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Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire has taken the top spot in the Japanese charts after its first week on sales, leading a wave of Western-developed successes in the region. The Team Bondi-developed detective thriller shifted more than 70,000 copies in Japan, with the PS3 copy taking No.1. The game was one …
Read More »Western games shine in Japanese charts
LA Noire debuts at No.1, followed by fellow Western-developed games Infamous 2 and Goldeneye
Read More »Microsoft confident of Japanese Kinect sales boost
Microsoft believes a new wave of locally developed Kinect titles will help boost sales of the peripheral in Japan. Earlier this week, the platform holder’s Japanese Xbox 360 general manager Takashi Sensui admitted that the console’s motion-sensing camera did not met expectations at launch in the region, according to Andriasang. …
Read More »JAPAN: PSN fully restored
The PlayStation Network is fully back up and running in Japan following its hack that brought the service down in April. PlayStation Store went in Japan live today, allowing users to purchase games, download demos and additional in-game content once again. Hachimaki posted an image of PS Store live in …
Read More »JAPAN: Pokémon app due this summer
The Pokmon series is coming to mobile devices this summer with Pokmon Say Tap. Nintendo will soon release the new rhythm action game for iPhone, iPad and Android in Japan for free. The games sees players tapping in time with songs from the most recent Pokmon cartoon series. They also …
Read More »Sega strikes Japanese EA deal
Publisher Sega has reached a deal with EA to act as distributor for its games in Japan. Andriasang reports that the agreement kicks off right away with the publishing of EA’s Shadows of the Damned on September 22nd. And next next month Sega hopes to publish some of EA’s back-catalogue …
Read More »PSN gets Japanese green light
The PSN crisis may be distant memory in the West, but it’s a different story in Japan where full restoration has finally been confirmed for this Wednesday (July 6th). Though most PSN services were restored in the country around the same time they were reactivated in the West, the Japanese …
Read More »No ETA for PSN restoration in Japan
Japanese gamers are still none the wiser as to when the PlayStation Network will be fully restored in their country where the PS Store still remains offline. When PSN was eventually reactivated last month, the Japanese government stepped in to block its restoration in Japan saying that it wanted further …
Read More »3DS back on top in Japan
Having very much taken the back seat to PSP in the weeks that have followed its debut in Japan, Nintendo 3DS is finally back at the top of Media Create’s Japanese hardware charts. The machine sold almost 41k units last week, significantly up on the 25k sold the week before. …
Read More »Namco and Capcom – rivals, allies
Namco Bandai and Capcom may be competitors in the video games market place, but a shared need to find success out of their home country of Japan has brought the pair together. That’s according to Namco’s VP of label and brand strategy Hiro Ochiai, who was speaking to MCV about …
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