http://www.the-magicbox.com The Magic Box Console Game News http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Sony announced the next PlayStation Vita Heaven event will be held in June, during the event new Vita titles will be announced. The first PSV Heaven broadcast was criticized by fans due to the lack of new titles. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Bandai Namco's Tales series producer Hideo Baba revealed new tidbits of the Next Tales of title, the tagline is that "do you have the consciousness to destroy the world in order to save a girl?". The game will have a more modernized theme with cultural elements. He also confirmed that there are other Tales games in development besides this mothership title. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120515b.shtml Capcom announced a new action shooter called EX Troppers in Famitsu, the game will take place in the same world as Lost Planet, but EX Troopers will have anime style visual, and the protagonist is a high school girl..... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120515a.shtml Bandai Namco revealed 8 new characters in its crossover strategy RPG Project X Zone for 3DS, including Chun Li, Morrigan, Valkyrie, Erica, Gemini and more.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120515c.shtml Nippon Ichi revealed a teaser image of its 20th Anniversary game title for PS Vita, you can find a sad looking girl wearing modern school uniform. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Cave has cancelled its two PS Vita games - a social game called Shirotsuku, and an unnamed shooter. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Tetsuya Nomura made a comment in this week's Famitsu, that although there is much desire to create a Final Fantasy VII remake, but the company's focus is on producing new titles, making new titles to match or top the quality of FFVII. Nomura also mentioned that Yuffie from FFVII was originally designed as a wanted person, you can see her wanted posters in Midgar. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Square Enix USA has revealed pricing for the final batch of Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC, including Perpetual Battlefield for Snow and Requiem of the Goddess for Lightning. The US version of Lightning's story shows the title "Another Beginning - Lightning's Story: Requiem of the Goddess", hinting on the third game. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Bandai Namco announced a new Android strategy RPG called Tales of the World: Tactics Union, the game will feature characters from the Tales series. The game will be distributed by KDDI in Japan, the game requires a KDDI AU Smart Pass membership, which is 390 yen. It will be free to play with optional downloadable items. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Nippon Ichi confirmed that the company is working on a 20th Anniversary title for PS Vita. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Compile Heart will release the PS3 RPG Kami Jigen Game Neptune V in Japan on Aug 30. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Bandai Namco will release the Level 5 developed PSP RPG Gundam Age in Japan on Aug 9, the game will be released in two different version - Gundam Age: Universe Accel and Gundam Age: Cosmic Drive, for 5980 yen each. Each version will have different set of playable Gundam characters. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Sega announced the release date of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown is June 6, the game will be available on PSN for 1500 yen and XBLA for 1200MSP. You can purchase customization items online for 500 yen a pack, each pack contains 19 items, just like the arcade version. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120514e.shtml Here are some new scans of Atlus' Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, a remake of the Sega Saturn version from 1997. The 3DS version will have touch screen support, new opening scene, new characters and new voice dialogues. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120514c.shtml Here are some new scans of Nintendo's Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 for NDS, showing various new Pokemons and characters. The game will be released on Jun 23rd in Japan. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120514d.shtml Here are some new scans of Bandai Namco's PS3 RPG Toki to Towa [Time & Eternity], showing the protagonist Toki's transformation.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120514a.shtml Square Enix released a new preview trailer of Final Fantasy XIII-2 Lightning - Requiem of the Goddess DLC, which is set to release on May 15, for 600 yen or 400MSP. The video also shows "Next Prologue".... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120514b.shtml Here are some new scans of Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the game will be available on Nov 13. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120513a.shtml Here are the latest Famitsu Most Wanted Top 30 Games in Japan. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510c.shtml Bandai Namco released a teaser image of the Next Tales Of title in this week's Jump magazine, the game will be officially revealed at the Tales Festival on Jun 2 & 3 in Japan. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Square Enix will release a new 242-page novel Final Fantasy XIII-2 Fragments After in Japan on Jun 21, for 980 yen. The story is broken into 5 chapters, which covers Lightning, Snow, Alyssa, Noel and Yule's untold stories: http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510e.shtml Bandai Namco will release Suite Precure: Let's Go! Marchen World in Japan on Aug 2, for 5040 yen. The game is based on the pretty girl anime series Suite Precure..... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510d.shtml Here are some clean scans of SCEJ and Marvelous AQL's PS Vita four players action RPG Soul Sacrifice. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510b.shtml Here are some new scans of Capcom's survival horror adventure game [Biohazard] Resident Evil 6. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Capcom revealed its sales target for game titles in the current fiscal year, they hope to ship 7 million units of Resident Evil 6 worldwide. In additional, Capcom plans to improve download content sales, they hope to sell 3.5 billion yen this year, up from 2.8 billion yen last year. