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Well kind of, if you happen to be catching the public transport system in Japan, you'll now be able to download one minute snippet of news when you're travelling on the Tsukuba Express train line, you'll have access to 8, count 'em - 8...
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To commemorate the coming of Mega Man 9, the Japanese (where else?) have released a "power drink" called the Rockman E can drink. Mega Man is known as Rockman over in Nippon and if you happen to be over there, expect to pay $1.25 for a can,...
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The Japanese are still going crazy for handhelds from both Nintendo and Sony with the PSP, surprisingly, continuing to outsell the DS. We thought once the fever died from the whole Monster Hunter Portable frenzy, the DS would continue to climb back up...
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Strange auction over on Ebay shows a branded Metal Gear Solid bottle of wine of the Andiera Cabernet Sauvignon variety. Apparently the bottle is ultra rare and was produced after the making of the first MGS back on the PS1 which was given out to the designers...
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The rest of the pics from Japanese super retro store, Super Potato.
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A lot gamers will recognise Japan as the Mecca for all things gaming and Otaku related. If you're a particular fan of retro gaming and all things yesteryear, then you're probably aware of the following bit of information as it's nothing new...
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For those of you out there who can't get enough of Professor Layton and can't wait til the sequels start coming out, you can settle your puzzle solving fix with the news that the Prof. will be hitting mobile phones. Wait, maybe I should have said...
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Fans of the MGS franchise will already have purchased or at the very least see the digital graphic novel that was released on UMD for the Sony PSP. Well news has come out announcing the release of a followup sequel called Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinee...
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In yet another reason why I want to live in Japan and so help me at the very least I will get over there one year, at the local McDonald's between May 27 and June 31, when you buy a shrimp burger (I kid you not!), you'll also be able to download...
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In Japan, Mario Kart had enjoyed top spot on the charts until Monster Hunter for the PSP took the top spot after MK spent 5 weeks at the top. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G managed to sell 53,000 units in Japan while Mario Kart sold 42,000, still a very...
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Fans of another epic RPG, Phantasy Star, will now be able to continue the adventure on the move with the news that it's being ported over to Sony's PSP unit. To be specific, this adventure will be a port of the second story titled Ambition of...
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Quick and important lesson for everyone out there thinking about building their stock portfolio for when they retire...buy shares in Nintendo!! Former Nintendo President and Chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, is laughing all the way to retirement after having...
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If you want to hit the streets looking like you own the streets then you'd be hard pressed to go past the following DS units pimped out as only the Japanese can do it. How much bling can you handle before you go blind, yo?
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The PSP absolutely reigned for the month of April in Japan with sales nearly doubling the DS. Figures for the PSP equate to 380,000 units while the DS came in with 170,000, that's a ratio of 2 to 1 in the PSP's favour according to Japanese magazine...
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A building in Japan or China playing Tetris and other games at night with the office lights on different floors, not really gaming related but pretty cool to watch and an amazing abuse of modern day technology!!