
The last October week has been filled with plenty of interesting news (Sony announcing
PSP™ release details yesterday) and with a large number of new interesting releases. More than 30 new games were published in Asia and Japan in this week, including hot releases for different platforms.
PlayStation2™ highlights from this week include From Software's mech game
Armored Core: Nine Breaker, Atlus' tactical RPG
StellaDeus, SNK Playmore's fighting port
The King of Fighters 2003 and Sony's new RPG hit
Waga Ryuomiyo: Pride of the Dragon Peace.
Hot Xbox™ movers for other platforms include the Asian release version of
Dead or Alive Ultimate, Success' shooter
Psyvariar 2: Extend Edition and Capcom's 2D fighter
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (supporting online battles via Xbox Live™).
For Gamecube™ we have shipped Nintendo's tennis fun game
Mario Tennis GC and Dreamcast™ fans were satisfied with Alchemist's shooting & adventure mix
Baldr Force EXE.
As a small side note, please be informed that the
Japanese release version of Armored Core: Nine Breaker is scheduled for shipping tomorrow and our major batch of the surprisingly well selling
Baldr Force EXE is expected to arrive on Monday.
As usually, below you will find a summary of all new releases from this week:
PlayStation2™:
Xbox™:
The Japanese release version of
Dead or Alive Ultimate as well as the
Xbox Kasumi-chan Blue Edition were postponed for release next week (November 3rd).
Gamecube™/Gameboy Advance™:
Dreamcast™/PS one™:
Toys, Soundtracks & Misc:
Looking forward to next week, more than 20 new titles are expected for release in Japan. Highlights include Sony's new slim 70000 model PS2™ console (available as
110V Japanese and
100-240V Asian model), Sega's strategy game
Shining Tears, Sony's online RPG
Arc the Lad: Generation and Konami's action shooter
Neo Contra (all for PS2™) along with a bunch of budget re-releases.
Among coming week's GBA™ releases we will have Nintendo's
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and Atlus'
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children Messiah Riser. For Xbox™ we are finally expecting
Dead or Alive Ultimate (Japanese version) and the
Xbox Kasumi-chan Blue Edition (currently presold).