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The Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy combines three games in the franchise, offering over 90 hours of mysteries and courtroom drama. The collection features Apollo Justice's journey as a rookie defense attorney, learning from Phoenix Wright and investigating murders to clear clients. The remastered trilogy includes updated HD graphics, extra content, and improvements, making it an enjoyable entry point for new players.

Not one game, but three, are included in the remastered Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, offering a combined total of over 90 hours of mysteries and courtroom drama for sleuthing players to enjoy. Capcom's remastered trilogy featuring Phoenix Wright's prodigy includes Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, along with many extras and updates. For the $50 price tag, evidence would show that there is a lot of entertainment value to be had in these courtroom text adventures.

The film Gran Turismo features video game creator Kazunori Yamauchi as a character, providing context on how he created the game for a realistic racing experience. Realism was a major concern for the filmmakers due to the game's dedicated fanbase, and the real-life Jann Mardenborough appeared as a stunt double for his own character. Japanese actor Takehiro Hira portrays Kazunori Yamauchi in the film, and interestingly, this is not his first appearance in a video game-based film.

Gran Turismo revolves around the true story of gamer-turned-racer Jann Mardenborough, but the film also features video game creator Kazunori Yamauchi as a character. Yamauchi, a professional racecar driver and the designer of the film's titular racing simulator, is shown developing the game in the opening scene of the film. His appearance provides context for the rest of the film, explaining how Yamauchi created the game so that anyone could experience a realistic racing simulator.

Although Nintendo has always had competition in the tightly contested home console market, historically from Sega and more recently from Microsoft and Sony, the company has always been the undisputed king of the handheld console - a supremacy that began in 1989 with the Game Boy and continues to this day, over 30 years later, with the Switch Lite. Though Sony has tried on two occasions to take over the handheld console market, with the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita, no non-Nintendo handheld console has ever surpassed the quality of build, catalog depth, or universal popularity of the contemporary Nintendo offering.

Beyond its near-unparalleled hardware, Nintendo is known for being behind some of the most popular franchises in gaming history - Pokémon, Mario, and The Legend of Zelda to name only a few. As the long-time handheld console producer par excellence, it can be difficult to choose which of its many systems is the best.

Visual novels are an unorthodox medium that take the best from video games, anime, and literary approaches to craft an immersive and interactive experience incomparable to any other storytelling method. The close link between anime and visual novels makes the latter medium an inviting source for adaptations.

Over the years, anime fans have praised countless incredible stories, such as Steins;Gate and Clannad, often without knowing their origins as visual novels. Unfortunately, not every excellent visual novel translates well into an anime format. Struggles like condensing tens of hours of gameplay into a one-cour show or choosing the wrong route to adapt result in the creation of some of the worst visual novel anime out there.

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One of the most famous visual novel adventure games, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, is famed for its endearing characters, inventive twists,...

The Japanese video game developer Capcom has continuously reigned in the industry for over 40 years. They have created some of the most popular franchises in gaming, from Resident Evil to Street Fighter, from Devil May Cry to Ace Attorney.

Related: 10 Best Capcom Games, According To Ranker 

The developer is not going anywhere anytime soon. In recent years, Capcom has even remade some of their earliest popular titles, such as Resident Evil 3, and they are just as beloved as their initial releases. Fans all around the world have rated their favorite Capcom exclusive games on IMDb, and the numbers speak for themselves.

Another Decade with Takashi Miike is a series of essays on the 2010s films of the Japanese maverick, following Notebook's earlier survey of Miike's first decade of the 21st century.In tallying up the sum of Takashi Miike’s work, getting anything like a concrete read on his artistic outlook and output is difficult, bordering on impossible. He made it easy to pigeonhole him by specializing for a time on the outré and the unapologetically crass at a time when, in America anyway, artists were losing a culture war. Western critics didn’t quite know what to make of a turn towards unrepentantly violence images in horror films as a species. Gore in service of a deliberate sledgehammer nihilism seems to be catching on so the majority of critics do as they always do and ghettoized the efforts, even gave the work a suitably boogeyman-style moniker in “torture porn.” Miike...

A combined total of five PlayStation 4 and Vita titles are being removed from the platform’s online store over the coming months, making them no longer available to purchase digitally. Every game included in the list belongs to developer Spike Chunsoft’s Danganronpa series, which is published by Nis America outside of Japan.

