The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
The newest commercial for the Microsoft Zune features quite an interesting little Dragon Ball Z reference: Big thanks to everyone who has written in and posted about this one. From the sounds of it, you can check out the commercial on (at least) American television right now, especially on MTV and Cartoon Network.
Posted on our forum by Ash, we have learned that the performer of the second closing theme to Dragon Ball GT (“Don’t you see!”), and additionally the writer to the series’ opening theme (“DAN DAN Kokoro Hikarete ‘ku”), has passed away today at the age of 40. Izumi Sakai, the singer of Japanese pop group …
Anime News Network is reporting a story from over on ZAKZAK that a 24-year-old Japanese man has been arrested for bootlegging (and then, of course, selling) over 100 copies of Dragon Ball movies on DVD via an Internet forum.
For fans of the Japanese versions of these recent games, you will be happy to know that the official website for “Sparking! METEOR” has launched:
Atari’s formal press release announcing “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” (recently announced for Japan as “Sparking! METEOR”) states a whole lot of interesting things: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) one of the world’s most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, today announced that Dragon Ball Z(R): Budokai Tenkaichi(TM) 3 is in development for Wii(TM) and PlayStation(R)2 …
Shoko Nakagawa, generic Japanese otaku-idol-of-all-trades, has released an EP of anime cover songs. The first track and single off the CD is none other than the closing theme to Dragon Ball, “Romantikku Ageru Yo”. The five-track EP is entitled “Shokotan Cover ~ Anison Ni Koi Wo Shite”. There is a special CD+DVD bundle that includes …
Atari issued a press release earlier this month stating that that are in the process of a workforce reduction of approximately 20%: Atari Announces General and Administrative Overhead Action Plan – Reduction of approximately 20% of the total workforce – NEW YORK, May 1, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), …
The next game in the “Sparking!” series of Dragon Ball fighting games is heading to the PS2 and Wii, officially announced for Japan thus far later this year (no concrete date has been set, but if the past two games/years are any indication, look for it in the fall before the holiday season for sure). …
Let me begin by saying that things in the video game industry can — and do — change at any time. With that out of the way, let us take a look back at this time last year. We first heard about “Sparking! NEO” around this time, and if history continues to repeat itself, it …
It looks like France is getting a pretty sweet deal with a great release of the movies! Over on our forum, sangofe has detailed a bunch of information regarding the two-volume release — which seemingly features “remastered” versions — of all of the Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z movies and TV specials (excluding, unfortunately, …