Hi everyone! Masa KING at CAVE WORLD here.

CAVE offers its deepest condolences to victims of the Tohoku earthquake disaster in Japan.  We hope for the safety of people in the area affected by the earthquake tragedy and a rapid restoration of services.

People overseas are probably aware of this, but there was actually another big aftershock last night which gave me a bit of a shock. Shows that you can’t let your guard down!

You might already know since we put out a Press Release yesterday, but in the interest of rebuilding areas affected by the disaster, CAVE has put together a project called “Games Supporting Disaster Victims” to help people in the affected areas.

We hope you’ll help out!

Details on the project can be found here: http://caveworlden.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/ir-20100407_aid-project-english.pdf

Along with the kickstart of this project, CAVE WORLD is also celebrating its 1st Anniversary!
We’ve only made it this far thanks to the support of our fans and for that our team members are very grateful.

“Thank you so much!“

And in appreciation,

for 9 days, from April 9th to 17th, we will be putting all of our iOS games on sale!

■ Espgaluda II will go on sale when it hits 1000 votes in OpenFeint’s Fire Sale promotion starting today (in a couple hours!!). Download the Game Channel App and vote for us! Details here.
■ All earnings from Mushihimesama BUG PANIC during the sale period will be contributed to charity.

If you need any more information, check out our homepage!

Now…the other day in my blog I wrote “1 year in a flash!”, but thinking back on it I realize that with our first game Espgaluda II, we had an issue where players couldn’t download the game for iPod touch, and there were probably a lot of people who didn’t pick it up for that reason.

At the time we considered a sale as a response to that, but that got dragged out a full year.
I’m very sorry we kept everyone waiting!  I hope you take advantage of the price while it’s up (and recommend our games to your friends).

Our second game was Dodonpachi Resurrection, which I mentioned last time won Best Action/Arcade Game for iPhone in the 2011 Pocket Gamer Awards.

Mushihimesama BUG PANIC was our third game, and was recently updated with the online BUG BATTLE feature which pairs you up with people from (sometimes quite rare!) countries around the world…

Our bonus app “Mushihimesama BUG TIMER” was also downloaded by a lot of folks,

and I had the opportunity to cosplay as “KINGIRO“, “KING Bachi” and “Larsa KING” at some of our events.

It’s been a year of trial and error, but I’m glad that we made it.

We will keep doing our best to keep up with your expectations!

Dodonpachi Resurrection iPhone soundtrack is up at the international store, and they will also be selling some “Charity Sets” soon to help out victims of the earthquake.

You can pick them up starting April 20th (WED) afternoon through April 30th (SAT) 18:00* Japan Time only, for 2,000 yen! *Shipping not included. Check out the shop!

Next time I think I’ll finally be able to divulge some details on our next iOS App “Deathsmiles“! That’s it for today!