It was only a matter of time.  It’s a well known fact that gaming localizations – especially for niche genres like RPGs – are expensive, often prohibitively so.  Now, MonkeyPaw Games and GaijinWorks are hoping to mitigate some of the financial risk of localizing PSP dungeon crawler...

Woah, woah, woah. What’s the deal, here? Persona 3 Portable, a PSP game with an 89 Metacritic score based on a PS2 game with a ton of critical and consumer buzz, is now available for half off the normal price of $40, starting today. There are a a ton of other sweet handheld games on sale, as well....

Football season is right around the corner. Its the time for Fantasy Football drafts, speculation on Brett Favre’s return and another edition of Madden. Yes, the long running football franchise is back once again, even if the season itself was in question. Unfortunately it looks like most of the...

It’s that time of the year.  Flowers are blooming, rain is falling, and hardcore gamers are once again whipping themselves up into a frenzy over the industry-wide hype train known as E3. Here we go again. This year’s E3 should be interesting for a variety of reasons.  The industry has seen...

The 3rd Birthday with its cryptic name is supposed to be the third installment to the Parasite Eve trilogy. Aya Brea is back, still not wearing anything that could be considered armor, and shooting away. That, along with a few returning characters, are the only similarities the game has to its...

Pata pata pata pon! Grab your drums; everybody’s favorite rhythm based strategy game is coming back to the PSP this week. Patapon is a game where players enter in commands via battle drums and the patapon do their best to follow their orders. If your rhythm is off or you order the wrong command at...

A relic from an age gone by is reborn for a modern era.  Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together was originally released in 1995 on the Super Famicom, during the twilight years of the console’s lifespan. Like many other Japanese RPGs of that era, it was destined to remain overseas due to its release...

Sony’s European blog dropped a bit of good news today for JRPG-starved PlayStation console owners – at least in Europe.  Last year’s Japanese PS3 release White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness was just announced for a May release in European territories as White Knight...

The NPD Group, the group responsible for tracking sales and revenue data for the video game industry in the United States, has expounded upon their earlier top 10 selling games of 2010 list by providing platform specific top ten lists for the past year. While no concrete sales numbers accompany the lists...

First, a confession:  I don’t like Monster Hunter.  I did spend some time with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, but issues with the battle system along with obscurity regarding what I needed to do to advance made the game tedious and difficult to enjoy. My feelings about the Monster Hunter franchise...