| Arcana Heart 3 - Remaining shipments on Monday «©NCSX» Due to a late flight out of Tokyo, please note that the remaining shipments of Arcana Heart 3 will arrive on Monday. The NYC snow doesn't appear to have been a factor since the origin of the delay was in Japan. |
| Fast Striker NGDev contacted us yesterday about the delay. Hopefully the shipment arrives later this afternoon and we'll be able to process and ship preorders. |
| NCSX.COM down The server that runs www.ncsx.com went down last night at 3:29AM EST. We think the battery died again even though we replaced it just a couple of months ago. The colocation center person there thinks the server is draining batteries quicker than usual so we'll look into that. In the meantime, we'll probably move the entire site to another server today so it might be down until tomorrow morning. The shopping sites at www.ncsxshop.com and www.shopncsx.com are up along with the blog. |
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Friday, January 14, 2011
NEWS General Updates
PS3 Arcana Heart 3 - New Import, Partial Delivery
«©NCSX» From Examu's eX-BOARD hardware to Playstation 3, Arcana Heart 3 goes home this week. The storyline in AH3 takes place 2 months after the events in Arcana Heart 2 and dire events have been set in motion by an organization named the "Drexler Institution" which threatens the destruction of Japan.
The fighting ginger named Aino Heart is back but she's not the focal point of the third Arcana Heart game. The lead heroine in Arcana Heart 3 is a blonde girl named Weiss who appears to be a humorless 14-year old student. She's really an operative working for Valkyria which is an arm of the Drexler Institute. The rest of the cast of the Arcana Hearts game also return such asSaki Tsuzura, Angelia Avallone, Kamui Tokinomiya, Maori Kasuga, and Mei-Fang. Each girl is accompanied by a unique "Arcana" which is a powerful being who supplements the girl's fighting skills with a repertoire of special attacks and powers. New to AH3 is the "Force Gauge" which allows for the use of a move called "Extend Force" which is a close cousin of the "Arcana Burst" move. The best news of all? Arc System handled the game conversion themselves from Examu kit to PS3.
PS3 Arcana Heart 3 Limited Ed - New Import, Partial Delivery
«©NCSX» From Examu's eX-BOARD hardware to Playstation 3, Arcana Heart 3 goes home this week. The storyline in AH3 takes place 2 months after the events in Arcana Heart 2 and dire events have been set in motion by an organization named the "Drexler Institution" which threatens the destruction of Japan.
The fighting ginger named Aino Heart is back but she's not the focal point of the third Arcana Heart game. The lead heroine in Arcana Heart 3 is a blonde girl named Weiss who appears to be a humorless 14-year old student. She's really an operative working for Valkyria which is an arm of the Drexler Institute. The rest of the cast of the Arcana Hearts game also return such as Saki Tsuzura, Angelia Avallone, Kamui Tokinomiya, Maori Kasuga, and Mei-Fang. Each girl is accompanied by a unique "Arcana" which is a powerful being who supplements the girl's fighting skills with a repertoire of special attacks and powers. New to AH3 is the "Force Gauge" which allows for the use of a move called "Extend Force" which is a close cousin of the "Arcana Burst" move. The best news of all? Arc System handled the game conversion themselves from Examu kit to PS3.
The home conversions of Arcana Heart 3 are based on v3.01 of the arcade game and includes a new Story Mode, a Training Mode, Online Network Play for up to 6 fighters, and two screen aspect modes (4:3 and 16:9). The limited edition of AC3 includes an All Art Works Character Pin Set.
PS3 Arcana Heart 3 Hori Real Arcade Pro - New Import
«©NCSX» Hori takes the Real Arcade Pro 3 joystick, paints it red, and pastes Arcana Heart 3 artwork on top. For added value, Hori also throws in not one but two sheets of colorful Arcana Heart decals. The decals may be applied to the surface of the joystick although we wouldn't recommend it.
A housing in the back of the joystick stores the USB cable when its not in use so that there's noticeably less clutter with this version of the HRAP3. Hand grips on both sides of the joystick also allow for easier hefting when moving the stick around. All 8-buttons on the joystick may be set to auto-fire. All preorders are shipping this afternoon.
X360 Arcana Heart 3 - New Import, Partial Delivery
«©NCSX» From Examu's eX-BOARD hardware to X360, Arcana Heart 3 goes home this week. The storyline in AH3 takes place 2 months after the events in Arcana Heart 2 and dire events have been set in motion by an organization named the "Drexler Institution" which threatens the destruction of Japan.
