concerns a hero with a shape-shifting...
News Ni No Kuni Hops Onto PlayStation 3 On November 17th In Japan
Level-5 and Studio Ghibli's long anticipated PS3 collaboration, Ni No Kuni, finally has a date in Japan
According to Andriasang, Famitsu lists the game's release for November 17th. The game focuses on a young boy called Oliver, who must make his way through the "Another World". Despite Level-5's hints, there's still no word of a Western...
News 999 Team Working On New PlayStation Vita Title
ChunSoft has confirmed to Famitsu that the team behind the hugely popular Nintendo DS title, 999, is working on a successor for the PlayStation Vita
Very little was said about the game itself, other than its existence. In addition to the 999 follow-up, ChunSoft also confirmed that a successor to Night of the Kamaitachi, entitled True Night of the...
News PlayStation 3 Hardware Sees A Small Bump In Japan On The Back Of Its Price-Cut
News of the PlayStation 3's lowered price-point saw the system receive a 50 percent sales boost in Japan last week
According to Media Create statistics , Sony's home system sold 29,666 units compared to 20,239 units the week prior. The boost will probably continue into next week as awareness of the altered price-point spreads. In spite of the boost,...
News Famitsu To Reveal New PlayStation Vita Titles Each Week In The Build Up To Tokyo Game Show
It's funny, hop on any video game message board and you'll note posts berating the PlayStation Vita's third-party software offering
The concern — as we understand it — stems from a lack of title announcements in one deft stroke. At E3 Sony focused on it's first-party content, at GamesCom it focused on very specific brands. There's a perception...
News Dwango Developing Nico Nico Video Service For PlayStation Vita
At last week's GamesCom press conference, Sony announced it was bringing Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare applications to the PlayStation Vita
But what about applications designed for Japan? Well, according to a report on Andriasang, Dwango is developing a version of its popular Nico Nico video service (a kind of Japanese YouTube) for Sony's new...
News Sony To Host PlayStation Vita Lounge At Tokyo Game Show
Japan gets all the luck
Not only is it getting Sony's spanking new handheld, the PlayStation Vita, later this year, but it's also getting the opportunity to test out the portable device in a luxury lounge adjacent to this year's Tokyo Game Show. The invite-only event will be open to one-hundred PlayStation Plus subscribers, and a further fifty...
News Sony Reveals The Bonus Content And Trophies For The Team ICO Collection
The Team ICO Collection includes more than two of the most revered titles in PlayStation history
A post on the PlayStation Blog this afternoon has revealed the game's full range of bonus video content. The on-disc videos include prototype footage of ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus, as well as a round-table discussion with Fumito Ueda (creator), Kenji...
News Analysts Predict PlayStation Vita To Shift 2.5 Million Units By March 2012
Nikko Securities analyst Kazuharu Miura has predicted that the PlayStation Vita will sell about 2
5 million units by the end of March 2012, adding that software sales are likely to hit around 7 million units. The PlayStation Vita is due to release in Japan later this year, with a Western release due before the end of the fiscal year. In a report...
News Disgaea 3 Returns to PlayStation Vita
You can really be the hero
Nippon Ichi's acclaimed RPG series Disgaea has been a PlayStation staple for years, and that's set to continue as the company has announced it's bringing Disgaea 3 Return to the portable. The game will be an improved conversion of the PS3 original, and even includes all the downloadable content preloaded on the game card...
News Nippon Ichi Confirms Disgaea 3 For PlayStation Vita
A report in Dengeki PlayStation magazine [translated by Andriasang] has confirmed Disgaea 3 for Sony's new handheld system, the PlayStation Vita
In news that will surely delight fans of the series, Nippon Ichi has revealed that Disgaea 3 Return (or Returns) is in development for the super-powerful new handheld system. The game — which first...
News Sony To Announce PlayStation Vita's Release Date At TGS
Have we all got over the bitter disappointment of yesterday? Yeah, we haven't either
There's a trickle of good news coming out of SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano's blog this morning though. The exec confirmed that the release date of the PlayStation Vita will be announced at TGS next month. We're assuming that'll be the Japanese launch, but hey, it...
We always knew it was a likely scenario, but we chose to believe otherwise
Sony never officially said the PlayStation Vita would get a worldwide launch this year, only ever really committing to a Japanese launch. "Phased global rollout" was the textbook buzzword Sony used. But we believed because it made sense. How could Sony not put the...
