It Is Friday, I Am In Japan, Which Means It’s Famitsu Time! – #9
gogaminggiant.com 10/22/2009 — Another week, another Famitsu. Usually around now I say that this week will be a short one, either because I don’t have much time or because there isn’t a whole lot to interest me in the issue. All well and good, but somehow it still ends up being 1000 words. Well this week I am [...]

Konami Kicks Bayonetta Off Top Of Japan's Game Charts [Sales Get]
kotaku.com 23 days ago — Last week 's queen of Japan's video game sales charts Bayonetta didn't have the legs to stay on top for very long. Konami's latest soccer game, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, is this week's new software champ. Sega's Bayonetta was reduced to an ...

Who Can Stop Dragon Quest IX In Japan? [Sales Get!]
kotaku.com 7/31/2009 — Certainly none of this week's new games! While plenty of new titles hit Japan this past week, none of them came within spitting distance of Dragon Quest IX 's continued strong sales. Only next week will we see a real challenger. That's when Monster ...

Namco Bandai’s TGS 2009 lineup
nintendoeverything.com 9/17/2009 — Playable Tekken 6 (PS3/360) Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (PSP) Super Robot Taisen Neo (Wii) Macross Ultimate Frontier (PSP) Tales of Vesperia (PS3) Tales of Graces (Wii) Summon Night X: Tears Crown (DS) Blue Dragon (DS) .hack//Link (PSP) God Eater ...

Japan Chooses Miis! Pokemon Is Defeated! [Sales Get]
kotaku.com 10/2/2009 — Who can dethrone Pokemons Heart Gold and Soul Silver in Japan? Only Tomodachi Collection, the Mii collecting game for the Nintendo DS that shipped in June, a title that led a slow week of releases that included Halo 3: ODST. Bungie's latest Halo ...

It Is Friday, I Am In Japan, Which Means It’s Famitsu Time! – #4
gogaminggiant.com 9/11/2009 — First, I must apologize. My Thursdays are traditionally busy affairs; I work 12 hours and rarely get a break. That doesn’t quite excuse my misinformation in recent weeks, as after five years in Japan I finally realized yesterday that Famitsu actually hits shelves on Thursday mornings, not ...

YouTube: [Japanese] [DS] Noroinogeemu back side - the back four of Nanashinogeemu 31 attack plane (video)
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It (was) Friday, I am still in Japan, so it must be Famitsu time! – #8
gogaminggiant.com 10/13/2009 — Again I must start with apologies this week. This time I am not to blame for the late posting though, it is the poor Internet penetration in Japan that is at fault. A quick visit to my girlfriends isolated family home in Shirahama left me with the ability to write but no way to post [...]

Big Week for News, Slow Week for Releases in Japan (Famitsu)
gogaminggiant.com 9/4/2009 — As I mentioned in the last of my Famitsu write-ups, the Japanese gaming audience has become increasingly intrigued in Western games. While still far from a dominant force a select number of games have been taken to heart. Even in the relatively short time I have lived in Osaka the game stores ...

Japanese PS3 Sales Stumble
playstationlifestyle.net 8/24/2009 — In the week leading up to the announcement of the PS3 Slim at GamesCom 2009, something unprecedented happened in the PlayStation 3’s native land of Japan. Though the Sony-bred console typically holds its own against the Nintendo Wii, it actually fell to the bottom of the charts last ...

Bayonetta Scores a Perfect 40 in Famitsu — GameSpy Complete 10/20/2009
Bayonetta (PS3) Sega's multiplatform action game has scored big in the latest edition of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu.

Hideki Kamiya on Wrapping Up Bayonetta — 1UP RSS feed 10/21/2009
Bayonetta is more-or-less complete -- and the Japanese press loves it (although they love the PS3 port just a little bit less). Hideki Kamiya, director of the title at ...

Famitsu Gives Bayonetta Perfect Score — G4 TV - TheFeed 10/21/2009
You may have written off PlatinumGames’ hack-n-slash action title Bayonetta as nothing more than a not-so-subtle rehash (rehash-n-slash?) of Devil May Cry , and based on everything I’ve heard and seen of the game, this ...

Nomura Sheds Light on the Status of Versus XIII — Kombo.com 10/22/2009
Fear not Final Fantasy fans, the Kingdom Hearts styled FF XIII spin-off is still in the works, it just has a long way to go. In this week's issue of Famitsu, game director Tetsuya Nomura, explained that the lackluster footage shown at this year's TGS ...

Maxim.com's Bayonetta Finalists Chosen; You Pick the Winner — Kombo.com 10/23/2009
About a month and a half ago, SEGA and Maxim.com put out a call for all the ladies out there to don a pair of glasses and do their best Bayonetta impersonation for a contest on the latter's website.