To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Why We Don’t Do Review Events This is not mine. It’s Mini-Bash’s toy car, but I’ll tell you what, if this had gone on sale in 1985, I would have been the happiest kid ever. Instead, I’ll have to settle with being in my early thirties and watching it roll…
From “freaks with long dirty hair” and “ordinary people” to “young” and “archeologists but with computers” and “crumbs in their beards”, the women of St. Petersburg, Russia tell casual game developer Nevosoft what they think game developers look like. Freaks, sure, but archeologists?! Phew, good thing they didn’t ask them what bloggers look like! Thanks,…
This week, the 22nd Prize Fair was held in Japan. The event showcases goodies that players can win in Japanese arcades while playing crane games and their ilk. The 22nd Prize Fair? These companies must know what they’re doing. They do. Let’s have a look! Note: The lady in the first pic is not a…
Let’s say you were on stage with Mario and Luigi during a Nintendo event at a digital entertainment fair in Helsinki. You lost the competition. Frustrated, what would you do? Dry hump Mario? That’s what one Finnish gamer did, before going on to jabbing Luigi in the face. Those poor, poor Mario Bros. They’ll never…
In the West, the Xbox 360 is all about friends. Playing with buddies online, friends lists, making new pals — all of which make this Japanese Xbox Support message all the more sad. On the Japanese Xbox Support page for console set up, “View More” (もっと見る) appears under the third item, which concerns connecting the…
First revealed at 2009’s E3 gaming expo, Metal Gear Arcade is still under development. According to Konami, the game is getting one more “location test” in arcades for the general public. One more? That seems to indicate that 3D game is finally edging towards an official release in Japanese arcades. The game was originally supposed…
Eminem’s “Won’t Back Down” was the soundtrack to Black Ops’ American trailer. While the hip-hop star has a following in The Land of the Rising Sun, the Japanese version gets homegrown talent. Namie Amuro’s “ROCK U” scores the game’s Japanese television ads. The Okinawa-born Amuro debuted in the early 1990s as part of the pop…
Shinji Mikami is responsible for one of the most successful game franchises ever, horror series Resident Evil. It’s not just the games that are scary. Mikami’s own abusive childhood sounds horrific. The game designer tells game magazine Famitsu about how his father would hit him “pretty much daily”. Mikami does have respect for his father…
Popularity is a fickle thing. Some people are loved, adored. Some are not. Most never become accurately aware of what the masses think of us. Shizuka Oya did earlier this month. AKB48 is not only Japan’s biggest girl group, but one of the biggest groups in Japan. The outfit’s most recent single, released on October…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Shopping Season Is Almost Here I have a bunch of VHS tapes in Japan that I brought with me when I first came to this country a gajillion years ago. I *finally* got a DVD player when I bought a PS2, but for a while, it was VHS only. Really…
There is a saying: If it exists, there is a porn of it. Well, Tron exists, and, yes, there is a porn of it. According to website Bleeding Cool, the forthcoming adult take on Tron features scenes like “The Glow Job” as well as model-slash-porn-lady Zoe Voss. You might know her from “The Interns” or…
Just like these male models! Leading up to the release of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Japanese mega franchise Monster Hunter is teaming up with the country’s biggest budget clothing retailer Uniqlo for a “Mon-Qlo” line of t-shirts. Uniqlo is certainly no stranger to game tie-ins. When Metal Gear Solid 4 launched, Uniqlo did a MGS…
It’s World War II, but with fangs, a large woman and controversial director Uwe Boll. Following up on 2007’s BloodRayne II: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, which was originally titled BloodRayne: Warhammer, pits Rayne (Natassia Malthe) against Nazis out to make Hitler immortal. The trailer below might be NSFW. The first BloodRayne film was released…
Thirty hour games? Forty, fifty, seventy hour games? No bother, some of the UK’s biggest gamers have all the time in the world. According to junior Justice Minister Crispin Blunt, a third of prisoners in England and Wales are able to own game consoles via an inmate good behavior program. That means that over 36,000…
With Kinect, Microsoft is getting gamers up off the sofa and getting them injured. Cue the highlight reel! As when the Wii launched, there are reports of accidents caused while playing. Some might be real, some might be faked, but most look painful. “Kinect Fail” appears to be the go to title on YouTube for…
New Member Of Kong Family Will Help Donkey Kong And Struggling Wii Gamers Comment by: NoelVeiga Nominated by: diedan I’m having this conversation all over the place, recently, but… why am I the only one who remembers that games used punishing difficulty only to mask repetition and lack of content? Being a kid of the…
At the end of this month, a match-making event is being held just outside Tokyo. But this get-together is a little different. It’s for otaku. And not just otaku, but otaku looking to settle down with a wife and their plastic figures. In Japan, female otaku are often referred to as “fujoshi” or “rotten girl”.…
My green monster is hungry for candy. He’s telling me so, gesturing. I need to cut the rope with a finger swipe, sending the sugary treat into his mouth. But how do I clear the spikes? Ah… the whoopee cushion! Cut The Rope is a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch that tasks…
Love simulator Amagami is headed toward the PSP. What better what to mark the occasion with an enormous limited edition box? This isn’t a first. Amagami also got an enormous limited edition box set when it was released on the PS2 in 2009. Below, a comparison between the limited edition box and the original PSP…
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