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"Releases of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, HydroThunder, and Arc Rise Fantasia help get this week's game releases past the typical summer lull period. We also get an oddity this week in Clash of the Titans. Movie tie-in games are typically released alongside the theatrical release. This time, the game was delayed to release alongside the DVD release of the film. Now we'll have to see if that makes a difference in the quality of the game."
Today, Nintendo has unveiled a new budget lineup in Japan: Minna no Osusume Selection, or the "Everyone's Recommendation Selection". Unlike most other budget rerelease lineups like Player's Choice, Greatest Hits, or PlayStation the Best, which are based on retail sales, the Everyone's Recommendation Selection are based on user ratings gathered from the Minna no Nintendo Channel (Nintendo Channel) in Japan. The criteria for being considered is having earned either a bronze, silver, gold, or ...
Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.
Games featured:
The latest post on Marvelous Entertainment's Tokyo Game Show 2008 blog has a post written by Louis from their License & Localization Group, who handles games overseas. In the post (which is available in both Japanese and English), Louis announces that there will be a new unannounced game that Marvelous will reveal on the first day of the show. This is game also unknown to the Japanese press, for a full-on new game announcement. He also states that it is from a "charismatic Japanese creator...
Speaking exclusively to RPG fansite The RPG Observer, XSEED Games's Public Relations agent Jimmy Soga confirmed that there will be three additional games that will be co-published by both XSEED Games and Marvelous Entertainment USA in North America: two of which will be for the Wii, and one for the DS. One of the Wii titles will be announced later this month, while the other two remaining titles will be announced for localization at the Tokyo Game Show on October 9th.
The games that are a...
A new teaser site has went up on Sega's domain, dragon.sega.jp, complete with a flash video that name drops some of the staff for an upcoming unannounced game. The director for this upcoming game will be former Atlus employee and current imageepoch Senior Director Kazuya Niinou (Trauma Center, Etrian Odyssey), while being produced by Sega's Reiko Kodama (Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star), with music work being done by the legendary Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, Wangan Midnight, Etrian Odysse...
CESA has released a first list of games [PDF] that will be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show that will be held from October 9, 2008 to October 12, 2008. As per tradition, this is only the first of multiple lists that will be released by the organization for the games that will appear at TGS 2008. A full list of the notable games can be seen in the quote and at the source.
There will be 462 titles at the show, broken up thusly:
Wii - 27 titles
PS3 - 12 titles
Xbox360 - 14 titles
D...
Announced in this week's Famitsu is developer imageepoch's new RPG being developed exclusively for the Wii: Arc Rise Fantasia, previously known as Project Ray. Scans from the issue were made available on the internet shortly afterward.
Arc Rise Fantasia will be a turn-based traditional fantasy RPG, developed by a team which includes staffers from the company's first two games, Luminous Arc and its sequel for the DS. The game's battle system will use a 3-person party, where each member of...
![Box shot of Arc Rise Fantasia [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvTmludGVuZG9fV2lpL1JvbGUtUGxheWluZy9GYW50YXN5/arc_rise_fantasia_frontcover_small_hqpVC0dk3Oolt5q.jpg)