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Tekken Card Tournament to be free-to-play; physical cards later this year

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January 22, 2013

Today Namco Bandai revealed a new take on the Tekken fighting game series… and that new take happens to be a card game. Within the next few weeks Tekken Card Tournament will be released as a free-to-play game that will be playable on computer browsers, smartphones and tablets.

The neat thing here is, that players can actually buy physical cards in booster packs that can be incorporated into Tekken Card Tournament via QR codes which will provide upgrades for your fighters as well as new characters. To see a little about how the game will work, check out the handful of newly released screenshots below.

Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump now revamped and simultaneous with Japan

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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The “Alpha” phase of Viz Media’s new Shonen Jump digital manga service has ended and as of today the company has launched the new Weekly Shonen Jump which is now on a simultaneous schedule with it’s Japanese counterpart. To go along with this upgrade, the company has also redesigned their Shonen Jump website and revamped the look of the magazine itself.

Currently a one year subscription to Weekly Shonen Jump costs $25.99 for a year and all magazine issues you download during your subscription time are yours to keep. If that wasn’t enough, check out the newly unveiled Shonen Jump Anthem video below. This first week of Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump contains chapters from Naruto, the newly debuted One-Punch Man, One Piece, Nisekoi, Bleach, Cross Manage, Toriko and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal and you can check out a little preview image of each chapter below. It was also revealed today that next week’s issue will faeutre Akira Toriyama’s one-shot manga Kintoki.

Learn how to unlock the Dead Space 3 Mass Effect N7 armor

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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If you thought that EA wasn’t going to put any more crossover items into their games then you probably are a bit of a fool. Following up with last year’s Mass Effect armor and weapons added to Kingdoms of Amalur, this time we have Dead Space 3 receiving some special Mass Effect N7 Armor.

You can check out the armor in the image above (click for high-res) or in the trailer below. Now how do you unlock this Dead Space 3 armor? Easy. All you need is a save file from Mass Effect 3 on the console you are playing Dead Space 3 on. EA has said that this armor will be available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Let’s Fish! Hooked On, the anime-styled fishing game, hits North America in late January

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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It looks like the PlayStation Vita’s very first fishing game, and a fishing game with anime-themed characters no less, finally has a set release date for North America and Europe. Wired Productions revealed today that Let’s Fish! Hooked On will be released onto the PlayStation Vita’s PlayStation Store on February 29th for North America and February 30th for Europe for $19.99.

To go alogn with this release date announcement, Wired has released two gameplay videos focusing on the two female characters for the game, Jamie and Kano. It is currently unknown if the game will feature an option to have the Japanese voice-clips instead of the English clips. Either way, the title was developed by the team that created SEGA Bass Fishing and features four game modes, World Tour where each of the four characters have a different storyline, a challenge mode, training and an underwater mode.

Glance at Tales of Xillia’s battle system in these latest screens

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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Perhaps today should be called Namco Monday considering how many pieces of news came out of the company. First they revealed that Project X Zone is heading West, released new Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 screenshots and detailed the game’s pre-order bonuses and they have even announced One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 for North America.

Now, in what may be the last piece of news for Namco for the day, the company has released a handful of new English Tales of Xillia screenshots which you can check out below. While not numerous, these screenshots do give us a brief look at the classic Tales battle system and the gorgeous character design.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 confirmed for North America; no Vita release

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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While One Piece fans in Europe have been able to breath easy, fans of the series in North America have been growing concerned over the lack of news concerning One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 in their territory. However today Namco Bandai in North America announced that the title is indeed coming over to the West as a digital download for the PlayStation 3.

Unfortunately, it seems that, for some unknown reason, the Vita version of One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 is not going to be released in the West. In response to Siliconera, a Namco Bandai rep stated that “Unfortunately the game will not be available for Vita in North American territories.”

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3’s latest trailer unleashed the Tailed Beasts

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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Today must be the day of Namco Bandai considering there has already been information released for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3’s pre-order bonuses and the localization of Project X Zone. Well to continue this string of Namco news, a number of new screenshots for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 have been revealed and can be seen below.

Also released today was a new Ninja Storm 3 trailer, this time focusing on all nine tailed beasts that will be playable in the game. The trailer, which can be seen below, shows off some of these fighters abilities and gives some of them more screentime than they ever received in the anime/manga.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Japanese bonus costumes revealed

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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Earlier today we reported about the North American pre-order bonuses for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, and while we may be receiving a few physical bonuses, Japanese gamers will be receiving bonus costumes. Namco Bandai in Japan has released screenshots of the six bonus costumes that will be given to anyone who pre-orders the game in Japan.

The below costumes are the Goku crossover outfit which is included in every first run copy of the game, then we have an Armored Naruto costume, Hinata and Sasuke’s outfits from the Road to Ninja Naruto movie and finally a ANBU Kakashi costume and Sakura fighting in a bikini because fan service.

Currently Namco Bandai in North America has not mentioned these costumes except for the Goku one, and we have reached out to them for comment on whether or not these outfits will be released in some form (probably DLC) in the West.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 pre-order bonuses detailed

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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Today Namco Bandai revealed what type of bonuses you will receive if you pre-order Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 from certain retailers in North America. As we’ve long known now, anyone who pre-orders the game from any store will receive a a special costume for Naruto that has him wearing Goku’s clothing from Dragon Ball as well as a trading card of some kind.

However if you pre-order the title at GameStop, you will be given an exclusive poster alongside those aforementioned bonuses. Plus, if you happen to be a GameStop PowerUP Rewards member you will also be given a 30-day trial to Viz’s Neon Alley anime stream for the PlayStation 3. If you don’t know what Neon Alley is, you can read up on our impressions of the service here.

Also, Namco Bandai officially announced their Club Namco collector’s edition which we reported on last week. In case you missed it, this collector’s edition comes with the Goku outfit, a poster, a trading card, the game’s soundtrack as well as some neat Nartuo and Sasuke figures. The collector’s edition now costs $80 instead of the early order price of $60 and only 5,000 copies have been made.

Currently Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 is set to be released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America on March 5th.

Project X Zone to be released in North America and Europe

Travis Bruno

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January 22, 2013

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This is certainly a very pleasent surprise on a Monday morning. Today, Namco Bandai has announced that Project X Zone, a title that many thought would never head West due to the massive amount of licensed characters in the game, will indeed be released in North America, Europe and Australia sometime in Summer 2013.

Project X Zone features over 50 different Namco, Capcom and Sega fighters from 29 different franchises all combined into an RPG which was developed by the makers of Xenoblade, Monolith Soft. Players will use these characters in a team of two fighters in a “pair unit” while a “solo unit” can be added into battle to help assist these two fighters.

Namco Bandai handled the publishing of the Nintendo 3DS exclusive in Japan and they will be doing the same in the West. To go along with this announcement, the company also released a number of Japanese screenshots which can be seen below.