I meant to post about this game on the Xbox Live Indie Games service last December, called Jewelry Master Twinkle. What caught my attention was that it was made by Arika, a Japanese company perhaps best known over here for the Endless Ocean titles that Nintendo published on the Wii. It completely fascinated me that a fairly decent sized company was putting their wares on a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace well-known for not being very well-known.

I completely forgot about it.

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This is sad news. Cing, makers of awesome DS and Wii titles such as Another Code, Hotel Dusk and Little King’s Story, have filed for bankruptcy.

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Like the look of that little beau above? Looking forward to getting to know her better when Sega release Yakuza 3 next month?

Too bad, because Sega’s decided to cut her - amongst several other items - out of the Western localisation.

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Good news, people who like weird Japanese arcade games being ported to platforms that don’t sell very much in their home country - courtesy of Famitsu, we now know that Senko no Ronde Duo is headed to a Xbox 360 near you! Provided you are near a Japanese 360, at least.

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What is this? An Armored Core game? Released in the west? Without me knowing about it? THIS WILL NOT DO.

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