I do not have long, plastic, aqua-colored hair. If I did, I’d want it to look like this. Vocaloid and music game character Miku Hatsune is getting immortalized in yet another figurine. Sculpture Masaki Apsy has outdone himself with this stunning Miku figurine. More details are forthcoming. ミクappendのデザインに関わらせて頂きました。 [Masaki Apsy Weblog]
Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII might already be out in the West and Japan, but the localized version is not out in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Yet. To mark the release of the Chinese-language version of the game, Sony is releasing a special FFXIII-branded PS3 controller. Priced at the equivalent of US$90, the controller…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Armor! My older son, Mini-Bash, told me that he wanted to see a Ferrari. So I did what any decent human would do, I showed him this. The video also works for I want to see a helicopter, I want to see a beach and I want to see a…
Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind classic anime like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, is making a Nintendo DS game title Ni no Kuni with Fukuoka-based developer Level-5. It is Studio Ghibli’s first venture into video games. The game follows Oliver, whose mothers passes away and who enters a parallel universe called “Ni…
In late March, images surfaced of former Mario Kart Wii pitch girl and bikini model Aki Hoshino. She looked dangerously thin. And now, she’s back with a book about having the “ideal body”. Hoshino isn’t simply the Mario Kart Wii pitch girl. She was one of many in that ad campaign, and the campaign itself…
Square Enix, the company best known for its Japanese role-playing games Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games, is ready to release some of the more “extreme” games in The Land of the Rising Sun. Square Enix has been localizing Western games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (pictured) and is poised to release racing…
Oh hi! This is 28 year-old voice actress Eriko Nakamura. She voices Haruka Amami, one of the main idols in Namco’s idol simulator THE iDOLM@STER franchise. The Yokohama-native was in Japan’s Kansai area recently, visiting historic Kyoto. She stopped by sites like Kiyomizu Temple and the Golden Pavilion. On her blog, photos were uploaded of…
When Metal Gear Solid 4 was released, multi-media store Tsutaya held a promotion for 15 movies that influenced MGS. For Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, it’s not about movies, but books. Publisher Hayakawa Shobu is kicking off “The Hayakawa Shobu Books That Made Hideo Kojima Fair” by fitting six of its titles that have influenced…
After considering the issue, the Osaka Prefectural Government has begun regulating boys love manga. As previously posted, Osaka Prefecture was “considering the regulation of women’s comic magazine and Boys Love materials”. Known as “yaoi” in the West, boys love, or BL, focuses on homosexual relationships between male protagonists. The intended readers are not gay men,…
The giant life-sized Gundam statue is once again being erected and will officially open on July 24. So last week something important happened. Shinto priests blessed the area on which the Gundam statue, dubbed “Real Grade 1/1 Gundam”, will stand. Shinto blessings like this are common for groundbreaking ceremonies for buildings and factories. Heck, even…
Sir Clive Sinclair, 69 years-old, has married a former lap dancer half his age. Congrats! Sinclair’s company Sinclair Research Ltd. released the 8-bit ZX Spectrum home computer in the early 1980s, months before the Commodore 64 hit stores in the U.S. The ZX Spectrum helped to propel the UK computer industry. The ZX Spectrum’s library…
Left 4 Dead’s Survivor Party Isn’t Going So Well Comment by: Mastrix Nominated by: BryanH Lets compare this to the MW2 Stimulus Package, shall we? Xbox 360: The Passing – 560 MS points ($7 USD) for: 3 maps (the campaign is in 3 parts), with all available modes. Introduction of Mutations for all existing maps,…
SEGA music game Hatsune Miku – Project DIVA – 2nd is coming to the the PSP this July. Know what that means? A PSP bundle! `Priced at ¥26,980 (US$286), the pack comes with a special Hatune Miku PSP, an original pouch, a cloth, a strap and a copy of the game. Something that will surely…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft …awesome. Weekends really go by too fast. What you missed last night Turn Xbox Media Center Into A Gaming Center A Good Look At Dragon Age’s Action Figures The Neon Genesis Evangelion Convenience Store Which Game Franchise Does This Belong To?
One word: “Daigo”. Daigo Umehara is one of the top Street Fighter players in the world. He’s famous for this clip — which will, no doubt, outlive us all. At the recent Super Street Fighter IV Fight Club Event in Los Angeles, Umehara was mobbed by fans eager to shake his hand. And sign stuff.…
Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (not pictured) has seen the future. And it’s gamey. Bruckheimer, who has produced movies like Bad Boys and Armageddon, is a movie business wizard. He knows what he’s doing. His latest picture is a big screen version of video game Prince of Persia. “I really believe in the next 10…
On April 20th, I wrote a post titled “Do Not Trust This Magazine’s Review Scores” that showed what seems to be the conflict of interest Japanese magazine Famitsu has. And what a conflict of interest it is. Famitsu appears in upcoming stealth PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. What’s more, former Famitsu Editor-in-Chief Hirokazu…
Japan’s Club Nintendo offered members the chance to redeem their points for this. Just look at it! This is a working re-issue of retro Game & Watch handheld, which was originally released in 1980. The game had players toss balls in the air and trying not to drop them. It is the first Game &…
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Big cities in Japan are packed with convenience stores. It seems like there is one on every corner. (Sometimes there is!) There is one that stands out from the rest. Convenience store chain Lawson has opened a special Lawson Tokyo-3 conbini, or convenience store. Tokyo-3 is the fictional setting for the groundbreaking franchise Neon Genesis…
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