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Take otaku hero Shoko Nakagawa. Combine with illustrator Noizi Ito. What do you get? A character named “Jewel”. You are looking at a reproduction of Jewel’s outfit right now. Nakagawa and Ito are pals, so it’s no surprise that Ito illustrated the Jewel image character on the singer’s album “Shokotan Cover 3 ~AniSon wa Jinrui…
Computers are great. I love them! Gundam is pretty darn great, too. And, yes, they mix. A Hong Kong based computer hardware company is releasing a series of Mobile Suit Gundam UC (Unicorn) themed products that include a CPU casing, keyboard and earphone. This is hardly the first Gundam CPU casing, and it won’t be…
AKB48 member Mayu Watanabe was immortalized in Xenoblade CG for a commercial to promote the game. The end result was not so great. At the moment, AKB48 is the most popular idol group in Japan. It has many members. Mayu Watanabe is one of them. Above is what Mayu actually looks like. Say “hi” to…
Currently, I’m not in the market for a corset. Perhaps one day, I will be. Right now? No siree. That doesn’t mean you aren’t though! Custom corset maker Evening Arwen has this “Galactic Lord Corset” and this “Galactic Trooper Corset”. (The “Galactic” moniker is code for please-don’t-sue-us-George-Lucas!) They ain’t cheap! The Galactic Lord bit is…
The Beauty of Human Error, Committed by a Computer Umpire Comment by: dandank Nominated by: BryanH Now I’ll admit that I don’t typically play sports games, but I have a theory: Say the game is set to call everything perfectly without error. If the game’s controls over the in-game players allow you to consistently replicate…
You might not be ready to rock, but the E3 gaming expo is ready to rock you. Last year, music games headlined E3 in a major way with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison taking the stage at Microsoft’s press conference. It’s hard to top the Beatles. This isn’t about topping the…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft This Monday got BUSY. I hate when Monday’s busy. Haaaaaaaaate it. What you missed last night Viral Video Apparently Teases 3D PS3 Hideo Kojima Collaborating with Square Enix Jamie Lee Curtis Loves Her Some World Of Warcraft Microsoft Changing Xbox 360 Box Art Rumor: 3DS “Close To” 360, PS3 Graphics
A viral video apparently plugging some new sort of Playstation technology surfaced over the weekend. Is it for 3D gaming (likely) or the Playstation 4 (seriously doubt it)? The clip opens up with a night vision shoot of some sort of complex. The text reads S.C.E. Principal Scientific Research Laboratory, Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan. (Sony Computer…
A new trailer for action game Vanquish shot up the internet. The gameplay itself looks like a blast. Definitely excited to see more of this game. What am I not excited about? The on-screen HUD (Heads Up Display) looks like it takes up a lot of space. Why is a good chunk of the real…
The creator of Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima, is joining forces with Square Enix, the company behind Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Pictured is Metal Gear artists Yoji Shinkawa, Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto (in the suit) and Hideo Kojima. On the screen is the Front Mission Evolved logo. Oh. Yeah. Huh. The mecha game will be…
Following a rash of suicides, workers at the Foxconn Shenzhen factory have a shot at a raise. Another one. This is the most recent pay increase at a factory complex that has garnered internationally attention for its workers jumping to their death. Foxconn manufactures the iPhone, the iPad, the Xbox 360, the Wii and the…
Um… In years past, Mario showed up in a bunch of Nintendo games. Tons “Mario is a very important character in the Nintendo world and so we want him to appear in our titles,” said Miyamoto in a recent interview. “Indeed there are a lot of games to which he is well-suited. However if he…
Like clockwork, every summer a new Pokemon movie is released to coincide with summer vacation. The last Pokemon movie featured the vocal stylings of Akihiro Miwa, who was Yukio Mishima’s lover. The next Pokemon movie, Pocket Monsters: Genei no Hasha Zoroark, will feature voice work from Natsuki Kato. “I’ve done voice-over before but the roles…
Marvelous Entertainment has published titles like Harvest Moon, No More Heroes and Little King’s Story. It has seen better days. Last March, Yasuhiro Wada, who created Harvest Moon, stepped down from his position as Director Digital Contents. That same month, it was revealed that Cing, the studio that co-developed Little King Story, was going bankrupt.…
Takaaki Mitsuhashi, an 40-year-old economic analyst, has made a name from himself by penning books on economic policy. He is a regular inhabitant of 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board. And now, he is running for political office. In an effort to campaign for Japan’s House of Councillors election, he hosted a “cosplay party” at the…
Nobody looks good playing Project Natal. Nobody. Microsoft’s upcoming motion controlled Project Natal is controller-free. When the system was first showed at last year’s E3, it was assumed that Project Natal will involve flailing. It will, and it does Lots and lots of flailing. People do not look good flailing. And thus, people do not…
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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: PRe3 So, Japan got a new Prime Minister. Hope he lasts longer than the last couple we’ve had. 🙁 There was a music program on TV tonight. In one segment, they were showing kids who were born in 1995 or 1996 (I forget!) what the top ten songs were and…
May 31 seemed like just another Square Enix monthly update to its Final Fantasy XI online game registration server system. It wasn’t. As reader David recounts, the next three days Square Enix customer support was out of order due to technical issues. “At the following time,” the Final Fantasy XI website stated, “the SQUARE ENIX…
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