The PSP role-playing game Heroes Phantasia takes nine popular fantasy and sci-fi anime—Blood+, Read or Die, My-HiME, s-CRY-d, Darker Than Black, Slayers Revolution, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Rune Soldier Louie, and Sgt. Frog—and mixes them into one giant cross-over adventure. And while fans of these shows will no doubt be excited to play as their favorite…
Milla Maxwell from Namco Bandai role-playing game Tales of Xillia gets immortalized in plastic with this collectible figurine. Lucky her! The figure is slated for a September release in Japan. It’s priced at ¥8,190—which is US$101. Not exactly cheap! アルター「テイルズ オブ エクシリア ミラ＝マクスウェル」の彩色サンプル 【宮沢展示会2012春】 [Moeyo]
You know things are bad when your old portable is beating your brand new one. This week, Sony’s PS Vita sold only 8,931. The PSP sold 14,804 units. The good news, I guess, is that Sony makes both handhelds. The bad? The newly released PS Vita continues to nosedive in Japan. This week it sold…
While the iPad is roughly the same size as a cutting board, that doesn’t mean it is a cutting board. South Korea’s BuffLab shows off its series of “shock absorption” screen covers by cutting cabbage and smashing walnuts. As one would. If you need more stabby-stabby, the other videos feature a nail, a screwdriver, a…
How I ended up living and working in Japan is a long and complex story, but like many, anime was a big part of it. In my highschool years, my friends and I were watching at least one 26 episode series a week by means of trading VCDs with strangers off of message boards, importing…
Japan is expensive. The yen is strong, food is overpriced, and, unless you know how to spend smart, you can blow through insane amounts of cash. And if Japan is expensive, then Tokyo is crazy expensive. Take the Tokyo neighborhood of Minami-Azabu, which boasts what’s apparently the most expensive one bedroom apartment (Jeremy Clarkson voice)…
While trying to learn more about all the anime characters in the PSP crossover RPG Heroes Phantasia, I became interested in Read or Die. After watching the 2001 anime, I found myself already hunting for a game from the series. But despite eleven books, a manga, and two anime series, no game has ever been…
Every year, Sega holds a cattle call to select a handful of women to appear in its latest Yakuza game. This year, there’s a porn star in the running—not a Sega first. The women typically play hostesses players can chat up in night clubs. But, Sega, why not pick the number one hostess for your…
China already has a handful of Kinect inspired game machines. But that’s not going to stop it from getting more. The latest is the iGame Move, a console with the tagline “Beauty of China Show the World”. Sporting 32-bit graphics (32-bit!!), the iGame Move is a motion controlled game system and is priced at around…
Noboru Aoi was not happy with Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (“There’s No Way My Sister Is That Cute”). After learning the email address of the light novel’s writer, Tsukasa Fushimi, the 32 year-old Aoi sent email after email—over five hundred in total. In them, he threatened the writer’s life. The…
The bigger, the better, right? For a generation of kids, doe eyes are all the rage. Photos of young women in both Asia and the West show that this trend isn’t going anywhere. Big eyes are here to stay. The look is a melding of both the real and the unreal. Eyes that existed only…
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Daigo Umehara vs Justin Wong, the EVO finals, 2004. It’s almost universally accepted as the single greatest moment in competitive gaming history And it’s now been immortalised forever. In an anime. This clip is from Acchi Kocchi, apparently. If you’re short on time/memory and need to see the original, here it is EVO moment 37…
You’ve read the fluffy reasons Peter Molyneux left Lionhead, the studio he built, and Microsoft along with it. The general stuff. It’s important to know, sure, but I like the raw specifics a bit better. In another post-Microsoft interview, this time with Develop, Molyneux says it was all about the chairs. I had this unbelievable…
Last month, Valve said that the company was “a long way” from shipping any kind of gaming hardware, let alone a dedicated games machine as some people had expected. Some new job listings for “electronics engineers” with the company, though, show that more people are at least being hired for that “long way” in the…
Concept artist Trevor Claxton has, in addition to working on projects like Magic the Gathering, also lent his talents to games such as Dust 514, EVE Online and Warhawk. If anyone’s going to draw awesome mechanical killing machines, it’s this guy. I’m not saying these images come from any of those games. I am saying,…
Research firm CareerCast have long been cataloguing the worst jobs in America, and nearly every time, lumberjacks rank at or near the bottom. It’s easy to see why. The pay is bad, jobs are getting harder and harder to come by, it’s hard work and it’s dangerous work. According to Jake Rosa, the owner of…
The feel-good story of the week is definitely the one involving nine year-old Caine, whose cardboard arcade is just about the cutest thing ever The slick film put together to document his arcade was done for a reason, though: it was aimed at gathering donations towards a college fund for Caine. Less than a week…
Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history’s greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin—looking a lot like Nintendo’s Mario—face off riding weaponized extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer…
Ah, finally, a trailer for upcoming sci-fi flick Loopers, about criminal time-travellers paid to whack people. Nothing could go wrong with that, right? Nothing except Bruce Willis.
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