
It transpires that Bioware’s hit cover-shooter Mass Effect 2, which sold millions of copies and became the recipient of innumerable perfect scores and game-of-the-year awards, sold a pathetic 8,864 copies in Japan, being outsold by such blockbusters as Arcana Heart 3.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2011 21:34 JST
- Tags: DS, Famitsu, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, Rankings, Sony, Statistics, Wii, Xbox 360

Famitsu’s ranking of Japan’s top 100 best selling games of 2010 has found its way online, and seems to reveal the Japanese gaming market has devolved into a staid mixture of endless RPG franchises and Mario games…
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The potential of Kinect continues to expand – this time robotics hobbyists have developed a system for controlling an actual robot body using Kinect.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 10, 2011 15:18 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Microsoft, Nintendo, PC Gaming, Ports, PS3, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

PlayStation 3 fanatics are crowing over the fact that 2011 appears all but devoid of exclusives for lesser platforms.
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There are reports that Kinect is causing Xbox 360s to succumb to the dread Red Ring of Death.
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Kinect’s erotic possibilities continue to crystallise – now in the form of virtual breast jiggling thanks to Noesis and none other than the buxom Ivy.
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Microsoft seems to have banned pantsu display from the Xbox 360, with the above before and after screenshots demonstrating the changes they forced on the developers of “Gal Gun.” The developers for their part angrily claimed this was part of an effort to make the system more “family friendly.”
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Japanese asked to rank the most profoundly memorable video game systems give a list unlikely to elicit much controversy from gamers, whether Japanese or not.
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Microsoft Taiwan’s Silverlight mascot Hikaru returns to wish benighted users of Microsoft’s Flash clone a merry Christmas – complete with gorgeous wallpapers.
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Microsoft is resorting to seiyuu cleavage to promote Kinect, with Aya Hirano providing the glamour and several other seiyuu providing the cleavage.
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Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect has predictably turned into a marketing farce of epic proportions.
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Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect appears to be having trouble capturing public interest, despite the Xbox 360′s new-found family friendliness.
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