Microsoft Japan gives kinect customers tape measure

kinect ruler

We all know that the average Japanese house is on the small side, so Microsoft Japan has come up with a great idea on how to educate their potential customers on whether or not they can play Kinect in their tiny rabbit hutches.

Sun of a Podcast #15 Epic Survey

And we’re back… after Adrian’s departure we’ve been on the look out for a new co-host and we’ve swapped one Aussie for another — introducing Shane.
We look into the wonderful and enchanting Keito no Kirby, AKA Kirby’s Epic Yarn, then we’re off to school for another one of Steven’s Lingo Lab classes. In this week’s Famitsu there’s a prominent theme; surveys. Yes, this week’s Famitsu is filled cover to cover with surveys of Nintendo’s up-and-coming 3DS and a post-TGS survey.

Sun of a Podcast #16 Halloween Gangster Luigi

While Shane is out having fun at a Halloween party, Steven & Martin having both just finished Vanquish, share and compare their separate experiences through this amazingly stylistic 3rd person shooter. Then we move over to the Japanese PSN title Malicious, which did a remarkable job at making us green in the face, due to its terrible targeting camera. We did however have loads of fun playing 3 Big Gun Shoot (Japanese title) using the Move controllers, with Deadstorm Pirates being the stand-out title of the 3 games available on the disc.

Shinji's Strict Upbringing

Translated by Steve Christofferson

In last weeks Famitsu magazine, famous video game developer Shinji Mikami recounts the fun he had playing with his friends as a kid, the trials and tribulations he faced growing up in a strict household and how he persevered through the hardships of academic life. Read on to find out about the personal struggles famed Resident Evil creator and Vanquish Director, Shinji Mikami faced during his youth.

Bop's comes in 2 flavors

On November 11th, Publicity Producer of Square Enix, Kazunori Inoue, attempted to unshroud some of the mystery surrounding the two separate Black Ops Japanese release dates that have been doing the rounds in recent promotional materials.

Sun of a Podcast #18 Bimbou Hima Nashi HD

Shane finds out that golden headphones attract the strangest people. Martin goes overboard with Bimbou Hima Nashi (No Money No Time) and Steven introduces us to some very useful software that will benefit anybody who's trying to learn Japanese — and the best thing is, it's free. Japan shows us how not to advertise a western shooter, Microsoft demands GalGun changes, and we finally get a solid GT5 release date.

No bathroom breaks where needed during the recording of this podcast either.
Healthy prostates, nothing to see here.

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