Sony’s PSP handheld has recorded its biggest weekly hardware sales in Japan since its 2005 launch, thanks to a monster title from Capcom. Going on sale in Japan on December 1, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd moved over 2.14 million copies in its first week on sale. So many people lined up But the game’s tear…
Osaka-based game company SNK Playmore, best known for its fighting games, is unleashing a whole slew of titles on the PlayStation Network. Titles include Fatal Fury, Alpha Mission II, The King of Fighters ’94, Samurai Shodown, Baseball Stars Professional, Magician Road, Metal Slug, League Bowling, Super Sidekicks and Art of Fighting. Downloads start on December…
Arcade shooters Muchi Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets are being lumped together for an upcoming Xbox 360 release in Japan. But maybe you don’t live in Japan and maybe you have a soft spot for fat girls and saccharine. What to do? Good news! The Muchi-Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets Double Pack is region free,…
Shintaro Ishihara is one of Japan’s great writers. He’s also the Governor of Tokyo, and according to some, a racist. The Tokyo Government is attempting to re-introduce legislation regarding censorship in mass entertainment like manga and video games, and Ishihara is lending his support to the cause. But he isn’t only keen to stop the…
id Software, the studio behind Doom and Quake, is bringing its upcoming first-person shooter Rage to Apple’s iOS with Rage HD. Rage is impressive looking, and so is Rage HD. But how does it play? Rage HD is an “on-rails” first-person shooter that is set in apocalyptic wastelands. Players are armed with three weapons (machine…
To: Crecente From: Bash It’s Monday! Cleaned the kids’ room this morning and found LEGO hands and this guy’s head. Not sure whose head it is…Maybe it’s from an Indiana Jones figure? Could not, for the life of me, find his body. Will check the rose garden. Not sure what it is about little kids…
Elite Japanese politicians might have different politics, but they’re joined by one thing: their love of “Go“. Prime Minister Naoto Kan is no exception. Kan is an avid Go player as well as a Mahjong and Shogi (Japanese chess) player. Before entering political office, Kan even developed and patented a machine to crunch numbers for…
For those who bought Whopper meals, Burger King and Microsoft gave away a Kinect every fifteen minutes in America until the motion sensor launched late last month. That’s over 1,500 Kinects! In Japan, twenty Kinects will be given out. Twenty. That low number isn’t too surprising considering that there are only 36 Burger King restaurants…
Ah, the elderly. They’re no longer content to watch re-runs and take walks. In Japan, they’re hanging out in arcades. Lower birth rates haven’t helped Japanese game centers. “These days, it’s become harder to target young males,” Japan Amusement Industry Association tells Japan’s Nikkei. Arcades, like Tokyo’s Sega Dream Factory, are having better luck with…
StarCraft isn’t a game in South Korea, it’s a national pastime. When gamers aren’t playing it, they can watch tournaments on TV. But its creator, Blizzard Entertainment, is unhappy. And it has every right to be. Blizzard’s Paul Sams appeared at a press conference in Seoul late last week and blasted cable channels MBC Game…
After this fourteen-year-old boy’s cell phone gaming site membership was canceled, he decided to get even: by threatening to murder people. The boy belonged to popular cell phone gaming site “Mobage Town”, but lost his membership after making comments like “die” to a fellow player, reports Sanspo.com, while playing “Kaitou Royal” (pictured). Mobage-Town is incredibly…
Under current Japanese, it is illegal to upload or sell pirated games and movies. It is legal to copy for one’s own personal use. Better get all your personal copying done pronto, because that’s going to get harder. According to the Asahi Newspaper, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs is readying new legislation that will revise…
You’re in the company rec room, why not play the Nintendo Wii? You just had a nabe party, you up for some Wii? Hey, it’s your day off, how about playing…the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo’s latest series of ads seem to be put forth just that: when people get together, they can play the Wii. Fair…
Convenience stores are just that, convenient. Whether it’s buying used video games or pre-ordering big titles, today’s corner stores offer more than slushies and candy bars. One Japanese chain is considering one deader better. Family Mart, which expanded to the U.S. as “Famima”, is pondering whether it should enter the funeral business, reports J-Cast (via…
Tokyo-based Sony Computer Entertainment held its annual PlayStation Awards in which the company gives, wait for it, awards to, you guessed it, PlayStation games. The awards are given based on how titles released in Japan on PlayStation consoles did domestically. Final Fantasy XIII took the Platinum Prize for shipping between 1 and 2 million copies.…
Players must compete in MutantBash TV. These are the mutants. You don’t bash them. You shoot them. Lots of them. Players must grab ammo as they move through the stage. The environments are well detailed and well designed. Is this really an iPhone game? Yes.
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: What I’m Doing Right Now I usually buy fruits and vegetables at the supermarket, but since I live in somewhat of a rural place, we occasionally get produce from the farms of friends. Like this! I don’t know if it’s the fact that the food didn’t come wrapped in plastic…
If you type “Edison Chen” into Google Image search, you’ll probably see him singing, dancing and screwing. Lots of screwing. The Canadian-born Chen debuted in the Japanese gangster film Dead or Alive 2: Birds, directed by Takashi Miike. Besides appearances in Infernal Affairs (remade as The Departed) and the big screen version of Initial D,…
You know in Predator how the creature is able to cloak itself in the surroundings and appear almost invisible? Well, someone figured out how to do that on Kinect. Japanese modder Takayuki Fukatsu used Openframeworks and Kinect to create this Predator-style (Metal Gear Solid IV OctoCamo-style?) mod and prove beyond a doubt that not only…
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