
Amazon Japan has unveiled sales data for their best selling anime discs of 2014, unexpectedly revealing that even the likes of Madoka and Love Live! cannot triumph over the might of Gundam.
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Anime fans have been marvelling at the above comparison of Blu-ray salesrank amongst Amazon’s various regional stores, noting with mixed emotions that in Japan alone is the list 80% anime and 50% Madoka.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 21, 2010 11:13 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Idol, IdolM@ster, Marketing, Moe, Namco Bandai, Otaku, Xbox 360, Yaoi

Rebellious IdolMaster fans who launched a boycott of the title over its removal of several girls and addition of several hot male idols have proven to be all talk – they are apparently buying the game up in droves.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 18, 2010 04:01 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Bizarre, Business, China, Copyright, Crime, Made in China, PSP, USA


Amazon’s Chinese subsidiary Amazon.cn, formerly Joyo.com, is blatantly selling pirated games on its site in true Chinese style.
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Kodansha is telling mangaka they will get only 25% royalties on digital manga, if they deign to publish them – in spite of the fact publishers such as Amazon and Apple are offering rates as high as 70%.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 10, 2010 20:33 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Copyright, Hacking, Law, Linux, PS3, Sony, Technology, UK

A PS3 owner has been awarded a $100 rebate by Amazon on the basis that Sony’s decision to remove Linux support in its latest firmware revision is at odds with EU law.
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The frenzied buzz over K-ON!!’s new season has driven pre-orders for the new season on Amazon Japan, giving the series the stratospheric state of possessing 10 of the Top 13 rankings on Amazon’s DVD / BD Top Sellers.
In related news, one prankster made 999 pre-orders for K-ON!! Vol. 1, an order that would cost over $66,000 USD to actually purchase, presumably to affect Amazon’s Charts, apparently unaware that Amazon’s rankings only count 1 order per customer.
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A third season of K-ON! has been indirectly announced by way of DVD pre-orders for the title opening.
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Amazon.co.jp has revealed its top selling games of 2009 (minus Final Fantasy XIII), and the result seems to confirm the expected carve up of the market between RPGs and casual games, and the PS3/PSP and Wii/DS…
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The long rumoured PS3 Slim has appeared on Amazon.de.
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The most eagerly awaited blockbuster RPG for some, Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito (Guardian of the Starry Skies), for the DS, was recently released, but instead of the usual rapturous reaction its release has turned into a major fiasco, with piracy, negative reactions and dubious characters all spoiling what was doubtless expected to be the biggest DS release for some time, though it is not clear whether sales are affected by this.
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After the previous confusion, Japan’s leading adult game classification body has bowed to feminist pressure and banned the sale and manufacture of so-called “rape” games.
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