Tweet Nintendo’s news this morning ended with a bang in the form of an official announcement for Hironobu Sakaguchi’s The Last Story on the Wii.  According to Nintendo Direct, the game will be released later this year.  In a somewhat unusual move for the Nintendo of America, the game’s...

Tweet In what will surely be welcome news to the bruised wallets of Japanese import gamers everywhere, Atlus USA has announced via their Twitter account that the fighting game based on the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series (entitled Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena for Japan) will be released in...

Tweet It has come to our attention via Joystiq that Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has announced a press briefing via 3DS Swapnote.  According to the small amount of information available, Nintendo will be announcing some 3DS and Wii related news at the briefing, which is scheduled for...

Tweet Though Japanese fighting game developer Arc System Works has been busy for the last few years pumping out psuedosequels and updates to its moderately successful moe-infused fighter, BlazBlue, they have finally decided to return to the series that put them on the map: Guilty Gear.  Recently announced...

Tweet PlayStation “Cross Play” just got a whole lot more lucrative for early adopters of the new PlayStation Vita. In what seems like a no-brainer for consumers but a rather unorthodox move for a console manufacturer, SCEE announced today that Sony and certain third-party developers are making...

Tweet Mobiclip, a French “research and development center specializing in the field of highly optimized software technologies” (according to the company site), has just been purchased by Nintendo.  Though their contributions to console software aren’t commonly known, their logo has been...

Tweet Sony’s PSN Pass initiative has been limiting online functionality to new PlayStation3 titles for a while now, the most recent of which is David Jaffe’s upcoming Twisted Metal reboot.  Up until now, titles on Sony’s portable platforms were spared from this initiative.  With the US...

Tweet It’s been a busy news week for Tim Schafer’s DoubleFine Studios.  After spearheading a record-breaking million-dollar Kickstarter campaign, he sat down with Hookshot to discuss the success of the campaign, his past bouts with Activision over his RTS/Action metal hybrid Brutal Legend, and...

Tweet It’s no secret that Japanese developers haven’t had very good luck adapting to this generation of hardware.  Announced nearly six years ago,  The Last Guardian has been stuck in development purgatory and marred by both technological challenges and staff reductions.  In addition, lead...

Tweet Publishers?  Who needs ‘em? Apparently not Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Studios.  After creating one of the most blatant examples of a corporate “sellout” title in recent years, coupled with one of the most awkward and creepy E3 conference moments in history (Sesame Street: Once...