Nintendo's Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto was not a happy man during the GameCube era. The creator of Link and Mario describes Nintendo's fourth-generation console entry as a time of "dilemma." Miyamoto says in a new Famitsu interview, by way of 1UP, that during the Nintendo 64 and GameCu...

Enterbrain, publisher of game mag Famitsu, has complied its game software sales data for last year in Japan. Which game was the biggest seller? Which games bombed? All that, and more. (By "more," we mean those in-between games that did okay. Hooray for them!) Here's the crunched numbers: 1. Monster ...

Lots of games came out last year in Japan. Lots of games means lots of games for Japanese magazine Famitsu to review. Here are the best PS3 games of 2008 according to Famitsu. Games are rated by four Famitsu critics on a scale of 1-10. Those scores are then tallied. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the P...

If you believe most reviews, The Last Remnant's outing on the Xbox 360 was mired in technical issues, evoking the kind of strain and unexpected farting more closely associated with the plane-pulling segment of a strong man competition. The most obvious solution, then, is to get a bigger man or perha...

While print mag Famitsu ran the ten biggest stories of 2008 according to it's readers, Japanese website Famitsu.com has listed its most accessed stories from 2008 according to page views. According to Famitsu.com, the top 15 are: 1. PSP-3000, First Hands On! 2. [Play Report 1] Street Fighter IV They...

Famitsu Editor-in-Chief Hirokazu Hamamura has looked into his crystal ball and has opinions about how Dragon Quest IX will do in 2009. And it'll do mega, he forecasts. According to Hamamura, "March [DQIX's launch month] will be bigger than the year-end sales war. Even side-stories (such as Dragon Qu...

This week's Famitsu announces mecha Macross Ace Frontier for the PSP. The game is based on the anime Macross Frontier, and hey, the franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary! Out in this fall in Japan, the PSP game is being developed by Art Dink (read more about them here) and will be published ...

Phoenix Wright rival Miles Edgeworth is getting his own DS spin-off, Perfect Prosecutor. The DS title co-stars detective Dick Gumshoe as Edgeworth searches for crime scene evidence that coppers missed in a new third person walking search and deduction system. Walking in an Ace Attorney game? What th...

Hooray! This April, The King of Fighters XII is getting its first official play test in Japan. As pointed out in Famitsu, it's traditional 3 vs. 3 team match-ups. Also, the screen's edge forms a hard barrier that players will have to balance. What's more, attacks can cancel each other and there's a ...

People only seem fussed over the scores from one Japanese mag: Famitsu. And while they're not the most reliable barometer for a title's quality (for long-running franchises like Final Fantasy, you can forget about a fanbase-annoying score), it's still somewhat interesting seeing how they felt 2007's...