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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Dreamcast
Sports
A simulation with all the ups and downs of life at a football club. Injuries, lots of Yen, blood, sweat, tears – and that’s just the footballer’s wives!
PS2
Simulation
Based on the breath taking anime with high school heroine’s Saya vampire slaying and incredible production values, this second part of two is perfectly playable without owning the first. Treats players to sections of incredibly detailed anime and at various injunctions you must choose a course of action with multiples routes and outcomes.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Intriguing collectable from AM2 as they show off a lot of their messing with the VF2 crew in this video CD compilation.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
A very smart way to protect your DSi or DS lite in this sleek wrap with touch pen holder based on the Yatterman anime series.
Nintendo Hardware
Console
Japanese NTSC Wii console which allows adventurous gamers to open up the non – Western released world of Wii. Regional protection means owning the Japanese version is the only way to be able to savour the full release schedule. Nintendo’s new dawn appears very bright at present thanks to the innovative control method feeling like a spring breeze to jaded gamers after a bleak winter of too many derivitive releases. By taking a chance the usually conservative Kyoto company may prove the saviour of video gaming. Wii shall see…
Super Famicom
Sports
Konami changed the rules of the game with this sublime release. Combining easy pick up and play mechanics with a slick passing system, it took the patience of a Dutch master to be able to fully manipulate players to perform deft overhead flicks and inch perfect through balls. But the real thrill came in being able to recognise the stars of the world game for the first time in front of your very eyes. The pass master, the original.
Wii
Simulation
Beast battling game with quite a legion of followers in Japan so it is with some pride Nintendo bring it to the Wii. Its easy to see why though with expertly rendered ogres to lay into with precision planned armouries all looking very easy on the eye and making the very most of the hardware. Oozes with the Capcom polish of a triple A release.
XBOX 360
RPG
Akira Toriyama once again uses his DragonBall drawing skills to sublime effect in working in tandem with some of the brawn behind the Final Fantasy series to bring us a Japanese flavoured action RPG with plenty of spiky hair and bush eyed creatures. The action is true to their long held design principles and there arent too many surprises along the way, but this adds to the warm, secure feeling of being in deep in the cosy RPG world. Tidy sub quests and completion lists for monsters and items add much to the overall quest.
Merchandise
Accessory
A small joystick which is manipulated to produce the special moves of the famous fight series and successfully pulling off the move rewards with an authentic sampled shout. Its possible to hone your fight skills in the lift or even on the train, but excessive use may require putting the specials into practise.
Merchandise
Accessory
A small joystick which is manipulated to produce the special moves of the famous fight series and successfully pulling off the move rewards with an authentic sampled shout. Its possible to hone your fight skills in the lift or even on the train, but excessive use may require putting the specials into practise.
Dreamcast
One on One Beat Em Up
Not quite wrestling, not boxing – no holds seem barred either in this encaged grapple fest. Plenty of modes of play and makes good use of the license, even down to the ability to edit your player. Still even without changing your man there are some brutal looking bruisers to choose from.
Dreamcast
Simulation
Plenty of flushes and wry smirks from the poker face avatars of the Sakura Taisen participants in this card game. Nice off shoot from the world where imperial Japan lives on.
Super Famicom
Shooter
Take on giant mecha adversaries that dart around onscreen in this anime themed light scope game from the big N themselves.
Nintendo DS
RPG
Plays like an anime version of The Water Margin, no surprise seeing as the original source material is based on Chinese legend. Action RPG with quick fix combat and very stylised, watercolour characters offering advice with big beards and rotund figures. Highly competent and full of katakana text sound effects making it play like a live manga strip.
Nintendo DS
A Bit Special
Set in a hammed up seventies kung fu movie, players have to exhibit their kanji (or Chinese character) prowess rather than any praying mantis forms. The stylus is used to write the hiragana reading of characters, the kanji of hiragana words or even identify the correct radical. So its definitely a study aid, but a very well executed one with plenty of style and tight character recognition.
Dreamcast
Simulation
Forget the card game take on the Sakura Taisen world; this deluxe Dreamcast version comes with a full sized wall clock with picture of the girls enjoying a game of cards and a cup of tea and some suspected peeking at players hands. No wonder the Dreamcast was doomed, but what unparalleled love towards owners from Sega.
Dreamcast
Simulation
Forget the card game take on the Sakura Taisen world; this deluxe Dreamcast version comes with a full sized wall clock with picture of the girls enjoying a game of cards and a cup of tea and some suspected peeking at players hands. No wonder the Dreamcast was doomed, but what unparalleled love towards owners from Sega.
PS2
A Bit Special
More of the madcap mayhem that made the prequel such a popular title with plenty of bizarre inhabitants as the giant ball engulfs all that it can rolling around Japanese towns all wondrously realised in the games unique style. Not just towns though – a school, ski resort, even the bottom of a lake keep things fresh and innovative. Tactical additions to gameplay such as having to race your katamari or having to become a giant fireball through collecting wood and rubber. Known in English as We Love Katamari.
Dreamcast
Puzzle
Bringing the mahjong mass market to Western players is worthy of commendation and allows gamers to access the vast array of Japan only mahjong titles. The strangely zen meditative properties of clearing the on screen titles is a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon pastime. Independently produced Dreamcast title.
PS2
Sports
Japan exclusive title with realistic graphics produced using motion capture technology. Includes the twelve top Japanese Professional teams with their full squads: even down to the mascots so players can savour Giants vs Tigers match ups. Some hyped up commentary helps to crank up the pressure with bases loaded and Konami’s experience in the genre with the Powerful Pro Yakyuu series shines through.
PS2
A Bit Special
A superb concept and it works like a treat as players expertly use cooking chopsticks to deliver and flip slices of meat and vegetables to hungry punters. The meat sizzles away and the sound effects are very authentic so you can almost smell the beef grilling over the hot coals making for a great pre dinner blast. Customers chatter away but burnt meat or slow service will soon have their satisfaction meter tumbling down. Theres a great array of clients though but harder levels reveal a gaggle of fussy gourmet diners.