NEWS USA Release Outlook - Arrivals on Monday-Thursday

NDS	Despicable Me The Game: Minion Mayhem	D2P
	Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies	Square
Wii	Big Beach Sports 2	THQ
	Despicable Me The Game: Minion Mayhem	D2P
	Tournament of Legends	Sega
360	Crackdown 2	Microsoft

MAG Weekly Famitsu Vol. 1126 - New Import

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» The July 15, 2010 issue of Weekly Famitsu includes coverage of the following games and events in the Japanese marketplace:

» Preview for PSP Lord of Arcana which introduces character archetypes, monsters in the game, and explains the adventuring elements.
» Famitsu reviews NDS Toy Story 3 (7/7/8/7), NDS Bokujou Monogatari: Futago no Mura (8/8/8/8), PS3 Shirokishi Monogatari: Hikari to Yami no Kakusei (8/9/8/8), PS3 Dead to Rights: Retribution (7/8/7/7), PSP Zikande Fantasia (6/7/8/6), and PSP The Conveni Portable (7/7/7/6).
» Special preview for PS3 Shirokishi Monogatari: Hikari to Yami no Kakusei which includes information on the protagonist and gameplay.
» Every issue of Weekly Famitsu 1126 includes a bonus 28-page pullout booklet which details all of the top rated games for the first half of 2010.
» Beverages are the focus in this week's PICK UP FOOD section. Famitsu includes a photo of a Dragon Quest Slime-shaped bottle which holds a soft drink. We want it.

NDS Inazuma Eleven 3 Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber - New

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Once rivals and now mates, the high school soccer players of Inazuma Eleven shove aside their differences and join together to build a club to compete in the Soccer World Championship. Squad leader Endo Mamoru and company create one team to represent Japan that they're calling "Inazuma Japan." The third volume in the Inazuma Eleven series features over 2000 players from different high schools who may be recruited and assembled into a soccer team. Players can also perform 300 types of special moves and killer shots to gain an edge against an opposing team. Inazuma 3 features a "Super Link" feature which allows character data from Inazuma Eleven 2 to be ported over and utilized. The "Bomber" edition of IE3 features an exclusive soccer club dubbed "Demon Army Z" along with special moves, characters, and storyline snippets.

NDS Inazuma Eleven 3 Sekai e no Chousen!! Spark - New

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Once rivals and now mates, the high school soccer players of Inazuma Eleven shove aside their differences and join together to build a club to compete in the Soccer World Championship. Squad leader Endo Mamoru and company create one team to represent Japan that they're calling "Inazuma Japan." The third volume in the Inazuma Eleven series features over 2000 players from different high schools who may be recruited and assembled into a soccer team. Players can also perform 300 types of special moves and killer shots to gain an edge against an opposing team. Inazuma 3 features a "Super Link" feature which allows character data from Inazuma Eleven 2 to be ported over and utilized. The "Spark" edition of IE3 features an exclusive soccer club dubbed "Angelic Apostles" along with special moves, characters, and storyline snippets.

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.

TOYS Kubrick Star Wars DX Series 1 - New Import

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Medicom kicks off the Kubrick Star Wars DX Series 1 this summer with a brand spanking new set of six Star Wars figures inspired by the events in the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi motion picture. The six standard figures are as follows:

» Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight - Wears a gray smock and black shirt
» C-3PO & Salacious B. Crumb - Salacious rides on C-3PO's shoulder
» R2-D2 (Jabba's Barge) - The droid serves drinks to Jabba's crew
» Chewbacca (Boushh's Prisoner) - Wookiee engages in a ruse
» Amanaman - Sunflower-colored bounty hunter with blue trim
» Bib Fortuna - Jabba's cunning and ruthless attendant

Extra parts are included inside each figure which allows toy fans to create the hulking bulk of Jabba the Hutt. The slug-like form of Jabba rests on a slab of segmented PVC and a hookah pipe sits to his side. Medicom will include a pop-up cardboard display which is designed to look like Jabba's palace in each Master Carton of 4 factory cases. Desirable chase figures are also expected to be dispersed randomly inside each Master Carton.

All preorders are shipping today and new orders are welcome for dispatch this afternoon.

CD Xenoblade Original Soundtrack - New Import

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» The recent Xenoblade RPG for the Wii was an epic and somewhat awe-inspiring adventure. Preorders for the game flowed in at a galloping clip and NCS had to re-order the game a few times to meet demand. Such a grandiose adventure wouldn't feel "epic" and "awe-inspiring" if the music wasn't also matching of those descriptors.
Enter composer Yoko Shimomura who started her career at Capcom but currently weaves her melodies at Square Enix. The Xenoblade OST is parceled out onto four CDs and is being published by Dog Ear Records (distribution by Sony). All preorders are shipping today and new orders are welcome to ship later this afternoon.

BOOK SFIV & SSFIV Offcial Complete Works - New Import

NCS Product Synopsis

«©NCSX» Capcom's Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV have been accompanied by a lot of artwork. To promote the games, Capcom commissioned artists to create advertising material featuring characters such as Ken, Ryu, Ken vs. Ryu, and much much more. During the creative process of the game itself, artists sketched out the characters and set up storyboards before the visuals of the game were fleshed to life on the development stations. All that artwork was for the coin-op versions of the game. Artists also went about creating the advertising material for the home conversions of the games when the time came for Capcom to sell directly to the CS market.

With all that artwork, sketches, storyboards, and galleries in existence, it was only proper that Capcom collect all of it in one handy volume. One book to hold it all for fans to stare at, appreciate, and treasure for years to come. That book ships this week in Japan and Capcom also throws in interviews and commentary from the development team for added value. Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV Official Complete Works is an A4 Size Book (8.27 X 11.69") which contains 176 pages.