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Musika Gameplay Video
...to accompany our review below. You'll have to imagine Beck rocking out in the background (or listen really, really closely).

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Musika Impressions

Musika is a new iPod game from PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura (click that link for Ash's brilliant interview published just earlier today). In that article, Matsuura says this about iPod games:
Almost all the other games are basic and limited — like a simple puzzle. Our game will be very advanced compared to the others. This will last.
And it's tough to agree. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Mark Wilson
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J-Pop, Robotic Dogs and Parappa the Rapper

by Brian Ashcraft

Nana0n-Sha's office isn't an office. It's an apartment. For those who've been in Japanese houses, the entry way contains familiar items like a shoes box and slippers. A short hallway leads into a living room and a partition. On the other side of the partition, I can hear keyboard clacking and mouses clicking. The office is 60 percent women, and women drift in and out. "I want to make games that appeal to both men and women," Nana0n-Sha founder and PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura tells me. "It's the same as music. If music only appeals to men, it sounds very, very ugly."

Matsuura tells me he didn't really buy that many games before becoming a game designer. He was busy with other things, namely being a major Japanese pop star for Sony Music.

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8:00 AM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
5,837 views, 18 comments