Another ridiculous overload of content today on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops. Not so much in WiiWare, whose only release this week is The Incredible (and incredibly avoidable ) Maze , but Virtual Console and DSiWare are absolutely stuffed with

This slightly hokey Japanese trailer for the WiiWare ports of the Phoenix Wright games features an overexcited kid informing his easily shocked father that the series is now available on WiiWare — at …

The release list for the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are a bit more restrained than the last couple of weeks, offering a much more manageable (read: smaller) selection of downloadable titles. On Virtual Console, for example, Sega’s isometric arcade shmup Zaxxon is the only offering. Similarly, there’s just one Wii…

In an interview with Japan’s Famitsu magazine this week, Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre dropped some hints that his company is interested in tapping into the Japanese game market more seriously…

Some highlights from an interview in this week’s year-end issue of Famitsu magazine with Masahiro Sakurai, the game designer and director behind titles like Nintendo’s Smash Bros. series: –…

I was just opening up my Wii, and I know it’s not the best unboxing video, but at least it’s something. Please comment, rate, subscribe and add me as a friend. I am all up to hearing opinions about video

European gamers are about to get a burst of Arc System Works games in 2010. New PAL publisher pQube will release Castle of Shikigami III, Jake Hunter, and Theresia in Europe. Before the pQube and Zen Media…

Valkyria Chronicles “BUT THAT GAME WAS 2008!!11one!1!” Well, yes, in the strictest sense. Sega’s strategy role-playing

The team behind the Fatal Frame IV fan translation has been toiling away at their pet project, and they’ve come to announce that they’re now 99% done with the text translation. They’ll soon be releasing the first patch to allow gamers around the world a chance to play through this installment. No homebrew o…

Siliconera writes: “If you frequent Japanese game sites, you’ll notice several of them now include western