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What Game Made You Cry The Most?

11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Japan’s Oricon Life polled 500 men between the ages of teen and 40-something about which games have made them cry the most and complied a list of the top five. Weepy drumroll please… More »
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Moore: EA Sports Working To Appeal To Japanese Gamers

1:30PM Owen Good | Electronic Arts’ push into Japan doesn’t exclude EA Sports, and on his official blog, that division’s boss, Peter Moore what his operation can do to invite more Japanese gamers to sports titles, specifically its FIFA franchise. More »
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BlazBlue Getting The PSP Treatment

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Arc System Works’ deliciously different 2D fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger gets considerably smaller in February when BlazBlue Portable hits the Japanese PSP. More »
Media

My Girlfriend Is The President Trailer Features Amazing Voice Over

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Back in July, we brought word of PC eroge My Girlfriend Is The President. Now, feel free to watch the game’s trailer, complete with amazing English language movie guy voice over. More »
Culture

Booze Tastes Better At Kobe’s Gundam Toy Bar

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Drinks named after Gundam characters and over 300 models as seen on Alafista.
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Final Fantasy XIII Soundtrack CD Dated For Japan

7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | On January 27, Square Enix will be releasing the Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack in Japan — one limited edition, and the other not. More »
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Five New PSP Bundles For Japan

6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | In December, Japan is getting not one, but five, count ‘em five, PSP-3000 bundles. More »
Culture

But Was This Cat Game Event Really A Disaster?

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Some games are big sellers. Some games do okay. Some do horrible. And then, there’s cat game Sukeban Shacho Rena Wii More »
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Mai Shiranui Playable In SNK Shooting Game

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Mai Shiranui might not be in The King of Fighters XII, but she is in SNK’s shooting game The King of Fighters: Sky Stage. More »
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Takeuchi: Japanese Gamers Need Western Gamers’ Curiosity

11:00AM Stephen Totilo | Usually, when a country’s gaming scene struggles, game creators take the heat. But an Edge interview with Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi suggests gamers could also be to blame. More »