UPDATE: Pandora’s Tower has been announced for North America, published by XSEED Games, and scheduled to be released Spring 2013! ~ Pandora’s Tower Tidbit #1 ~ Did you know Pandora’s Tower shows a Curse Gauge in the lower left screen while you’re playing the game? If you do not get the flesh from the master […]
Europe fans get excited for Spirit Camera and Project Zero 2: Wii Edition coming out in June this year. Project Zero 2: Wii Edition was previously known as the Wii remake of Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly, which will have updated graphics, additional endings, a pointer-control flashlight, and a new third-person camera view. Also included […]
One of the best scores so far
Will some people who pre-ordered get the game early?
Today’s Fan Art comes from Richie Berry
Fan Art for Day #10 of the Countdown. This one from Yasmine Barkani.
If you have yet to read it, be sure to check it out. The interview is titled ‘How RPG fans convinced Nintendo to release two Japanese titles in the US’
Check out this beautiful Xenoblade canvas painting that artist Benjamin Joseph posted on our Facebook wall!
This week on the USA VGChartz Pre-order Chart, Xenoblade Chronicles gets an additional 10,294 pre-orders from last week, bringing the total number of pre-orders in the US to 158, 455. With two weeks left on the charts, we could see the numbers rise to over 180,000. Not bad for a title that Nintendo of America […]
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VGChartz Weekly US Xenoblade Pre-order Numbers- Xenoblade Jumps to 18k! This Week Rank #——-Weeks Left——— Pre-orders Up———–Pre-orders Total 07 ———–04 ——————-18,095 ——————–148,161 Last Week Rank #——-Weeks Left———Pre-orders Up————Pre-orders Total 09 ———–05 ——————-13,462 ——————–130,066 GameStop http://www.gamestop.com/wii/games/xenoblade-chronicles-gamestop-exclusive/98535 VGChartz http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/40979/USA/ Note: VGChartz may use speculative information to come up with their numbers and should not be taken as […]
> Just a quick heads up to everyone, we will be upgrading our blog over the course of the week, so please bear with us as we get ready for some major updates. The website may experience a few down periods during the transition, but rest assured that you can also catch the latest updates […]
> Xenoblade’s Beyond the Sky was sung by Sarah Alainn, also known as Sarah Lim. She helped to write the lyrics to Shackles of Night, the theme song for the Otakon convention in 2010. Alainn also performed some songs for Makai Senki Disgaea 4 and Chaos Ring Omega.
>Some news that is sure to please all of our followers and give hope on a Pandora’s Tower North American release. Pandora’s Tower is currently the 5th best selling pre-order on amazon.co.uk and number 1 for Wii Pre-Orders in general! Hopefully this is an indicator of things to come! You rock Europe!http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandoras-Tower-Special-Edition-Wii/dp/B007C6EQGO/ref=zg_bsnr_videogames_5
> Gem Crafting 101 Part 3 Now comes the crucial part: any enhancement values under 100 will be up for Cylindration. This is where the Cylinder Gauge comes into play. Depending upon the Cylinder number on top, you can select just as many enhancement values. Each selected value will be ‘recycled’ into a Cylinder, to […]
> Here’s something fun you can do since it’s usually slow during the weekend.Find Aeron, Shulk, Zael, and a mystery character. Helpful tip: Click on the image to make it bigger.
>If you are looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles, say “thank you” to the developers: 株式会社モノリスソフト (Facebook) / @MONOLITHSOFT (Twitter).(HINT: You should LIKE/FOLLOW that page and/or FOLLOW them on Twitter!)
>“When discussing The Last Story as it moved along the final stages of development, it didn’t take Hironobu Sakaguchi long to draw the comparison with what is considered to be the gold standard of the JRPG. “I used the same method with Final Fantasy VII”, he conceded to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The method in […]
> Gem Crafting 101 Part 2This is probably the most confusing part as it involves Flames, Fever and whatnot. This is where is get’s really confusing, but in short: during crafting the Shooter and the Engineer will boost the stat values of the enhancements chosen through your materials and will fill the Cylinder gauge respectively. […]
> The March Issue of Game Informer has given a full page preview of Xenoblade, page 71. Below are two excepts from it, the first and second paragraphs:“Xenoblade Chronicles has been readily available in most major gaming markets in the world other than North America for a while now, and RPG fans have been raving […]