In a statement released on its official website, the latter declines to specify why the decision has been made (more on that in just a moment) and instead serves mostly to notify fans of specific removal dates, which are as follows:

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girl (Ps Vita) – 08/31/2020 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Ps Vita) – 09/4/2020 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Ps Vita) – 09/4/2020 Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Ps Vita) – 09/25/2020 Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (PS4) – 09/25/2020

As for the reasons behind these actions, it’s no doubt the result of Nis America’s publishing rights expiring, though it remains...

Animation feature “The Journey,” co-produced by Saudi animation studios Manga Productions and Japan’s Toei Animation, has struck a deal with Dubai-based exhibitor Vox Cinemas for theatrical distribution across the Middle East and North Africa.

Manga has also announced that the toon epic based on Saudi folklore and directed by Japan’s Shizuno Kobun (“Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle”) will be going out in Japan via Toei subsidiary T-Joy.

Distribution deals were announced at Berlin’s Efm market.

The co-production stems from a pact between the two companies made in November 2017, one month before Saudi Arabia lifted its 35-year ban on cinemas. It is being touted as a milestone for Manga which is fully financing the $10-15 million project that is currently in post.

Manga will presenting the pic to prospective buyers for other territories at the Cannes Marche du Film in May.

The epic revolves around a...

Ground-breaking animation combines tells Middle Eastern folkloric story using a Japanese anime art style.

Saudi animation studio Manga Productions has announced first theatrical deals on its debut feature-length production The Journey, an epic tale taking inspiration from Saudi folklore.

Dubai-based exhibition and distribution group Vox Cinemas has taken rights for Middle East and Africa while T-Joy, the exhibition and distribution arm of Japanese film and TV giant Toei Company, has taken rights for Japan.

A second Toei Company subsidiary, Toei Animation co-produced the feature, as part of a long-term pact with Manga Productions to collaborate on animation works combining the...

Ground-breaking animation combines tells Middle Eastern folkloric story using a Japanese anime art style.

Saudi animation studio Manga Productions has announced first theatrical deals on its debut feature-length production The Journey, an epic tale taking inspiration from Saudi folklore.

Dubai-based exhibition and distribution group Vox Cinemas has taken rights for Middle East and Africa while T-Joy, the exhibition and distribution arm of Japanese film and TV giant Toei Company, has taken rights for Japan.

A second Toei Company subsidiary, Toei Animation co-produced the feature, as part of a long-term pact with Manga Productions to collaborate on animation works combining the...

Although it may be difficult to believe, this year marks 20 years since the release of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and to celebrate, Capcom has unleashed an announcement trailer for a reimagined Resident Evil 3 that includes a visual makeover (via the Re Engine), new side missions, and the multiplayer game Resident Evil Resistance.

The reimagined Resident Evil 3 will be unleashed for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One devices family, and Steam on April 3rd, 2020. You can watch the announcement trailer below, and we also have the official press release with full details, along with screenshots from the reimagined Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil Resistance.

Press Release: San Francisco – Dec. 10, 2019 – Today on PlayStation’s State of Play broadcast, Capcom celebrated the 20th anniversary of the survival horror classic Resident Evil™ 3: Nemesis by unveiling a completely reimagined Resident Evil™ 3. On the heels of the award-winning Resident Evil™ 2, this highly demanded follow-up in the 94 million...

It’s been a busy couple of years for Capcom’s Ace Attorney franchise. The series received its fifth main entry in 2013 with Dual Destinies, released the long-awaited crossover with Professor Layton in 2014, and has an anime adaptation currently airing on Japanese TV. While last year’s prequel game, Dai Gyakuten Saiban, never got an English release, anyone concerned that Capcom might be ending plans to localize future entries shouldn’t worry, as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, the sixth main entry in the series, has just been confirmed for release in North America and Europe on the 3Ds.

Originally announced last year, and still apparently on track for release this summer in Japan, Spirit of Justice will once again see players controlling veteran lawyer Phoenix Wright as he investigates and interrogates to get to the truth in various cases, mixing point-and-click adventure gameplay with a varied cast of locations and characters.

I suppose when a series gets as many entries as Ace Attorney seems to, changing up the premise is a smart thing to try and do. As it turns out, Capcom intends to do exactly that, if leaked pages from the most recent Famitsu are to be believed.

