- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2012 02:41 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, Courts, Litigation, Politics, PS3, Shanghai, Square Enix, Xbox 360

Square Enix is reportedly being sued in China for publishing a game which allows the player to kill Chinese, and which damages the image of that great nation by most unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.
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Arch ero-innovators Tecmo have unveiled an entirely new and for some all-too realistic mechanic in Dead or Alive 5 – the female fighters get hot and sweaty as bouts progress, resulting in clinging, see-through tops.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Mar 10, 2012 02:59 JST
- Tags: Cosplay, Highschool of the Dead, Image Gallery, Pantsu, PS3, Seifuku, Xbox 360, Zombies



Schoolgirl zombie slay-’em-up Lollipop Chainsaw has been exciting gamers with it promise of heavy duty service action, with everything from maids and cheerleaders to costume appearances from the maidens of Highschool of the Dead, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? and even Manyuu Hikenchou…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2012 04:34 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Image Gallery, Namco Bandai, Panchira, Pantsu, PS3, Soul Calibur, Xbox 360

The release of the latest in the Soul Calibur series naturally sees players onanistically analysing the graphics in great, great detail, and what findings they have made:
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For Final Fantasy XIII-2, Square Enix seems to have been busy correcting the extreme linearity and general absence of RPG-ness which caused so much criticism of Final Fantasy XIII, with some maps looking distinctly complex – although this has immediately prompted complaints that they “will be a complete hassle to navigate.”
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The perverted possibilities offered by Kinect are once again being explored by Japanese hackers, in this case to allow males and under-endowed females the chance to experience the thrill of owning and subsequently abusing a virtual pair of huge breasts in real time.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 4, 2011 18:08 JST
- Tags: FPS, Hollywood, Mass Media, PC Gaming, Politics, PS3, Square Enix, USA, Xbox 360

Time has accused Square Enix of racist portrayal of blacks in it recent transhuman stealth shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
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Atlus has announced what everyone probably already knew – that Americans love Catherine, having made it the best selling US launch in Atlus’s history.
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Catherine’s creepy anime graphics and extreme difficulty are apparently not too much for American gamers after all – the game has received a series of ringing endorsements from US gaming rags, some as high as 100%.
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Namco Bandai has announced it will finally be porting IdolMaster to the PS3, the first time the title has reached the PlayStation after having long been renowned as the mainstay of Microsoft’s few Japanese Xbox exclusives.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is looking more like an RPG all the time – now the designers have revealed that the game will include multiple endings, replayability and in-party monsters, and have even provided a promise that the story will be more “player-driven,” even containing “choices.”
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More details on Final Fantasy XIII-2, Square Enix’s sequel to the controversial Final Fantasy XIII, have emerged by way of a short trailer – which some have interpreted as having the towns and perhaps even non-linear segments so absent from the original.
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