The fighting ginger named Aino Heart is back but she's not the focal point of the third Arcana Heart game. The lead heroine in Arcana Heart 3 is a blonde girl named Weiss who appears to be a humorless 14-year old student. She's really an operative working for Valkyria which is an arm of the Drexler Institute. The rest of the cast of the Arcana Hearts game also return such as Saki Tsuzura, Angelia Avallone, Kamui Tokinomiya, Maori Kasuga, and Mei-Fang. Each girl is accompanied by a unique "Arcana" which is a powerful being who supplements the girl's fighting skills with a repertoire of special attacks and powers.
New to AH3 is the "Force Gauge" which allows for the use of a move called "Extend Force" which is a close cousin of the "Arcana Burst" move. The best news of all? Arc System handled the game conversion themselves from Examu kit to X360.
X360 Arcana Heart 3 Limited Ed - New Import, Partial Delivery
«©NCSX» From Examu's eX-BOARD hardware to Xbox 360, Arcana Heart 3 goes home this week. The storyline in AH3 takes place 2 months after the events in Arcana Heart 2 and dire events have been set in motion by an organization named the "Drexler Institution" which threatens the destruction of Japan.
The fighting ginger named Aino Heart is back but she's not the focal point of the third Arcana Heart game. The lead heroine in Arcana Heart 3 is a blonde girl named Weiss who appears to be a humorless 14-year old student. She's really an operative working for Valkyria which is an arm of the Drexler Institute. The rest of the cast of the Arcana Hearts game also return such as Saki Tsuzura, Angelia Avallone, Kamui Tokinomiya, Maori Kasuga, and Mei-Fang. Each girl is accompanied by a unique "Arcana" which is a powerful being who supplements the girl's fighting skills with a repertoire of special attacks and powers. New to AH3 is the "Force Gauge" which allows for the use of a move called "Extend Force" which is a close cousin of the "Arcana Burst" move. The best news of all? Arc System handled the game conversion themselves from Examu kit to X360.
The home conversions of Arcana Heart 3 are based on v3.01 of the arcade game and includes a new Story Mode, a Training Mode, Online Network Play for up to 6 fighters, and two screen aspect modes (4:3 and 16:9). The limited edition of AC3 includes an All Art Works Character Pin Set.
PSP Another Century's Episode Portable - New Import
NCS Product Synopsis.
«©NCSX» Bandai's Another Century's Episode was born on the Playstation 2 where it ran for three volumes. The third game on the PS2 was supposed to be the final A.C.E. game but then Bandai revived the series on the Playstation 3 with A.C.E. R. in the summer of 2010. To ring in the new year with mechs, Bandai brings the franchise to the Playstation Portable.
What is A.C.E? Think of mechs from popular and some obscure animation series and then imagine them in combat. Not just any staid combat however but fast-paced action where agile robots duke it out with swords and guns. The roster in ACE: Portable includes mechs from the following animations:
» Aura Battler Dunbine
» Blue Comet SPT Layzner
» Brain Powerd
» Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
» Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
» Macross F
» Metal Armor Dragonar
» Nadesico The Prince of Darkness
» Overman King Gainer
» Z Gundam
Early preorders ship with a bonus A.C.E. Portable mech illustrations booklet which spans 24 glossy pages.
«©NCSX» Bandai's Another Century's Episode was born on the Playstation 2 where it ran for three volumes. The third game on the PS2 was supposed to be the final A.C.E. game but then Bandai revived the series on the Playstation 3 with A.C.E. R. in the summer of 2010. To ring in the new year with mechs, Bandai brings the franchise to the Playstation Portable.
What is A.C.E? Think of mechs from popular and some obscure animation series and then imagine them in combat. Not just any staid combat however but fast-paced action where agile robots duke it out with swords and guns. The roster in ACE: Portable includes mechs from the following animations:
» Aura Battler Dunbine
» Blue Comet SPT Layzner
» Brain Powerd
» Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
» Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
» Macross F
» Metal Armor Dragonar
» Nadesico The Prince of Darkness
» Overman King Gainer
» Z Gundam
Early preorders ship with a bonus A.C.E. Portable mech illustrations booklet which spans 24 glossy pages.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
General Updates
| Snow Storm «©NCSX» A fairly large snowstorm hit the City last night but it wasn't as massive as the storm from a couple of weeks ago. Traffic should be moving normally today but if there's any issues with snow cleanup, please note that outgoing shipments may be delayed this afternoon. |
| Incoming Shipments The snow probably shouldn't affect the import shipments that are coming in but if there are any delays this week, the snow = culprit. |
| Nintendo 3DS Region-Locked NCS expects to start preorders for the Japanese Nintendo 3DS next week but please be advised that the hardware is region-locked and will only play Japanese software. This region-restriction applies to both card-based and downloaded software. |
| 1Up: What Japanese Devs really think Part 1: http://www.1up.com/news/japanese-devs Part 2: http://www.1up.com/news/japanese-devs-part |
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