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London gets the Japanese party experience this November! The new club night in London offers the full Japanese entertainment experience on 17 November with bands, DJs, video games, karaoke, purikura and more from the land of the rising sun! Japan Underground aims to bring the buzz of Tokyo’s alternative nightlife to England, and will be teaming up with several of the UK’s biggest sources of Japanese entertainment to achieve it. The opening party, running from 7pm-2am, will be loosely themed on Japan’s massively popular feudal brawler franchise Sengoku Basara . Video game giants Capcom will bring the latest game Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings to the event, while Manga Entertainment will screen the forthcoming anime series on the venue’s cinema. Music from the game and anime will also be DJed throughout the night along with the biggest tunes from Japan’s pop, rock, visual kei, urban and underground scenes, plus remixes from video games such as Street Fighter, Final Fantasy and more. To f...

The game developer CAPCOM has confirmed at Tokyo Game Show 2008 and on its website on Thursday that its Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings) action-adventure game franchise is getting adapted into a 2009 television anime series by Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers). Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the games' supervisor at CAPCOM, developed an original scenario treatment specifically for the anime. Itsuro Kawasaki (Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE The Movie: Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom, Yumedamaya Kidan) is directing the anime, and Yasuyuki Muto (Persona -trinity soul-, Basilisk) is supervising the scripts. Tooru Ookubo (Blood+, Seirei no Moribito) serves as both the character designer and chief animation director. Kazuya Nakai, Souichiro Hoshi, and Norio Wakamoto will reprise their game roles as the Warring States Period figures Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura, and Oda Nobunaga, respectively. Source: Inside Games

Sengoku Basara X Coming to PS2 Upcoming fighter stays last gen. by John Tanaka for IGN Capcom's arcade adaptation of the Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings) series is due for Japanese release later this month. But prior to that, Capcom has gone about announcing a home version of the game.Surprisingly, it's not for the Wii, PS3, or even the Xbox 360. Instead, Sengoku Basara X (Cross) will be coming to the PS2, the company revealed today. Although we don't have details at the moment, the Arc System Works-developed fighter promises a few new gameplay systems just for its home version.Capcom is planning a home release in Japan on June 26. Joining a standard 6,290 yen version of the game will be a 8,390 yen limited edition that will include a voice CD ad a set of character cards.