Monday, November 26, 2007
Too Ill to Eat, Not Blog (Ban Hammer Fun)
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Crecente From: Ashcraft Welcome back! We’re glad to have you back around Kotaku Tower. It’s been too long. I’ve had a super rough weekend. Starting late last week, Mini-Bash started tossing his cookies everywhere. Friday was literally spent cleaning up after him and trying to keep the apartment from stinking. He couldn’t keep anything down and was put on a strict diet of rice and rice. Yummy! Then on Saturday night, I got a fever of around 38 degrees, which has dropped but carried over to today. Yesterday, I couldn’t even sit up! I forced myself to write today, thinking it might make me better. It did. A little. Oh, I also banned the crap out of a lot of people on a Friday post. I don’t get it. Don’t people who comment on this site know our M.O. by now? I’m sometimes baffled! What you missed last night Play Famicom carts on your DS PSP Slim ships a million in Japan Wii furniture for your living room Is SFIV 2D or 3D? More »
A Reminder That Cleaning Up In Animal Crossing Is Not Fun
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Animal Crossing? Fun. Unless you neglect it and leave it for a few months and let weeds grow all over your town and cockroaches crawl all over your stuff. Then it sucks. It sucks so bad not even the Benny Hill tune and the knowledge that someone who’s not you is doing this to a town that’s not yours can make it seem any better than scouring your balls off with a rusty scourer. More »
Awards for Good Japanese In-Store Displays
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Rule of thumb: Japanese in-store displays are great. Just look at that Another Century’s Episode 3 promotion. Makes us so excited! From Software/Banpresto actually gave awards to stores with the best displays. Those awards include: Variable Impact award, Good Layout award, The Final award, Emotional Vocal award and Another Century’s Display award (winner above). We so approve of rewarding stores like this in hopes that it pushes the in-store display bar further. Bravo! ACE Awards [Official Page via Insert Credit] More »
Ninja Gaiden 2 Is A BLOODFEST
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Ninja Gaiden II isn’t about difficulty. It’s not about timing, it’s not about precision, it’s not about the controls. Well, it might be all those things, but they’re not the star attraction. No, that role looks like going to the game’s BLOOD. The buckets and buckets and buckets of BLOOD. Oh, so, so much BLOOD. Why the capitalisation? Look at that screenshot up there. “Blood” just doesn’t cut it anymore. [via Famitsu] More »
Haruhi In Toy Car Form
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | What could be better than a toy car? A toy car with Haruhi Suzumiya painted all over it. Japanese hobby maker Aoshima will produce a 1/24 scale Mazada RX-7 covered with Haruhi. It’s an “itasha,” which is what those nerdmobiles decked in geeky stickers and paint jobs are called. The Haruhi car is the first in an itasha series and will go on sale this January. Vroom vroom! Custom Toy [Hobby Blog] More »
Play Famicom Carts On Your DS
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Take all the random crap you can stuff into your DS’s GBA slot. Nintendo-related or otherwise. Now pile them all into a hill. Because this King needs a hill to be King of. This is the CYBER Familator Lite. You plug it into your GBA slot, you plug in a Famicom cartridge, and you can play Famicom games on it. No need for wires, no need for Ben Heck, it all just works. Thing’s even got a TV-out port, so your whole family can watch you stumble through Japanese Famicom games with little/no idea of what the hell’s going on. CYBER・ファミレータLite（DS Lite専用 [CyberGadget, via DS Fanboy] More »
Monster Hunter Event for Street Hobos
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | If you really love a game, you often want to find others who share your love. You know, so you can play together, talk about the game and have good times. That’s precisely what two Akihabara gamers did when they set up a make-shift Monster Hunter Portable 2nd in front of a construction site. The name of this event? Monster Hunter Portable 2nd Street Real Meeting Place. That meeting consisted of a vinyl tarp. Akiba Blog happened upon this even at 5pm, but doesn’t know when it started. By 6pm, it was finished. Our memory of it will never end! Monster Hunter Event [Akiba Blog] More »
PSP Slim Ships A Million In Japan
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sony have announced that the redesigned PSP-2000 has now sold (well…they’ve shipped to retail, but it’s not like they’re gathering dust) over one million units in Japan since its launch there on September 20. That beats the previous record for a Sony handheld, which was held by the previous, more rotund PlayStation Portable, which took two weeks longer to reach the same milestone. That number doesn’t include the 77,777 Crisis Core PSPs which went on sale a week before the official launch, so feel free to bump that figure up to less catchy 1,077,777. [PlayStation Japan] More »
BRIEF
8:15PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft were kind enough to send me a copy of Mass Effect last week. I was kind enough to play it non-stop for the past five days. And while the load times and mechanics of the game are a little disappointing (still too many long, empty corridors, still that shitty BioWare inventory system), in the end, who cares? The combat’s great, the new dialogue system is great, the cinematic presentation is great. Best of all? It’s a big, soapy space opera. The kind that only comes from people who know, and love, their sci-fi. The kind you only dreamed games could drop you in when you were a kid. Time to start living that dream. More »
