Entries from The Asian Power Hour tagged with 'DS'
Dinosaur King on US consoles less Innovation
One of SEGA's flagship barcode arcade games (along with Love and Berry and Mushi [Beetle] King), Dinosaur King, after enjoying moderate success in the US kid's television market is finally getting a DS port here in the US. However,...
Almost a year later...Juushinden: RFID battling game update
Looks like it's still going strong! With the fourth expansion to come out in 9 months, it seems that there is a strong market for home based RFID CCGs, not just in the arcade. Two things that probably helped...
RFID card battling game Juushinden roars onto the Nintendo DS
As usual, I'm excited by any RFID collectible game tech and it just so happens that I was in the right time and the right place to see the release of Juushinden: Ultimate Beast Battlers in Taiwan. The gameplay...
Sniff_Jazzbox
All I really need to say is this is a prototype wardrive system that creates an "audible cityscape" from WLAN signals you capture as you walk around with your Nintendo DS. Very very cool, it's basically Wardrive without the...
Blue Dragon Returns in Tactics Form
Yet ANOTHER Blue Dragon Spinoff. I swear, Japan really does love the same old stuff over and over. Developed by Mistwalker and Feel Plus, and to published by AQ Interactive March 2008, this is basically Blue Dragon Tactics. It...
Front Mission: Border of Madness
After working on the US release of Front Mission all summer, this little piece of news leaves me excited yet cautious from experience working so in-depth on the title. Square-Enix announced a new game in their political intrigue mecha...
Ninjatown
I have no idea wtf this game is going to be about, but all I can say is "Freaking Badass". The characters are based on a line of designer toys like Uglydolls, and the game itself is strategy based, and...
Dragon Tamer: Sound Spirit
Here's an interesting new game coming out for the DS in Japan which does something with the microphone besides having players blow into it. Dragon Tamer: Sound Spirit is basically your standard Pokemon monster battling game, but in order...
Spectrobes Expansion Card Promo
A while back, Disney Interactive took a stab at melding a CCG with a video game, and lo and behold, we got Spectrobes. As far as I understand, most of the art assests and programming were done overseas in...
Nintendo DS Replacing Textbooks in Kyoto
Nintendo DS's are being introduced to junior high schools in Kyoto after an initial experiment showed that student's English scores improved dramatically after using Language based games, versus traditional textbooks. This is nothing terribly new as far as educational...
Yo, Etrian!
On the subject of games that no one will ever hear about comes Etrian Odyssey, a very very old school style dungeon crawler RPG that comes to us for the DS from Atlus. The reason I very much like...
Recent Trends in Japanese Gaming: Part 2; Language Trainers
Drifting to and fro through Tokyo, I found some other interesting things. There seems to be a huge influx of software for the Nintendo DS using games to teach English for the TOEIC (Test Of English for International Communication)...
Recent Trends in Japanese Gaming: Part 1; Portable Trends
On my recent trip to Japan, there were some interesting things that I stumbled across besides my harrowing mountaintop adventure. Rummaging through the various game stores across Tokyo, I noticed a few things about gaming in Japan at the moment...
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