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KONAMI has announced that their highly anticipated “Powerful Professional Baseball 2024-2025” will be released on July 18th for the PS4 and Nintendo Switch and that pre-orders begun today. In addition, if you pre-order, you will receive a Ohtani Shoheni x PowerPro 2024 Packaging Sleeve. 📢速報📢 Read More …
Nintendo has ended its online play service for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 9th. And many took to social media to show their gratitude to Nintendo for the online play service for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Read More …
“Makai Senki Disgaea 7 – Kore Made no Zenbu Hairi Hajimemashita” (Makai Senkai 7 Disgaea – I’ve started getting everything so far” will be released on June 25th. The game to be released on the Nintendo Switch and PS5/PS4 will include all previous DLC’s, new Read More …
And the sales ranking for the week is in and ATLUS tactical RPG “Unicorn Overlord” for the Nintendo Switch took the #1 spot. “Unicorn Overlord” is published by ATLUS and developed by Vanillaware. While the sales number of “Unicorn Overlord” is good, ATLUS did release Read More …
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. has released the downloadable version of the latest work in the “Contra” series, “Contra: Operation Galuga,” to Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Steam®. As an early purchase benefit (including pre-orders), those who purchase this work Read More …
Before “Legend of Heroes” and “Ys”, Nihon Falcom created the popular RPG video game series “Xanadu” (1985) for the PC. This was the second entry to their popular “Dragon Slayer” RPG’s and both are known as the progeninator of the action RPG genre. Fastforward to Read More …
Atlas Co., Ltd. announced on March 5th that cumulative worldwide sales of the Persona series have exceeded 22 million copies. The “Persona” series is a series of juvenile RPGs that originates from “Persona,” which was released in 1996. According to the recent announcement, “Persona 5” Read More …
If you are a big fan of Shoot ’em Up/shmup/bullet-hell Danmaku games, Nintendo Shop Japan is having a major sale. The Cave and Treasure games were on sale for Y1200-1500 as well but it looks like the sale ended for those games (weekend only) For Read More …
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) announced the release of the home video game software “Tekken 8”, the latest installment of the “Tekken” series, back on Friday, January 26, 2024. BANDAI NAMCO announced that the cumulative worldwide shipments (*1) of “1 million units Read More …
With the release of a mega anticipated video game release, the discussion of requesting vacation time for the day or the week for the release of “Final Fantasy VIII: Rebirth” has become a topic. Of course, not a true holiday, but for “Final Fantasy” fans, Read More …
Pocket Pair announced on February 23rd that the total number of players for the monster collection survival craft game “Pal World” for Xbox Series X|S/Xbox One/PC, which is currently in early access, has exceeded 25 million. The breakdown of the total number of users is Read More …
The latest Nintendo Direct Software Maker Lineup shows that for the upcoming “Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2024-2025”, the phenom Ohtani Shohei along with popular characters such as Goemon and Alucard will be appearing in the game. Check out the video (21:53).
The PS5/PS4/Xbox/PC “Tales of Arise” has sold over 3 million copies! “Tales of Arise” Producer Tomizawa Yusuke wrote, “This number is the result of the support of so many people, and we will continue to work hard to make this achievement an important milestone that Read More …
From the KADOKAWA Group’s financial results briefing for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2024, it is reported that Acquire has been made a 100% subsidiary Segment In order to “strengthen the ability to create game IP” in our game business strategy, Read More …
Pocketpair’s “Palworld” is no doubt the hottest game to be released with 8 million games sold in less than six days. Even hardcore Pokemon fans said they enjoyed the game, but felt uneasy because the characters look like Pokemon characters. But hardcore Pokemon fans are Read More …