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Asian Halo 3 Bundle Misses Christmas By Two Months
But that's OK, because that's not the point! This one's aimed at cashing in on Chinese new year's celebrations. The bundle includes a 20GB 360, a copy of Halo 3 and two wireless controllers, which is a nice touch. It'll set you back 669 Singaporean dollars (USD$440), which looks like a lot but is only S$20 more than the Christmas Viva Pinata/Forza bundle, a good deal since most buyers would probably prefer the second controller to the second - ie Viva Pinata - game. As for other Asian territories, it'll cost HK$3,199 in Hong Kong and NT$13,680 in Taiwan. Guey Hay Fat Choy!Microsoft ushers in CNY with festive Xbox bundle [Cnet, via Giz]
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Insane (And Pink) Mario Car With PSP Power
Words, they fail us. All that we are able to mutter is a "Mario" and a "pink" before cocking our heads sideways in attempts to understand what exactly is going on here. This we know: This car was spotted in Singapore and it's very, very pink. There are plush toys of various Nintendo characters strewn about inside, Nintendo-themed stickers on the outside as well as PSPs in the back seat. PSPs? How odd. With those stickers and stuffed toys, shouldn't they, you know, know?!
Mario Car [STOMP, Thanks Matt!]
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Just because Singapore is strict doesn't mean its dull and conservative. Take Mass Effect, for example. The country's Media Development Authority banned Mass Effect for alien lesbian sex, but then the MDA retracted its ban. See, they're open minded! But what kind of governing body is the MDA? Is it a bunch of stiff, dull Singaporeans in business suits. Yes. Yes, it is. However! They are stiff, dull folks who enjoy making rap videos about how creative they are. Click on the above 4 minute clip and listen closely. That sound you hear is our collective jaw hitting the floor.
MDA Is So Cool [GameAxis, Thanks Aaron!]
Mass Effect Ban or Not, Singapore Authority "Get Creative"
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It seems like only a couple days ago that Singapore's Media Development Authority announced a ban on BioWare's Mass Effect for the Xbox 360 due to hot, steamy, eye color-changing alien lesbian sex scenes. Perhaps between Monday and today they caught a glimpse at one of the clips of the scene online and realized it wasn't so bad. Perhaps the MDA got a little overexcited. Either way, today they've reversed said ban, allowing implied cross-species lovemaking to rain over Singapore like fairy dust, along with an M18 rating.
Singapore Lifts Mass Effect Lesbian Ban
It seems like only a couple days ago that Singapore's Media Development Authority announced a ban on BioWare's Mass Effect for the Xbox 360 due to hot, steamy, eye color-changing alien lesbian sex scenes. Perhaps between Monday and today they caught a glimpse at one of the clips of the scene online and realized it wasn't so bad. Perhaps the MDA got a little overexcited. Either way, today they've reversed said ban, allowing implied cross-species lovemaking to rain over Singapore like fairy dust, along with an M18 rating. The Board of Film Censors (BFC) said in a statement on Friday evening that it will selectively use games ratings to 'enable highly anticipated games to be launched in Singapore' until it puts in place a games classification system in January.More »
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Girl-on-Girl Gets Mass Effect Banned In Singapore
You know all that female on quasi-female alien action in Mass Effect? Don't play dumb, pervs. We all know it's the hottest quasi-female alien scene since Total Recall (and before that, probably the original Star Trek). Anyway, according to GameAxis, that juicy content has gotten Bioware's game banned in Singapore. And as far as we're concerned, restricting mature audiences from enjoying the fruits of love's labor between two hot, anatomically-compatible humanoids is outright un-American.
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Malaysia, Taiwan, and Singapore Getting Zhengtu
Zhengtu Online - one of the most popular MMORPGs in Mainland China (so popular the government even labeled it dangerously addictive last year!) - isn't content with mere Chinese dominance, oh no. The Zhengtu Network is partnering with Taiwanese and Malaysian companies to expand service into Southeast Asia. In typical fashion, the companies couldn't just leave praise of their game to 'It's so awesome we're more popular than Warcraft,' but have to put a particularly positive spin on things: it's not just an MMO, it's a tool to teach Chinese philosophy! I can't figure out the particulars, but I would run screaming from any game that heavily involved the teachings of Kongzi. Maybe it's just me: More »
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Singapore Boosts the Casual Games Market
In an attempt to boost and diversify the Singaporean economy, the government is offering up to $227,000 to 10 development teams to fund casual games. 'Heavy hitters' in the casual game development world like PlayFirst and Big Fish Games will be advising local teams. More »
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Raise Babies On Your Cell Phone
Raising children is easy. If I can do it — Better yet, if Crecente can do it, anyone can. Even Tiffany! Come On Baby, which is hitting UK cell phones soon-ish, is Cooking Mama, but with children and no knifes. The game stars buxom Tiffany, who has just started up her own nursery. Players must change diapers, feed babies and boiling milk to turn her nursery into a "five star baby motel." The game's publisher Ozura proclaims it is: More »
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What's Wrong With You?
Seriously. Microsoft pulls out the annoying with its WHATS WRONG WITH U campaign aimed at Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. A click on the English language Korean version pulls up the following question:More »
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The Xbox 360 Mini Cooper
Confession: I want a Mini Cooper. Passé, I know. Even this horribly gaudy/tacky Xbox 360-mobile that popped up in Singapore contest looks pretty neat. The car was driven around the country and parked in secret locations. Folks who spotted it got a chance to compete for Project Gotham Racing 3 goodies, but not the Cooper. No Mini? Come on. More »
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Lava Croft: Copyrighted Character Raider
With cell phone game Lave Kroft, unscrupulously ballsy Singaporean publisher Ozura Mobile has drawn the legal eye of Lara Kroft maker Eidos. More »
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Ninety-Nine Nights NOT Out in June
Thanks to this Microsoft English language page, folks have been assuming Tetsuya Mizuguchi's RPG Nintey Nine Nights is hitting the States June 9th. Wrong, the release date is for Singapore. Game site Siliconera points out that the URL clearly says /zh-SG/ for Singapore and not /en-US/ for America. At E3, Mizuguchi hinted the game would be out in North America in either August or September. Until then, wait. More »
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Hey Singapore, Where's Your Xbox?
Microsoft has hidden five Xbox 360s around Singapore in an island-wide treasure hunt ironically called "Where is My 360." Singaporeans go to the MSoft site to view the live, vague webcam feed and decipher each console's secret location. They tend race to that location and pound each other silly in a fight to the death for the next-gen machine. So far, two 360s have been found. Contest ends April 30th or when all five have been unearthed. "Where is my 360?" American consumers have been wondering that for months, Microsoft. More »
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Singapore Xbox 360 Launch Pics
This week, the Xbox 360 launched in Singapore, and Microsoft kicked off things at the Red Dot Museum. MTV VJ Denise Keller hosted the festivities which included giveaways, green backlighting, a Joanna Dark impersonator and tons of Singaporeans. Shockingly, there wasn't a 360 branded vehicle in sight.More »
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