Optimus Prime In A More Familiar, Downloadable Outfit

This summer, you will be able to add to the Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen roster through the magic of downloadable content. We don’t know when, we don’t know for how much. We do know this robot, though. Activision has released more images of Transformers that will be part of the bundle. We’ve got [...]

Japanese Voice Actress Getting Her First Trading Cards

When we were kids, we collected baseball cards. Jose Canseco, Mark Grace and Ken Griffey, Jr. In Japan, kids these days (hey, more like adults!) can collect voice actress cards. Vocal thespian Rie Tanaka (Phantasy Star Portable, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3) is releasing her first set of “trading cards” this September. One pack will [...]

PS3 Getting Blue, Red Controllers

While Japan has a few different PS3 colours to choose from, Americans are stuck with…black. Oh, and a silver controller. But only until October, because in October, there’ll be two new controller shades to choose from. Those shades are “Deep Red” and “Metallic Blue”, both of which you’ve seen before as PSP colours. Source: Kotaku

Aksys Suggestively Bringing “Soul Breeding” Game Stateside

Aksys Games has launched a placeholder website for Record of Agarest War, the “soul breeding” Japanese strategy RPG that is completely distracting me with its teaser image. What were we talking about again? Oh yes! Record of Agarest! We’ve mentioned the game on several different occasions, generally in the middle of the night when the [...]

AT&T Blocking Part of 4chan

Popular /b/ board blocked According to a status update by 4chan maintainer moot, AT&T is blocking its customers from accessing parts of the 4chan message boards, including /b/ (“random”), which is responsible for 30% of 4chan’s traffic. 4chan’s /b/ section is infamous for its “no rules” policy, with the only rules being a ban on [...]

Dark Horse, Universal Negotiating on Clover Movie

No deal signed yet for CLAMP‘s fantasy romance manga. The North American publisher Dark Horse Comics has revealed at its Comic-Con International panel on Saturday that it is negotiating with the Universal film studio on the rights to develop a movie based on CLAMP‘s Clover manga. However, the two companies have not made a deal [...]

MangaGamer.com Acquires Shuffle! Romance Visual Novel

Adult game inspired 2 television anime series, several novels & manga volumes. The MangaGamer.com company has announced at the Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles this weekend that it has licensed the English-translation rights to NAVEL‘s Shuffle! adult romance visual novel for personal computers. MangaGamer.com plans to release the software as a download on its [...]

MangaGamer.com Acquires Higurashi: When They Cry Visual Novels

First part of game series planned for English release at end of October. The MangaGamer.com company has announced at the Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles this weekend that it has licensed the rights to translate 07th Expansion‘s Higurashi: When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) suspense horror visual novel franchise. According to the [...]

Xseed to Import The Sky Crawlers Game for U.S. Wii

Arcade flight simulator from Bandai NAMCO, Ace Combat team to ship in 2009. The North American software publisher Xseed Games will be releasing Bandai Namco Games‘ adaptation of Mamoru Oshii‘s The Sky Crawlers anime film in time for the holiday season. The full English title of the arcade flight simulator for the Nintendo Wii console [...]

Persona PSP Packed With Persona Soundtrack

The Atlus Spoils customer appreciation program continues to live up to its name, with the announcement that every launch copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP comes packed with a two-disc soundtrack. That’s right, two-discs, not just half the soundtrack, like the disc that shipped with Persona 4 for the PlayStation 2. The [...]