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Taito, creator of “Space Invaders”, has teamed up with Yahoo Japan and incorporated the game into the website where space invaders destroy the Yahoo homepage. It was a part of a April Fools joke but its still active. GO BEFORE THEY TAKE IT DOWN!!!!
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As most gamers know, there’s a lot of video games out there that basically parades as soft porn for guys, especially in Japan, where it’s fairly common to buy “video games” that consists of looking at big-breasted girls in various stages of bikiniwear.
Now it’s the girls’ (and my) turn!
Duel Love is a video game by Namco Bandai about a girl in high school who supposedly discovers a secret fight club among the boys there. After each fight, the girl (you) hangs out with the (shirtless) boy and some dialog akin to porn dialog is exchanged with the effect of, “Wow, I am really sweaty…” and sweat starts forming on the boy. Your job is to wipe the sweat off the boy, after which he asks you to go home with him (for more, uh…sweat wiping).
And there are also shower scenes where you get to blow to clear away the steam. Heh, heh, I said, “Blow,” get it?
Anyway, I seriously doubt I — er, the women — will get a chance to see this released in the US, but it’s probably pretty easy to get the Japanese version…
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Like the other ten million people out there, I play World of Warcraft. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short; I go online and I can fight monsters or other players from around the world. But today, a new MMORPG has entered a private invitation-only phase that could possibly bring Blizzard to it’s murloc-killing, PVP-flagged, epic-wearing knees:
Why yes, the makers of Hello Kitty is entering the MMORPG realm, specifically “Targeting female players from their pre-teens to twenties.” AND ME.
Efren: but what the hell would hello kitty fight? bad badtz maru gone awry?
Ernie: hahahaha… bad bad bad badzmaru
Ernie: or maybe hello kitties evil twin sister, born on the ninth plane of hell
Efren: oh god…like those bad hello kitties you see now with the skulls and stuff?
Ernie: Exactly.
The thought of using two flaming swords to topple a 100-foot demon Pochacco and three Kero kero keroppi spawns somehow fills me with glee. Okay, it probably won’t be that as much as it will be a way to customize the fabulous outfit that you’re wearing, but a boy can dream.
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I just read this article about Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the founder of the popular Brain Age games on the Nintendo DS.
But instead of taking the millions of dollars (yen) in royalties he would have received and keeping it for himself/his family, he donated to the university he works at. My favorite quote is at the end of the article:
“My hobby is work,” he said. “Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it.”
Heh. What would you have done?
Game researcher ducks millions in royalties
Co-developer of multi-million seller ‘Brain Age’ gave royalty share to college construction efforts.
By Mike Smith
Ryuta Kawashima, the researcher behind Nintendo’s Brain Age series of games for the DS portable system, would rather be working than enjoying $11 million in royalties he could have earned from his creations.
“Not a single yen has gone in my pocket,” Dr. Kawashima told the AFP in a recent interview. Kawashima, whose likeness was heavily featured in the best-selling Brain Age games, is instantly recognizable to almost 12 million gamers worldwide.
Under the terms of his agreement with his employer, Tohoku University in Japan’s north-east region, Kawashima was entitled to accept half the Brain Age royalties personally. Instead, he used the proceeds to help fund $6.5 million in construction projects on Tohoku’s campus.
“My hobby is work,” he said. “Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it.”
Kawashima, who strictly monitors his teenage sons’ gaming time, is currently working on a four-year project to study brain development in children. He’s also cooperating with Toyota to develop a car designed to keep elderly drivers alert.
(Image credit: Brain Age image generator)
Caption credit: Ernie
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I got to hand it to Chinese companies: they sure have the art of imitation down. Movies, music, software, clothes, automobiles, and of course, electronics.
You may already know about the Meizu M8 and its GUI. (There’s even a case of an imitation of an imitator. Love it!)
A friend just told me about the Chintendo Vii.
Chintendo. Vii. Ha! What a great name for a rip-off! What will they think of next? The “Praystation Won”? The “Microshaft XCOX 180″? HA!
(I can’t take credit for those other names; clever commenters did).
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In one of the blogs I follow, Real Pop, had a YouTube link to a video of this Japanese video game:
This video game is just too funny. Take a look for yourself and let me know what you think! The way the girls giggle while shooting just cracks me up.
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Because seriously… everyone just wants to bone an underage Asian girl, don’t we? And now we can, on the Nintendo DS!
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