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Half-Minute Hero has rather humble beginnings. It began life as a brief, 1mb freeware game by developer UUE. Marvelous Entertainment saw the potential for a full game there, expanded it and turned it into Yuusha 30. The Hero 30 mode is nearly identical to the original game, and additional Evil… Continue Reading »

Boy, Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga sure sounds impressive, doesn’t it? The title makes it sound like a game that shouldn’t just be played, but conquered. There should be figures and books and a movie. It just sounds epic. Sadly, it’s not. This is a game that sucks the joy out… Continue Reading »

Ju-On: The Grudge is faulty on many levels but I’m willing to forgive many of them because of the subtitle “Haunted House Simulator” thrown across the box. Have you been to any of the haunted houses that spring up in wooded areas and old schoolhouses at this time of the… Continue Reading »

Good news for Ignition Entertainment! Marvelous Entertainment has once again given the company the opportunity to bring a stunning new Wii game to North America. Ignition has just announced that it will be translating, localizing and releasing Arc Rise Fantasia, a RPG from Luminous Arc creators Image Epoch, in summer,… Continue Reading »

Like to mix music? Wish you had a way to do it and get that groovy, retro video game-y sound? Well then just for you, XSeed Games has announced it will release KORG DS-10 Plus - a followup to its 2008 cart of a similar name, KORG DS-10 - early… Continue Reading »

For those of us not lucky enough to live near the Nintendo World Store, here’s a friendly reminder to check in with your local game shop to see if they’ve received the absolutely gorgeous 2D side-scroller, Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Muramasa follows the stories of Kisuke and Momohime as one… Continue Reading »

Rune Factory Frontier is a direct sequel to the original Rune Factory DS game. Thankfully, having played Rune Factory isn’t crucial to players’ enjoyment of Rune Factory Frontier. All you really need to know is this - in the DS game Raguna was an amnesiac who came to the town… Continue Reading »

The DS seems tailor made for adventure games, given the touch screen control options, and yet very few have been made available for the system. Sure, there are titles like Trace Memory, Time Hollow and Lux-Pain, but releases like that are infrequent. Thankfully, XSEED has stepped up to the plate… Continue Reading »

XSEED is definitely joining ranks with Atlus and Ignition in bringing some of the most unique and desired obscure games to North America. It’s just announced the games it will be bringing to E3 2009, and it’s an impressive list of nine games. In fact, XSEED seems to be using… Continue Reading »

If you were worried about Muramasa: The Demon Blade after hearing that Vanillaware’s game was no longer going to published by XSEED, worry no longer. It turns out that the game’s US release hasn’t been axed. Marvelous is just working with another publisher. The game has changed hands and been… Continue Reading »

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