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The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.


Published by 08 October 2007, 9:56 PM EDTComment

This cannot be a particularly good thing: NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), an interactive entertainment company, today announced that its majority stockholder, California U.S. Holdings, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infogrames Entertainment, S.A., removed James Ackerly, Ronald C. Bernard, Michael G. Corrigan, Denis Guyennot, and Ann E. Kronen from the

Published by 02 October 2007, 7:26 AM EDTComment

The official website for “Sparking! METEOR” has updated, per its usual schedule, with some character art and bios for more of the playable characters. The main point of interest here is that we have confirmation that Eiji Takemoto (best known to me as Rock Howard from various SNK games) will be taking over the voice

Published by 30 September 2007, 8:00 PM EDTComment

Holy crap. Not too shabby. If you head over to The Magic Box, you can check out the “Famitsu” scores for “Sparking! METEOR”, which is out this Thursday (October 4th) in Japan: 9, 8, 8, 8 for the Wii, and 8, 8, 8, 8 for the PS2.

Published by 27 September 2007, 7:38 PM EDTComment

Yep. Yep. You read that correctly. “Remastered and with all new special effects!” I can’t wait. You can check out the updated description over at RightStuf, where you can also pre-order it for a mere $11.24. You will also see the confirmation of multiple language tracks (making our prediction accurate, as expected).

Published by 21 September 2007, 2:41 PM EDTComment

Another month has come and gone, and the next set of the Dragon Ball individual discs are finally here! As always, each of these discs contain six episodes, covering episodes 109 thru 126, and are set to be released 03 October 2007. You can still order any of the released Z discs or any of

Published by 10 September 2007, 10:30 PM EDTComment

IGN has a new “video diary” up that includes some info on the upcoming “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” from Tsuyoshi Hirana (Game Planner, Spike) and Eddie Nagura (Production Selection – Bandai Namco). The video is a little over two minutes long, so definitely check it out if you are at all interested in the game. There

Published by 07 September 2007, 11:56 PM EDTComment

FUNimation’s official Dragon Ball Z website has a poll up for you to select some of your favorite fights from the show. It seems to indicate that some type of bonus material will be included if you purchase (pre-order?) the domestic release of “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” from GameStop. Will it be a bonus DVD sorta

Published by 06 September 2007, 7:00 PM EDTComment

Check this out — Target has listed one of the upcoming “Koro-chan Pack” discs (well, “Colo-chan”) for purchase: Pretty interesting stuff. They say it will be available 01 October 2007; keep in mind that both the DB and DBZ “Koro-chan Pack” CDs will be available over in Japan pretty soon on 19 September 2007.

Published by 06 September 2007, 6:58 PM EDTComment

The big gaming news going around right now is three additional “Sparking! METEOR” characters: check out Artificial Human #8 (“Ha-chan”), Namu, and Akkuman! It is great to see even more representation from the earlier parts of the manga / first TV series.