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Inevitably, pre-orders for the limited edition 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro are being flogged for a huge markup on auction sites like eBay. But in Japan specifically Sony is fighting back by requiring 30 hours of PS5 and PS4 playtime since 14th February, 2014. If you haven't logged that amount of...

Introduction: This is a recreation of the debug menu used in the development of Gyakuten Saiban 1 (Japan) which is found partly intact in a 2005 PC port and mostly functional in a 2008 PC port of the game. After having decompiled a significant amount of code from the GBA versions of Gyakuten...

The latest weekly Japanese gaming charts have arrived, and it seems Sony is still struggling in its homeland. The good news is that Astro Bot is holding fairly steady in the physical software chart, currently in third place. The less good news is that it's only managed 28,521 copies to date; the...

Street Fighter II is a fantastic video game, but even the most ardent fan would be hard-pressed to argue that it offers a balanced view on cultural stereotypes – but hey! – it was made in the '90s, and having an Indian yogi with shrunken skulls around his neck was almost acceptable back then...

Edia's 'Tenshi No Uta Collection' was released yesterday on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan, as planned. As stated below, this new compilation release is the latest in the company's ongoing Telenet Revive series and contains the first two Tenshi no Uta games — Tenshi no Uta and Tenshi no Uta...

The latest chart data is here courtesy of Famitsu, and to be honest, it's been a bit of a quiet week. At the top, we've got Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Phantasia Lost for the Switch with a total of 16,631 sales during its debut week, while the PS5's Astro Bot nabs second place with a total of...

Cosmo Machia has announced via a new trailer that the expanded version of the arcade shoot 'em up TriggerHeart Exelica, Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced, will be coming to Switch in Japan in early 2025 (thanks Gematsu for the spot!). Cosmo Machia previously reissued the original 2006 arcade game...

It's been a long time coming, but the PS5 has finally topped six million sales in Japan. The current-gen console's been heading towards that milestone for months, but a lack of notable system sellers has meant slow progress. Still, it's something for Sony to celebrate in its native country. For...

We are back with the latest look at Japan's video game sales chart (via Famitsu) and it has been quite the week for new releases, with eight titles in the top ten making their debut. The big newbie for Nintendo fans is the arrival of Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, which is...

Pokémon Sleep has been pretty successful worldwide since its release in July 2023, and now that the game has been out for over a year, analysts in Japan have been looking into the figures. Over in Japan, Pokémon Sleep is currently the most downloaded mobile app in the Health & Fitness category...

The National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan has announced that the PS2 will be among the 18 new additions selected to be part of its 'Future Technology Registry' (thanks VGC for the spot!). This makes it the first console to appear on the list of devices that have been chosen since the...

Following an announcement Nintendo would stop 3DS repairs in Japan, the company's support service has now revealed it's run out of parts necessary to repair the New Nintendo 3DS in this location. According to a rough translation, this means it's no longer accepting repairs for this particular...

Famitsu has shared the latest physical gaming charts from Japan, this time comprising the last two weeks and it has been yet another monster one for the Switch. The Japan-only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 knocks it out of the park once again, staying at the top of the pile with an additional...

We don't expect Faaast Penguin to set the world alight – but boy does it look fun! Created by storied Japanese studio Historia, the team behind titles like The Caligula Effect, this is a chaotic free-to-play racing game in a similar vein to Fall Guys – albeit somehow even zanier! It reminds this...

All Nippon Airways, the Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, has collaborated with The Pokémon Company to produce a new airline safety video starring some of your favourite Pocket Monsters. As highlighted by VGC, the video will be shown on both the "Pikachu Jet NH" and the "Eevee...

Alfa System's 2005 arcade bullet hell Castle of Shikigami III could be coming to Steam later this year, thanks to a new crowdfunding campaign that launched at the end of last month in Japan on the website Camp-fire.jp. Castle of Shikigami III originally debuted in the arcades back in the...

All across the industry, prices are rising. We've seen hardware prices go up, as the PlayStation 5 is more expensive than when it launched, and subscription prices hike up as well, following last month's announcement that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate would go from $16.99 to $19.99 a month. The latest...

Just recently, we reported on the newly announced Official Joy-Con Charging Stand for the Switch (which is totally to allow users to charge their Joy-Con when used as additional controllers with the 'Switch 2' - wait, where are our tinfoil hats?). Amid all the initial confusion, however, we...

Tiny Wonder Studio, the new development team behind the upcoming koROBO, has stressed that the project is very different from the Chibi-Robo series and that fans shouldn't go into it expecting a similar experience. This comes via a new interview from our friends at VGC, during which...

Yesterday, Nintendo revealed a new range of gashapon fidget toys based on the SNES, N64 and GameCube controllers. We were quick to throw in the Futurama "Take my money!" gif after an initial glance (even though they are still only available in Japan for the time being), but, on closer...