Sega has recently announced that it will be porting its classic 3D fighting game Virtua Fighter 2 on to the mobile gaming platform with Virtua Fighter Mobile. The game will be made available this Spring in Japan for a nominal monthly fee of ¥315 (around US$ 3) and will feature the same fast paced fighting action as when the game first came out in 1994, albeit on a much smaller screen.

Check out the screenshots as well as the details in the full article!

Everybody knew that three games from the Kingdom Hearts series will be featured in Jump Festa 2008. While it seems that Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days got the majority of the updates, fans of both Kingdom Hearts Coded and Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep will not be disappointed by the strong showing of both games.

You can find more details about all three games in the full article.

We're just as surprised as you are. The Nintendo DS may have been the prime platform to release the sequel - if ever they were to make one - to Final Fantasy IV, but a recent discovery over the Internet has swept that possibility aside. While a sequel was officially confirmed, it was not to arrive on Nintendo's handheld.

Details follow in the full story.

DoCoMo, one of Japan's most popular handset makers, has announced its new F801i phone. This model is intended mainly for kids to keep them safe when not with parents and guardians. This 3G unit  isn't all fun and games. With its safety features, locating children in distress will be much easier. Read the detailed version to know more about the F801i.

    

NTT DoCoMo is one of Japan's biggest wireless operators. So it is only logical that consumers would expect the bigger innovations to come from them. The company delivered indeed last Monday after announcing five new 3G FOMA 904i models capable of motion-sensing gameplay.

Accordingly, the motion-sensing capability has been made possible because of Chokkan Game support. After downloading the games from online sites, consumers can play these mobile titles by using intuitive motions such as tracing a finger and tilting or waiving the handset. Of course, the type of motion is dependent on the game's content.

The new phones sport pre-existing features common to DoCoMo units. But aside from the above mentioned, they will also have the following:

• 2in1 support: This service provides the capabilities of two separate handsets in one single unit. Under a single FOMA card, users are provided with two phone numbers and two i-mode mail addresses, and these are accessed independently by means of a Mode Switching function. Switching between modes changes the phone number, i-mode mail address, address book, mail boxes and call history. When using A Mode, the customer cannot view B Mode, and vice-versa.
• Uta-hodai support: Users can download full music tracks from i-mode sites supporting Uta-hodai for a flat monthly subscription fee. When downloading, users will accrue an i-mode information fee and packet communication charges. DoCoMo suggests that users planning to download a significant volume of data every month consider subscribing to flat-rate data communication billing plans "pake-hodai" or "pake-hodai full."

The D904i, F904i, N904i and SH904i could begin arriving in stores as early as May; at the latest they will be available in June. The P904i will go on sale in June.

Textbooks are written to do two things: to teach and to bore students. And that's why ZMP created its robots. The company believes a robot is the most suitable hands-on teaching material for basic mechanical, electrical, electronic, control and information engineering.

Its newest mechanical baby is the Nuvo robot. Nuvo is controlled via FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access), which is a 3G service available only Japan. Although far from perfect (the video was cut short just when the humanoid was about to tip over) it can pick itself up from flat-on-the-floor position. Something many super-sized and inebriated humans can't do. The company says it hopes teachers will use the Nuvo bots in class. We have a feeling students would want that, too.

NTT DoCoMO announces a brand new phone that will proudly carry it's very own FOMA brand -- the Panasonic p702iD. The phones under the FOMA brand, which is being offered by NTT DoCoMo, is the first commercial brands of handhelds to have 3G capability.

Since DoCoMo was the first carrier to roll out 3G network technology, DoCoMo used technologies different from the European UMTS standards, which were not ready early enough for DoCoMo's roll-out. Recently, DoCoMo is working to modify FOMA to conform fully with UMTS standards over time.

The spotless and very shiny p702iD is available in 4 types of colors-  square white, square black, round coral, and round pink...although I personally do not have a clue as to why the color choices are named as such because the phones still look the same in any color.

Moving along, the phone is blessed with a 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD with resolutions of 240 x 320, 0.8 inch organic external display (96 x 25), 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera with an internal 0.1 megapixel CMOS camera for video conferencing.

Also, this baby could accommodate a miniSD plus the phone has a maximum storage capacity of 2GB. If fully charged, this DoCOMo phone has a talk time of 140 minutes and standby time of 500 hours. FOMA P702iD weights 109 grams with the size of 49 x 100 x 19.7. For now, there is no available info with regards to pricing and availability.