Archive for July, 2006
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Is E3 dead? That was the hot topic this weekend! We where busy having a disco dance-off but we emerged victorious and now we have to play catchup with the news. For those of you who don’t know what the hell happened here’s the low down:
Next-gen.biz posted news that a supposed insider gave them.
This source claimed E3 was to be canceled due to major expositors pulling out support.
Everyone waited in creepy suspense for official word from ESA on the future of E3.
ESA calmed the outraged public by announcing that E3 would cease being the huge show-floor event and would become a much more ‘intimate’ event.
This new event is to be called E3Expo (brought to you by the department of redundancy dept.)
So here’s my opinion on all of this.
This is a pretty good underground comedy anime about some girls that have live animals as normal garments. They also get to eat one. Did I get your attention? Good. Let’s check this out. . .
So Velcor has either been fighting ninjas in his home for several days or he has been lazy about posting his ComiCon exploits. Luckily I have some of his material, Bwahaha! You see, velcor was hanging out at the Nintendo booth, allegedly kicking serious ass in Metroid when he saw that Charles Martinet, Mario’s voice, was appearing there in a while. So Velcor did the right fanboyish thing to do and waited for him to arrive.
Long story short Velcor talked a little with him and Charles was nice enough to sign a couple ads (he signed one in Spanish!) and he also was nice enough to sign his DS lite! Hit the jump for proof.
The whole world suffers from spam, there’s no denying that. I bet even dethroned African royalty gets spam. But Japan cant settle for average, they have to have their own breed of bizarre spam. Mari, of Watashi to Tokyo, has made up a small list of some of the best email subjects she gets from spam. Our favorite 3:
- One year has passed after my husband was eaten by a giant ant-eater.
- Someone left a bunch of roses in front of our shop.
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The bathroom in the book store.
From Mari herself:
But when I check the bulk folder then if I found the title “One year has passed after my husband was eaten by a giant ant-eater“. How can I resist opening the mail.
We hear you! How CAN you not? Japanese madness or genius? You decide!
With the recent launch of the Nintendo DS Opera browser one of the main complaints was that it was near impossible to use any sort of IM software/website. Well the brave souls on the cutting edge frontier of homebrew software (what?) have come up with a solution! Beup is a program that allows you to connect to MSN, have a picture avatar, have a special status nd even send and receive ink messages!
Here, have a video!
And you can download it here.
Today we have for you a special feature interview with GWX, the creator of a very unique site: Wii Game Ideas. For some months now, GWX has written and collected a vast amount of game and gameplay concepts for the Nintendo Wii. He has even tried several times to get Nintendo to listen up, sadly this has yet to happen. Now I should warn you, GWX (who asked to keep his name private) is quite the Nintendo fanboy, not a crazy one but still a fanboy. So those of you who are fanboy intolerant and/or fanboys of opposing factions in the console war might want to read this with discretion.
Who am I kidding…. most fanboys love getting angry at ‘the enemy’ so lets just get on with this.
So Kewpie dolls where some of the first comic character endorsed dolls, and they are creepy as hell! Apparently they are ever so popular in Japan and the japanese aren’t settling for just the plain stuff (we love them for that). Kewpie dolls in Japan do cosplay! Is anyone surprised? We’re not, not anymore. Just look at this little image right after the mystical jump of infinite weirdness!
By: Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte - On Friday 28 July 2006 @ 12:00 pm
This anime really gave me something to think of. . . There must be manga/anime for Everything and Anything ever imagined! Wether it’s a guy who dials a wrong number and gets a girl to live by his side, or a guy who saves a girl from a mud puddle and she feels eternally endebted with the guy, you get the point: There’s no end to imagination as there isn’t to manga and anime. This time it’s turn to Jungle De Ikou, a funny adventure of an average teenage girl.
By: Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte - On Friday 28 July 2006 @ 10:55 am
In the vast dent between what’s real and what’s not, we have Japan; with its moe maids running amok Akihabara and with Cute-to-Death TV shows that only kill our neurones faster than usual. Among those shows, we have this one, starring famous model Yuko Ogura (and produced by our so loving game company, SEGA):
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Sega’s mischiefs: more obscure than imagined.
