For those of you that imported Earth Defence Force 4, here are a few screens with translations. Thanks to Yakumo of http://www.segagagadomain.com/ for producing these. Hope you are all enjoying the game!








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Video games are nearly 40 years old, depending on where you start the count. For such a young industry, it has seen an incredible amount of diversity and creativity. There are a lot of books on various gaming subjects. Though as pointed out by John Szczepaniak in his Kickstarter campaign, there are not a lot of English-language books covering Japan. Only a handful, and usually focusing on Nintendo. There have been a lot of video game related Kickstarters, but John's has to be one of the most...

A system that has maintained production for 20 years, and can boast of many hardware innovations from built in microphone, to Disc based add on and even internet modem. A system that was the birth place of some of today's biggest franchises in gaming, a system that pioneered many things in its lifetime. Its name? The Nintendo Family Computer. Although known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the West, the Japanese counterpart was superior in every aspect. It is perhaps surprising then, that...

Retro Revival 2013 is this weekend, 18 & 19th May at Wolverhampton Race Course. There will be Freeplay Arcade & Pinball machines, Retro Consoles, Computers, Virtual Reality Machine, Cosplay, and Competitions. Special guests inc Bob Wakelin, Simon Butler, Bill Harbison, Archer Maclean, The Oliver Twins, The Newsfield gang (Roger Kean, Oliver Frey, Robin Hogg and Paul Rand) probably a few more too. But enough about dressing up and official announcements, what gaming challenges will RetroCollect have ...

In the second of our 2-part interview with the developers at Quarter Circle Punch Game Works we take a look at the wider state of the game industry and their plans for the future. If you've missed it you can also find the first part here.

BD: What was the most rewarding thing to come out of Wonton 51 for you guys?

Chopemon: Having a player duel me for the high score. Having a player care enough to go after a high score and send me their scores is one of the most worthwhile...

If you haven't heard of Quarter Circle Punch Game Works or their superb shmup release Wonton 51, where've you been? You can check out Blair Macdonald's detailed review of this quality iOS shooter and find out exactly why it scored a solid 7 / 10 right here. If you haven't heard of Quarter Circle Punch Game Works or their superb shmup release Wonton 51, where've you been? You can check out Blair Macdonald's detailed review of this quality iOS shooter and find out exactly why it scored a solid 7 / 1...

Code of Princess is a side scrolling beat 'm up in the vein of Guardian Heroes. It's being released on the EU eShop on March 28th 2013. It was originally released with much anticipation in April 2012 by Agatsuma Entertainment in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS. Read our full review of Code of Princess here

From 1 to 4 players will be able to battle it out in a Vs, or 2 players will be able to play the Story mode co-op style.

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The team over at Hucast, who previously released Dux for the Dreamcast (review can be found here), and are in the process of finishing up the sequal Redux, have released some screenshots and details on their newest DC title, Ghost Blade.
Boasting 5 stages the initial screens of this vertical shooter are certainly a significant step up in quality from Dux, and Hucast have opened pre-orders for a 300 print run Collector's Edition, which will include a soundtrack and Superplay D...

With Sega's recent lawsuit against Level 5 involving patent infringement there's been some debate amongst the gaming community regarding the validity of Intellectual Property(IP) law. Every so often the media picks up on a particularly high profile case such as this and when the patents are particularly broad it can cast an unfavourable light on such behaviour, particularly with the modern contentiousness of patenting software. But let's take a moment here - most business goes on behind closed door...

It wasn't always the case that the Japanese had the games market sewn up, you know. With Microsoft's XBox currently fighting a grim war of attrition for second place against Nintendo's Gamecube, younger gamers could be forgiven for thinking that it seems like a suicidal mission - to take on the acknowledged masters of the art of gaming on their own terms. However, the Americans have tried this kind of trick before, and while it didn't amount to the success story that it deserved to be, Commodore's...