Though North America's still a few weeks away from getting its collective hands on Phantasy Star Portable 2, Sega's Satoshi Sakai announced to Famitsu that a fancy, extended version of the game will be released in Japan this year. Subtitled Infinity, the expansion will feature new visual lobbies in online multiplayer modes (similar to the original Phantasy Star Online), a respeccing tool for lowe... more.

Nintendo minigame collection and Capcom historical action game hold sway as no new releases crack the Japanese top 10. The week of August 9-15 was a quiet one for Japanese game retailers, with no new releases managing to crack the Media Create top 10 sales chart. Even a new release might have been hard-pressed to top the list, as Nintendo's minigame collection Wii Party continued to post gaudy n... more.

Namco Bandai's turn-based strategy RPG unseats Sengoku Basara 3 in debut week; PSP, PS3 rule hardware charts. Sengoku Basara 3 has proven to be better at toppling regimes than holding onto them. Into its second week on Media Create's weekly sales chart, Capcom's historically based beat-'em-up was unseated from the top position by Namco Bandai's latest installment in the Tales of Phantasia series... more.

Nintendo's minigame collection continues rocking the Japanese sales charts weeks after release, PSP action-RPG enjoys strong debut. Undaunted by curfews or residential noise ordinances, the Wii Party rages on. In its third week of release, Nintendo's latest minigame collection for the Wii once again topped the Media Create Japanese sales charts, selling nearly 99,000 copies from July 19 to July ... more.

New releases take the top three spots as DS role-playing game from Level 5 dominates sales charts, followed by latest DS Taiko no Tatsujin and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift for PS3. The Japanese sales charts, once dominated by Nintendo-published evergreen titles like Wii Fit Plus and Tomodachi Collection, is starting to look a little more current. For the second straight week, Media Create's Japanes... more.

Sony to release 160GB, 320GB models of console in land of the rising sun; new versions--plus white 160GB model--to go on sale on July 29. In September, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3 Slim, a thinner version of its current-gen console that had an improved hard drive capacity as one of its key selling points (not to mention a lower price and sleeker build). It seems Sony isn't done tinkering wit... more.

Capcom's MMORPG port tops software with 92,800 units, elevates Xbox 360 sales 843% week-over-week but DSi LL dominates hardware. Not even a three-year-old port on a largely marginalized system could quell Japanese gamers' insatiable appetite for Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise. According to the latest report from Japanese stat tracker Media Create, the week of June 21-27 saw Monster Hunter Fr... more.

E3 attendees don't always have all the fun. Before the booths in LA could even be fully taken down, Sony gave PlayStation Move its public debut this weekend at Japan's World Hobby Fair, a bi-annual event that features the latest games, manga, and anime. We were on hand to check out public reaction as well as the two featured ga... more.

Sony Japan has announced the first games to be updated for 3D in that region -- a set of games corresponding to those included with Sony Europe's Bravia promotion. Super Stardust HD, Pain, and WipeOut HD will all be patched to support 3D for those in Japan with fancy enough TVs on June 10. Like in Europe, new Bravia buyers in Japan will be treated to all three of these 3D games for free, along w... more.

SCEJ is delighted to announce today that they have reached over five million PlayStation Network accounts since it was launched in 2006. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.