Happy New Year From Japan

Let’s view some special new year messages from the Japanese game developers and publishers. Click here to view all the greetings I manage to collect.

Bandai Namco: Six pieces of desktop wallpapers with 2007 calendar featuring characters from .hack//G.U. and the Tales of series. Click here to download all the wallpapers.

Bandai Namco New Year Desktop Wallpaper

The Devil May Cry 4 Team: Dante’s creator have a “super rare” new year greeting card to give out to those who can answer the question “What will you do if you have the right arm of demon?”. More here.

Devil May Cry 4 New Year Greeting Card

Idea Factory: The developers of the upcoming PS3 game Mist of Chaos will send a poster to your home (if you live in Japan that is) with signatures from IDEAF’s designers. More information here.

Square Enix: Square Enix Members can earn extra present points by entering a special code sent to them in a newsletter.

The Monster Hunter Team: A Happy New Hunter Year, as the team would like remind everyone that Monster Hunter Portable 2nd is coming this February. More information here.

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd

Cyber Connect 2: A very nice hand written new year message from the .hack//G.U. and Naruto games developers. More here.

.hack//G.U.

Enterbrain: The publisher of the super popular magazine Famitsu also have a few games in hand, among them the popular horse racing sim Derby Stallion and recent PSP game Boxer’s Road 2: The Real. A desktop wallpaper with calendar of their upcoming PS2 game Kimikiss is available in the game official website.

Kimikiss

Capcom: Through its fans club u-capcom, a very nicely done postage stamps made up of four of the publisher’s big titles. Including Lost Planet (XBOX360), Monster Hunter Portable 2nd, Devil May Cry 4 and Gyakuten Saiban 4 (NDS). More information here.

u-capcom

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