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January: A Month of Countdowns

By Roy | Published: January 13, 2009
Countdowns seem to be the preferred method of building hype for video games this month.  Both Marvelous Entertainment and CyberConnect2 have recently launched mysterious countdown pages on their Japanese sites. Marvelous is best known for their work on the Harvest Moon series, as well as their recent hit No More Heroes.  This countdown however doesn’t seem [...]
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Tokyo Game Show: Eye Candy

By Roy | Published: October 11, 2008
Fluency in Japanese certainly is not necessary to appreciate the goings-on at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.  Thanks to the internet, neither is actually being in Japan at any point in your life.  Dengeki’s website has several videos highlighting different video game publishers and their booths at TGS. The videos are for the most part devoid [...]
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Tokyo Game Show 2008 Highlights

By Roy | Published: October 10, 2008
  I may not have been one of the lucky individuals who attended this year’s TGS, but thanks to the echo chamber that is the internet, I got all the info I wanted.  This year’s event was filled with hands-on previews, free merchandise, and some surprises as well. Bandai-Namco’s booth featured a playable demo for their upcoming [...]
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Oboromuramasa At Tokyo Game Show 2008

By Roy | Published: October 6, 2008
Oboromuramasa, Vanilla Ware and Marvelous Entertainment’s newest title in the works for the Nintendo Wii, will make an appearance at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.  This marks a year since the game was first dangled in front of gamers with no release date and very little info given at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show.  This time Marvelous Entertainment at [...]
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Arc Rise Fantasia for Wii

By Roy | Published: June 30, 2008
Arc Rise Fantasia is the next game in Marvelous’s Luminous Arc series. Normally these titles don’t generate a whole lot of press, but the fact that the next installment is going to be released for the Nintendo Wii seems to have placed the game in the spotlight. Marvelous released the game’s prologue which tentatively translates [...]
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