I just love Xseed Games. They seem to always bring the most obscure, great looking games to North American shores. Next month, they will be dropping a new RPG for the DS, and it certainly has gotten my attention.

Solatorobo: Red The Hunter has been out for quite a while in Japan and launched this July in Europe, but North American gamers have been left out of the fiesta, until now! Solatorobo launches next week here in the states, and you can bet that I will get my grubby hands on the title.

In the meantime, check out this trailer for the game and decide for yourself whether or not you will pick it up. If anything else, it is a new game that you can play on your 3DS until Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 launch later this year.

Ivy the Kiwi is a pretty simple yet very stylized game that appears to be in the same vein of Kirby Canvas Curse. You control and move Ivy, the little Kiwi, by drawing vines and manipulating them to influence how the character moves. The players do not directly control Ivy, Ivy only moves in a linear direction and the player has to draw lines to guide Ivy away from danger and to the goal.

Look’s like a really interesting game, but has it taken too much of Kirby Canvas Curse’s gameplay and made it its own? Or has it improved upon the concept?

XSEED Games has just announced that they will be bringing Ragnarok DS to retailers across North America beginning on February 16th. Ragnorok, for those of you unfamiliar with it is a online PC MMO game created by GRAVITY co. ltd and developed by Gungho Works for the Nintendo DS. Ragnorok is one of the few games that offers a lot of customization for it’s sprite based characters and tons of exploration and monster killing to be had.

Yet, unlike being a normal player on a Ragnorok server, you step into the role of a fictional player named Ales as he sets search for adventure with the goal of eventually starting his own Guild. It is not long before this young rookie adventurer is propelled down a path toward danger, excitement, and a heroine in distress. Throughout his travels Ales encounters individuals who help in his quest for fortune and fame, as these friends will become invaluable new allies as they join his party. (more…)

Ju-on the Grudge, plays like an enhanced interactive movie. From the few minutes I had to play around with the game, I learned that the game puts you in control of one of four family members who are trapped under the curse. Just like in the movie in  Ju-on you follow the lives of family who are affected by a curse created by a murdered housewife in a house in Nerima. (more…)

XSEED Games today announced plans to bring the Japanese Wii game Fragile to North America.

Subtitled Farewell Ruins of the Moon, the acclaimed role-playing game released in Japan earlier this year and was widely praised as one of the most beautiful Wii games to date.

Although no specific release date has been set, XSEED is aiming for a winter 2009 release.

Fragile was published in Japan by Namco Bandai. Despite the pleading of fans in North America, the company had no plans to bring the title stateside.

That’s where XSEED comes in.

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