Brian Ashcraft

I Would Like A Burrito Please

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Fluuuuuu Now. Sometimes it’s great living in Japan, and sometimes, when you want a burrito, it’s not so great. What you missed last night Nintendo: There Is No Wii HD Fresh Mass Effect 2 Trailers Show The Darker, Boozier Side Of The Galaxy Mass Effect 2 Impressions: Looks Better, Shoots…

Even God Is On The Music Game Bandwagon

As seen by reader Jon at a Christian goods store.

DualShock, The Concept Table

Designer Stephane Perruchon has always liked the DualShock controller’s design, its “excellent ergonomics”. Perruchon didn’t own a PS3 until the cheaper and slimmer model hit and had been spending the last few years playing his Xbox 360. The PS3 reminded him how much he liked the DualShock design, which inspired this table. No word whether…

Life-Sized NES Made From LEGO

More than that actually — the NES has two LEGO controllers, a LEGO Tetris game cartridge and a LEGO TV. “So why did I decide to build an NES?,” writes Dave Sterling. “I think mainly just to see if I could. I’ve never done something I would consider ‘art’ or ‘sculpture’ in LEGO and I…

NSFW: Surely This Should Have Been Rated Adults Only?

Too cute cat-eared game Tayutama -Kiss On My Diety- was released today in Japan. The Xbox 360 visual novel was given Japan’s 17-years-old-and-up CERO D — the equivalent of the ESRB Mature rating. Should it have been rated higher? This image here is raising eyebrows (raising cat ears?), and making some on the Japanese internet…

Konami Might Buy Music Label

Game maker Konami is currently in talks with JVC Kenwood over the sale of music subsidiary Victor Entertainment Inc., reports Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri. According to analysts, the music industry will realign itself better with online distribution and “pick up speed”. Universal Music LLC is also on the table as a potential buyer, but…

Milla Jovovich Twittering Her Brains Out About New Movie

Milla Jovovich might be new to Twitter, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a twittering fiend, dropping bits and bops about the upcoming Resident Evil: Afterlife. Spoilers, ahoy! Don’t believe us that Jovovich is a serious twit. Check out her updates from the last 24 hours or so, which provide all sorts of details about…

Nintendo President: Majority Of Video Games Digital In 20 Years

The clock is ticking on bricks and mortar game retailers. But according to Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, the clock will be ticking for another 20 years before digital distribution takes over and rules the school. “Most radical people even dare to say that retailers will be replaced by digital distribution in no time,” Iwata said…

International Edition of FFXIII *Could* Be Out Before April 2010

This December, the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released in Japan — and if we are lucky, it might be out in The West before next April. At a recent financial briefing in which Square Enix announced that sales were up 33.2 percent and profits dropped 55.7 percent, Square Enix…

Resonance of Fate Won’t Have Tiny Text

Tiny text — readable on HDTVs, but it’s plagued gamers who own Standard Definition televisions for years. SEGA and tri-Ace are sensitive to those who haven’t yet joined the hi-def revolution. In upcoming tri-Ace developed, SEGA published role-playing-game Resonance of Fate, the game’s models are designed to take advantage of HDTVs, but the text is…

How Much Did Gran Turismo 5 Cost To Make?

Gran Turismo 5 has been years in the making. Last time we checked, years are not cheap. Years are expensive. When asked by AutoWeek about the game’s budget, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi dropped this price tag: $60 million. “There are other games that cost more,” Yamauchi added. “Considering the size and scale of the…

College, Why The Hell Are You So Expensive?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: TK Recently opened college savings accounts for Mini and Micro-Bash. Japanese universities can get expensive, but not crazy expensive like American universities. US schools are over priced — how can tuition keep going up year after year? What you missed last night I Clothe Gamers Valve: British People Are Quiet…

What Game Made You Cry The Most?

Japan’s Oricon Life polled 500 men between the ages of teen and 40-something about which games have made them cry the most and complied a list of the top five. Weepy drumroll please… 5. Mother 2 4. Clannad 3. Final Fantasy VII 2. Dragon Quest V 1. Final Fantasy X What about you? What game…

Valve: British People Are Quiet

British people, speak up! According to Valve’s Chet Faliszek, those gamers in the U.K. are quiet. “One thing I wanted to add before I go for you Brits: communicate. Don’t be scared of a microphone,” said Faliszek. “You guys are notorious non-talkers on both 360 and PC. Americans are just chattering away, working together as…

Let’s Compare Tekken 6 Load Times

Late last month, Tekken 6 was released on the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The editors at Japan’s Gemaga decided to see how the load times stack up. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions compared with the game running installed on the hard drive as well as running off the actual disk. When the…

You’ve Got Segata Sanshiro In My Conan O’Brien

Segata Sanshiro was the judo master used to promote the SEGA Saturn in Japan and a parody of Akira Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata. The character has found a new life on America late night TV. An ad for Sakura Taisen 2 has been repurposed by television host Conan O’Brien. Watch the original ad here and the…

Sliding Like Tom Cruise Is “Not Easy”

No, you haven’t stumbled onto Gawker.com. Fall Out Boy emo rocker Pete Wentz described the Risky Business-esque floor sliding for Band Hero as “not easy”. “I have a new appreciation for everyone that’s done that slide,” Wentz told MTV. “It’s hard to slide into once place and kinda try to look cool and do it…

Nintendo Hands Out Zelda Feather Touch Pen (Again)

Back when Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass in 2007, it sent My Nintendo members a feather stylus. Bet you can’t guess what Nintendo is giving away for the upcoming Zelda game, Spirit Tracks? A FEATHER STYLUS. In Japan, those who pre-order the game can get a stylus that Nintendo was giving…

Modern Warfare 2 Bundle Spotted In the Wild

Over at website Cheap Ass Gamer, forum member Grisom spotted this Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 bundle at Target. But could he buy it? Sadly Grisom did not try to buy this bundle, which is street dated for November 10. According to another CAG member who works in retail at Target, it would not…

The First Test Run Of Okami Was “Incredibly Boring”

Hideki Kamiya, designer of Bayonetta, created Okami back when he worked at Capcom’s Clover. In the recent issue of Famitsu (translated by 1Up), Kamiya looks back at making Okami. When I first started talking about it with [producer Atsushi] Inaba, the only starting point we had for Okami was a game that depicted a lot…