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Thanks For The Mammaries, Queens Blade

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:00:00 +0000

This December, Namco Bandai is bringing a handful of gaming by releasing Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos on the PlayStation Portable.

Two more fighters have been announced for the title: Curvy Cattleya and mountainous Melpha.

Queen’s Blade is originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple of years.

Queen’s Blade features only female characters, and its spin-off series Queen’s Gate has showcased the likes of Iroha (Samurai Shodow), Mai Shiranui (The King of Fighters) and Dizzy (Guilty Gear). Queen’s Blade has also been spun off into an anime in Japan.

『クイーンズブレイドスパイラルカオス』美闘士屈指の巨乳キャラなど紹介 [Dengeki Online]

First Peek At Tales Of Vesperia Anime

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0000

As previously announced, Xbox 360 title Tales of Vesperia is getting a PS3 version and a big screen anime. The animated feature, due in theatres this year, is set before the game.

Titled Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~, the anime is being produced by Production I.G., the studio being Ghost in the Shell and the animated segment in Kill Bill Vol. I. Kenta Kamei will tackle directing duties, and veteran scribe Reiko Yoshida will pen the script.

Voice actors include Mamoru Miyano (who voiced Light in Death Note and Riku in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II) as Flynn Scifo, Mai Nakahara (who voiced Rena in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Nagisa in Clannad) as Estellise Sidos Heurassein, and Kosuke Toriumi (who voiced Junpei Iori in Persona 3) as Yuri Lowell.

Click through below to check out images of the anime as well as concept art which features an red-headed night that did not appear in the game (and Estelle in a wedding dress!). The anime is still “in development” so don’t take these final images.

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Tales Of Characters… All Together!!

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Today, at a press conference in Tokyo, Namco Bandai announced an action title that brings together 35 characters from the 13 Tales of games. Characters from each title exist in the same game universe.

This new title, which is for the PSP, is Tales of VS. It will be out this summer in Japan. The game is supposedly like Square Enix’s DISSIDIA PSP title, complete with 3D battle scenes.

This confirms what we dug up last month: registered trademarks for Tales of Graces and Tales of VS..

PSP 『テイルズオブバーサス』、 2009 年夏発売 [Famitsu]

New Tales Of Title For The Nintendo Wii

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Namco Bandai announced the latest home console entry in its Tales of series.

Dubbed Tales of Graces, the game is coming to the Wii this winter. Mutsumi Inomata is doing the character design. She’s known for anime work on My-HIME and Future GPX Cyber Formula as well as working seven titles in the Tales of series.

The game’s theme is “protection”, and according to Namco, the battle system and system screens are different from pervious titles.

Namco Bandai’s Tales of role-playing-game series started in 1995 with Tales of Phantasia.

Bandai Namco PSP Game Makes Suggestive Use Of Milk

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Simulation RPG Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos is going on sale this winter in Japan. And it’s bringing its suggestive imagery with it!

Queen’s Blade is originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple of years. Queen’s Blade features only female characters, and its spin-off series Queen’s Gate has showcased the likes of Iroha (Samurai Shodow), Mai Shiranui (The King of Fighters) and Dizzy (Guilty Gear). Queen’s Blade has also been spun off into an anime.

Pictured are cutscene images of the character’s body armour been ravaged — among other things. And remember, that’s only milk. We know this because we can see the milk bottle, and there’s nothing wrong with milk. Nothing wrong with milk bottles, either.

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.hack Is Coming Back On PSP

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:40:46 +0000

The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmation on the next video game episode long-running, but niche appealing .hack series from CyberConnect. .hack//LINK is making the jump from manga to the PSP in 2009.

In what we’re guessing is an attempt to glom on to the success of Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable series, CyberConnect and (we’re presuming) publisher Namco Bandai will move the series from the PlayStation 2 to the still-popular handheld.

Characters from the original .hack series and .hack//G.U. will return in .hack//LINK, which is still without a firm date.

While the .hack series has made a point of simulating a multiplayer experience offline, we wouldn’t be surprised if Namco Bandai looks to the Monster Hunter formula for inspiration on how the new episode will play.

Famitsu 20090116 [Wii @ Everyday]

Afro Samurai Screen Blast

Brian Crecente — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Bandai Namco just sent over a batch of fresh screenshots for Afro Samurai. The upcoming hip-hop, Samurai, action-adventure game for the 360 looks to feature an interesting blend of hand-drawn and cel-shaded art. It’s very pretty stuff. Hit the jump for a clutch of dazzling screens. I hope the play lives up to the fidelity.

Hey! You Got Your Xbox 360 Dragon Ball Z Shots On My PlayStation.com!

Brian Ashcraft — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Namco Bandai’s Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit is multi-platform. It might be difficult for customers to pick which one they should get: Xbox 360 or PS3 version? Well, maybe PlayStation.com can help. Look at the “PS3″ screenshots that appeared on the official Japanese PlayStation site. What do you notice? Oh, you can’t see it? Well, hit the jump for a closer look.

Those aren’t Sony buttons! What’s going on here?!

ボタンが360なのにｗｗｗ [Namidame.2ch]
PlayStation Japan (cache) [Official Site Thanks, muu!]

Gundams That Could’ve, Should’ve Been

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:00 +0000

Somewhere along the line, Gundam missed out. Instead of the no-frills RX-178 Gundam Mark-II, there could’ve been much more. Like the boat-shaped Viking Gundam, windmill-bearing Nether Gundam or even the brilliant jester hat-shaped Jester Gundam. Me? I’m quite found of the Matador Gundam. That robo bull nose ring is spectacular.
Other Gundams [Neta via Danny Choo]

Haruhi Dances Up The Wii

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:00:00 +0000

Certainly! By now you must have seen the credit sequence for anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Catchy, huh? No wonder the Wii Haruhi game is going to be a dancing game. Well, not a straight up dancing game as it’ll have a “Story Mode” (with dancing) and a “Free Mode” (with dancing). The game’s about half done and slated for this year. Hum~ming!

And yes, Haruhi dance after the jump.

Wii Haruhi Dancing Game [My game News Flash]