To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Internetz Yes, yes, I’m not heading to America until December, but today Mrs. Bashcraft and I were trying to figure out who to buy souvenirs for. When Japanese people travel, it often seems like the vast majority of stuff they buy is for other people. There is a huge gift-giving…
There’s a device in the Metal Gear Solid stealth series in which Snake can sneak past guards by simply covering himself in a cardboard box. This isn’t just a game convention. It apparently really works. In France, at least. (And Germany. This latest escape is not to be confused with a similar cardboard box escape…
According to Hong Kong game mag Game Wave, arcade game Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next is coming to the PS3. The title has not yet been officially announced by Namco Bandai. The title is the sequel to arcade game Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam. The last rumor that Hong Kong magazine Game…
Street Fighter IV does not have old school Street Fighter III sprites. But what if it did? What would it look like? Over at the Shoryuken forums, steamboy33 thinks it would look like this. We are very impressed steamboy33 — all of us! SF4 Characters as SF3 Sprites [Shoryuken via Capcom Unity]
Doh. Konami Entertainment, publisher of Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania, has accidentally leaked the floor map for this year’s Tokyo Game Show — before TGS organizers officially released it. The map shows the Konami booth in the central hall. Next to it is a large booth for Square Enix/Taito. Next to that booth is the…
Totally unscientific data time. A Japanese marketing company has polled mostly Japanese schoolgirls about their console tastes. Here’s the breakdown: Out of the 3,339 polled, only 161 of them were male students and the rest were female. Fifty-two of them were under the age of 11 years old; 2,387 of them were between the ages…
Remember those Sony PS3 Slim "play face" ads? Sure ya do! Tecmo’s latest Ninja Gaiden Σ II doesn’t show play face, but rather, shake face. Or maybe jiggle face. Or even jubblie jiggle face. Other previous Ninja Gaiden Σ II ads include boob wall touching, Statue of Liberty slicing and scary Japanese women.
This week, Japan’s Yomiuiri Newspaper reports that an unemployed 27-year-old man was arrested back in July for stalking and defaming voice actress Haruna Ikezawa. The suspect, Hiroshi Sasaki, wrote defamatory comments on the voice actress’s homepage and repeatedly send messages asking for a personal meeting, telling the voice actress to “come by herself” to Morioka…
Tecmo is bringing SIXAXIS boob jiggling to upcoming PS3 title Ninja Gaiden Σ II. Shake your controller, and you can shake character boobs. The clip below shows just how exactly players and jiggle Rachel’s breasts. Ninja Gaiden producer Yosuke Hayashi shows the mechanic in action while at an event in Spain. Wonder how this will…
Konami’s Silent Hill Homecoming will not be released in Japan. On the title’s official home page, the Japanese company has announced that the domestic release of the game has been suspended. No reason was given for this decision. “Please look forward to future titles in the series,” the announcement notes. Released in North America in…
There have been reports from Sendai, Japan that a theater showing horror anime Kara no Kyoukai – The Garden of Sinners has been using a PS3 to project the film. In the theater, folks claim to have seen things like messages to charge the USB controller pop up on the screen. According to one site,…
Pop star Theresa dresses up in this Sony promo, playing with a PSP, holding a DualShock and dressing up like FFXIII‘s Lightning. She also snaps her fingers and then magically dons a cowboy hat. If only I could do that when I snapped my fingers. If only I could snap my fingers. The promo ad…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Tokyo Game Show Woke up early, hoped on the bullet train and arrived back in Osaka after spending the night in Tokyo — well, spending the time passed out from exhaustion after covering that Final Fantasy XIII event. ……..and when I got home, the internet dropped out. I thought it…
Ten years ago today, the SEGA Dreamcast went on sale in the US. Peter Moore, who was working at SEGA at the time, looks back on the little console that could, but ultimately, couldn’t. Blogs Peter Moore, “I don’t think it is an overstatement to say that the Dreamcast and it’s online network laid the…
Final Fantasy XIII character Sazh Katzroy has a fabulous afro. That seems to run in the family. It’s already been confirmed that Sazh was a father — details were scant, however. Here is a first look at his son, who is named “Dodge” and also has an afro. Like father, like son? Eds Note: The…
There are already three Resident Evil movies. We are getting a fourth called Resident Evil 4: Afterlife. And after that, we’ll be getting somewhat of a reboot. The current films have strayed far from the source material, and according to website Bloody Disgusting, the concept for the quasi reboot “is to redo the story of…
As seen on Flickr via Alice.
Well… The reason is probably that no publisher thought Japanese gamers would buy it. Another is that the title’s violence might have problems with the censors. Even if the game got an 18-and-up rating, the gore would need to be dialed down a few notches. The reasons why the title is prohibited in Japan is…
Ah, yes. Love hotels. Places of afternoon trysts or tawdry evening getaways. It’s not enough to simply offer customers a place to get down. Love hotels need more. This particular love hotel has costume rentals (hope they’ve got dry cleaning!), a fizzy “Welcome Drink” of your choice and Nintendo Wii rentals. There are also games…
Just as a Beatles version of Rock Band has been released, ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Bill Wyman and Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason have come down hard on music games. “It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument,” said Wyman. “I think it’s a pity so I’m not really…
Mode
Follow us
