Japanese asked to rate their most loved game characters unsurprisingly deliver the top spot to an old favourite – but a beautiful virtual diva seems well on the way to unseating even this gaming titan.
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One of the writers with Kojima Productions has written a politely scathing piece in which he decries the JRPG’s single-minded obsession with having overwrought teenage boys as their protagonists, suggesting that is tied to a wider lack of heroic adult male archetypes in contemporary Japanese culture.
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Dengeki readers provide a ranking of the top 10 game characters they feel would make good friend material.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 16, 2010 09:08 JST
- Tags: DS, Mario, Metal Gear, Nintendo, PSP, Resident Evil, Sony, Technology, Zelda
The detailed specification for the newly announced Nintendo 3DS has made clear the fact the the 3DS appears to surpass the PSP in every respect, particularly in the crucial areas of graphics and storage space, prompting some to proclaim the end of the PSP…
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E3 sees the release of spectacularly violent gameplay videos of the latest Metal Gear title, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and also sees Solid Snake buried for the time being.
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Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker’s latest claim to fame (its other major claim appears to a minor scandal over Famitsu’s non-existent journalistic ethics) is the presence of a surprising amount of sexy gravure service involving a pantsu-clad girl of tender years – this can be inspected below.
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Metal Gear master Hideo Kojima has made a bombastically enigmatic twitterance in which he promises to “challenge a certain industry taboo” whilst warning that “I may have to leave the industry if I mess up.”
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Insipid gaming rag Famitsu has quizzed its readership on who they think the “coolest” video game characters to be, with the list displaying all the taste and discernment that could reasonably be expected of a mob of impressionable schoolboys.
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The PS3’s much vaunted Cell processor has been trumpeted as having “bottomless” capabilities by top PS3 developer Naughty Dog, although it seems not all developers are inclined to agree, with Hideo Kojima on the other hand maintaining that his magnum opus stretched the machine to its limits.
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Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid series of stealth interspersed cutscenes, has stated that such is his admiration for Modern Warfare 2, he feels motivated to make a return to the PS3 for his subsequent games.
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Covert eroge Metal Gear Solid 4’s latest addition consists of a military grade bikini, which looks undeniably incongruous, if energetically animated at times:
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Tactical espionage moe? These Figumate figures provide an interesting reimagining of Snake, Otacon, Raiden and Ocelot. Rather more desirable than the crusty old commando himself, though this would hardly be difficult. Due for release December 11th, as a set of four, in the region of ¥3,000.
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