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Gamers! Tonight We Dine In Hell!!!
Saturday, December 29th, 2007There’s something hilarious about a game that is designed to do nothing more than taunt, harass, and utterly piss off anyone playing it. With the combination of annoying old school action game music, cheap tricks, and traps designed to screw over anyone with basic gaming instincts, this game has it all. I’m pretty […]
PS3 Causes a Casualty
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Not in the literal sense, of course. Ken Kutaragi has stepped down as Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.’s chairman and chief executive, marking a symbolic end to Sony’s dominance in home consoles. The reasons for his departure are detailed below, from CNN.com:
Kutaragi’s most recent brainchild, the PlayStation 3, has been marred by embarrassing production shortages and […]
Squenix To 360 Owners - No Final Fantasy For You!
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Remember when Microsoft proudly announced a couple years ago that they had finally lured Square Enix into developing games for their system? Turns out, maybe that wasn’t entirely true. A Square Enix executive has disclosed to Japan’s Nikkei BP that the company currently has no plans for Final Fantasy games on the 360. […]
Free books? Not for the American’s…
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Blizzard in cooperation with TokyoPop publishing has just released the first book of the Sunwell Trilogy free on the EU warcraft site. The Warcraft manga’s first book, Dragon Hunt, is being release one chapter a week via a flash based comic reader.
Blizzard Entertainment is proud to present “Dragon Hunt”, the first volume of the Sunwell […]
Japanese Retailer Gives Sony The Boot
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Japan loves Sony right? Wrong. At least, not one particular retailer who has decided to quit stocking any of Sony’s consoles due to poor sales. The picture to the left is a sign that was put out in front of the store. It translates to this:
Information about no longer carrying new […]
PSP Goes Bling!
Monday, March 5th, 2007What do you do if you’re a company with a sluggishly selling handheld? Well, you do the obvious thing and release a gold version to help boost sales! If you want one, you’ll need to import it though. The gold PSP is only being released in Japan. So if you do […]
Why are Japanese RPG’s so … ummm … gay?
Monday, October 23rd, 2006If there’s one thing I think we can all agree on, it’s that Japanese gamers love cute things. Almost everything that escapes the land of the rising sun has the patented Japanese sugar coating better known as “cute”. While this is fine for games like Pokemon, or Animal Crossing, I am getting sick […]