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Do  you feel your gaming skills are lacking a little zest? Do you spend so many hours gaming and grinding on the latest franchise rehash that you simply cannot muster the time for a balanced meal? Then perhaps you should revaluate your life and priorities. Well, that or take these amazing, miracle health supplements for gamers!

That’s right, Japanese company Cyber Gadget has announced their newest products, Gemusapuri (Game Supplements). Two kinds of tablets set to help apathetic slobs passionate gamers achieve maximum potential without that pesky nutrition taking time from their precious gaming!

This marvel of Japanese science comes in two formulas: Gemusapuri Blueberry contains the mystic nutrients of the blueberry for prolonged gaming and Gemusapuri DHA contains the essential oils of fish to give you that extra mental prowess when playing intellectually taxing games or learning kanjis.

Each pack comes with 30 pills, enough for 15 days of gaming boost. All of this for the low low price of 800 Yen (around $7.50 USD). Now you can finally live on cheetos and mountain dew while your enemies waste precious time with salads and silly stuff like that.

[Cyber Gadget / Via Japan Sugoi]

Not ones to forget the female audience of DS owners, Konami are have released their latest entry into the Tokimeki memorial series! Originally the game had the player step into the shoes of a young man to kick some game amongst some lovely ladies, but the DS version has spun things around and has the gamer now stepping into the shoes of a young lady on a mission to snag a man…

You take control of a girl newly enrolled at a high school. Being the new hot young tottie on the block, you’re pursued by a bunch of guys and your aim is to woo them, have them woo you, play a little hard to get and win over their affections in order to get one of them to confess their love to you. Players can spruce themselves up, hit the gym, get some beauty sleep, participate in extra curricular activities to boost their appeal to the opposite sex pick before heading out to get that all important love confession. During conversations you’ll get a bunch of possible answers, with how you answer determining how much that guy will like you. Everything you do with affect the love meter of your potential boyfriends. Your aim overall is to keep the meter high. If you don’t, you can kiss your love confession goodbye. Guys will get fed up if you date them infrequently, give silly responses in conversations and don’t stroke them enough with the stylus. These guys will also spread the word and f**k things up for you, dropping the love meter for all of the potentials in the process. Damn. It’s just real life!! You’ll also come across girls on campus with whom you’ll converse with, but there’s no option to chat these girls up and engage in some girl on girl action. Neither is there an option to beat a girl down for checking your man.

This game was released in Japan on February 15 and I doubt very much it will get a western release seeing as the Tokimeki memorial has been exclusive to Japan for over 10 years now. I think it was considerate for Konami to think of the Japanese female gamers though, as well gay Japanese guys who wanna kick it with some kakkoii boys. Plus, the DS is the perfect platform for games such as these, so the series is right at home on the system. Dare I say it, this game sounds kinda fun! It sure as hell beats Face training.

Hit the link below to check out an interview where the pretty, but slightly scary looking actress Natsuki Kato declares her love for the game.

[Famitsu]

Earlier today Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons and father of RPGs died of heart failure, he is survived by many sons, grandsons and legions of adoring fans, he was 69.

Today the world lost a great man, he was responsible for the birth of RPGs, from DnD to the latest Final Fantasy or Tales game. MMORPGs would not be if it were not for the boundless imagination of Gary Gygax. He was a kind man who loved games and loved what people made of games and even more, what games made of people.

“It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them,” His wife, Gail Gygax said. “He really enjoyed that.”

It would be an understatement to say that he has been an influence in our lives, this man is an cultural icon who’s touched millions of lives. His passion for games is something that now more than ever should inspire us to pursue our own passions. On the subject of death he once said:

“I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.”

And that we will good sir, and that we will. I will be playing some RPGs this following days in his honor. Let us celebrate the fruits of his passion, this true god of gaming shows us that even deities sometimes fail a saving roll. Rest in peace Gary, we geeks of the world salute you!

[Star Tribune]

There’s a game in the works for Wii which looks exactly like Devil may cry, instead it features a lead character who looks like a female stripper instead of a white haired male one. I honestly couldn’t stand Devil may cry. I found the first game in the series to be so boring and monotonous that it put me off of games number 2 and 3 and has me not caring in the slightest about the forthcoming Devil may cry 4, 5, 6, 7, DS and 8 EX+ alpha. So the prospect of playing a similar game albeit with Wii remote controls doesn’t do much for me. But I could see why others would be interested in this game. It certainly looks better than Soul Calibur legends.

