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Kengo Wa Dondo
''Kengo'' () is a series of video games developed by Genki. ''Kengo'' is considered a spiritual successor to the '' Bushido Blade'' game series for the PlayStation. Games ''Kengo: Master of Bushido'' ''Kengo 2: Legacy of the Blade'' The second game in the ''Kengo'' series was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan on June 27, 2002. It was released in Europe on February 14, 2003 under the title ''Sword of the Samurai''. It features a character creation feature and over 100 detailed swords to choose from. Published by Ubisoft. It was not released in North America. In Japan, ''Famitsu'' gave the sequel 30 out of 40. The game received a 64% overall review score from Futuregamez. ''Kengo 3'' The third game in the ''Kengo'' series was released for the PlayStation 2 on September 22, 2004. Featuring much improved graphics and a simplified fighting system from ''Kengo 2''. It was released only in Japan. ''Kengo: Legend of the 9'' Released for the Xbox 360 on September 7, 2006, ''Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Weight (company)
, formerly is a developer and publisher of video games. While the company developed innovative fighting games with samurai themes, such as the ''Bushido Blade (video game), Bushido Blade'' series and the ''Kengo'' series, it is known for its ''Hello Kitty'' games. History The company was founded on November 22, 1995 in Meguroku, Tokyo under managing director Tetsuo Mizuno. The developer Square (video game company), Square Co., Ltd. initially had a 40% stake in Lightweight. Lightweight cut its ties with Square in 1998, and in March 1999, Naotaka Ueda was appointed as CEO and director of the company. The following month, developer Genki (company), Genki acquired a 40% stake in the company. In March 2001 Lightweight became a wholly owned subsidiary of Genki, but dissolved this connection on March 31, 2006 when Lightweight was bought by Index Visual & Games, Ltd. Ueda retired in his position in November 2008. The company was renamed Bergsala Lightweight after it was acquired by Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasaki Kojirō
was a Japanese swordsman who may have lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods and is known primarily for the story of his duel with Miyamoto Musashi in 1612, where Sasaki was killed. Although suffering from defeat as well as death at the hands of Musashi, he is a revered and respected warrior in Japanese history and culture. Later Miyamoto proclaimed that Sasaki Kojirō was the strongest opponent he faced in his life. In popular culture Like most of the well-known samurai of his era, Sasaki was depicted in several places: *He plays a central role in the novel, Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa. His life is described in a parallel storyline. *In various film adaptations of his story or that of Miyamoto Musashi. For example, in ''Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō'' (''Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple''; 1955; Director / Screenplay: Hiroshi Inagaki). *In the manga '' Vagabond'', he plays a central role alongside Musashi and is shown here as deaf. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game Franchises
This is a list of video game franchises, organized alphabetically. All entries include multiple video games, not counting ports or altered re-releases. 0–9 *''1080° Snowboarding'' *''1942 (video game), 1942'' *''3D Ultra Minigolf'' *''3-D Ultra Pinball'' *''7th Dragon'' *''The 7th Guest'' A *''A Boy and His Blob'' *''Ace Attorney'' *''Ace Combat'' *''ActRaiser'' *''Adventure Island (video game), Adventure Island'' *''Adventures of Lolo'' *''Aero Fighters'' *''Aero the Acro-Bat'' *''After Burner'' *''Age of Empires'' *''Age of Wonders'' *''Airforce Delta'' *''Alan Wake'' *''Aleste'' *''Alex Kidd'' *''Alien Breed (series), Alien Breed'' *''Alien Syndrome'' *''Alone in the Dark'' *''Alpine Racer'' *''Altered Beast'' *''Alundra'' *''American McGee's Alice'' *''America's Army'' *''Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia'' *''Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, Amped'' *''Angry Birds'' *''Animal Crossing'' *''Anno (series), Anno'' *''Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Anomaly'' *''Another Century's E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 2 Games
is a Video game, video gaming brand owned and produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), a division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. Its flagship products consists of a series of Home video game console, home video game consoles produced under the brand; it also consists of Handheld game console, handhelds, Internet, online services, magazines, and other forms of media. The brand began with the PlayStation (console), first PlayStation home console released in Japan in 1994 and worldwide the following year, which became the first console of any type to ship over 100 million units, which made PlayStation a globally recognized brand. Since then there have been numerous newer consoles—the most recent being the PlayStation 5 released in 2020—while there have also been a series of handheld consoles and a number of other electronics such as a home theater PC, media center and a smartphone. The main series of controllers utilized by the PlayStation series is the DualShock, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer Video Games
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', ''Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. The history of multiplayer video games extends over several decades, tracing back to the emergence of electronic gaming in the mid-20th century. One of the earliest inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genki (company) Games
Genki may refer to: *Genki (company), a Japanese video game company *Genki (era), a Japanese era name *Genki (given name) Genki (written: 元気, 元喜, 元基, 元規, 源気 or 源基) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese lawyer, bureaucrat and politician *, Japanese sumo wrestler * Genki Dean (born 1991), Japanese ..., a masculine Japanese given name *'' Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese'', a Japanese language textbook {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Games
The fighting game video game genre, genre involves combat between multiple characters, often (but not limited to) one-on-one battles. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "Combo (video games), combos". Characters generally engage hand-to-hand combat, often with martial arts, but some may include weaponry. Battles are usually set in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional Plane (mathematics), plane, where characters navigate the plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping. Some games allow limited movement in 3D space, such as ''Tekken (video game), Tekken'' and Soulblade while some are set in fully three-dimensional environments without restricting characters' movement, such as Power Stone (video game), ''Power Stone'' and ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm''; these are sometimes referred to as "3D arena" fighting games. The fighting game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services, such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, or cars. This system then stores the reviews to be used for supporting a website where users can view the reviews, sells information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creates databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Xbox Magazine
''Official Xbox Magazine'' (''OXM'') was a British monthly video game magazine which started in November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox. A preview issue was released at E3 2001, with another preview issue in November 2001. The magazine was bundled with a disc that included game demos, preview videos and trailers, and other content, such as game or Xbox updates and free gamerpics. The discs also provided the software for the Xbox 360 for backward compatibility of original Xbox games for those without broadband and Xbox Live access. From January 2012, OXM no longer included a demo disc. In mid-2014, the U.S. version was merged into the UK version on the website, which lasted only a few months until Future plc announced that it was closing its website along with all the other websites that Future has published, including '' Edge'' and ''Computer and Video Games''. In February 2015, ''OXM'' and all of Future's video game websites were redirected into GamesRadar. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameTrailers
''GameTrailers'' (''GT'') was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, as well as an array of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other web series. ''GameTrailers'' was acquired by Viacom in November 2005; under its ownership, ''GameTrailers'' also produced a television series, '' GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley'', for sister property Spike TV. In 2014, the site was acquired by Defy Media. In February 2016, the site was shut down; rights to ''GameTrailers''' brand and content were sold to IGN Entertainment, which continues to run its YouTube channel. ''GT'''s remaining staff went on to found the independent gaming publication ''Easy Allies''. History ''GameTrailers'' was founded by Geoff Grotz and Brandon Jones (the latter who was the pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