Japan is known around the world for its scientists. They develop cutting edge technologies and are always a couple of steps ahead in the latest must-have gadgets. But there’s a dark corner of Japanese science few know of, that is useless trivia.
Every year hundreds of japanese ’scientists’ put out dozens of questionable studies for morning TV shows. This time we bring you a small glimpse of that world, with cats! On this clip a group of people with white coats scientists try to determine just how heavy a fish can a cat carry. Science.
SCIENCE!!~~
The Motion Picture Association of America, cousin of the Recording Industry Association of America, finally screwed up with their practically automated suing. This time their little electronic cross-hairs settled on Shawn Hogan, a multi millionaire programmer. Shawn’s not happy.
Shawn was accused of downloading a copy of Meet the Fockers on Bit Torrent, a movie he says he already owns in DVD. The MPAA rarely has to take their cases to court, most people decide to settle for around $2,500 USD. But Shawn wont, and he’s looking to spend “well into the millions on this” to challenge the MPAA’s tactics. Shawn Hogan is now an internet hero.
The MPAA, being the collected devil it is, just replied via John G. Malcom:
I hear Mr. Hogan has said, ‘I’m absolutely going to go to trial,’ and that is his prerogative. (….) We look forward to addressing his issues in a court of law.
We look forward to an epic fight, go forth Shawn Hogan, go forth!
[Wired / Via BoingBoing]
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Tuesday 25 July 2006 @ 9:55 pm
In accordance to Nintendo’s tradition of cryptic comments they recently included the following in a game release schedule (with no mention of the Wii):
Perhaps the secret to the launch information for Wii is somehow encoded in the text of this news item.
If thats not a PR stunt for the internet then I’ve lost my touch. And John Scalzo of Gaming Target took them seriously, he sat down and tried to crack the secret. Here’s what he came up with.
The fourth quarter begins on October 1. Now look at the list. At least one game is released every Monday in the fourth quarter except for the following dates: October 2, November 20 and November 27.
November 27 is after Black Friday, so it’s out. November 20 is after the launch of the PS3, so that’s out too. That leaves us with October 2.
The Wii will launch on October 2, you read it here first.
Well this now competes with those November theories out there.
So a couple of days ago we gave you our first impressions of Suda 51’s next game Heroes. We also linked you to the trailer courtesy of The Wiire, respecting their exclusivity. Well seems like that has gone to hell! The video is already all over YouTube, this one here even without a watermark. So what the heck here you go, knock yourselves out. Ill be eating some cereal now.
Weird dice, we’ve all had them, and if they weren’t bad… well we still blamed our bad luck on them. Martin Ralya had some particulary bad dice, to the point where rolling 10d10 got only a couple of successes nightly for two months straight. This dice were bad. Martin said:
These dice, in other words, aren’t just bad. They’re projectile-vomiting, masturbating-with-a-crucifix, possessed-by-the-Devil bad.
Thats bad enough for us! So what did Martin do? Well he did the perfectly rational thing to do: He buried them.
That sounded like it would solve the problem but then a commenter by the name of BOB made reality come crashing into our brains like something-really-bad-that-crashes:
You do realize that the next time it rains, those are going to grow into a dice bush.
A tree of cursed dice. That sounds like the plotline to the geekiest low budget horror film EVER!
[Treasure Tables / Via BoingBoing]
Cult director Quentin Tarantino appeared at the San Diego comic-con alongside Robert Rodriguez, director of the awesome el Mariachi series, to announce a double film feature called Grindhouse. And as cool as this is, this post doesn’t care. What this post does care about is the footnote announcement Tarantino made.
Tarantino said that he’d like to make a couple of Kill Bill prequels, anime prequels. The first would be a look into Bill’s past, his origins and mentors; the second one would be about The Bride. This makes us get all giddy like schoolgirls.
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