Square Enix is planning to start 2010 off right in Japan: by selling a Dragon Quest game. The publisher announced that Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, the last of the planned DS remakes, will be out in Japan on January 28, just over a month after another big RPG franchise release. We can now attempt a guess at when the North American release will take place, given the release dates of the last two games.

Dragon Quest IV came out in Japan in November 2007, and then in America in September 2008 — ten months apart. Dragon Quest V was released in July 2008 in Japan, and February 2009 in North America, just seven months apart. Therefore, Dragon Quest VI will probably be released in America in … spring 2010. That’s when every game is coming out.

[Via Andriasang]

Dragon Quest VI arrives in Japan in January originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tecmo just sent out a release date for Again, the latest mystery adventure game from Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory developer Cing. North American gamers will be able to watch digitized actors explore the past and get headaches from dollar bills in March 2010.

In addition, the company surprised us with another March 2010 release date for a Cing-developed DS game: Monster Rancher DS. Two DS games in Tecmo’s once-massive monster generating and collecting series came out on DS in Japan in 2007 and 2008, featuring the ability to unlock monsters by drawing on the screen or talking into the microphone, but nothing was ever said about a North American release until now. Monster Rancher DS features both local and online monster fighting, and the return of many of the nostalgic monsters you may remember from the older games, like that one with the big eye.

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There’s no WiiWare this week in Japan, but there is the best 8-bit adaptation of Street Fighter II ever. Not that the PC Engine version has much competition outside of pirate Famicom cartridges and the terrible Game Boy port. But the PC Engine’s SF2 holds up respectably against even the Genesis and SNES versions. It’s joined on Virtual Console by a pair of tank games from Namco.

DSiWare offers a Chinese vocabulary learning tool and a new puzzle game by Intelligent Systems. Panel Connection involves setting panels into a grid to create an uninterrupe\ted exhaust path for a rocket.

• Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition (PC Engine, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points)
• Grobda (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points
• Tank Force (Arcade, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
• ACT Series: Chinese-Japanese Vocabulary (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
• Panel Connection: 3 Minute Rocket (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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