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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Mega Drive
Simulation
Play as a divine being controlling the lands literally by raising and flattening for your followers. As their love for you increases greater powers will become available such as typhoons and earthquakes. But it is the crusader knight as hard as nails off to do battle in your name that most will remember fondly.
Mega Drive
Simulation
Unfortunately not the Treasure scrapper at a bargain price, but a Sega take on the Psychic Yu Yu universe. Whilst the two cant be compared, pound for pound this is still a quality production as Yu Yu goes on an adventure quest and encounters a few battles along the way. The rich characters come to life on the 16 bit machine.
Dreamcast
Rhythm
Updated version of the arcade smash with plenty more tracks to choose from including a rock version of A-Ha’s “Take On Me.” Also includes Hustle mode where moving the maracas around in time to the beat is the central premise as opposed to hitting the beats. Then there’s Love Love mode where success is measured by how many beats you can hit together with your partner. Preach no more: this is the game to convince non gamers to get involved and samba. Bursting with colour and sunshine – at least when you’re hitting the beats.
PC Engine Super CD ROM
Simulation
Fans of the popular Gunbuster series will lap up sequel with great cut scenes and songs from the hit anime. Greatly improved graphics over the original.
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.