Our forum buddy (and Sparking! METEOR non-apologist connoisseur) Innagadadavida is certainly keeping up on the other new game coming our way for the PS3 and 360, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast. Namco-Bandai has already put up not just the official website for the game, but a slew of screen-shots in the opening video:

So there you have it. We will continue keeping you up-to-date on all the latest information with these games, including if Atari / Infogrames / Namco-Bandai announces anything about a domestic release.

Now that a couple days have passed, a little more information has slipped out about the two new games on the DB-horizon. First up is the new game for the Nintendo Wii, titled 天下一大冒険 (Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken), or The World’s Greatest Adventure. Our Korean forum buddy DongHyun even has some new images over at their website which seem to come from the game’s official website that just opened:

From the looks of it, we will finally be getting a new console game for the first time in many years that is not a fighting game (though keep reading, since you know a fighting game is also on its way). Goku skiing? Gigantic fish jumping over bridges? Fighting Bear With Sword™? Sign us up.

In addition to the Nintendo Wii game just announced, gamekult.com spills the beans that the new Dragon Ball Z game mentioned in the Namco-Bandai fiscal report from the other day is a new game entitled Dragon Ball: Raging Blast. The current photos/scans from Xbox Evolved make it impossible to tell anything else, but it appears to be a new game more along the Sparking! style than Burst Limit (the word Sparking! on a prior page of the magazine also hints that way).

Big thanks to Innagadadavida for the heads up on this one. Once again, we will keep you updated with any and all forthcoming information and details.

We told you back in February that a new game based on the original Dragon Ball series was currently in development for the Nintendo Wii. French site wiiz.fr has the first info from an upcoming magazine feature with the first details and screens from the game.

We will keep you up-to-date with details and the full name of the game as our Japanese friends get a chance to check out the magazine.

Courtesy of examiner.com, we have learned that the latest fiscal report from Namco-Bandai leaks the information that a new Dragon Ball Z video game is in development for the PS3 and 360 and is tentatively due sometime in Q2 of the 2009-2010 fiscal year (putting it anywhere between October and March). Namco-Bandai expects to sell 800,000 copies of the new game across Europe and Japan (specifically listed as such; North America is not included):

While the game is being developed in Japan, remember that Atari’s (and therefore Infogrames’) sub-license with FUNimation to distribute Dragon Ball games for certain markets expires in January 2010. At the same time, significant business developments continue to transpire with Namco-Bandai and Infogrames across Europe with their Distribution Partners business.

This news is also in addition to the as-of-yet officially-unannounced game currently in development for the Nintendo Wii.

Despite the CD singles for the opening and ending to Dragon Ball Kai seeing a release this month and next month respectively, it appears that Columbia will be double-dipping us with a “Koro-chan” version of a Kai CD in July.

The new CD will be called Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai and appears to feature (according to the CDJapan description) at least the opening and ending themes to the series, seemingly karaoke versions, and possibly more. It will be interesting to see how this release separates itself from the individual CD single releases for the opening and ending themes. The inclusion of a “picture book” along with the CD is certainly one way to set itself apart. This new CD will be released 15 July 2009 for ¥1575 by Columbia under the catalog number COCZ-1083.

Just posted by our buddy kei17 over in Japan is some information regarding new cover art that the tankōbon are going to be receiving. While the basic images will remain the same, the surrounding details are being freshened-up quite a bit:

Yes, although the kanzenban run has been the de facto version of the manga that Shueisha has been promoting and referencing (such as in new guide books) since their release a few years ago, the original 42-volume tankōbon run has been very much alive alongside its higher-quality cousin. It is certainly interesting to see it get an update at this point in time, especially considering that even games like Super Dragon Ball Z paid extreme homage to its iconic style.

It will be interesting to see whether or not this new tankōbon run will take any elements from the kanzenban (such as minor censoring details, the “Welcome” fix, or the new ending), though we tend to think it unlikely. kei17 does mention that the spine art will be “changed” (such as not including two Yajirobe), and it will see its release at the beginning of May.