Today, Falcom has launched the portal site for the entirety of the Kiseki series. They have had a portal site for awhile, but that was specifically for the Sora no Kiseki trilogy. This new portal site has also replaced the area of Falcom’s front page that was previously held by the Sora no Kiseki Portal …
[I apologize now if there are inaccuracies in the translation I've given. -ed] Falcom has announced that, with the direction of the representative director of the company, Toshihiro Kondo, they have started a new section within the company to be called the Innovation Unit to reach out to new audiences. Focusing on RPGs, in the …
On 4/18, Famitsu held the ceremony to give out their awards for games released during the year 2011. Falcom walked away with one of the ‘Awards of Excellence’ along with 9 other award winners. The other winners in Falcom’s category were: Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Versus (Bandai Namco Games), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda …
CJ Entertainment, the Japanese publisher for Ys Online, has sent out an email to all of its subscribers stating that, as of 2/16/2012, Netmarble will be shutting down all of its services. I have not followed data much on Ys Online since it was blocked from people outside of Japan to know if it was …
Last night was the Sony Playstation Awards. They had given out Gold Awards, a Quadruple Platinum Award (4,000,000 copies sold! My goodness, Monster Hunter Portable 3!), the User’s Choice Awards, the World Award, and the PS Store Special Award. Nihon Falcom has once again walked away with one of the User’s Choice Awards. Last year, …
This weekend, Zero no Kiseki won the Award of Excellence from the CESA (Computer Electronic Software Association). Other games that won this award are: Wii Party, Catherine, Gran Turismo 5, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Xenoblade, Donkey Kong Returns, Ni no Kuni: Shikkoku no Madoushi (DS version), Pocket Monster Black & White, Metal Gear Solid Peace …
Easy enough to say with video. This details a lot of why Falcom backed out of the PC market, their methods with RPG development, a little bit of the Legend of Heroes series’ history, some video footage of Ao no Kiseki in action, and details on the Sora no Kiseki anime, and the cross-media methods …
On Tuesday, Sept 6th from 23:30 ~ 0:00 UTC, NHK World’s Imagine-nation will be doing a feature on the Legend of Heroes series. The information from their website reads: Main Feature: RPG Games “The Legend of Heroes Series” This time we have a big feature on the RPG (Role Play Game) series that began in …
For you Facebook users, you can get your regular dose of Falcom-goodness by following them on Facebook. Their name is written in Japanese: 日本ファルコム株式会社. You should be able to find them this way. Or, you can just follow this link to go straight to their wall. :D
psybuster of Ancient Land of Ys has provided a scan of the Game Informer article for the April issue. It’s not a very clear scan, but you can get the gist of it. If you want to be able to read it more clearly, please check out the magazine when it hits the shelves. (This …
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