Following the reveal of the top-twenty sales chart on Wednesday, Media Create released its weekly analysis, providing deeper look at the situation of the Japanese market last week. Last week marked the beginning of the Obon shopping period, that is normally particularly strong for gaming sales. This year there have been several elements that made
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Atlus launched a new trailer for the dungeon crawler RPG Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, coming to Nintendo 3DS on October 17 in North America, European date still “to be announced”. The trailer introduces the Therian Masurao class, a playable character class to add to the party during exploration. This class excels at slicing the enemy
Today Nintendo and The Pokémon Company released a brand new trailer for their two upcoming games, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon. The trailer, which you can check out at the end of the article, shows off brand new gameplay from the title, including footage of the previously announced Lycanroc (Dusk Form), and the all new outfits that your
Nintendo of Europe announced today that Pokémon Gold and Silver will receive a specially boxed re-release for the 3DS in Europe on September 22nd, however, the each box will contain a digital code instead of a 3DS cartridge. On 22/09, shiny packaged versions of #Pokemon Gold and Pokémon Silver containing a download code will be released in
It’s that time of the month, and the NPD released its monthly results describing the situation of the gaming market in the United States in July. All figures were up this month, including software, hardware and accessory sales. Hardware was driven by by new supply of Nintendo Switch console and by the continued strength of
Today, Media Create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between August 7th and August 13th, it was once again Square Enix’s 3DS and PS4 game Dragon Quest XI at the tippy top of the software chart, making it a three-peat for the eleventh main series entry in the iconic
Koei Tecmo released on Twitter a new trailer and new images of its upcoming Musou-style game Fire Emblem Warriors. The trailer features female Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, and shows her magical attacks in action. We learn that tacticians can use a wide range of magic to attack enemies from afar, and depending on their skills, they can also use elemental
Square Enix released the transcript of its latest quarterly financial conference call, and it includes some interesting data on the performance of Dragon Quest XI. What we hear is a little bit of a surprise. President Yosuke Matsuda explained that Dragon Quest XI has “generated a great customer response and garnered praise for its contents,”
Time sure does fly when you are traversing the Fountain of Dreams — the fan favorite Nintendo character and pink puff ball just celebrated his own 25th birthday a little less than two weeks ago. And by way of recognizing the occasion, publisher Nintendo has released a sizzle reel of every game within the Kirby series. Starting with
The 32nd week of the UK Sales chart are in, and for the fourth straight week and sixth total week, Crash Bandicoot is once against throwing a week-long rager to celebrate another No.1 in the UK. As you may remember, last week Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy held the title of most weeks at No.1 for a 2017-released game and
PAX West 2017’s schedule shows that Nintendo will be holding a “special” panel on Saturday, September 2, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The panel will be held in the convention hall’s Hydra Theater. Nintendo is no stranger to PAX but what this panel could be about is really open to quite a few things.
The lucky people over at GameInformer got the chance to get a tour of Game Freak’s office in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Thankfully for the rest of us, they’ve released an in-depth video of the company’s office. In the video they talk about how surprisingly hidden Game Freak’s office seems to be in Tokyo. Even during
The Senran Kagura series has always been seen as quite niche, but it’s doing rather well for Marvelous Entertainment. Today Producer Kenichiro Takaki shared on Twitter that the series has sold a cumulative total of 1.65 million copies. He also mentioned that initially no one expected it to sell more than 30,000. こないだのイベントで言い忘れたのですが、3 万本売れたら凄いね、と言われながら始まった閃乱カグラは5年間でWWシリーズ販売累計165万本突破してました。売り上げが全てではないですけど、伸びれば嬉しいです。…お小遣いもらってもいい感じじゃないですかね？ pic.twitter.com/MhSJdNpdon
Square Enix opened an official site for the Dragon Quest re-releases on PS4 and 3DS in Japan, and we get some news about the launch of Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, which is the only one still missing. The game will launch on the Japanese PlayStation Store and on the Nintendo eShop on
Today Media Create released its weekly analysis related to the period between July 31st and August 6th, giving a further look on the situation of the Japanese market overrun by Dragon Quest XI, in addition to the top-twenty ranking disclosed on Wednesday. The firm reports that software sales last week were 900,000 in total, 36.57%
