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The first mainstream review of “Shin Budokai” for the PSP seems to come from Chris Roper over at IGN, who gave it a 7.0 (“good”) overall score. Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai is a very simplistic fighter with a “so bad it’s good” storyline wrapped in an extremely portable package. It’s not great by any …

Atari re-released “Budokai 3” under the “Greatest Hits” label with a few extras from the JP version of the game (including the extra costumes and Japanese voices). Due to some type of production error, they accidentally shipped the original 2004 version (with no extras) in the new packaging. Despite corrected versions making their way to …

The official Japanese website for “Shin Budokai” has been launched and has a bunch of neat stuff.

Shueisha’s release schedule shows reprints of the two Dragon Ball GT “Perfect File” books (essentially smaller-sized daizenshuu dedicated to the DBGT series) with a release date of 04 April 2006. Other than being described as “reprints” we really do not know anything else about them, though it is safe to assume there will not be …

Our next bit of big news comes to us courtesy of our friend Sean “Onikuno” Forster: I was at Megacon today and spoke with Lance Heiskell the Funimation rep. I asked him the obligatory “what’s up with DB eps 1-13?” question. But this time I learned something new. According to Lance, when Funimation set up …

Gamespot is currently running a feature for “Shin Budokai” (PSP) on their front page right now. Something you may or may not already know about the game is that its story mode will draw elements from Dragon Ball Z movie 12 (out in the US next month): As with the previous DBZ games, Shin Budokai …

Both the “LEGEND OF DRAGONWORLD” two-disc vocal song collection and “BGM Collection” three-disc set were released in Japan today. Our forum member kenisu3000 has started a thread documenting which pieces are actually going to appear on the set, where they are from, what comes from the older 5-CD set, etc. Much thanks!