“Ni no Kuni – The Another World” is an RPG collaboration between anime vets Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle) and Japanese game developer Level-5 (Professor Layton, Jeanne D’arc, Inamuza 11).
The game was first announced for the Nintendo DS. Now it is being ported to Sony’s Playstation 3 console in HD.
Below are the two trailers for PS3 and DS versions, respectively.

(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]


