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....

First, take the physics-based puzzles of the LittleBigPlanet series and tighten up the controls to near-perfection. Then, add in three different characters with unique properties and diverse interactions with the environment.  Next, paint the game’s world in bright, vivid colors and add one of the...

In 2009 From Software released the surprise hit Demon’s Souls on the PlayStation 3. Demon’s Souls achieved critical acclaim and quickly sold through its initial printing. In the end it won several Game of the Year awards, became a PlayStation 3 “Greatest Hit” and publisher Atlus has...

Gaming fans all over North America are falling head-over-heels in love with Catherine. Atlus USA just recently announced that the game had the biggest launch of any title in the publisher’s 20 year history, selling over 200,000 copies across both the PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360 platforms during its...

There is a lot of talk about the fall of the Japanese gaming industry. What was once a powerhouse of innovation has now come under scrutiny for churning out the same style games that it has for a decade. While there is some truth to that, there is a large segment of Japanese games that the West never sees....

Love is not over. Catherine is, without a doubt, a very difficult game to describe. It is also, without a doubt, one of the most intriguing games I’ve come across at E3Expo this year. Atlus’s adventure-puzzle-horror hybrid has turned more than a few heads this year, and likely perplexed just...

North American Persona fans, rejoice. Atlus has just launched a teaser site for a localized version of its puzzle-horror-dating-sim-hybrid, Catherine.  After recently trolling its fanbase with an official statement regarding there were “no plans” for a North American release of the title,...

With the recently announced 3DS launch lineup a tad lacking for core gamers, it is already time to start looking towards summer releases for the new handheld. Although it is a port of an existing DS game, SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked looks like the perfect game to pick up if you missed the game’s...

The Naruto franchise has good games; it may be hard to fathom, but there are a few (with a stress on the word few) great games based on the popular Shonen Jump series. Naruto Shippuden Dragon Blade Chronicles is not one of them. Taking a stab at the character action style of game play, Dragon Blade...