Raging Blast 2 was released in Japan 11 November 2010, which means that we now have some first-week sales figures for the game. It managed to grab the number-two spot this past week, selling 47,610 copies on the PS3 (the Xbox 360 version does not appear anywhere within the top twenty performing titles). There are …
About a week ago, Shueisha announced plans to release a new magazine called Saikyō Jump. At the time, this news had nothing to do with our favorite franchise — other series were receiving spin-offs from new artists (including One Piece), but Dragon Ball was not listed. Well, things have changed — we are getting one, …
Despite a re-release of the first Dragon Ball movie coming at the end of December, a new four-pack of Dragon Ball movies is due for 08 February 2011. Presumably consisting of the three original Dragon Ball movies and the franchise’s 10th anniversary movie (another re-telling of the early story combined with the Red Ribbon arc), …
FUNimation has confirmed that their re-release of the first Dragon Ball movie will contain a new dub featuring the updated cast from Kai. This will be the first time the movie is available uncut both in English and Japanese in North America, despite being one of the first items ever produced in the mid-90s. We …
We are back with another extravaganza of a podcast episode for all of you this week. It is all video games all the time, but those of you that do not have even a shred of interest in these games will still want to tune in. In our first topic segment, our buddies Jake and …
FUNimation recently blogged about a production error with the third Dragon Ball Z season set (the orange bricks from several years back), where the second disc is accidentally pressed with the content from the fifth disc. Only those who have purchased a copy of the set from its latest production batch within the last month …
FUNimation has finally confirmed that their re-release of the first Dragon Ball movie will indeed see the light of day this December. Curse of the Blood Rubies is due out 28 December 2010 for a cheap MSRP of $14.98. Set to be included is the original and uncut Japanese version, which is one of the …
Siliconera has an interesting article this morning detailing a couple recent trademark filings from Namco-Bandai that may be Dragon Ball-related. First up is “Ultimate Butôden” (アルティメット武闘伝), which would be a clear toss back to the Super Butōden series of games on the Super Famicom, and as the Siliconera article correctly notes, a series that concluded …
Right on schedule (if the past is any indication), a CD single for “Battle of Omega”, the opening theme to the recent Raging Blast 2 video game on the PS3 and Xbox 360 performed by Hironobu Kageyama, has been announced for release on 22 December 2010. All we have so far is the release date …
Raging Blast 2 is officially out, which means it is time to dig in to the re-made feature included on the game disc: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans. Having recently reviewed the original “Official Visual Guide” a few weeks back, everything is fresh in our memory… but does that help or hurt the new …