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Friday3rd Mar 2023
News Capcom 'Spotlight' Broadcast Announced, Airing Next Week
Expect updates for Mega Man, Ghost Trick & more
Capcom is hosting its own special 'Spotlight' next week on 9th March. Fans can look forward to a 26-minute broadcast covering all the company's major IP and upcoming and existing releases. Some of the titles you can expect to hear more about include Resident Evil 4 Remake, Exoprimal, Monster Hunter...
Thursday9th Feb 2023
News Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Gets Resurrected On Switch This Summer
Back from the grave
Cult DS mystery game Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is getting a surprise HD remaster on Switch this summer! (We know the lovely Kate Gray will be very excited to hear this). This updated rerelease was revealed during the February 2023 Nintendo Direct. Directed and written by Shu Takumi, creator of the Ace Attorney series, you...
Thursday3rd Nov 2022
News Rating For 'Ghost Trick' Has Been Spotted In Korea
Is the Phantom Detective coming back?
A rating for a game called 'Ghost Trick' has been spotted in Korea. Made by The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea, the rating was filed on 24th August 2022 and accepted on 2nd September 2022, Gematsu reports. If you had a DS and loved detective games (or an iOS or Android), then your ears might...
Monday17th May 2021
News Ace Attorney And Ghost Trick Return To The iOS Store
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Earlier this year, Capcom took down a few of their games from the iOS store, in order to update them to work with the new iOS 14. The three games affected were Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice.
Sunday10th Jan 2021
Poll Box Art Brawl #74 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Sissel: real
Welcome to the first 2021 edition of Box Art Brawl. This is our weekly-ish look at two or more retro gaming cover variants from around the globe, and we've got another three contenders lined up to duke it out for your vote. Last time, we took to the slopes for some festive 1080° Snowboarding on N64. Ultimately, it was North America...
Tuesday29th Mar 2011
Podcast NLFM Episode 19: DS Swan Songs
Not with a whimper, but a bang!
So 3DS is out in places other than Japan now, hooray! But just because its successor is stealing the spotlight, that doesn't mean the DS is content with resting on its two-dimensional laurels. Why, it's not even April yet and it's already seen at least five fantastic games this year with some fantastic music to go...
Thursday16th Dec 2010
News Get Your Hands On a Ghost Trick DS Demo Right Now
Update: Now live in Europe
Not content with offering a free Flash demo of upcoming supernatural puzzler Ghost Trick, Capcom is now giving DS owners in North America a chance to try out the title with a downloadable demo. To get your stylus on the new demo, fire up your Wii and head over to the Nintendo Channel, and be sure to let us know what you...
Friday3rd Dec 2010
News Get a Taste of Ghost Trick With Free Flash Demo
Who did the killing?
Ghost Trick isn't far away now, so if your excitement is reaching supernatural heights you might want to check out this free Flash demo from Capcom that will help ease you into the game's unique universe. With plenty of cheeky dialogue and some moderately mind-bending puzzles it's well worth a play even if you're not...
Thursday28th Oct 2010
News Nintendo & Capcom Team Up to Spook European Gamers With Ghost Trick
Phantom detectives to start their investigations from 14th January
Nintendo has confirmed that it has signed a distribution deal with Capcom for its upcoming European release of Ghost Trick Phantom Detective on the DS. It's not the first time Nintendo has stepped in to help out a third-party title; the most recent collaboration between the two was...
Thursday16th Sep 2010
News Ghost Trick Trailer Shows the Park is Susceptible to Strange Events
More gameplay footage from Capcom's puzzle game
The Tokyo Game Show has landed and everyone has a lot to show off. Capcom is continuing its steady release of episodic gameplay trailers for the upcoming mystery adventure game, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and we can tell you that something strange is happening at the park. The game fuses logic...
Wednesday18th Aug 2010
News Bask in the Supernatural Aura of this Ghost Trick Trailer
Detecting new phantoms inbound
We had a short but enjoyably bizarre hands-on session with Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective a month ago, and the curious DS puzzler continues to take shape under the direction of Phoenix Wright mastermind Shu Takumi. With Gamescom currently tearing up Cologne, Capcom has released a new trailer for Ghost Trick to show off...
Wednesday28th Jul 2010
First Impressions Wii and DS Round-Up from London
Get the lowdown on Okamiden, Super Scribblenauts and more!
Ace Nintendo Life reporters James and Darren were recently invited to attend a special preview event in London to get hands-on with the 3DS as well as Nintendo's upcoming Wii and DS line-up. We've already posted our impressions of the 3DS and its games, so let's cast our eye to the wider...
Sunday18th Jul 2010
News Shu Takumi Talks Ghost Trick, Ace Attorney
Would love to see a 3DS Phantom Detective
Recently, PlanetDS.de published an interview with Shu Takumi, a creative director at Capcom who's working on Ghost Trick and whose past projects include the first four Phoenix Wright titles. In it, he discusses his excitement with Phantom Detective: I swear none of you have ever seen anything like it...
Wednesday16th Jun 2010
E3 2010 More Clues to the Inner-Workings of Ghost Trick Phantom Detective
New trailers introduce us to a mysterious man
This year's E3 event saw Capcom unveiling some anticipated titles, as well as revealing some new and unexpected ones. A game that has grabbed our attention is the ghostly puzzle game known as Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for the DS and the company has recently released the third episode video, along...
Thursday20th May 2010
News Play the Spook in Capcom's Ghost Trick Phantom Detective
Latest gameplay video shows a mother and daughter conversation interrupted by strangeness
You may remember when Capcom announced that its DS-exclusive puzzle game; Ghost Trick Phantom Detective was in development, its description was attention-grabbing. Since then, game details have slowly been released and the screenshots have undoubtedly marked...
Thursday22nd Apr 2010
News Ghost Trick to Haunt the West This Winter
Capcom unveils a new Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
We previously reported in 2009 that this new game from the original director of the Ace Attorney franchise was in production and planned for a Japanese release. Even then, Capcom had translated the name into English, so it may not come as much of a surprise that the company recently confirmed its...
Thursday24th Sep 2009
News Capcom Unveils Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick
New Wii and DS titles revealed at TGS 2009
Capcom has already dropped the Frank-bomb on Tatsunoko vs. Capcom at this year's TGS but there's more fun to be had with two new announcements. First up is the next instalment in the massively popular (at least in Japan, anyway) of the Sengoku Basara series (which has previously been known as Devil Kings...
