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Published by 17 December 2007, 5:49 PM ESTComment

Now that an official website has been set up for the game, we actually have some confirmation on certain things! The upcoming fighter for the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 is indeed being developed by Dimps and has actually been in development for a bit (Dimps is not exactly rusty, either; the “Shin Budokai” and

Published by 16 December 2007, 3:26 PM ESTComment

Episode #0107 of the podcast is available for download! We took it back to a character-specific topic, and again focused on the changing voices of that character. Unlike Cell, for example (where Norio Wakamoto remained through all transformations), this character doesn’t really have voice changes due to transformations… rather, the original seiyuu passed away in

Published by 15 December 2007, 2:41 PM ESTComment

ect5150, in diligent ever-scanning-Amazon-Japan fashion, has discovered the full release schedule for the upcoming Dragon Ball GT R2 DVDs. As with DB & DBZ, these are individual discs based off of the previous Dragon Box sets (non-faux-remastered, nice sound, progressive, full-screen, etc.). Remember, these are from Japan, and while they are NTSC, they are encoded

Published by 15 December 2007, 12:04 PM ESTComment

SuperHeroHype is sourcing “The Hollywood Reporter” on this one — apparently Eriko Tamura will be joining the cast as Mai (Pilaf’s female lackey), and Joon Park will be playing Yamcha (I guess James Kyson Lee did not get the role?). We also have Emmy Rossum joining the cast in some unknown role. If we know

Published by 13 December 2007, 9:20 PM ESTComment

With the Will News has put up some information listing a whole bunch of interesting Dragon Ball-related releases coming from FUNimation later this year: DBZ movies 1 & 2 Blu-ray May 27th – Remastered DBZ movies 1 & 2 DVD May 27th – Remastered DBZ Season 5 box set May 27th DBGT Season 1 box

Published by 13 December 2007, 9:15 PM ESTComment

Our buddy Timo wrote in to let us know that there are some new releases on the way over in Germany. Carlsen Comics (who released the manga over there) announced that they will be putting out the “Film Anime Comics” versions (or “animanga”) for the Dragon Ball Z TV series. There is a little bit

Published by 13 December 2007, 9:13 PM ESTComment

“Sparking! METEOR” (released internationally as “Budokai Tenkaichi 3”) is still the new-hotness for the franchise, but Namco-Bandai is already heading into “next-gen” territory with a “new battle for Goku and friends” on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 entitled “Burst Limit”: The preliminary info and images come from next week’s Jump (by way of NeoGAF).

Published by 11 December 2007, 9:50 PM ESTComment

Mark Bozon over at IGN has finally put up a review of “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” focusing on the Wii version, though mentioning the PS2 version where appropriate: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is far from being a failure of a game. When looking at the core gameplay, and ignoring the titles before it, BT3

Published by 10 December 2007, 5:39 PM ESTComment

According to Atari’s latest press release, all disputes with FUNimation have been settled and they will continue onwards as the exclusive US rights holder — all it did was cost them another $3.5 million: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), an interactive entertainment company, announced today that it settled its previously reported dispute with FUNimation Productions Ltd.

Published by 09 December 2007, 11:45 PM ESTComment

Episode #0106 of the podcast is available for download! It’s everything you’ve been waiting for, and so much more. I actually wasn’t sure if I was going to have it done in time to say it actually came out on Sunday… but it looks like I pulled it off. I’ll just require extra coffee in