Longtime favorites see huge dips in this week's Japanese sales charts.

Despite 13 new games debuting in the top 30 this week, with six of those being in the top 10, no game managed to exceed the 100,000 mark, though Lost Planet 2 for the PlayStation 3 came pretty close.

In the top spot with sales of 85,000 was Lost Planet 2 from Capcom, followed by Dragon Quest... Read more...

New console Pokémon game due out soon.

Pokémon spin-offs are anything but rare on the Wii, with games such as Pokémon Battle Revolution, Pokémon Rumble, and My Pokémon Ranch being released over the past few years. Adding to that list of games is Creature’s unique take on the Pokémon franchise, in which Pikachu and pals find themselves in a mysterious area known as the PokéPark, where they must befriend other Pokémon to help aid those in need.

Players without a Classic Controller Pro can obtain one along with the game.

Capcom has announced that they will be releasing a special limited edition version of Sengoku Basara 3. The bundle will include a Classic Controller Pro. This version of the game will be sold for 6,990 Yen ($77.00). Those wishing to get the game only can buy it for 5,990 Yen ($66.00).

Sengoku... Read more...

The DS RPG will be coming stateside courtesy of Atlus.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power confirmed that the third entry in the Etrian Odyssey series, The Drowned City, will be coming to North America. Atlus, who published the two first games, will be publishing the third game.

The Drowned City is a first-person RPG that takes place in the sea city... Read more...

Zenonia and Shooting Watch coming to DSiWare.

An updated ESRB listing has revealed two upcoming DSiWare titles from Hudson Entertainment. The first of these is Zenonia, a hack-and-slash action RPG developed by Gamevil.

The ESRB describes Zenonia as follows:

This is an action role-playing game (RPG) in which players assume the role of... Read more...

The first original Final Fantasy game for DS will come to North America on October 5.

Today, Square Enix announced Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for release in North America.

This original Final Fantasy title for DS was released in Japan in October 2009, and is a classic style RPG with vibrant storybook artwork elements, bringing new technology to the traditional RPG experience. The Japanese version was sold out within two weeks of release.

The new Sonic game takes place in an outer space theme park.

Today Sega announced Sonic Colors, a new platformer for the Wii and DS starring the company's venerable mascot.

Sonic Colors tells the tale of Sonic as he arrives at an alien theme park that is orbiting the home planet of Dr. Eggman. Eggman is holding an alien race known as the Wisps hostage,... Read more...

With the release of the actual game in limbo, the composer behind the survival-horror title releases his work online.

Arkadiusz Reikowski, the composer behind the announced-but-unseen Wii game Sadness, has released his work for the soundtrack online. This furthers speculation that the game will never see the light of day.

The game, announced in 2006, was to be a black and white survival-horror game from Polish... Read more...

The first Super Famicom entry in the series is DS bound.

Nintendo updated the official Fire Emblem site yesterday with news that a new Fire Emblem game is coming to the Nintendo DS.

Entitled Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo Hiktari to Kage no Eiyuu in Japan, the game is a remake of the third entry in the series, which was 1994’s Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo.

A new ArtStyle game leads the way in this week's batch of digital gaming.

This week in Nintendo Download we have seven new games across WiiWare and DSiWare. There are no new titles on Virtual Console this week.

The first title up on DSiWare this week is Metal Torrent for 500 Nintendo DSi Points. ($5) This Nintendo-published game is a vertical scrolling shooter,... Read more...

Mario voice actor, Charles Martinet, headlined Nintendo World Store’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 release event. Woo Hoo!

Earlier today, the Nintendo World Store held a special Super Mario

Galaxy 2 launch event. Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario and

Waluigi, was on hand signing autographs. People also had the

opportunity to take pictures with Mario and Luigi.

The event was extremely busy with hundreds of people waiting in line

Red Steel 2 sells according to expectations, downloadable content does well, and the Wii version of Avatar impresses.

In a recent Ubisoft investor call some details regarding software sales were revealed. In the last fiscal year, Ubisoft saw 18 million Euros in revenue generated by digital sales. Due to this fact, Ubisoft plans to include downloadable content right off the bat. Some Wii games will also be included in this plan.

The recently released box art reveals that the game will feature downloadable content.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory is due to be released in Japan in less than two months. The card based game is a port of the arcade game, Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road. Not much is known about how the Wii version will be different from the arcade version.

Besides a different... Read more...

The third and final game in the first series of Professor Layton games could be heading overseas in the not too distant future.

After the success of the first two Professor Layton titles, it should not be surprising to see that Level-5 and Nintendo have plans to bring the third game and final game in the first series of games overseas.

Level-5 registered a trademark for Professor Layton and the Unwound Future lately,... Read more...

Another slow week in the Japanese charts results in many games staying in the same position as last week, despite some large sales drops.

As Golden Week concluded last week, game sales in Japan saw quite a large drop, with some games in the top 10 seeing a dip of up to 60%.

Holding onto the top spot for a third consecutive week was Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, selling 126,000 copies (down 50%), bringing its... Read more...

Sonic's latest 2D entry is getting more development time to incorporate fan suggestions.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I is now set to come out in fall 2010 instead of the original summer release date, according to the Sega America Blog.

"SEGA has made the decision to ensure that Sonic 4: Episode I is a game worthy of bearing the weight of its name," reads the blog post announcing... Read more...

Sunsoft's character platformer from 1993 might be getting a Virtual Console re-release.

Aero the Acrobat, a 1993 Sunsoft game, has been rated for Wii on Australia's OFLC ratings board, according to Siliconera.

It is assumed that the game will be a Virtual Console re-release of the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis version of the Sunsoft platformer, which was developed by Iguana Entertainment.... Read more...

The Japanese best-seller will hit North America and Europe this July.

Today Nintendo announced the release date of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies to be July 11 in North America, and July 23 in Europe.

The game, which pits players on an epic role-playing quest, will launch in North America exactly one year after the Japanese game, which launched July 11, 2009. The game has gone on to sell more than four million copies in Japan.

Another slew of filings raises eyebrows.

With the E3 reveal of Nintendo's 3DS portable system only weeks away, the trademark filing watch has begun. Nintendo has indeed made several recent filings that are sure to get the industry talking.

Specifically, Nintendo has filed the following trademarks in Japan: 3DS, N3DS, 3DSWare, and 3DSPlay.... Read more...

You can look forward to watching Santa fight dinosaurs again when Super Scribblenauts comes out this fall.

Today Warner Bros. Interactive announced Super Scribblenauts, the follow-up to the 2009 hit game, for release this fall.

The new game will focus on improving the formula that made the original title a million-seller, by adding improved touch screen controls and the use of adjectives to modify... Read more...