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PlayStation Store Lets You Import PSP Shooters At Half The Price
10:00AM Michael McWhertor | The recent release of Rei Cho Aniki—a remake of the original homoerotic side-scrolling shooter for the PSP—wasn’t cheap. But thanks to the PlayStation Store, cash-strapped importers can have it for a song. More »
How To Import Rock Band: An Australian Guide
3:00PM Logan Booker | Another dose of Rock Band news, though this is of the awesome type. Well, the type that doesn’t involve delays or pushed release dates.
Kyle over at Canned Geek has put together a comprehensive guide on how to import Rock Band, if you can’t be arsed waiting for September (or October, if you live in NZ). According to the article, you can pick up the Rock Band bundle, including a second guitar, for $440.
As a bonus, the article includes info on how to fix the instruments (read: the crappy guitars) and steps to set up a US credit card to buy the extra songs from overseas.
Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett scribed a mini-guide for PAL residents looking to import the game back in February. Check it out for additional reading.
Your Guide To Importing Rock Band 2.0 [Canned Geek] More » Star Ocean: Second Evolution Debut Trailer
12:00PM Mike Fahey | The PSP has been very, very good to fans of Japanese RPGs new and old. At this point if you are a JRPG fan and don’t own a PSP you are missing out on an amazing crop of games. This is the debut trailer for Star Ocean: Second Evolution, the PSP remake of Star Ocean: The Second Story for the PS1, due out April 2nd in Japan. It features tons of new voice work, artwork, and some lovely fully animated cutscenes, as you can plainly see here. I want, badly. I played enough of the original that an import might be in order. I’m sure Ashcraft won’t mind me bugging him constantly for translation help. He lives for that sort of thing. More »
Wii Update Breaking Freeloaders
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | The Wii Update that his overnight seemed like a good idea. And mostly is. Except for one thing. It’s broken my Freeloader. And not just mine, loads of peoples. You pop it in, you whir it up, and where you should get your Freeloader disc-swapping message you instead get this error message. What gives, Nintendo? Freeloaders have been around for years, legally, and have been of great comfort to both importers of Japanese titles and PAL users fucked over by a dawdling release schedule. If this breakage was accidental, fix it. If it was not accidental, this is not cool. Fix it. More »
