The Ninja Gaiden series has always been known to be a strong contender for difficulty, it used to be only the most tenacious and spastic of gamers could succeed against the enormous challenges that the game provided.

With Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, a port of Ninja Gaiden 2, PlayStation owners are able to play a great game, though it doesn’t carry the original difficulty that was experienced on the Xbox 360.

That said, the game is still good, just play it on higher difficulties.

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Video game developer and publisher Tecmo today announced that the Wii-exclusive Family Fun Football will be launching September 29, 2009. In this fun, arcade-style casual sports game for everyone to enjoy, play against friends and family in vibrant themed football stadiums, such as the Tecmodome or Moonrock Field!

Choose to be one of the game’s quirky characters, featuring animals, luchadors, ninjas, pirates, aliens and robots, or unlock the mode to play as your own Mii. The ability to coach teams with a simple offensive and defensive playbook coupled with intuitive Wii Remote controls makes the game appealing to all ages for a fun pick-up and play party experience.

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Wednesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo was filled with appointments with various developers and publishers. I was able to see some titles behind closed doors, though a lot of them were demo only, meaning I wasn’t able to get a hands on feel for some of the titles.

It is looking like the rest of the year and early next year’s titles are looking solid, though finding out the amount of time between a lot of these titles (meaning now until release) is going to be a difficult one.

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It’s pretty apparent by now that Japan has lost some footing in the world of gaming. There never were popular American-made consoles, and games made by Americans used to be few and far between. Now, America is the focus of the gaming market, thanks to its large number of gamers, and Japanese designers must figure out a way to grab their attention. Tecmo seems to be making an unusual leap.  They are releasing a Western-style third-person shooter, Quantum Theory. You can smell the desperation.

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Square Enix tried with all its might to absorb Tecmo in the friendliest manner possible.  But, the apple of Tecmo’s eye was not Square Enix at all, but Koei, you know, the Dynasty Warrior people.  So while those two young kids go on to make games such as Ninja Dynasty Warrior, and Xtreme Beach Warriors, we can dream about what could have been.  It’ll be like that movie It’s a Wonderful Life

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In a span of days that has seen a jaw-dropping twist in the season finale of Lost, Stanley Cup heroics, and Obama getting dirty (despite the “Only Yo Momma Would Vote for Obama” t-shirt I saw yesterday), it is only fitting that the video game world receive its own bit of drama thanks to game designer-turned-derelict, Tomonobu Itagaki.
Itagaki, a man whose ego has grown to be as large as the games he and his team have produced—including the Ninja Gaiden and the Dead or Alive series—has become somewhat synonymous with his bold statements and overall brash behavior. It should come as no surprise to Japanese game developer Tecmo that Itagaki is suing them for 148 million yen (about $1.4M) in “unpaid completion bonuses.”
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