With Wii, PSP and PS2 titles slated, hit anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is getting its fair share of game adaptations. That’s not it! It’s also getting a tonne of dirty movie adaptations — a true metric of just how popular it is! While previous questionable movies we’ve covered include Haruhi vacuum beds (NSFW) and blue dudes in skirts (ditto), cleverly named The Melcholy of Hiharu Suzumiya Cosplay Gallery Yume Kimino features even more cleverly named porn starlet Kimino Yume (å›é‡Žã‚†ã‚ = ãã¿ã®ã‚†ã‚ = “Your Dream”) doing the opening Haruhi dance! We’re not sure if the other shameful Haruhi movies feature the actual dance as we’re far too embarrassed to watch those types of movies. But, we’re more than happy to link them!
The clip is somewhere in the link below. It’s very, very NSFW. You’ve been warned!
Haruhi Opening [Neko are Blog]
Last Christmas, Microsoft published two very important titles. One was Gears of War. You may have heard of it. But what was the other? Oh, go on. Guess. That’s right. It was Viva Pinata! The game everybody loved and nobody bought. Speaking with Gamasutra, Rare’s James Thomas ponders just why MS spent a bucketload of cash on Gears but left Viva Pinata hanging in the wind:
We post enough game shirts to last an eternity. But skirts? No, we are short on skirts and even shorter on the short skirts. This made-from-scratch mini sports two front pockets and is really, really cute. I sure hope this gaming skirt trend catches on! Mini Mario [Craftster via Alice]
That’s a lot of yen. Even when you turn them into dollars! Because it translates to $95 billion. Which is a lot of market value for a wee little company like Nintendo, seeing as that kind of worth puts the Kyoto company in the same league as, oh, Toyota. Nintendo hit the milestone earlier today, when their shares rose 4.6%.
Flying Xbox 360 and Namco’s THE iDOLM@STER! The above clip is a fan reworking of anime Kiteretsu Encyclopedia‘s opening. The anime was based on a Fujiko F. Fujio manga. (Fujio also created Doraemon, hence the similarities in character appearance.) Kiteretsu Encyclopedia followed a young science whiz named Kiteretsu, who built a robot buddy and travels in time. Hit the jump for the show’s original opening, which is also pretty awesome — even without the flying Xbox 360.
Maybe Microsoft are just going to let the 360 Arcade pack slip quietly out into the retail channel and, once there, let it fend for itself. Seems to be what they’re doing! Because the packs have been turning up on retail shelves across the US all weekend. Shelves like that one pictured above. Thanks, MS, but with the things already at retailers we probably don’t even need that announcement anymore. We got it from here. Xbox 360 Arcade Spotted on Retail Shelves [Shacknews]
Nothing quite says Halloween like game related pumpkin carvings! Kotakuite thecrapple sent this along, writing: I was bored this weekend so I decided to make a BioShock themed jack o’ latern.
Last Friday, the Xbox 360 Elite went on sale in Japan. By the end of the day, the black HDMI console with a 120GB HD sold out at several major Akihabara retailers.
Funtastic just sent through its release schedule for the rest of the year.
Exciting, I know.
While it’s mostly booked solid with Disney games (give me a yell if you want to know when Power Rangers: Super Legends will be arriving on our shores), the last entry on the release is the new Turok. The entry provides a release date of February 2008, Xbox 360 and PS3 as launch platforms and a $99.95 price tag (which appears applicable to both consoles).
A couple of sassy screenshots after the jump.
newVideoPlayer("TNA_BFG_Trailer_V3-10-04-07_FINAL_Wide_gawker.flv", 463, 260); Over the weekend I attended an event in my own hometown of Atlanta, during which Midway unveiled what could very well end up being the best wrestling video game since the N64 days. I’ll tell you more tomorrow in my feature on the event, where I got up close and personal with both the wrestling talent and the game, but for now marvel at Midway’s TNA Impact, heading to the PS2, Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 next spring.
