Welcome to the Akayuki Archives. This is a restoration project for Akayuki, our former gaming blog and the predecessor to ManaJournal. Akayuki was an independent video game website operated by ManaJournal staff back in 2007-2009. It was a simple blog...
Here’s a new trailer for Resident Evil 5, the latest entry in Capcom’s famous survival horror franchise. It introduces a new female character we haven’t seen before. The game is expected to be released sometime in 2009 for the Xbox...
Good news COD4 fans, the NVIDIA-sponsored Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Map Pack will be made available worldwide for PC owners on June 5th, next week. The Map Pack features four new maps for the game, including Broadcast, Chinatown, Killhouse, and Creek. Additionally,...
Midway has released a (huge!) real-time render from the upcoming Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe for the PS3 and Xbox 360. As you can see below, the render features the character Sub-Zero in a rather cool fighting pose. For those...
Konami has released the first video featuring gameplay footage for it’s next installment of Castlevania on the Nintendo DS. It is titled Order of Ecclesia and it takes place after the events in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It features a female protagonist and, as...
Square Enix has published a new English trailer called Cecil’s Journey for the upcoming Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV. While it’s nothing major, it does show off some super-awesome CG cutscenes and reveal some new English voices. Check it...
READ MORE New Final Fantasy IV Cecil’s Journey English Trailer
According to the blog Hachimakikou, Soul Calibur IV may feature destructible clothing. This basically means that after fighting a long drawn out match, some of the characters (notably all female) will be wearing even less clothing than when the match...
READ MORE Rumors: Soul Calibur IV To Feature Destructable Clothing?
According to various sources, including Ars Technica and 1up.com, expect to see Bioshock hitting the store shelves in the PS3 isle this coming holiday season. Potential updates include some graphical upgrades and some additional content. It’s not much of a surprise, but 2K Games is making...
Dengeki has a handful of new screens and artwork from SEGA’s upcoming DS RPG, World Destruction. Also, if you’re interested, here’s a bunch of pictures from some of the staff and talent involved in the World Destruction project.
Today, Valve has announced Steam Cloud – an online storage service which saves and stores players’ game data indefinitely. That includes game saves and configurations. How many times have I had to reinstall a PC game only to have to...
Here’s another trailer for Soul Calibur IV called “Transcendance”, which actually looks like the intros from the games of past. I do wonder how Namco plans to fit in the franchise’s storyline this time around. They way they’ve implemented it...
READ MORE Ubidays 2008: Soul Calibur IV Transcendance Trailer
In a recent Shacknews interview with Ubisoft’s Julian Gerighty, it is uncovered that some of the gameplay concepts that are implemented in Tom Clancy’s EndWar were directly inspired by none other than Mario Kart. One facet of Mario Kart’s gameplay, which is often referred to as...
A quick little trailer with some narrative vaguely describing the role one partakes of in Far Cry 2. Absolutely stunning. EDIT: Added another YouTube mirror. Thanks, John Rambo.
Just a quick update: Square Enix has updated the official Sigma Harmonics website with a few bits of interesting information and media. The most important tidbit, however, is the release date for the game, which is August 21st, 2008.
Zero ~Tsukihami no Kamen~, known to us as Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, was tagged with the release date of July 31st today and priced at ¥6,800. Fatal Frame IV a Wii exclusive horror game, and is being developed by Tecmo...
This week, Nintendo has two WiiWare Games and two Virtual Console games available in the Shopping Channel. Lined up on the Virtual Console, we have the original NeoGeo side-scrolling military shooter: Metal Slug, and from the NES we have City Connection. On...
A quick round-up of the latest in video game industry drama. Nintendo has decided to not attend this year’s Games Convention held in Leipzig, Germany. Apparently, nothing is to be gained by participating in the convention this year. No doubt...
READ MORE Industry Soap-Opera: Nintendo Ditches Leipzig, ID Leaves ESA
MyWii has kindly reported that The Homebrew Channel is now available for use by the general public. A variety of ways exist for one to implement it. You can use an SD card, USB Gecko, or run it over a network....