News SCE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida To Keynote At TGS
This year's Tokyo Game Show will host keynote speeches from SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, in addition to Square Enix's CEO Yoichi Wada
Wada's keynote will focus on the "Essence Of Game Industry Revolution", while Yoshida will introduce the PlayStation Vita. Yoshida's speech in particular promises to shed more light on the...
News PlayStation Gamers Raise Over ?1 Million For Japanese Earthquake Relief
Give yourselves a huge pat on the back
Seriously, this is genuinely brilliant news. Sony's announced that PlayStation gamers have donated over £1.01 million to the Japanese Earthquake appeal. That's a staggering number. North American PSN users raised £260,995, while Europe stumped up £538,122, and Asian countries offered £16,673. Japanese...
News Bonus Content To Be Bundled With The Team ICO Collection
One could argue that getting high-definition remasters of Team ICO's massive PlayStation 2 adventure titles, ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus, are bonuses enough, but Sony's got some extra goodies to bundle with the upcoming Team ICO Collection to make the package that touch more tempting
Included with new copies of the game will be a download voucher...
News Japan's Hot Shots Golf is Now Move-Enabled, But Ours Isn't
Update rattles into the cup
Yesterday the Move update for Japan's Minna No Golf 5 — aka Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds in North America and Everybody's Golf: World Tour in Europe — went live, bringing stereoscopic 3D support and Move controls to the cutest golf game on PS3. According to iWaggle3D the motion controller is supported in offline play...
News Sony Brings Western Games To Japan, Reveals World Game Project
Sony wants to educate Japanese gamers on the values of Western titles, and it intends to do so with an event dubbed the "World Game Project"
The initiative will see the platform holder bring a slew of hot Western titles to Japan's famous Akihabara district. Playable titles will include inFamous 2, Resistance 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Shadows...
Rumour The Last Guardian to Support PlayStation Move
Stranger things have happened
We reported on The Last Guardian's PlayStation Move support last year, when Fumito Ueda commented the game 'may' receive optional Playstation Move controls. The trail went cold after that though, but now it's heating up again. As spotted by iWaggle3D, the Sony Computer Entertainment America press site listed The Last...
News Free PlayStation Move Game Featured in JPN Welcome Back Program
Movin’ back into action
The Japanese PlayStation Network has been unavailable ever since the initial outage months ago, and while the North America and European territories kicked back into action over a month ago, Japan’s network was still left out in the dark. All that change today as Japans PlayStation Network kicked back into full swing, and...
News This Resident Evil 15th Anniversary Collector's Set Is Amazing
If you're a Resident Evil fan, we suspect you're already dousing yourself with a handheld battery-operated fan
This 15th Anniversary Collector's Set is particularly amazing. Available exclusively via the e-Capcom store for ¥7,800, the limited edition boxset includes a bonanza of Resident Evil goods, including: all three original Resident Evil...
News Hallelujah: PlayStation Store Officially Returns In Japan
After a long and torturous rate, the Japanese arm of the PlayStation Store has finally released
The service was taken down after the infamous PSN outage earlier in the year, and has been held at ransom by the Japanese government ever since. But it's back now, meaning those of us in the West can hop online and finally find out what that bonkers El...
News Sony Japan Reveals Move Bundle for Hot Shots Golf PS3
Will it come West?
Sony's preparing to patch Move controls into its classic PS3 golf game Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds — otherwise known as Everybody's Golf: World Tour — but in Japan it's going a step further, physically re-releasing the game with a Move Starter Pack to entice PlayStation gamers onto the fairway. The bundle of game, controller...
News Sony Reveals 'World Game Project' For Japan
Typically the Japanese games market can be quite introverted
While Japanese games have a history of success in the West, few Western games succeed in the Japanese market. This is something Sony's looking to correct with a new initiative in Japan called the "World Game Project". While details are still scarce about the Akihabara event —...
News Japanese PlayStation Store Set To Return On Wednesday
Huzzah
Sony's revealed that the PlayStation Store will finally return in Japan on July 6th. That's this Wednesday if you haven't got a calendar nearby. There's very little else to say other than, yes, the PlayStation Store really has been down this long in Japan. The government demanded Sony provide evidence that the service was sufficiently...
News PlayStation Store Still Offline In Japan
While we've been happily been getting back to normal after the PSN hack here in the West, the Japanese PlayStation Store has remained offline
In a short update [translated by AndriaSang], the company apologised for the on-going downtime, stating that it was still making adjustments with multiple organisations. The PlayStation Store is back online in...
