Gran Turismo HD forerunner to new next-gen GT
Polyphony Digital head Kazunori Yamauchi tells Famitsu that PS3 game is merely a taste of what's to come; title finalized.
Polyphony Digital head Kazunori Yamauchi tells Famitsu that PS3 game is merely a taste of what's to come; title finalized.
From Shinjuku to Akihabara, Japanese gamers lined up for Square Enix's DS port of a role-playing classic and limited-edition DS Lite bundles.
Square Enix honcho concerned about the lack of standards and technical specialists in Japan's game industry.
Publisher to show Fatal Fury Special for Xbox 360's download service, new King of Fighters for PS2, Metal Slug PSP at next month's Tokyo Game Show.
Marvelous confirms that the next-gen version of its farming franchise will be shown at Tokyo's big event; PSP and DS games also on tap.
Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry lays out a five-year plan to keep the country's console game industry from losing ground to foreign devs.
More than two-dozen games for Sony's next-gen system can be played by the general public at next month's event in Japan.
Mario creator talks to the Japanese press about his involvement in a museum installation and explains why Nintendo decided to "destroy the paradigm" of the games industry.
Series composer Koichi Sugiyama indirectly reveals the existence of Dragon Quest IX.
Select from more than 40 heavily modified monkey cars, based on the Ape Escape franchise's primates, in Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer.
Japanese TV ad reveals details on Mogitate Tingle no Barairo Rupee Land, the eccentric Nintendo RPG starring Legend of Zelda sidekick Tingle.
New Super Mario Bros. leaps back to number one; popular user-made game debuts at number three.
Sixty gamers get the chance to see God Hand before its release in Japan; Clover Studio developer to discuss the game live.
Japanese game publisher hopes pinball, retro games will increase diversity at its Game Panic arcades.
Part port, part remake, the classic puzzle action game for Nintendo's portable in Japan will include wireless play and two visual modes.
Japanese pop star vanquishes 26 of 30 opponents playing Nintendo's puzzler Tetris DS at a promo event over the weekend.
PSP strategy title SD Gundam G Generation Portable grabs top spot; Star Fox Command misses top 10 in first week.
Marvelous plants the Harvest Moon seed on the Wii with Bokujo Monogatari Wii; new island-based DS Harvest Moon game revealed.
Industry researchers serve up a cornucopia of statistics on Japan's games industry, which took a flogging in 2004 but rebounded in '05 thanks to DS, PSP.
Maker of Street Fighter and Resident Evil to release Japanese trading-card game based on Sengoku Basara 2.
Nippon Ichi's survival horror game Hayari Gami is getting a movie treatment to be distributed online in 10 parts.
Japanese-centric marketing approach, Xbox Live are keys to Xbox 360 success in Japan, says Microsoft Japan chief Takashi Sensui.
Quirky tank-centric action game for the DS will feature a plethora of real tanks; will roll out in Japan in November.
Over 40 percent of polled consumers say they are playing fewer games than the year before, thanks to increased Internet and mobile phone use.
Players of BeatMania IIDX 13: DistorteD in the arcades can have their scores immortalized in BeatMania IIDX 12 on the PS2.
Yoichi Wada talks about what game creators need to do for next-gen platforms and hints that an upcoming Square Enix venture may be hardware-based.
Okamoto Yoshihiro and Hirofumi Inagaki focus in on PS3 mech shooter based on the famous anime series; discuss the new game's pursuit of realism.
Slew of new titles lead by Tamagotchi and Sengoku Basara 2 storms this week's rankings; DS games take seven of the top 10 spots.
Functionality added to Sega's arcade fighter includes gameplay tweaks and the ability to reissue character-access cards.
CESA and Nikkei BP's tentative slate of games show Xbox 360 and PS3 present and accounted for, but no Wii titles yet.
New screenshots of the latest Shining Force RPG released to the Web; pictures show off the PS2 game's cinematics and in-game action.
The obscure mech strategy franchise from Masaki Izuka returns tomorrow in Japan on the Sony PSP; Izuka dishes on the handheld title's new features.
Hot Shots Golf maker Camelot making an online golf game for Eleven-Up's new game service, called G Planet Kousou.
Company leader Yoichi Wada discusses the game industry's "growing pains," evolving business models, and the need for reformed copyright laws.
Real-life lawyer to star in Japanese promotional campaign for the Nintendo DS legal thriller.
Yu Suzuki shows off massively multiplayer take on his role-playing series at China Joy 2006 convention.
The company that Mario built says its latest handheld is all the rage in Japan; sales buoyed by the recent release of the DS Lite.
Sega's popular trading-card game Sangokushi Taisen will make the leap from the big screen of arcades to Nintendo's dual-screen handheld this fall.
Gran Turismo, Tourist Trophy developer seeking new engineers, designer for its Tokyo studio.
Sega unveils Homestar Portable, a planetarium simulator boasting 5 million stars and a plethora of features, for Japanese stargazers.
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