Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Links to the news about Shotest Shogi in French, German and Italian

I found the following articles which mention to Shotest Shogi for Xbox360 in the captioned three languages as below;

In French

• Un autre triplé sur Xbox Live Arcade　Game-Focus.com
• Les nouveautés XBLA de mercredi jXp.ca
• La Games Convention 08 pour la Xbox 360 c'était : Xboxygen
• XLA : les nouveautés du mercredi INpact Virtuel
• 3 jeux et des téléchargements sur le XLA demain Xbox Live France
• Un triplé de plus ce mercredi sur le XBLA LIVE360
• Nouvelle fournée annoncée pour le Live Arcade Gamers.fr

In German

• Drei neue Spiele am Arcade Wednesday　AreaGames
• Xbox Live Arcade Morgen gibt es Nachschub　OnlineWelten.com
• SAMURAI SHOWDOWN 2, SHOTEST SHOGI und ROCKET BOWL　Verivox (Pressemitteilung)
• Xbox Live Arcade: Morgen drei neue Spiele　GBase
• Drei neue Spiele stehen ab morgen bereit　gameswelt.de  

In Italian

• Nuovo aggiornamento Xbox Live Arcade　NextPlay.it
•  XBLA: Samurai Showdown II, Rocket Bowl e Shotest Shogi questo ...　gamesblog.it

Links to the news about Shotest Shogi on Xbox 360

Here are the links to the news about Shotest Shogi on Xbox 360 obtained from shotest - Google News.

• Xbox Live Arcade Games this week

• Xbox Live Arcade Receives Samurai Shodown 2, RocketBowl and Shotest Shogi on Wednesday - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

• Three Games Arrive on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday - Xbox

• Video Games Reloaded - XBLA - NEWS: Triple XBLA Week

• Xboxic » Another threesome coming to XBLA this Wednesday

• Shogi, Rocket Bowl, Samurai Shodown II for XBLA - Xbox 360 News - Australia's PAL Gaming Network

• Xbox Live Arcade Weekly: Sho Nuff!

The page of Xbox.com about Shotest Shogi release

Shotest Shogi for Xbox360 will be released on September 10. Here is the link of the page of Xbox.com about the release.

Xbox.com | Shotest Shogi - Game Detail Page

Interesting blog entries I read today

I found these blog entries interesting today.

superhero shogi: Lots of free shogi software from the Land of the Rising Sun

superhero shogi: playing shogi on your pocket pc

Articles about "ManyChessDS"

ManyChessDS seems Nintendo DS homebrew of many chess variants including shogi and minishogi. Here are some link collection about the articles about it.

ManyChessDS v0.7 - GBAtemp.net
Nintendo DS Homebrew News � Blog Archive � ManyChessDS 0.8
[NDS/Jeu] ManyChessDS - Projets - Dev-fr(in French)

Booze - Open Source software of Shogi, Minishogi and ToriShogi

To my surprize, the veta version of the software called Booze is available to download. It is open source software of shogi, minishogi and torishogi which can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/Unix according to the creator's site. If you are interested, you would like to visit the following pages;

Booze 0.9 Beta Released! - DrunkSoft
Download - DrunkSoft

From my point of view after playing a few shogi games, the shogi engine is still very weak and I don't think it can beat Hamshogi. However, since it is opensource, it may be improved in due course.

Shogi software developed by Purple Software seems available to buy again

Yesterday I found the information in the page linked below;

Shogi (PC) - Softwarestore.com

The product seems to be a Shogi Software which has been developed by Purple Software.

More about Shotest on Xbox 360

Here are some more information about Shotest on Xbox 360 to visit.

Surprise!: Shotest Shogi Appears on Japan's XBLA | XBLArcade.com

I do not understand why it was released in advance only in the Japanese market. I hope it will become availble other regions soon.

shogi --- Video of Shotest in Japanese version

"Hayazashi Shogi Sandan" was released by Nintendo for WiiWare in Japan

Nintendo itself released new WiiWare software called "Hayazashi Shogi Sandan" which is shogi specific software based on TACOS as shogi engine on July 23. It supports Nintendo Wi-Fi connection as well. For more information, please read the articles linked below;

WiiWare: Shogi coming | WiiNintendo
IGN: Nintendo Brings Shogi to WiiWare
Hayazashi Shogi Sandan (Official Page in Japanese)

News about Shotest for XBox 360

It seems that Shotest passed the certification by Microsoft. For more details, please read the article linked below;

Shotest Shogi passes cert; Basment Pool delayed | Gaming Rover - The News You Want

And hey, as for Shotest Shogi, after a bit of a certification debacle, it's finally passed and it's only up to Microsoft when it goes live.