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Dragonball DS And Dragonball Wii Art Look, Um, Different

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A new year brings one thing: More Dragon Ball. You know what that means? More Bulma.

The Xbox 360 and the PS3 are getting a Dragon Ball Z title called Raging Blast that appears to be a sequel to Dragon Ball Z Sparking! The Nintendo Wii is getting a Dragonball action game, which doesn’t appear to have a subtitle.

It does have Bulma character art that seems different from how see appeared in last fall’s Dragonball DS (Dragonball Origins in the West). See comparison.

AH HA! She has a name tag on the DS version. We knew there was something off.

バンナムはドラゴンボールのゲームをいくつ出したら気がすむの？ [はちま起稿]

Dragonball: The Movie: The Game: The Trailer

Mike Fahey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:40:00 +0000

If you thought the screenshots of the PSP video game based on the live-action catastrophe Dragonball Evolution were bad, wait until you see the game in motion.

Now to be completely fair, Namco Bandai didn’t have a whole lot to work with when tasked with coming up with a video game based on the live-action adaptation of the popular Dragonball manga and anime, so they did the best that they could, I’m sure. The result seems to be a game that takes the “realistic” characters from the movie and puts them in places only cel-shaded anime models should go.

Now take a deep breath, and brace yourself before clicking play on the trailer below.

Dragonball Evolution pictures and trailer [Gamekyo - Thanks a lot, SinfulKnight]

Dragonball Origins Recalled In Australia

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:30:00 +0000

Whoops! Atari are recalling every single copy of Dragon Ball Origins in Australia, after it was discovered the rating handed out to the game didn’t quite match some of it’s naughtier moments.

Seems that, while every other Dragon Ball game Atari have released in the country was rated a deserving PG (Parental Guidance recommended), Origins – also rated PG – contains a few sexual references, including a pants-down scene that’s one layer of cloth away from giving you an eye-full of Goku wang.

So the game’s been recalled, and will be back on store shelves once it receives a newer, more mature classification.

Kotaku AU Note: We’ve asked Atari when the game is expected back at retail, but as it will need to be reclassified, they are unable to provide a date at this stage.

Dragonball Movie Game Ready To Beat Up PSPs

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:00:00 +0000

The Dragonball movie looks… eh. And that movie is getting a Dragon Ball Z Budokai-style PSP fighter that trades Dragonball cell shaded characters with movie actors.

Swell.

There are more screens in the link below.

Namco Announces Dragonball: The Movie: The Game [Giant Bomb]

Dragonball Movie Trailer Is All Kinds of Stupid

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Look, I don’t even like Dragonball. But still, I know enough about it to know this trailer will make people upset.

Dragonball Movie Title Evolves

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Everyone’s favourite upcoming goofy Hollywood flick Dragon Ball is apparently getting a slightly reworked title: Dragonball Evolution. This isn’t yet confirmed by studio 20th Century Fox, but URL DragonballEvolutionmovie.com redirects to FoxMovies.com.

The movie, based on the popular Dragon Ball manga/anime/video games, will be in theatres April 8. It stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Chow Yun-Fat, Ernie Hudson and whatever the hell is in that picture.

Update: Dragonball Gets a New Title? [ComingSoon via Dragonball The Movie]

Dragonball Movie Gets Another Release Date

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The movie event of next year, Dragonball: Goku Freakazoid Face, will be getting a slightly earlier US release: Wednesday April 8, 2009. Nothing like a mid-week release to beat the weekend release rush. This comes after the movie was pushed from its original release date of August 15, 2008 to April 10, 2009. Re-shoots and post production caused the 2009 delay, and fingers crossed it has ample Goku Freakazoid Face. We love GFF!

Dragonball Moves Up [IGN via ANN]

What The Hell Is This Goku Monster?

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:00:00 +0000

This mysterious still from the Dragonball movie popped up online, but Fox Studios has been trying to erase it. (No wonder — look at it!) The image shows Goku in his freakazoid monster form. But the make-up reminds all of something else entirely… That, after the jump.

ハリウッド実写版｢ドラゴンボール｣はどこに向かっているのだろう… [はちま起稿]

A 16 Second NHK Clip of Dragonball Movie (Very Boring)

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

It’s not the movie’s fault. This is simply a super short clip from Japanese TV network NHK that shows off…not much of anything. (At least the dragonball looks decent!) The movie is getting released in Japan next spring. The country’s reaction to Hollywood’s interpretation should be interesting, but it should do decent enough here. Some people in Japan are more impressed with Hollywood doing a big budget adaptation than with Hollywood doing a good big budget adaptation.

Dragonball Clip! Dragonball Clip! Dragonball Clip! [Latino Review]

First Dragonball Movie Review: ‘Not A Disaster’

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Hollywood is bringing manga/anime Dragonball to the silver screen. Early peeks haven’t exactly been promising, leading a general feeling that the rot has already set in. Website Ain’t It Cool News was a sent a review from a reader who claims to have seen 95-100 minutes of the film, minus the credits, missing the score and lacking finished special effects. According to the reader, “Overall, I would give the movie a 6.5/10 simply because i was expecting disaster but it turned out better… I am glad it aint the disaster I thought it would be.” The reader even went on to call the movie “solid.” Not sure if this is a plant or not, but hit the jump for a breakdown of the movie’s positives and negatives. There are spoilers.

Positives
• Action – I wasn’t expecting the action scenes to be as awesome as they were. Simply put the best thing about this movie. The last action scene of Goku vs. Picollo are simply amazing… This fight scene was around 13-15 minutes long. There are other small action scenes that are fun and entertaining with slo mo but nowhere as good as the picollo vs. goku scene.

• James Marsters as Picollo was awesome. He was perfect as picollo… Oh and Picollo transforms into a light greenish colour picollo towards the end of the movie.

• Justin Chatwin as Goku. This guy surprised me a lot. I really didn’t like him when they casted him as goku but he did a damn good job in the acting department and he nailed the KAMEHAMEHA line.

Negatives
• Story – Dragonball fans will be dissapointed with some of the changes they have made with stories and characters etc… High school setting for the first 22-23 minutes was so not needed but ah well typical hollywood garbage of adding bullshit like that.

• Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi – I was dissappointed with this. I wanted the fucking perverted roshi who fucking grabs breasts and asses like in the anime but alas all of that is fucking gone. Also he acted like Mr. Kesuke Miyagi. You know what I mean. The lines he spoke were fine but I felt he was uncomfortable in the movie. Very dissappointed.

• Shenron the dragon – Ah another huge dissappointment… FUCK FUCK FUCK you fox. So ya they get all the dragonballs and the dragon appears but the dragon is hiding behind fucking clouds and you only see his shadow. The voice of the dragon was provided by none other than Christopher Sabat who provided the voice for the dragon in the american version of the anime. When the dragon spoke it was chilling but damnit it was hiding behind clouds. One can hope they will fix this but chances of that are very slim.

There’s more in the link below. If you’re interested.

Presenting AICN’s First Review Of DRAGONBALL… [Ain't It Cool News] [Pic]