A new Shenmue has been revealed. The game is headed to a Yahoo! Japan gaming site. And apparently, Sega is apparently not involved. But Shenmue’s creator is.
You might want to sit down.
Earlier this week, a teaser site appeared on Yahoo! Japan, claiming that the web portal and the game company would change Japanese history. The teaser site than asked Twitter users to guess what was to come.
Japanese history is voluminous. And there have been huge changes. Just look at this past century! But domestic game company Square Enix and Yahoo! claim it will change Japanese history.
Yahoo! Tech writer Christopher Null listed Rock Band 2 among his personal eight best tech products of 2008.
It’s no Google, but in the absence of Google’s stats, it’ll have to do: according to Yahoo!, the Wii, 360, PSP and even PS3 were amongst the 10 most-searched for technology items for 2008.
Yahoo! has published their list of the most searched terms of 2008, and popular free MMO Runescape has actually made the cut, coming in at number 5, beating out Naruto, Jessica Alba, and Lindsay Lohan.
In June, Yahoo’s ‘lifestyle’ site Shine hosted a Sony Online Entertainment survey into the gaming habits of US families.
As well as the heart-warming finding that 87% of parents regularly play videogames with their children, the survey also looked at how parents perceived their child’s development being affected by gaming.
Perhaps surprisingly, the survey conducted by a major games console manufacturer found that many parents noticed improvements in their kids that they attributed directly to gaming!
75% of surveyed parents think that their children’s hand/eye coordination has been improved by gaming, while 84% say that PC gaming has boosted their kid’s typing skills.
Parents See Benefit of Children Playing Video Games [GameSpy]
