The video game webzine Siliconera (http://www.siliconera.com), celebrates its two year anniversary with a Game Boy Micro contest and expanded coverage of Japanese game titles. The website covers popular titles such as We Love Katamari, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and plenty of other titles from systems ranging from the original NES all the way to the brand new PSP.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 27, 2005 — Even though Siliconera has existed for over two years now, the gates have reopened and the import video webzine is rapidly expanding. There is a specific market for “import gamers”, video game players who import games directly from Japan. While this is a niche market, it is growing with the advent of region free video game hardware such as Nintendo’s DS and Sony’s PSP. There are plenty of import gamers, but information about non-US titles is scarce. This is where Siliconera comes in. If you want to read up on the latest anime titles, like the Naruto: Geiktou Ninja Taisen series, Bleach: Selected Soul or Edward Elric’s latest adventure in Full Metal Alchemist 3, Siliconera covers them all. Or if you want to read about exclusive Japanese games like Nintendo’s innovative Electroplankton, Konami’s DJ inspired Beatmania series or Inix’s excellent Ouendan you can check out Siliconera.

To help gamers who aren’t fluent in Japanese, Siliconera provides an “import friendly” score to give importers an idea of how complex the game is to play through if you aren’t a Japanese native.Since many games are released in Japan first, Siliconera has an edge on covering game titles before other US media outlets. Consumers can come to Siliconera to read about games before pre-ordering them. Full blown reviews for We Love Katamari, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children can be found on Siliconera first. Siliconera also makes an effort to cover US titles that don’t get as much press room as blockbuster titles. Niche titles like the Shin Megami Tensei series, Atelier Iris Eternal Mana and Dance Dance Revolution can also be found at Siliconera.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 at 8:28 am and is filed under Video Game Rental Articles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.