Festuring images for Ninja Gaiden - Dragon Sword (Nintendo DS), and Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PlayStation 3). The conference was on March 30th.

Group Picture (Itagaki, Hayashi)

Tomonobu Itagaki

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Demonstration

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Demonstration

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Demonstration

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Demonstration

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Demonstration

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Artwork

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Director Yosuke Hayashi

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Ryu slices an ennemy

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Ryu brings fire

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Ryu slices another ennemy

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Dual wielding

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Nice blood effects

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Using the Nunchakus

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - This fight screams Epic!

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Rachel using her big axe

Tecmo Image Girl Ria Dison

Yosuke Hayashi, Ria Dison, Tomonobu Itagaki

The news will appear in this Friday Famitsu issue, but they got leaked over at the Japanese message board 2ch. So here they are for you!!!

Resident Evil comes to Nintendo Wii

Wii Remote Interaction Examples

We previously reported a Game 3.0 soap opera at Wikipedia , and as it turns out, the page now appears as “Deleted”.

I guess Sony got their bluff called!

arcader from NeoGAF made a Game 3.0 entry at Wikipedia, but now it’s being considered for deletion, here’s the discussion:

Non-notable commercial jargon, possible viral marketing efforts Chicbicyclist 00:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

It is very notable. and has nothing to do with marketing efforts - it is about game content design techniques/ethics. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jmcdaniel3 (talk • contribs) 2007-03-09 00:31:14 (UTC)

Unless you can cite sources to demonstrate that people other than the person at Sony, who is giving presentations on this concept, have actually acknowledged it and that it has become accepted into the corpus of human knowledge, it is original research, which is forbidden here. Everything in Wikipedia must first have been through a process, outside of Wikipedia, of fact checking, peer review, publication, and acceptance into the corpus of human knowledge. That means, in this case, people other than, and independent of, its inventors documenting the idea, to demonstrate that it has been acknowledged by the rest of the world. (And that doesn’t mean news reports that simply say that the inventors are going to speak about the idea.) Uncle G 01:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Taken from NeoGAF

For a summary of Phil Harrison’s keynote speech, visit this link.

Conference Overviews
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It is with great pride that I give to you the international version of the Japanese Video Games Release Dates, available in the following languages:

Japanese: 発売予定ゲーム
Chinese: 未發售遊戲
French: Dates de sortie des Jeux Vidéos Japonais

Many people have been reporting defects in their Virtua Stick High Grade, and for a joystick meant to be used in a game like Virtua Fighter 5, any fault is inacceptable, which has prompted Sega to (finally) issue a recall for the product. (Official Recall Page)

Sega has already shipped a new batch of functional sticks. If there is a sticker with a new barcode on the back of the box, it means the stick has been verified. If you don’t have the box, check the back of the controller. An engraved M or S means the controller has been tested. If you don’t have an engraving, you should contact Sega for more info on how to replace your stick.

Virtua Stick High Grade (PS3)
Buy Virtua Stick High Grade (PS3) at Play-Asia.com
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Buy Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3) at Play-Asia.com
Buy Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3) at YesAsia.com

Thanks to JonnyRam.

These news have been leaked on the Japanese meessage board 2ch. They are scheduled to appear in this Friday’s issue of Famitsu.
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AOU stands for All Nippon Amusement Machine Operators’ Union. Many types of machines are demonstrated at this trade show, not only arcade games.

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