NEWS President's Day holiday in the States

NCS Synopsis
«©NCSX» Today's President's Day in the United States and post offices, stock markets, and banks are shuttered in observance of the holiday. Due to the postal hiatus, please note that all orders received over the weekend that are shipping by USPS will be dispatched tomorrow. UPS shipments are being processed normally today. 

NEWS Holiday Update

Thanksgiving Holiday - Redux
    Thursday is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States and NCS will be on hiatus. Due to the holiday, we're not certain if this week's shipments from Japan will make it in time for Friday delivery but we'll post an update on Friday morning. New releases expected this week include PS3 Saint Seiya Senki, 360 Machi-ing Maker 4, and 3DS Hakuouki 3D. 

    UPS is on a holiday schedule this Friday which means they will not pick up or deliver Ground packages but Ground shipments will resume on Monday (November 28, 2011). UPS is delivering and picking up air packages on Friday; USPS shipping and pickups are normal on Friday.

NEWS Independence Day on Monday

   Monday's a holiday in the USA and NCS is going to be on hiatus. All orders that are placed over the coming weekend and Monday will ship on Tuesday (July 5, 2011). 

   The exodus out of New York City began last night with traffic snarled on the roads to JFK and LaGuardia airports. As such, the roads were fairly barren on this morning's commute but another wave of outbound travelers should be hitting the roads later this afternoon. 

NEWS General Updates

Slow Striker «©NCSX» Our shipments of DC Fast Striker are still in transit from NGDEV but they should arrive this week. We'll probably never use DHL for European shipments again but the Christmas and New Year holidays were likely factors in the slow delivery.

Holiday in Japan Yesterday    We forgot that every second Monday in January is Seijin no Hi or Coming of Age Day in Japan... which sort of messed up this week's early release chances for Arcana Heart 3. Due to the holiday yesterday, all new releases are on regular delivery schedule for later this week.

Nintendo 3DS    Preorders for the Japanese version of the Nintendo 3DS should kick off next week if alerts from suppliers are correct. We watched a bunch of the Nintendo World 2011 exhibitions over the weekend and Kid Icarus 3DS looks good.

NEWS Independence Day Holiday

NCS Synopsis
«©NCSX» The Fourth of July holiday falls on a Sunday this year. However, no one is going to be cheated out of a holiday.

No one.

Not us.

Not you.

Not UPS, Fedex, or the Postal Service.

No one.

To make sure that all Americans are afforded a proper July 4th holiday, July 5th is a holiday this year. That's right, even though July 5 isn't a holiday, it is a holiday this year. So, whenever the Gregorian Calendar tries to cheat anyone out of a holiday again, it better know that Americans are going to make another day a holiday. Take that.

Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 - New Import, In Stock

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Summer vacations are generally relaxing, somewhat interesting, and if you're lucky, filled with tons of stuff to do. The preceding sentence is descriptive of the summer vacations in the Boku no Natsuyasumi (My Summer Vacation) series of games. In case you've never enjoyed a video game vacation, here's your chance to take one on your Sony PSP.

The destination in the latest Boku no Natsuyasumi is an island in Japan which features a modern city but is also brimming with nature so that there's lots of things for a young boy to occupy himself with. The year in the game is 1985 when life was a little simpler than it is now. Activities including fishing, swimming, beetle battling, toy collecting, dancing, sumo wrestling with toys, insect catching with a net, and much more. The island is close to other islands which may be visited by swimming short distances. There's also a drumming mini-game that's somewhat evocative of Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin. Sort of. Coin-op video games of the day may also be enjoyed including a faithful rendition of QIX from Taito. Occasionally, family members will visit and the entire clan from at least three generations will get enjoy a hearty meal together.

To chronicle the good times and record them for posterity, a picture book diary is gradually filled with scrawled images of events and activities experienced over the course of the vacation.

Golden Week Holiday

Our Japanese suppliers started the Golden Week Holiday over the weekend and their festivities will continue until May 7, 2008. Due to the holiday, no new game imports are expected this week.

We may receive some restock shipments of the Gamecube White Controller and the Wii Super Famicom Controller this week but we'll update accordingly if the stock actually arrives in time. Some toy shipments that were dispatched last week should land tomorrow.

Golden Week Holiday

As mentioned last week, most of our suppliers located in Japan will observe the Golden Week holiday which started last night They'll work on May 1 and 2 to clear out export orders but then go on vacation again on May 3 through May 6. Because of the holiday, we only expect restock shipments this week and no new releases are scheduled.

We've sold out of the Japanese NDS Lite units over the weekend but another batch is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. Restock of the PSP DJ Max Portable 2 regular edition, PS2 DDR SuperNOVA, and PS3 Gundam Musou will arrive on Tuesday.