Square Enix’s latest exciting new title has been announced as “Grand Union” – a social card battle game for mobile phones, prompting the usual howls from the few remaining gamers who expect anything more from the company.
Japanese gamers have been stunned to learn that the market cap of Puzzle & Dragons maker GungHo now exceeds that of Nintendo, prompting both despair and incredulity and perhaps explaining about the Japanese gaming industry’s rapid decline into idolising card and puzzle games for phones.
Well, I think the thing about PD is that it's a combination of popular and addictive systems. It's Pokemon + Bejeweled (both popular and addictive to some), with the insidious "stamina" feature that limits your... More
Guess that's it. Japanese gaming is dead. It had a good run.... More
Square Enix’s reputation as the EA of the East continues to harden amongst Final Fantasy fans – their latest announcement of a “new Final Fantasy Tactics title” turns out to be a social game for mobile phones…
Spirits Within failed because again they tried to make it WESTERNIZED. It wasn't even FF it just carried the name. Had nothing to do with the video-games at all. Japanese need to stop this shit in... More
Don't know what happened to Square Enix but their stories have become shit and re-used. What was once unique and inspirational has now turned into a generic and predictable westernized approach in gaming. Face it Square... More
The latest controversy courted by Square Enix comes in the form of their decision to release “Million Arthur” on the PlayStation Vita – the first time the company has been shameless enough as to release a F2P smartphone card game on a real gaming device.
One must be out of his mind to buy a game like that...or better, one must be out of his mind to buy a japanese game.... More
There's a note announcing it has been released on the PSV the official site as of today: http://www.sisilala.jp/ The trailer, cards and other materials were intended to be illustrative of the game's original version, sorry if... More
Aya Hirano now really is unrecognisable, with all but the most sharp-eyed viewers of her latest TV outing having no idea who she is until being told of her appearance…
Not content with merely demoting freshly shorn AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi to “trainee” status for her disgraceful lack of chastity, her management have also stripped her of her online card game presence – outraging those of her fans who had obediently sunk all their money into it.
Japanese women asked what they think the most undesirable things to see serving as mobile phone wallpaper display none-too surprising resistance to seeing any “childish” anime characters featuring, considering the holders of such phones so creepy only abject narcissists were considered more undesirable.
Japan’s mobile auction sites are enjoying a surge in popularity – thanks largely to the fact that the girls using the services are now competing on sexiness in their product pictures as well as on price.
A recently published study on the “otaku” market finds that as many as 25% of Japanese may now consider themselves otaku, an increase of 5% on the previous year.
A Japanese Diet member has narrowly escaped punishment after daring to take a photograph of Emperor Akihito.
Japan still has an emperor? And here I thought England was the only country with a puppet head of position from former times. At least he doesn't live in the spotlight.... More
The Emperor doesn't even have any authority or rule. He's just an icon. I don't see the big issue other than the fact that Japan is a looney right wing nation that would make even... More
Sony is now releasing customer data to hackers on a daily basis – the company has suffered two additional hacks in short order.
but what's the cable for? i thought the PS3 Move was wireless. ;)... More
Well. I dont know about you guys, but I'm very familiar about the hacker community. A decentralized group of hackers known as Anonymous have been hacking corporations all over the world and Sony was just... More
Japanese police have arrested a boy for cheating on his university entrance examination by using a mobile phone to photograph the questions and get the answers from accomplices on the Internet, in what turned out to be Japan’s biggest news story in months.
Hi from Kansas City Community College. I'm prod to say over herre at our fine schoole,we's hardly be cheating on tests and stuff.ALL uf our tefts are in multible choices and sum come in nice crossword... More
Hi from The University of Tokyo. That leisure life that some claim after entering the university in Japan may apply to some cases, but in the graduate school here the research activities are really demanding. You... More
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