New Arrivals - Games & Hardware
All the latest games, hardware, figures, merchandise, gaming magazines etc that have recently arrived in store are here. Use the filter below to select your console and narrow your search
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PSP
One on One Beat Em Up
Bringing the intensity of the manga source material to the PSP and looking droolingly swish: full of colour, spped lines and streamlined cel shaded graphics making it like savouring the anime version at times. New moves and modes with the pizzaazz of the spirit attacks thankfully remaining in tact.
XBOX 360
Simulation
The Dream Club is a hostess bar where you can buy the girls drinks, chat, watch them get a bit woozy after too many drinks, enjoy a song and perhaps even treat them to a present or two on a date outside the club? Attentive gamers will flourish as the girls reveal secrets after too many cocktails and that knowledge will help answer tricky queries and win over their heart.
PC Engine CD ROM
A Bit Special
A fan disk and quite a rare one at that which compiles the animated cut scenes from three of the Valis releases on the PC Engine in Valis II, II and IV. In between sequences the narrator explains what is going on (bearing in mind the sequences are out of the context of the game.) A real treat for Yuko devotees. Subtitled Laser Soft Visual Collection Volume 2.
PSP
A Bit Special
Intriguing project that exudes Sony chic on the PSP. Basically a compilation of mini games pulled together on the premise of the rise in part-time work in modern Japan. Players save their very hard-earned cash to buy strange gashapons in the hope of unlocking another job, whilst chatting to their fellow part-time friends via the in game emails to pick up tips. An initial four games are available: catching baseballs to try and get up to a thousand. Putting pen caps on biros with an unhinged soundtrack to really feel the daily grind and mess with your sanity. Crossing the road frogger style avoiding the high speed cars. Finally counting pedestrians as they dart across a busy street. All executed with great style. A surprising unknown cracker in the PSP world.
PSP
One on One Beat Em Up
Ten colourful characters with two more unlockable in this veritable showcase for the PSP’s processing prowess with crisp, cel shaded graphics straight out of the smash anime series. Add to that the speed lines and the over the top special moves and you have a must buy for anime fight fans.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Panic Chan and Trouble Chan star in this OVA anime adventure packed full with plenty of doe eyed characters and more high jinx than Maison Ikkoku with a cheeky nod to Star Trek.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Based on the anime series with loose connections to Greek mythology, this plays a very solid battles in turn based combat with some sparkling visual effects worthy of the over the top specials. Between bouts players explore the platform sections that make up the dual format to the action.
PS2
Simulation
Live the dream: drive your bus around the big T not forgetting to announce the stops and shut the door before departure. Oh and buses run on time in Japan. White drivers gloves not supplied. Conversion of the much loved Dreamcast classic.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
A six track pre order bonus to accompany the sleek scrapper and a nice collectable for fans of the series. Only available to those who had preordered the PS3 version of the game entitled BlazBlue Continuum Shift.
Super Famicom
Sports
Football simulator as coaches drill their players before unleashing them on the opposition to wreak havoc in the opponents box. Well thats the theory anyway. A window at the top of the screen shows the action unfurling in a similar style to Formation Soccer. The view below shows the player monitoring, just like the Opta index.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
A small device for the GameBoy Pocket, Light or Color allowing users to get an extra boost in charge without using up batteries. The unit plugs into the charger (supplied) and soon charges up to give extra gameplay time.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
A small device for the GameBoy Pocket, Light or Color allowing users to get an extra boost in charge without using up batteries. The unit plugs into the charger (not supplied) and soon charges up to give extra gameplay time.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Twenty tracks weighing in at over an hour in this tribute to the 3DS version of Fire Emblem. Beautiful presentation of the CD with picture disk and fold out inlay and some divine inspiration into the tracks on offer. Being a Club Nintendo item it was only on offer in Japan to holders of enough points.
PS2
RPG
Pushing the PS2 to the limits of graphical splendour with painstaking attention to small detail wherever you may wander in the Phantasy Star Universe. Combat is not as drawn out as previous incarnations and the controls are very intuitive aiding enjoyment no end. As you’d expect from such a weighty series the presentation is lavish with immaculate cut scenes preparing players for the quest ahead. Enjoy the ride.
Super Famicom
Sports
The abbreviated name comes from Family Stadium and Namco have embellished their fine baseball series with plenty of gameplay aspects to make it accessible to all. Much loved in its many incarnations on both the Super Famicom and the Famicom previous to that.
Famicom Cart
Simulation
With a name like Dragon King War, you may well expect an action title of sorts. Well the action is all confined to the board here in this take on the shogi game, a sort of Japanese mahjong or perhaps type of chess. The presentation is fine though with caster announcer declaring progress and its possible to take on mythical figures from Japan’s past. No doubt with a civilised cup of green tea.
Mega Drive
Sports
Football blast from the J League’s hey day playing a nice, arcadey kick about. A real laugh with four players using the multitap, but arguments may ensue over who gets to be Gary’s Grampus.
XBOX 360
Shoot Em Up
Unusual twist on the shooter genre with G Rev putting a isometric slant on proceedings as two players (or the CPU plus one player) battle it out amongst some huge, spiraling bosses trying to deflect shots onto opponents. Occasion power ups lead to a vast transformation of your ship to unleash the mother of all shooter assaults on a suitably dwarfed opponent. Being Naomi based would have made for a fine DC conversion, as such the 360 takes more DC refugees under its all encompassing wing.
Super Famicom
Platform
Attains the Capcom level of polish as if Walt himself had been watching over the production. The imagination into the graphical effects sets the atmospheric powder keg off a treat such as with the lashing rain. And our beloved beast is a versatile creature ensuring the player soon warms to his dexterous manoeuvres.
Famicom Cart
RPG
This version has more going for it that didn’t make the cut for the English language release. Jammed full of Chinese cultural references, or at least Chinese culture from a Japanese perspective, it can be pretty zany at times.
Miscellaneous Games
A Bit Special
A game to help Japanese children learn English. Colour in the parts of the picture marked with the nominated letters, copy the letters on screen and play the letter games in matching up upper and lower case letters.