We were expecting an evite or maybe one of those crazy JibJab animations, but instead Square Enix just issued a press release announcing that The 3rd Birthday, the PSP-exclusive installment of the Parasite Eve series, will hit North American store [...]
The 3rd Birthday debuts at sixth on Japanese charts, Monster Hunter still king
Whether it’s due to its significant lack of collectible monsters, or the considerable length of time since the last installment in the Parasite Eve franchise, Square Enix’s The 3rd Birthday didn’t have the strong debut showing on the Japanese sales [...]
Chrono Cross coming to Japanese PSN, we give up hope forever
To celebrate its 20,000th Twitter follower of its Members (Japanese) account this week, Square Enix announced its next PSOne Classics release for the Japanese PlayStation Store — the one just about everyone has been waiting on — Chrono Cross. The [...]
Parasite Eves infecting Japanese PSN next month
Square Enix has been dancing around the prospect of bringing its supernatural survival horror RPG Parasite Eve to the PSN for a while now — but at last, it seems the dance has concluded. The publisher recently announced that the [...]
The 3rd Birthday preview: A reason to cry
A good third-person shooter isn’t easy pull off on the PSP. The limited number of buttons and lack of a second analog stick mean that only a few games represent the genre well on Sony’s handheld — Syphon Filter and [...]
Square Enix ‘making adjustments’ to prep Parasite Eve games for PSN
Last month, the Parasite Eve series’ lead character designer Tetsuya Nomura stated that Square Enix would like to get the first two installments of the franchise on the PSOne Classics storefront before the arrival of The 3rd Birthday. Yesterday, director [...]
The 3rd Birthday to be celebrated on December 22 in Japan
A new entry in the Parasite Eve franchise has been long coming. The 3rd Birthday — the first official sequel in the franchise since 1999 — will be available in Japan at the very end of this year, on December [...]
Nomura wants Parasite Eve and its sequel on PSN before 3rd Birthday
Were you thinking that right about now would be a good time to make Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve 2 available via PSN, given the upcoming release of the third game in the series on PSP? Then, dear Reader, you [...]
Kitase: 3rd Birthday success could extend franchise to PS3
“The team had a lot of experience and knew a lot about making a game for PSP which is why we chose PSP as the platform for this game,” said Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase during a presentation at Gamescom in [...]
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