News Yakuza Series Hits 5 Million Unit Milestone
One of our favourite PlayStation franchises, the Yakuza series, has shipped over 5 million units worldwide SEGA has announced
The milestone was achieved with new zombie-gangster mash-up, Yakuza: Of The End, which has already shipped 400,000 units in its first two weeks on sale in Japan. We've got our copy. There have been seven games in the Yakuza...
News Sony Confirms Greener PlayStation 3 Model
There were reports over the weekend of a new PlayStation 3 model identified by the code CECH-3000B
Sony has confirmed those rumours this morning, revealing a new 320GB PS3 less power-consumption than its predecessor. Don't get your panties in a twist yet, this is still the standard PS3 Slim design. It's not like a new PS3 or anything. The new model...
News PlayStation Move + Tiny Monkeys + Stripping = Dancing Eyes
You read that right
Dancing Eyes is without a doubt the most bizarre PlayStation Move game we've ever seen, with the most bizarre trailer to accompany it too. A conversion of a 90s arcade game, you play a tiny monkey who has to strip females down to their underwear. We're really not sure why. The game is coming to PSN in Japan, but we'd be...
News Yakuza: Of The End Tops The Japanese Software Charts
SEGA's mobster-zombie mash-up, Yakuza: Of The End, has unsurprisingly topped the Japanese sales charts after a hefty delay
We received our copy earlier this week but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. It's sitting temptingly on the top of our "to play" pile though. Elsewhere it was a poor week for Japanese software, with the...
News British Red Cross Thanks PlayStation Users For Japan Quake Donations
Take a look at this Daily Mail: video games can do positive things
The British Red Cross has this morning thanked PlayStation users for its "amazing contribution" to the Japanese quake relief appeal, which raised a total of £466,465.60. That's an incredible tally, so give yourselves a pat on the back. In a statement published on the
News Team ICO Collection Given September 22nd Release Date In Japan
Sony's finally slapped a September 22nd release date on the highly anticipated high-definition re-releases of PS2 classics ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus
The titles will release separately at ¥3,980 (US$49). Sony's also putting out a limited edition box (pictured) that includes both games, as well as a booklet compiled by Japanese magazine Brutus...
News Rejoice Japan: PlayStation Network To Partially Return Tomorrow In Asia
Could you imagine if the PSN had been down worldwide as long as it's been down in Japan and parts of Asia? It's pretty unthinkable, right? Sony was required to prove to the Japanese government that it had strengthened its system security before bringing the PSN back online in the region
Presumably that's all done and dusted now as the service is set...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PSP Still On Top, But Hardware Slumps
The PlayStation Portable was on top of the Japanese sales charts again last week, but hardware was down overall
The usually dominant PSP only scooped up 34k sales, while both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii slumped to record lows. The PlayStation 3 didn't do much better either, managing just 13k sales. As for software, Dragon Quest continued to top the...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PlayStation Portable Takes The Hardware Crown Yet Again
Sony's PlayStation Portable is still on top of the Japanese hardware charts this week, almost doubling the sales of its nearest competitor, the Nintendo 3DS
It was a positive week for PSP software too, with seven of the top twenty titles available on Sony's handheld. Patapon 3 — which debuted fourth on the chart last week — rose to claim the...
Japanese Charts PlayStation Portable Pretty Much Obliterates Everything Else
"But my friend told me the PSP was dead," said the crowds of readers
Boo to you, the PSP is on friggin' fire. Well, in Japan at least. Last week (ending May 1st), Sony's portable shifted a whopping 76,974 units. That's an impressive number alone, but when you take into consideration that the Nintendo 3DS only managed to shift 28,413 units over the...
News No More Heroes Trailer Looks Like a Bloody Good Time
Another adults-only Move title
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise (known as No More Heroes: Red Zone in Japan) is bound to make waves when it comes to PlayStation 3 later this year, much like the original No More Heroes on Wii all those years ago. The trailer below, despite being in Japanese, should give you a pretty clear idea of what to expect from...
News Wow, PlayStation Move has Inspired a 32-bit Knock-Off
Motion on the Move
Remember when Wii came out and discount stores were flooded with cheap plastic imitations? History has a knack of repeating itself, and while we thought this horrible PlayStation Move imitator was bad enough, here's another one to impress you. Manufactured by the brilliantly named Ever Sparkle Technologies, the Motion on the Move...