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The Shortest Night Note Ever?
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: E3’s Official Language Is Hamburger ? What you missed last night Foxconn Employee Dies After 34-Hour Shift Solid Snake’s Voice Actor On Collapse of Metal Gear Movie Sony Remembers The PS3 Is A HD System Ico, Shadow of the Colossus Look This Great In HD Lara, Niko & Master Chief,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
BlazBlue, All Cute
BlazBlue is a fighting game. It’s not exactly cute per se. It’s more cool. This little figurine, it’s cute as a button. This is a “Nendoroid Petit” figure of BlazBlue character Noel Vermillion that will be bundled with the BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Limited Box for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The bundle will be released…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Foxconn Employee Dies After 34-Hour Shift
Another Foxconn employee has died. However, it was not by suicide. A 28-year-old man, who married his wife (pictured) three months ago, died from exhaustion in Shenzhen in his rental house after working a 34-hour shift his family claims. No official statement has been issued regarding the man’s death. Yan Li was apparently suffering from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Japanese Man Arrested For Fake…Stickers
Daisuke Yamashita, 33 years-old, has been arrested for two counterfeit stickers in an online auction for ¥3,160 (US$36). That’s right two He was also charged with possession of 13 more stickers that depict art from Studio Ghibli anime films, like My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Police seized approximately…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
How To Lure 3D TV Customers?
Not with video games. Not with the World Cup. But with that long standing killer app: pornography. This summer Sony is bringing 3D games to the PlayStation 3, and Nintendo is introducing its “glasses-free” portable gaming device. But as the Japanese 3D television market begins to heat up, the country’s porn industry is hoping to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
DSi XL Plus Schoolgirls
Love Plus+ plus Nintendo’s DSi XL plus schoolgirls. Keyword: plus Going on sale June 24 and priced ¥24,000 (US$264), the bundle comes in three different designs, each of the three Love Plus girls: Manaka, Rinko and Nene. Love Plus is a popular dating sim in Japan.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Solid Snake’s Voice Actor On Collapse of Metal Gear Movie
The Metal Gear Solid movie isn’t happening. Solid Snake voice actor and Hollywood screenwriter David Hayter dishes what he’s heard went down. “A couple of years ago, a producer friend of mine asked me if I would be interested in doing the adaptation,” Hayter, who wrote the big screen version of X-Men, tells MTV. “I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Pick A Card, A Mario Card
Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. This July, the company will be releasing three sets of Mario branded playing cards. These are “premium” cards, and are priced at ¥1,050 (US$11) each set. I like the “dot” cards the most. They’re classy. Mario…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Steve Jobs Addresses Foxconn Suicides
This year, eleven Foxconn employees have fallen to their deaths at the company’s Shenzhen factory. Sony and Nintendo are investigating the issue. What does Apple’s Steve Jobs think? According to Reuters, Jobs says the rash of suicides is “troubling”, but that the Foxconn factory “is not a sweatshop”. It is important to note that the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Reviews
Bowmaster Micro Review: Shootin’ Arrows or Shootin’ Errors?
Honestly, if you are going to master something, you might as well master the bow and arrow. Worked for Robin Hood! Bowmaster for the iPhone and iPod Touch has players battle compete with A.I. archers with names like Wilbur the Novice and Albert the Accurate in a shooting range. Using a bow and arrow, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Japan’s Official Language Is…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft …well, it doesn’t seem to have one! Read this post by Mutant Frog Travelogue for more info. Interesting stuff! Also interesting to note that America also does not have an official language. Trying to think of more countries that don’t have official languages! If you know any, please list them in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
SNK? Where Are You?
This is the front of game developer SNK Playmore’s Osaka headquarters. No, it was The above photo was taken in 2006. The below photo is what it looks like today. The signs say that they are looking for a new tenant. This is SNK’s building! From the Midosuji train line, it has always been possible…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
Boombox Modded Into Dreamcast
Why? Oh why? Because. That’s why. This mod appeared on a Chinese D.I.Y. board, so just go with it. As website Technabob points out, the mod integrates the boombox’s CD tray with the Dreamcast’s CD-Rom drive. In front, the Dreamcast’s four controller ports find a new home. The Dreamcast was launched in Japan in November…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
Sony Working on PlayTV 2
Back in 2008, PlayTV was released in PAL territories. It’s now 2010, what’s going on with it? Mark Green, senior producer at Sony Cambridge Studio, has confirmed to website Spong that Sony is working on a second model of PlayTV. Sony is, says Green, “still working on PlayTV, PlayTV 2. And then we have other…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
No iPhone Clothes Ripping For You!
In February, Apple’s App Store declared war on titillation — for the sake of women and children! That war rages on. Mosatsu is a series of popular photobooks published by Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest publishers. (Full disclosure: I have written two books published by Kodansha International.) Mosatsu features famous female celebs like Megumi Ohori…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
Yes, There Are Other Zelda Weddings
A fellow in Sweden recently got married. “Naturally I wanted something special for the wedding march,” he writes, “and to surprise the guests it starts with the classic piece by Wagner but then goes over to Zelda.” His wife got a little nervous, thinking that the The Legend of Zelda music should have faded out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
Okay, Now This Wii Peripheral Is Just Silly
This is an inflatable “racing kart” for the Nintendo Wii. The product pitchman says that we have two choices for Wii racing games: Using the standard remote to steer or the inflatable Wii racing kart with built-in steering wheel holder. Bwah? Those are the choices? The pitchman, Doug, also has “no doubt” that we’ll be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
A Week In Comments
Xbox 360 Tan Cosplay Comment by: Helis Nominated by: no computers in texas It costs $400,000 to keep this weapon from RRoDing…. for 10 seconds. Onlive Subscription Invitations Going Out Comment by: Batman Nominated by: octaslash Summary: The sheer inefficiency of this idea annoys me. It does not take sense to take machines that are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010
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