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510a.shtml Here are the latest Media Create Console Software Sales in Japan for the week of Apr 30 - May 6, Mario Party 9 took the top spot and sold 145k in the week, Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City dropped to second place with 52k units sold .... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120510a.shtml Here are the latest Media Create Console Hardware Sales in Japan for the week of Apr 30-May 6, 3DS, Wii and PS3 saw a boost in hardware sales due to the golden week holidays in Japan.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Nintendo announced that the Aqua Blue model of 3DS will be phasing out soon, it is one of the two launch system colors, the other one is Cosmo Black. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Nintendo announced that its Japan only 3DS Spot TV download service Itsu no Ma ni Terebi will be shutting down on June 20. This service allows users to download 3D programs to the 3DS using Spot Pass, over 1 million users have used this service in Japan. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Square Enix has confirmed the price and release date of all the Final Fantasy XIII-2 download episode and costumes for the month of May, Lightning's Requiem of the Goddess will be released on May 15 for 600 yen or 400MSP in Japan. Here is a full list: http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Koei Tecmo mentioned that Gust's first PS Vita game Surge Concerto: Ciel Nosurge is performing well with repeat orders. As a subsidiary, Gust has attracted new user group that is different from Koei Tecmo's traditional fan base; and Gust has a 35% profit margin, 486 million yen operation profit and 1.251 million yen sales. Koei Tecmo plans to expand the Gust brand and its IPs to other businesses. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Koei Tecmo revealed that Dead or Alive 5 will have a global launch in September 2012, the sales target is one million units. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Koei Tecmo announced that the content download business is performing well, Shin Sangoku Musou 6 [Dynasty Warriors 7] generated 250 million yen sales, while Musou Orochi 2 [Warriors Orochi 3] generated 45 million yen sales. Future titles to have download content include Dead or Alive 5. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Nintendo announced a price cut for the current models of NDS. Starting May 20, the price of DSi XL will drop to US$130, and DSi will drop to US$100. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Sony released a new trailer of Keiji Inafune's PS Vita four player title Soul Sacrifice. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Capcom announced the worldwide shipment of its online shooter Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City have passed 2 million units. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Major Nelson announced that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has broken all previous XBLA digital sales records, selling more than any other titles in the first 24 hours. The game has been downloaded over 400,000 times in 1 day. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ RUMOR: Microsoft will make an announcement of Internet Explorer browser with Kinect support for Xbox 360 at E3 2012. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120509e.shtml Here are some new images of Atlus' Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena [Persona 4 Arena] for PS3 and Xbox 360, the home version will have story mode and anime cutscenes for all characters. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120509c.shtml Here are some new screenshots of Koei Tecmo's Musou Orochi 2 Special [Warriors Orochi 3 Special] for PSP, the portable version will support 4 players over Wi-Fi, and Rachel from Ninja Gaiden will be an exclusive character in this version. http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120509d.shtml Sega released a new iOS game Flick of the Dead in App Store on May 10. The game is a based on The Typing of the Dead, you use the touch screen keyboard to defeat the zombies..... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120509b.shtml Here are some new screenshots of SCE Japan's Soul Sacrifice, during the game if you sacrifice your body parts for too long, you will slowly lose your human form and become a monster.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Here are the latest Famitsu game review scores. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment got a 31/40..... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120509a.shtml SCE Taiwan announced that the Lightning's Requiem of the Goddess episode, along with the Snow's episode and new costumes for Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be available in the Asia on May 15.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/1205/game120508a.shtml Famitsu revealed new details of Soul Sacrifice, the game producer is Keiji Inafune, and co-developed by SCEJ and Marvelous AQL. In this game you sacrifice your body parts in exchange for powerful weapon, summons and magic. For example cut off the fingers to summon Gleipnir; remove your eyes to summon Gorgon.... http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Capcom announced that Sengoku Basara HD Collection will be coming to PS3 in Japan on Aug 30, for 4980 yen, the game includes HD remakes of Sengoku Basara, Sengoku Basara 2 and Sengoku Basara Eiyuu Gaiden (fighting game). http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Koei Tecmo announced that Musou Orochi 2 Special [Warriors Orochi 3 Special] will be coming to PSP on Jul 19, the PSP port will include an extra character - Rachael from Ninja Gaiden; players can also unlock all playable characters at the beginning if you have save data from the PS3 version. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Konami announced that its latest baseball game Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 will be coming to PS Vita, PS3 and PSP in Japan, featuring the big head characters in cartoony environment. The PS3 and PSV versions will have a new Pawasuta mode which allows you to interact with users in the network. http://www.the-magicbox.com/ SCEJ announced that Ratchet & Clank HD Collection will be coming in Japan this summer, which includes Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 & 3 together on one disc. The disc version will be 3980 yen, and the download version will be 3200 yen, you can also download individual game for 1200 yen each.