Screenshots don’t do this game much justice because it really does look just like Devil may cry. I have a feeling once we see some gameplay footage of this game it’ll also run like Devil may cry with developers quick to say “No, no, no! It’s all about the controls!” But we’ll see. It’s just good to see a game on Wii that doesn’t involve chibified characters running around and ghetto ports of Xbox 360 and PS3 games. A zombie slasher game starring a slutty looking character who looks like an extra from Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” video will definitely help shift the Wii’s kiddy image.

I should probably mention that Super samurai woman: Zombie hunter R is not the official name of the game. I just made it up. Famitsu’s page is entirely in Japanese and I can’t read Japanese. So I’m not sure what the title of the game is. So if a  DD reader who can read the good language can scour the Famitsu page and enlighten us with the name of the game - that’d be super! Until then, it’s Super samurai woman: Zombie hunter R.

[Famitsu]

**UPDATE: October 29, 2007** DD readers have dropped comments and identified the name of the game and it is called Onee chanbara R. It’s actually a series and has seen games released on the PS2, Xbox 360 and even on cellphones. So that’s that!! A shame though, because I quite warmed to the title Super samurai woman: Zombie hunter R.

I have a confession to make… I disconnect from online games. I was playing Mario Strikers Charged online the other night and I got pitted against some cheap bastard of a player. He kept doing this shit that I was unable to do anything against and it guaranteed him goals. So I waited until there were only 5 seconds left until the match ended and then I switched off the Wii and disconnected. I know this is wrong to do, but I just have a problem when players online are cheap and exploit flaws in the game constantly. I don’t have a problem losing to somebody who plays fair. But when playing a cheap player, I think to myself - ’If my opponent is going to cheat me out of a fair game, then I should cheat them of a victory’.

Many have voiced their disgust over people like me and have called Nintendo out to come up with with a system which penalizes gamers from disconnecting and I agree they should. You do get gamers who only disconnect simply because they’re losing and this isn’t fair. But I also think it’s unfair that measures aren’t taken to ensure gamers don’t exploit flaws in games. If Nintendo gave the Wii a hard drive they could at least patch the game so certain tactics and special abilities couldn’t be exploited. An option to turn certain features of the game off for ranked matches would also help make things a bit more balanced.

Disconnected is wrong, but so is being a cheap f**ker. If you’re not going to play fair against J online, then expect to have some message about a connection error come up on your screen.

Have any of you ever disconnected from an online game over something similar? Don’t worry. We don’t hate or judge folk here at Dark Diamond. *pulls out the hating hat and judgement spectacles*

Sega have a new DS title on the way and it’s Nintendogs, but with Cats instead of Dogs! The game is tentatively titled Dream cat. But that title sounds shit, boring and lacks impact. So instead we’ll refer to it as Care for pussy DS. Care for pussy DS is pretty much Nintendogs, right down to the interface. You poke and prod your pet, stroke it, feed it, buy it toys and pretty much keep it happy. The main difference between Care for pussy and Nintendogs is that in Care for pussy your feline companion can hop up onto your furniture and interact with it. Also, users will be able to interior decorate their living space. In Nintendogs you could move into a new living space and that was it. Care for pussy goes one step further by allowing users to purchase tables, chairs, sofa’s and even a flat screen TV!

Given what a mammoth success Nintendogs was (and still continues to be), you can bet this game will end up shifting millions. If this game allows for you to starve your Cat to death and beat it for climbing onto furniture and knocking the flat screen over, then I’m SO buying this game. Nintendo would never condone animal cruelty. But Sega have been butchering Sonic for years, so I know they’re down with it.

Care for pussy DS doesn’t have a release date as I write this, but I think Sega would be smart to release it around Christmas. It’s the one time of year that the game is guaranteed to sell and rope in the female gamers.

[Famitsu]

This post is old; I originally posted it on my.qj.net back in March, and then on my own blog, Warriors of Gaming. As such, it is slightly out of date. However, it still holds true and it reflects my core beliefs about the gaming community. It’s pretty long, so it’s after the split.

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On my travels through the intertubes I came across this game by Korean developer Hanbit, the company responsible for the MMO golf game Pangya. Granado Espada is set in a budding 17th century civilization, and its expeditions into the new world.

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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]