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Congress Identifies Piracy Priority Countries
2:20AM Mike Fahey | The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus asks that Canada, Russia, China, Mexico, and Spain please cut down on the software piracy. Thanks! More »
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What Countries Made Nintendo’s Rampant Piracy List This Year?
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Every year, Nintendo documents the worst countries in the world in terms of rampant Nintendo game piracy, issuing a report to the U.S. Trade Representative requesting help. What countries made the list this year?
Catch Real Mexicans In This Real Border Crossing ‘Game’
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | There’s a new “project” running in Texas that sounds a lot more like a “game” to us. It involves cameras, the internet, people sitting at home and catching Mexicans. Fun fun fun! More »Nintendo’s Favourite Drunken Mexican
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Hahaha! Mario’s not Italian, you suckers. He just moonlights for Nintendo, does the odd bit of product promotion here and there. Helps put the kids through college. No, for the other six days of the week, he’s no plumber. He’s a drunk, Mexican restaurant mascot by the name of Pancho Bigotes! Or Pancho Whiskers, if you will. I don’t know about you, but Super Paper Pancho Bigotes would only be the most awesome game ever, Nintendo. Ever. You hear me? [via Go Nintendo] More »
Crappy Looking Dragonball Movie Getting Crappy Looking Sequel?
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Does it matter if the Dragonball flick was pushed back from this summer to next spring? Does it matter that the movie looks like dookey? No! Apparently, Dragonball 2 could be shooting first quarter next year. Some of the movie’s sets are still in place where it was shoot in Mexico, waiting! It does matter how the flick does, though. Whew, that’s good. There is a God. Dragonball 2? [Movieland via Dragonball - The Movie via TokyoGraph via a geek by any other name] More »
Another Mexico Raid Snatches 28,800 Pirated Games
6:40AM Mark Wilson | If you are a software pirate in Mexico, it hasn’t been your year. Back in April, you got raided by authorities. Now, you’re getting raided again. 500 law enforcement officers recently busted 4 duplication plants in Tepito area in Mexico City. Authorities captured 290 DVD/CD burners, 28,800 games and whopping 900,000 video game cover inserts. Now that the ESA is happy to celebrate the victory, maybe they’ll focus their efforts on facilitating improved game distribution to our friends south of the border. More »
1,500 Mexicans Needed for Dragonball Flick
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Live in Mexico? Like Dragonball? You’re in luck! The DB movie is looking for extras. No experience necessary! It looks like the cattle call has already commenced. This is actually the coolest news to come out of the Dragonball movie shoot. In an age were all crowds scenes are CG, it’s pretty neat that the producers are using actual people for the shoot. Too bad they seem to be mucking up the rest of the flick. Then again, after the censoring the anime got when it came to the US, this movie should just be par for the course. More than 1,500 People [Movieland via Otaku Times] More »
Mexico’s Game Industry Approaching $1 Billion
3:00AM Mark Wilson | We don’t consider Mexico a tech-obsessed country, but according to a recent report by Americas News Intelligence, Mexico’s video game industry will inflate to $US1 billion by 2010. Because so many Mexican young adults live with their parents until marriage, they develop disposable incomes. That money, when not being spent on [fill in American-nationalistic Mexican food stereotype fully based upon Americanised Mexican food] young men and women enjoy buying video games. Don’t believe us? Then why did Nintendo spaz out on the country for piracy? Mexico Game Industry Nears $1B [via n4g] More »When Tetris Blocks Attack
11:00AM Luke Plunkett | And here I was thinking Tetris blocks were the bestest of friends. WRONG. They hate each other, so bad that when you let them out of the game they attend Mexican anime expos and beat the shit out of each other. Hit the jump for another! More »
