Video: Hands on with Playstation Vita

The UK release of the Playstation vita is a little under a month away now, but Japanese gamers have been able to buy the system since mid-December. Knowing that our readers are keen to hear more about Sony’s next portable gaming system we have given our Japanese corespondent Sabbi Stone a special mission. After submitting [...]

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Wed, January 25 2012 » Videos » No Comments

Review:- Playstation Vita (Welcome Park)

This has been a long time coming, relatively, considering how long the Vita has been out in Japan. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of seeing its numbers sell well during the first week, slip in the second and more recently, be outsold by its predecessor once more. In fact, I can’t go into any [...]

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Tue, January 24 2012 » Reviews, Vita » 5 Comments

Arcade IC Cards? Oh, I See.

When you think about arcade gaming you might assume it’s a fairly simple affair. You go on inside the place, seek out the arcade machine with the game of your choice, put the money in the slot and away you go. If that’s your guess then you’d be right… at least, you’d be partly correct. [...]

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Wed, January 18 2012 » Articles » 2 Comments

Ganbatte Nippon: Gaming After The Disaster

Unless you have been in some sort of game-induced coma for the last couple of months, a certain piece of world news won’t have escaped your notice. On March 11th at 14.46pm a 9.0 earthquake hit off the Eastern coast of Honshu. This quake that would later be called the Great East Japan Earthquake and [...]

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Fri, April 29 2011 » Articles » 3 Comments

Guide:- Japanese Arcades: Club Sega – Akihabara

 It’s been a while Newbs. Apologies for having not written anything for a while but finally here’s a piece about the Land of the Rising Sun, specifically, their arcades. Now, we here at the Newb Review like to do things a little differently, a bit more personally. Which is why I sacrificed my weekend to [...]

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Thu, April 14 2011 » Guides & Tips » 1 Comment