Independent studio Atooi has announced that Mutant Mudd is coming to Switch. The announcement was made on Jools Watsham’s Twitter account. Meanwhile, on the Switch… pic.twitter.com/Zac4Hviv7R — Jools Watsham (@JoolsWatsham) August 9, 2017 Originally released on January 26th, 2012 for 3DS, Mutant Mudds is a platform game developed and published by former independent developer Renegade Kid. Players
Atlus announced that the dungeon crawling RPG Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth will launch for Nintendo 3DS on October 17 in North America, European date still “to be announced”. In Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth players will be able to explore the Yggdrasil tree with their created party of explorers as the ascend the levels
The Pokémon Company has released new information for Pokémon Sun and Moon. According to the developer, Sun and Moon owners will have another chance to obtain several rare items. Currently, Nintendo is giving away another dose of free Mystery Gifts worldwide via a universal code. These Mystery Gifts contain four Mega Stones that can be used on Gardevoir, Gallade, Lopunny, as well as the legendary
The Pokémon Company has released new information for Pokémon Sun and Moon. According to the developer, Sun and Moon owners will have another chance to obtain several rare items. Currently, Nintendo is giving away another dose of free Mystery Gifts worldwide via a universal code. These Mystery Gifts contain four Mega Stones that can be used on Gardevoir, Gallade, Lopunny, as well as the legendary
The Pokémon Company has released new information for Pokémon Sun and Moon. According to the developer, Sun and Moon owners will have another chance to obtain several rare items. Currently, Nintendo is giving away another dose of free Mystery Gifts worldwide via a universal code. These Mystery Gifts contain four Mega Stones that can be used on Gardevoir, Gallade, Lopunny, as well as the legendary
Today, Media create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between July 31st and August 6th, it was once again Square Enix’s 3DS and PS4 game Dragon Quest XI at the top of the software chart, making it two straight weeks for the eleventh main series entry in one of
Today, Media create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between July 31st and August 6th, it was once again Square Enix’s 3DS and PS4 game Dragon Quest XI at the top of the software chart, making it two straight weeks for the eleventh main series entry in one of
Today, Media create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between July 31st and August 6th, it was once again Square Enix’s 3DS and PS4 game Dragon Quest XI at the top of the software chart, making it two straight weeks for the eleventh main series entry in one of
Today is the Wednesday that many Dragon Quest fans waited for, as the Media Create charts related to the period between July 24th and July 30th have been released. That includes the first two days on the market of Dragon Quest XI. Unsurprisingly, the game took Japan by Storm, it’s Dragon Quest, after all. Check
If there was any doubt on the fact that Japanese gamers love Splatoon, it has been wiped off the face of the planet today. The newly-released Media Create charts related to the period between July 17th and July 23rd were absolutely dominated by Splatoon 2, which of course also pushed sales of the Nintendo Switch.
Today Nintendo announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, ended on June 31st, 2017, and they’re definitely solid. The hardware manufacturer and software publisher from Kyoto ended the quarter with all numbers in the black. Sales are up 148.6% year-on-year, with profit figures definitely improved compared to the negative
Nintendo announced today its financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, and like every quarter, they updated the total number of consoles shipped to retailers. You can check out the new figures below. The Switch shipped 1.97 million units during the quarter (Between April 1st and June 30th), while 8.14
When DualShockers’ Co-Founder, Joel Taveras, successfully managed to land his pre-order for the highly-anticipated SNES Classic Edition at Walmart, we knew in an instant that the scenario was too good to be true. In a flurry of pre-orders from nostalgia-prone gamers and Nintendo fans alike, the SNES Classic Edition sold out mere minutes later. But just
Like every week, Media Create just released its top-twenty software sales charts for the Japanese market, on top of the hardware sales charts. The charts are related to the period between Monday, July 10th, and Sunday, July 16th. You can check out the full software chart below, that sees Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Today, during a livestream on Nico Nico hosted by the Japanese magazine VJump, new gameplay of Dragon Quest XI was showcased, presented by Producer Yosuke Saito an Director Takeshi Uchikawa. We get to see some 3DS footage in 3D mode, including battles. Interestingly during the first fight we get to see a skillchain between Senya