The Ace Attorney series is about to jump from the DS to the movie theater. Prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike, who worked on 13 Assassins, Sukiyaki Western: Django, and Ichi the Killer, is in charge of bringing Capcom's big-haired lawyer to the big screen.

The 135 minute long affair covers all five cases of the first game and will be receiving a worldwide release.

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Capcom's long-running courtroom adventure is getting yet another installment. The publisher announced a fifth entry to the series, in celebration for the franchise's 10th anniversary.

The franchise made its North American debut in 2005, and had many fans pointing their fingers in the air yelling "Hold it!" While the franchise got its start on the Game Boy Advance in Japan, the games have primarily launched on Nintendo DS here. Capcom didn't reveal any details on protagonist, platform, or timing for the next Ace Attorney game.

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Capcom has released Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the iPhone and iPod Touch today on the App Store.

Players take the role of lawyer Phoenix Wright as he fights to prove his client's innocence in all five cases from the original GameBoy Advance title. In the game players will "collect evidence, survey crime scenes, weed through inconsistent testimonies, and overcome corrupt agendas to ensure that justice prevails." Read more »

Capcom sends word that intrepid attorney Phoenix Wright's very first adventure, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, will be available as a WiiWare download next Monday, January 11.

Originally released on the Game Boy Advance in Japan circa 2001 and re-released internationally with enhanced features on the Nintendo DS come 2005, the latest edition of the courtroom adventure utilizes the Wii's motion controls to "present evidence with the wave of the Wii remote or press suspicious testimonies by wiggling it." Read more »

The first three games in the comic legal procedural GBA series Ace Attorney will arrive on Wii next year as downloadable WiiWare titles, developer Capcom announced today.

Motion controls will ratchet the courtroom tension up a notch, presenting evidence with a wave of the Wiimote and accusatory wiggling to press witness withholding information.

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Since Capcom first brought licentious litigating to Nintendo's DS with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, I haven't been able to get enough of the cloak-and-dagger courtroom cock-and-bull. I played the third Nintendo DS title in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations, at this year's E3. Like the previous two Phoenix Wright games on DS, Trials and Tribulations is an enhanced port of a Japanese Game Boy Advance game. Even though Trials and Tribulations won't have any DS-exclusive cases to truly exploit the handheld's unique features--those will be used in the upcoming fourth DS title--the series' inherently fun gameplay and rock-solid writing should make the third title just as easy to recommend as the previous two. The five cases--or "turnabouts," if you prefer, and of course you do--of Trials and Tribulations reveal the origins of the strapping young Wolverine-haired lawyer, Phoenix Wright. In addition to porting the GBA game to DS, Capcom has tacked on the "pysche-lock" feature introduced in Justice for All, a type of mini-game making players mentally extricate the truth from a witness's warped mind. I played a good portion of the game's first episode, Turnabout Memories, which enlists players as a young Mia Fey, Phoenix Wright's mentor from the other titles. In a stunning portrayal of turnaboutery, it appears the young Wright has committed murder over a squabble involving his girlfriend's ex. Despite being one of the most text-heavy series on any console, Trials and Tribulations flaunts its writers' finesse by maintaining fervent interest throughout the court proceedings. After taking the first case as Mia, players return to Wright's lovably oafish shoes for the remaining cases, facing off against a prosecutor known only as Godot. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations will retail this September, joining High Voltage's Capcom-published Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law on PS2 and PSP for a double-dose of prosecutorial pranks.