You have picked up “Burst Limit” yet? The Xbox 360 version is currently over on Amazon for a special Cyber Monday price of $14.95. The PS3 version is also supposed to be $14.95 today, but is still showing up as $39.99 (for the time being, anyway).

The official Dragon Ball DVD blog now features Oolong and Yamcha’s coverage of the conclusion to the “Come forth, Shenron! Gather the Dragonballs” campaign. This was a contest held back in August in celebration of the release of the Dragon Ball individual discs, the winner of which would “have their wish made a reality”. The winner, chosen from 12,000 people, was a Mr. Suzuki, whose wish was to see the Dragon Ball movies on a private big screen theater (something tells me he had a somewhat limited range of wishes to actually pick from).

And so his wish was granted on November 16th, at Fuji TV Multimedia Theater in Odaiba. Fuji TV announcers Maiko Saitou and Keiko Tsubakihara were there, along with Hironobu Kageyama, who gave a live performance of “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA”. Goku himself then appeared in convenient styrofoam suit form and requested that Kageyama sing “We Gotta Power”. Masako Nozawa also came by and was interviewed together with Kageyama. They were asked what wish they would make to Shenlong, and Nozawa said she would like to get into the Guinness Book of Records, while Kageyama said that, as a fan of Kame-Sen’nin, he would wish to do a pafu-pafu… but he quickly added that he was only joking, and his real wish would be to always stay healthy enough to sing.

That is right, folks — the Jump Super Anime Tour Special is online right now and it is completely subtitled in English (pretty well, no less)!

Head on over to Jumpland’s English page for the special, and click the big “Download Browser” button in the bottom-right. You will need to be on a Windows-based machine to install this viewing program. Once that is done, go ahead and click the “Watch this anime” button in the middle with Vegeta & Tarble. As mentioned, it is completely subtitled in English (with the translations apparently done by a one Mr. “Anthony Carl Kimm”).

The special is going to be available for streaming online completely for free up until 31 January 2009. A future DVD release is already confirmed — a whole batch of upcoming Shueisha releases (Weekly Jump, V-Jump, etc.) will have the mail-in card to order it. Unfortunately, the site explicitly states (in English, no less): “We cannot accept orders from or send items outside Japan.” Time to start making pen-pals, folks!

After being released this last week, the fourth set of “Dragon Ball The Movies” individual discs (DBZ Movies 07 & 08) have deputed atop the “Japanese Animation DVD Rankings” on the Oricon charts. Both have sold about 7,000 copies in only one week!

Wow. I do not think you could possibly sum it up any more than Greg Miller did for his “Infinite World” review over on IGN:

Do not play Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World.

They have given it a 3.5 (out of 10). If you tune in to our latest podcast episode, you will hear from our end that we certainly do not feel like it is anywhere near that level. Since this is such a huge discrepancy, let u’s take a couple points from Greg’s review and see how he arrived at the final score.

It’s not that fighting is broken in this fighter; it’s just that it’s really boring. You’ll tap buttons like mad, and end up just firing off fireballs.

Very interesting, especially when you consider the scores given to games like “Budokai 3” (8.0), “Shin Budokai 2” (7.7), and “Burst Limit” (7.9). Granted, these were all written by different reviewers at the site, but that is a pretty huge difference when you take into consideration the fact that the fighting mechanics in all four games are essentially the same (with some tune-ups and changes here and there, of course).

These events aren’t fun, and they certainly don’t make me feel like I’m playing the anime. Did I miss the episode when floating hexagons descended on the world?

This I can get behind. As you can hear in the podcast episode, I was not hugely fond of the new “mini-games” and how they all essentially played the same clunky way each time.

When Goku’s deployed to learn how to block, three fractions are put at the bottom of the screen to represent how many times you have to do each type of block in the allotted amount of time. Oddly, the game never tells you how to do these blocks or which fraction is counting which type of block. You just have to leap around and try to figure out what the hell the game wants.

I both understand where Greg is coming from on this, and take major issue with it at the same time. The game does not tell you in an obvious way what your goals are and how to do them, but if you click through before you start the mission, there absolutely is a screen that explains how to do all three of those types of blocks.

Honestly, it does not seem like Greg played much of the game beyond the Saiyan arc when you consider that most of the text involving the rest of the game is essentially a rehash of marketing speak about the game known beforehand and right on the box itself. That is not to say I am defending “Infinite World” to any insane degree, but it may warrant a much closer look than Greg and IGN were willing to give it.

GamePro gave it an equally-interesting 2-out-of-5, and we are still waiting for a bunch of the other big sites to dish out their official reviews.

In other “Infinite World” news, Game Trailers is hosting a very interesting trailer for the game called “Best of Budokai Trailer“. It is pretty well done, including the mention of Hironobu Kageyama music that enthralled us so much on the back of the box. What is really interesting, however, is the obvious mix of game sources used to create it. Beta versions, Japanese version, and final American version can all be seen!

The fourth set of “Dragon Ball The Movies” individual discs (DBZ movies 7 & 8) were released yesterday. As usual, Toei has already posted the next set of covers (DBZ movies 9 & 10). These next two films, “The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy” (DBZ movie 9) and “The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors Can’t Rest” (DBZ Movie 10), are set to be released 12 December 2008.

You can still order any of the previously released discs or any of these discs from Amazon Japan.

While it is mostly been considered a joke by gaming enthusiasts, Spike TV’s Video Game Awards have indeed been getting slightly better over the years. In a halfway-shocking nod, “Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit” (the PS3/360 fighter from Dimps that came out earlier this year) is actually up for “Best Fighting Game”. Being that it is up against the likes of “Soul Calibur IV” and “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” (and the soon-to-be-released “Mortal Kombat vs DC”), it probably does not stand much of a chance.

Regardless, the Dragon Ball and “Naruto” nods certainly prove how far these games have come over the years.