It's numbers time again! The latest hardware sales figures from Japan's Media Create has been release, and competition is getting tighter as the PS3 inches closer and closer to the top, needing only about a thousand more units before overtaking the long-reigning DSi.

Another update for White Knight Chronicles coming up, but no, Level 5 Games isn't finished with the North American release. They did, however, finish working on a patch that adds a voice chat feature into the Japan-released game, as well as some collectible goodies for PlayStation Home.

The powers and resources of the NPD, Enterbrain, and GfK Chart-Track have all come together and the results are in - Dragon Quest IX dominated the global sales charts spanning over three months ending September of this year. What's more amazing is that the DS-exclusive title has only been released in Japan. See how the others fared.

While powering its way to the top of the charts, the PS3 continues to eye bigger mountains to scale and conquer. The recent Sony sales surge certainly rocketed the console up, but the next mountain is one that has stood firm for the last few years and will be tougher to climb than all the PS3's previous hurdles - this mountain is Mount Wii. Following the latest figures, it seems that the PS3 may have gotten slightly ahead of the Wii in terms of sales in Japan for the year.

Square Enix just might be ready to reveal the North American release date for Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PS3) anytime in the near future now. A script for a Casting Call shows that they do have something cooking for the big reveal, complete with dramatic dialogue and all that jazz.

Finally, the underwater version of the popular PixelJunk franchise, PixelJunk Shooters, has been pegged to a more specific release window. Dylan Cuthbert of Q-Games tweeted about their prospective launch date in Japan.

If your interest was piqued over the announcement of From Software's PS3 exclusive action RPG 3D Dot Game Heroes, then you'll be happy to know that you won't have to import the said video game. Yes, it's coming to North America folks! Details and screenshots at the full article.

Remember the Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) Elixirs announced back in Tokyo? As promised, they're heading to retail in Japan come winter, and we now know exactly when.

If only we could read Japanese then the language barrier would not have delayed the info and we could've gotten them sooner. Caught the Famitsu scans for Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PS3) we posted yesterday? Now we know what those Japanese text walls have been trying to tell us.

It has been a while since we last got anything from Tri-Ace's latest RPG, End of Eternity, and here we are, looking at the date in which the game will be released. The Western release, under the name, Resonance of Fate, still doesn't have one, so let's just be happy for the Japanese at this point.