Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but side projects and work are keeping me busy. @_@

I'll break down what happened so far in a short summary.

Gyakuten Kenji release date: 28/05/2009
The Japan release of Gyakuten Kenji is just a mere month away. Get your preorders ready if you haven't already.

Localized title for Gyakuten Kenji: "Ace Attorney Investigations"
It seems that the official localized title for the upcoming Gyakuten Kenji game will be "Ace Attorney Investigations" in the US and probably also the EU.
That has been remotely confirmed now by a photo from the Captivate'09 Event.


Limited Edition Gyakuten Kenji DSi: Blue Badger Design
A limited edition Nintendo DSi will be going on sale in Japan. It will feature a special Blue Badger (Taiho-kun) design.

Be advised that when importing, you will only be able to play Japanese DSi titles on it. DS titles, however, can be played from any region.

New Gyakuten Kenji wallpapers:
We have added 4 new Gyakuten Kenji wallpapers to our Wallpaper section. You can see a small preview of them right here:



Also there have been some new Opera and Manga news, which we will be featuring later.

The official site to the Gyakuten Saiban Opera Project has been revealed and made available to the public.
You can find all infos you need to know about it on the site, which is located here. (Knowledge of the Japanese language required.)

So far 3 pictures of the main actors have been posted on the site, as well as two trailers. You can find them below. Enjoy!

Two scans from the new Famitsu have surfaced, featuring new unseen screenshots of the upcoming Gyakuten Kenji game.

Thanks to JapaneseGIRL of Court-Records for pointing towards them.

Also, we bring you another little trailer.

Today we'd like to bring your attention to an interesting looking fan game project, created by papermario13689 in PWLib.


Full credit to immo_love for making the movie.

Synopsis
In his many years of being a defense attorney, Phoenix Wright has left many legacies behind. Of his many cases, only a select few are remembered by the masses, while the others disintegrate into the past. After losing his Attorney's Badge, Phoenix Wright decides to relive his cases once again, to be a part of his past, just once more.

In order to restore his lost memories, Phoenix reactivates the Mason System. However, when an outside source causes a system malfunction, Phoenix is thrust into the past, and while losing some of his faithful memories, he must once again prove a handful of his clients innocent...or be stuck in the past forever.

(Because this game is made to be as realistic as the real game as possible, the cases will fit in the timeline of the other Phoenix Wright games.)

Gameplay
Your main goal is to collect enough evidence for the case at hand, but sometimes, you will get a couple of odd items that have something to do with the Mason System malfunction. These will be stored away in your court record until the final case, where you will use these to find out what happened.

Court will use the ever-so-popular "life bar," and penalties will come in 3 harshnesses. While pointing out simple contradictions with no big meaning incorrectly will result in a small penalty, greater contradictions will bear a more strict loss of the life bar. Sometimes, like in the real PW games, the prosecutors will be happy to add even more to the punishing penalties.

There will also be things like a collaboration picture in the case select screen once you beat a case, and thanks to KSA_Tech allowing PWLib to play .avi movies, there will be introduction videos!


If you want to find out more about this dedicated fan project, please visit our Fan Games section and the official project website.

A recording of the new Gyakuten Kenji trailer from the TGS 2008 has appeared, enjoy.

Yes, it has finally happened!

Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright - Trials & Tribulations has been officially released in Europe.

Rapidly fly to your local game store for this late arriving but still amazingly awesome game in it's localized form.
(And as always: Don't forget to call beforehand in case it's already out of stock. )

At the moment we're hard at work with extracting the new localized voice clips from the game, so stay tuned.

Also, a 3 seconds video clip from the upcoming Gyakuten Kenji game has appeared. You can find it in the Nintendo Conference trailer, in the second half. Enjoy.


Also, with the release of Trials and Tribulations in Europe, Nintendo of Europe has released the video recording of the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra concert of Godot's theme on the Wii's Nintendo Channel.

Two new scans from the Famitsu magazine have surfaced,



The two new characters revealed in these scans are apparently:
Ichijou Mikumo - some kind of thief (maybe a reoccuring character?)
Yuuki Makoto - a prosecutor (new rival?)

Also apparently the game will also feature three key parts, split into "Invesigation", "Logic" and "Confrontation".
Scans and information provided by Japanese GIRL of Court Records

Yesterday, the CD recording from the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra Concert from earlier this year has been released and shipped to people who ordered it.
We have added the album info to our Music section, as well as a link to a shop where you are able to buy this nice new piece of music.

Enjoy.

Not many news at the moment, hopefully that'll change soon.

But something interesting seems to have happened, at least for Europeans. The UK site of NoE is now listing Ace-Attorney: Phoenix Wright- Trials & Tribulations on their release schedule for 2008.

There it's said to be released October 3rd 2008, hopefully that date and the overall release are final.

We'll keep you updated in case anything changes.

So today is the day that Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice is officially released in Europe.

Rush to your local game store for this amazing game in it's localized form.
(But don't forget to call beforehand in case it's already out of stock. )

Just letting you know that we have updated our Voice rip section with the latest voices from the freshly released European version of Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice.
So far we were only able to obtain the German and French voices, but we're hoping to get the Italian and Spanish ones soon so stay tuned.

Update: Italian and Spanish have been added.