New Website coming next week!

Well, we have finally sorted all the little stupid things and we are proud to bring you a new website that should be a lot more interactive than this crap blog.  One of the main problems with this blog was it was only down to me to help people out, but there are a lot [...]

New Website arriving soon!

Hi Guys, I know I dont blog on this thing nearly enough – but quite frankly it’s a lot of work just to find out about region codes on my lonesome and to be honest it is kinda boring. Plus the update of wordpress has left it almost unusable on my mac. So I have [...]

Wii Freeloader. DATEL: Firmware no problem!

At last the Freeloader for the Wii will be hitting shelves soon The disk allows you to bypass the region code settings on your Wii console and then when inserting a foreign game.  Hopefully, this will be better that the old gamecube freeloder disk which died after the update and could no longer be [...]

GTA IV REGION FREE? Don’t get your hopes up!

Buyers beware this April as word has come down that GTA’s maker Rockstar have region locked their newest title Bully: Scholarship Edition and has been tested by Videogamesplus. This coincides with other Rockstar games of the past including Rockstar Table Tennis and other GTA titles on the first xbox.
With pre-order fever kicking in for [...]

Do you need this site? WE NEED YOU!

Please give me a minute of your time.
The question is, do you need ths site? Do you use it regularly? Would it affect you if it shut down?
Do you wish to see the site expanded to become something more? Do you want forums? Regular gaming news? A podcast covering some gaming and [...]

New Year, New Games

Hi guys, sorry for not being around too much over the last month – I went home for the break and had no net access.  If you posted items when I was away, I have now approved them and can now be seen.
Well, it is now the time when all the new games start releasing, [...]

Lost Odyssey – We are watching you

Maybe the biggest release for Japan this year is Lost Odyssey, made by Mistwalker studios’ Hironobu Sakaguchi (king of the J-RPG) and it is hitting shelves this week in Japan. Of course there are going to be a lot of people wondering about it’s region free availability and regionhell is [...]

The ones I missed from November

 Due to my busy schedule and my stupid decision to study even more Japanese I have been pretty busy and I missed a few of the releases during November.
After the break, I will discuss LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action., Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, BlackSite: Area 51, Need for [...]

Regionhell moving into next gear

Considering that this site was only started a couple of months ago, I made it because I was bored of searching the interweb to look for region code stuff as there are no specific locations where all this info is housed (apart from online retailers, who have a habit of bending the truth), and I [...]

Region problems with US Rock Band

For those hoping for some region free goodness from Rock Band on the 360 it would probably be better off if you go to another venue, i.e. the Playstation 3.
A poster over in the rock band forums has confirmed (kinda) that his US copy of rock band is region locked, you can see what his [...]