Entries in 'Japan' (375)
Square Enix axing Japanese staff?
In what is fast appearing as the game industry’s largest ever mass-migration from East to West, mega-publisher Square Enix is rumoured to be reducing as many as 300 staff from ...
Nintendo announces Wii price cut
The anticipated Wii price cut has at last been made official, with drops for machine in both North America and Japan due to come into effect.
Yakuza to lead PSN import area?
Alongside the numerous other revelations that have come to light thanks to a leaked publisher document this morning, it has also emerged that Sony is considering introducing an import games ...
March release for PS3 Motion Controller
Following on from the shock news of PS2 and Dreamcast titles on PSN, it has also been revealed that Sony’s PS3 motion controller will be released in Japan in March ...
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Koei’s western sales at 8 per cent
Koei games sold outside of Japan currently only account for 8 per cent of the company’s total sales.
JAPAN: Square and Disney team up
A deal has been struck between Japanese publisher Square Enix and growing casual games force Disney Interactive that will see the RPG specialist bring Disney’s upcoming range of digital entertainment ...
JAPAN: Pokemon fever returns
The Pokemon craze may be getting on a bit in modern gaming terms, but there’s no sign yet that Pokefever is abating with huge sales for Nintendo’s latest release in ...
Big FFXIII announcement expected
Many are predicting that publisher Square Enix will later this morning at a Tokyo press event announce the release date of the massively hyped Final Fantasy XIII in Japan.
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JAPAN: PS3 enjoys best ever week
Having enjoyed a massive sales boost in the UK following the arrival of the new Slim incarnation last week, the launch of the PS3 Slim in Japan has propelled Sony’s ...
JAPAN: 360 price cut confirmed
As suggested by MCV yesterday, Microsoft has replicated its recent moves in both Europe and the US by dropping the price of Xbox 360 hardware in Japan.
JAPAN: 360 price cut nears
Microsoft is to hold a press conference in Hong Kong tomorrow where it is expected that a price cut for the machine will be announced for key territories across the ...
Square publishing COD:MW2 in Japan?
Despite the region’s traditional hostility to first person shooters, it seems as if publisher Square Enix is to publish Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in Japan.
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‘Publisher consortium’ targets Europe
Another Japanese firm is looking to Europe in a bid to grow its sales.
No western release for Dragon Quest IX?
Square Enix has yet to decide whether or not it will release Dragon Quest IX in western markets.
Wii Sports Resort nears 2m sales
Nintendo has confirmed that its high-profile Wii MotionPlus debutant Wii Sports Resort has sold over 600,000 copies in Europe since its High Street debut on July 24th.
JAPAN: Monster Hunter storms charts
The Monster Hunter success story continues in Japan with the news that Capcom’s latest title in the series, and the first to be released on Wii, sold 520,000 copies on ...
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JAPAN: DSi sales top 3m
Nintendo’s DSi has sailed past the 3m unit sales mark in Japan, Kotaku reports.
JAPAN: DS pirate jailed
Hot on the heels of Nintendo releasing a brand new piracy-fighting patch for its DSi console, Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts have been further bolstered by the successful prosecution of a high-profile ...
JAPAN: Dragon Quest boosts DSi sales
As games markets on both the near and far sides of the Atlantic stutter in the face of barren release schedules and a thinning H2’09 lineup, proof of the positive ...
JAPAN: Warner movies available on Wii
Warner Bros. movies are now available to rent through the Nintendo Wii in Japan.
JAPAN: Dragon Quest IX sells 2m+
The latest release in Square Enix’s hugely popular RPG series, Dragon Quest IX, has enjoyed a fantastic debut in Japan racking up sales of 2,343,440 copies in its first two ...
JAPAN: Monster Hunter ships 3.5m
Publisher Capcom has revealed that over 3.5m copies of its PSP hit Monster Hunter Freedm Unite have now been shipped in Japan – the first PSP title to reach such ...
JAPAN: Chinatown Wars gets Z rating
Following the precedent Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars set in the UK when it became the first 18 rated DS game to hit the shelves, the critically acclaimed title ...
JAPAN: Market declines by 24%
The bad news continues for the troubled Japanese games industry with new stats from Famitsu-owning Enterbrain showing that the total value of the region’s games market is down 24.4 per ...
JAPAN: GTAIV goes budget
Rockstar’s next-gen opus Grand Theft Auto IV is getting the budget treatment in Japan with news that the Capcom published title is to be ushered in to the PlayStation Best ...
