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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Back in the 1980s, folks in Japan didn’t really play erotic computer games. They were busy doing other things, 1980s things like making cassette mix-tapes and wearing Ray Ban Wayfarers. So like, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that only 22 erotic games were released. That’s nothing! There were probably 22 erotic games released this month alone. As website Canned Dogs points out, the big boom didn’t happen until visual novels Shizuku Kizuato and To Heart were released in 1996 and 1997. By 1999, the number of ero releases spiked to 400 games. Last year, almost 550 erotic games went on sale. Compare that to the 360 games released on Japanese consoles last year. There are more ero games! That doesn’t mean the erotic game market is bigger, just smuttier. Eroge Sale Titles Years [August Dojin Data Base via Canned Dogs] [Pic]
Ladies and gentlemen: WiiMan. He won’t save the day, but he will at least bring a smile to it, with his shiny white cape, rampant Nintendo fanboyism and snappy Zorro mask. Oh, and his super powers: the suit’s a fully-functioning Wii Remote, complete with Bluetooth, IR cam, accelerometer and even working face buttons. All that, and not a single dwarf or urine joke in sight. Well done everyone involved. WiiMan Superhero [thanks Chris!]
When the Wii finally launches in Korea next week, one of the games available will be Zack & Wiki. How do you sell a game like Zack & Wiki to the Korean market? With mousepads. Oh, and the promise of riches. Everyone who preorders the game will get two bits of merch: a mousepad and a small treasure chest filled with treasure-shaped candy. Except not all the chests contain candy. One hundred of them will contain a pearl necklace. A real, pearl necklace. This would be the part where I’d say I wished we could have gotten pearl necklaces with our preorders, but…hrm. I won’t. [Ruliweb, via Wii Fanboy]
The dust has settled. Long ago. HD DVD is way dead, way dead. But Micrsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim hasn’t given up! The man is an optimist. He can see the bright side of a train wreck. Bless him. According to Shane Kim:
Never played TrackMania? If you own a PC and answer yes, get out. Get out of my sight. Those still here, good news! TrackMania Nations Forever was released today, and is a 500MB, downloadable version of TrackMania Nations that gives you most of what makes the series so awesome, only it’s free. You get 65 tracks, you get multiplayer, you get a new track editor, and yes, it’s free. Quit reading, start downloading (5x download links in the presser).
In the aboveGrand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings. Fascinating, intelligent stuff. Watch it.
Thanks Ryan for the tip!
Sit down folks, Square Enix has announced a new mobile cell phone game called ELLARK. It’s a “free online RPG” and is launching in Japan this June on all three major Japanese carriers. Not many details, but we’re betting nice hairdos are involved. [ELLARK [Official Site via Forever Fantasy via Akayuki]
Yes, celebrity Miis are done. So 2007. 2006, even. But putting celebrity Miis into context, and onto real-world bodies, that’s a little fresher. Slobs of Gaming are running 14 pictures using just that premise, and while most of them range from sucky to very sucky, a handful shimmer, like Jesus rays poking elegantly through a night-black stormcloud.
The Top 14 Faces to Give to Your Mii [Slobs of Gaming, via Go Nintendo]
While there was a lot to look at at the Namco Bandai Editor’s Day, there were a couple things that were announced that weren’t available for checking out.
First up is Naruto: Ultimate Ninja. The game will be rendered in full 3D including all the backgrounds and the battles. It will be an exclusive to the PS3 platform as well as the first Naruto game to be presented in full 3D.
Next we heard about Namco’s answer to Nintendogs, National Geographic Panda. Raise and train your own panda with its own distinct personality right on your DS.
While Naruto isn’t exactly my thing, something about that Panda game has me a little intrigued. It would be awesome if you could train it to maul your enemies, but I suppose that isn’t exactly National Geographic’s MO. Too bad really.
You can check out the press release for both games after the jump.
