On Friday I attended a Naruto fan event with some members of my anime club that was held at Ubisoft’s San Francisco office to celebrate the upcoming release of “Naruto: Rise of a Ninja” for Xbox 360. It’s the first game in the franchise to be developed by a non-Japanese studio and we got to play the game with other fans, eat some snacks, and later go out to dinner with some of the employees. After playing a couple hours of it, I think it’s a pretty solid game.
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NOTE: image not from the upcoming game.

According to ANN, Ideafactory is making a Ouran Host Club romantic adventure game targeted at women for the PS2, due to come out in spring 2007 in Japan. I guess this isn’t exactly a case of life imitating art but more like games imitating anime and manga since Renge, the host club’s self-imposed manager, went to Japan because she was a fan of a relationship game (a parody of Tokimeki Memorial) featuring lookalikes of the host club’s members. I hope the characters have the same voices and I wonder if Haruhi would be available as a love interest…