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Eidos Buyout, Taito Severance Drains ¥5 Billion From Square-Enix

1:40PM Owen Good | Square Enix amended its consolidated results forecast today, lowering its income projections for the fiscal year, which is now half over. Severance payments to get rid of some Taito employees and the company’s takeover of Eidos were blamed. More »
Culture

Cute Korean Ramen Ladies Rip Off Bubble Bobble?

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | South Korean idol group Girls’ Generation appears in a tasty noodle commercial, singing a very happy and familiar song. More »
Culture

Afternoon Tea Now Includes Space Invaders

11:00AM Owen Good | In an inverse Coors-Blue-Mountains way, this tea vessel shows blue pixelated Space Invaders when the contents are, of course, the hottest-tasting beer tea in the world. More »
Media

Bubble Bobble IPhone Screens Pop Up

10:20AM AJ Glasser | Taito’s teasing Bubble Bobble iPhone on their Facebook page, fresh off Space Invaders Infinity Gene’s critical success. More »
Hands On

Space Invaders Infinity Gene Micro-Review: Evolve Or Die

3:00AM Brian Crecente | Earlier this year Taito released the original Space Invaders on the iPhone and iPod Touch to average reviews and little fanfare. Now, less than six months later, Taito has re-imagined its classic shooter for the iPhone in Space Invaders Infinity Gene. More »
Hands On

Waterway Micro-Review: A Little Wet Behind The Ears

5:00AM Brian Crecente | Rough Cookie’s Waterways is a top-down puzzler that uses water management to provide an interesting twist to the classic concept of getting the hero, in this case a blocky cow, from one end of a maze to the other. More »
Culture

Want To Try Out Taito’s First Person Arcade Shooter?

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Cyber Diver is described as an “original” take on the FPS genre with 5-on-5 networked play and a new game system that displays in-game battle damage. More »
News

Space Invaders Extreme Gets A Bit More Extreme Tomorrow

7:20AM Mike Fahey | More levels, more bosses, more enemies, and two classic arcade emulators add even more extreme to Space Invaders Extreme as new DLC for the Xbox Live Arcade version drops from the sky tomorrow. More »
Media

New Space Invaders Extreme Screens: Minter In Package

6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Taito will release Space Invaders Extreme on Xbox Live Arcade later this month, a high-definition remake of one 2008’s best portable games. Xbox owners get more than just extra pixels—they also get extra Jeff Minter.