The pages contain an assortment of new info, most notably that the game will take place during the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912). This period represents Japan’s transition from a feudal society to its modern and current form, so there’s probably a lot of fascinating history for the plot to grab on to. I don’t know much about it myself, which makes me all the more interested in the game.

Additionally, the new title will feature not Phoenix Wright, but an ancestor of his — a man by the name of Naruhodou Ryuunosuke. He’s shown carrying a sword, and...

Give us a cut of Ace Attorney that clocks in at say, 90 minutes, and it would probably be gold. There's a lot to like about director Takashi Miike's take on the first game in the long-running series. What trips the ultimately enjoyable adaptation up is that it wears out its welcome at 135 minutes, and coupled with structural problems inherent in every courtroom setup requiring Phoenix Wright to delay for time, it feels like the movie overstates its case by the one hour mark.

As such things goes, Ace Attorney (Gyakuten saiban) is very faithful to the source material, the 2001 Gba title. That game, and the movie see awkward but well-coiffed defense attorney Phoenix Wright embroiled in a series of murder cases where he has to piece together contradictions to evidence and testimony from the prosecution, typically embodied by unscrupulous lawyer for the state and former childhood friend of Wright's,...

Capcom’s Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the incredibly popular legal drama/thriller video game series, originally titled Gyakuten Saiban (or Turnabout Trial) in Japan has been adapted into a brand new live-action movie courtesy of prolific director Takashi Miike. The film, which is out in its native territory in February 2012, stars Hiroki Narimiya as the defense attorney Phoenix Wright, Mirei Kiritani as Maya Fey and Takumi Saito ss prosecutor Miles Edgeworth.

We’ve already had a trailer and TV spot for the film, which looks to be based on the first game on the series judging from what we’ve seen, and now here’s a dozen images from the movie – and boy does Miike look to have captured Phoenix Wright and co, perfectly!

Capcom’s Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the incredibly popular legal drama/thriller video game series, originally titled Gyakuten Saiban (or Turnabout Trial) in Japan has been adapted into a brand new live-action movie courtesy of prolific director Takashi Miike. The film, which is out in its native territory in February 2012, stars Hiroki Narimiya as the defense attorney Phoenix Wright, Mirei Kiritani as Maya Fey and Takumi Saito ss prosecutor Miles Edgeworth.

The first trailer and TV spot for the film, which looks to be based on the first game on the series judging from the action within, have surfaced online and we have them both for you:...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is the first game in the very popular series of legal drama/thriller video games that was released as Gyakuten Saiban (Turnabout Trial) in Japan. Earlier this year we learned [1] that wildly prolific genre-hopping director Takashi Miike has been at work on a film adaptation of the series, and just over a week ago we saw the first footage [2] from that film. Now we've got the trailer for Phoenix Wright. No English subtitles on this one, unfortunately, but fans of the game should quickly be able to see what's going on, and even those new to the series will get the gist pretty fast. Hiroki Narimiya (Nana 1 & 2) stars as the defense attorney Phoenix Wright; Mirei Kiritani is Maya Fey; and Takumi Saito (Robogeisha) is prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will be released in Japan in February 2012. We don't have any word of a Us date at this point.

As reported by Twitch back in May, prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike's new film will be a movie adaptation of the hugely popular Nintendo Gba and DS game franchise, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (original title: Gyakuten Saiban). Those who have played the game would know that it involves intense courtroom battles between the attorney and the prosecutor, where they have to present evidence, cross-examine witnesses and detect any contradictory statements that may hold the key to the case. The cast includes Hiroki Narimiya (Nana 1 & 2) playing defence attorney Phoenix Wright, Mirei Kiritani as Maya Fey the sister of Wright's boss, and Takumi Saito (Robogeisha, Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl) as prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. The film will be released in Japan in February 2012....

Japanese director Takashi Miike works fast. Blink and you'll miss three films from the filmmaker, who is more happy than any other working director to leap from period action to hyper-violent thrillers to a kids' movie. Back in May he said "It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS." That led us to realize [1]that he is making an adaptation of the Capcom Ace Attorney game series, which debuted in the Us with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Now we've got the first video footage of the movie, called Gyakuten Saiban (Turnabout Trial) in Japan. Just from the perspective of bringing the game's visuals to the screen, this looks spot-on. We don't know if it will be a good movie -- with Miike the results can vary widely -- but it looks fun, at the very least.