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AKBnomics: AKB48 CDs “Selling At Less Than 1 Yen Each”

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The bizarre otaku-driven economics of Japan’s best-selling “music” group AKB48 are again turning heads, with a vast torrent of unwanted CDs flooding the second-hand market at landfill prices even as the voting tickets they accompanied command top-dollar.

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  • Shuubi commented on June 8, 2013 22:38

    Sigh, the problem with you, Taylor, is that the middle ground doesnt seem to exist for you. Everything has to be black and white. I never said the women in the equation were innocent and... More

  • Taylor commented on June 8, 2013 06:19

    omg I can't pay attention to your arguments anymore. Halfs truths, misinformation, turning mountains into molehills in favor of women and turning molehills into mountains against men. Yes yes the woman is always innocent in... More

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GungHo Stock Plunges: “The Social Bubble Finally Bursts!?”

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One-shot wonder social gaming publisher GungHo Online’s days of outstripping Nintendo in market cap look to be well and truly over – the company’s value has plunged by over a third in mere days, leaving nobody in any doubt as to the permanence of social gaming’s ascendancy.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 30, 2013 02:18

    no problem. equal trade.... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 27, 2013 19:20

    I'd like to personally thank fArtefact for pointing this one out. Easily an overvalued stock. And my clients who made a nice chunk of change late last week on put options thank... More

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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.

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  • Kelly Overholser commented on May 12, 2014 14:26

    Most social games are crap, but P&D actually has gameplay to back it up. Not as much as other games and there's a lot of grindy nonsense and P2W crap, but I wouldn't say... More

  • Kelly Overholser commented on May 12, 2014 14:25

    I have to ask, have you played P&D? While it has a lot of the "social gaming" aspects, and there's a lot of pay-to-win crap, it's definitely a real game. Sure, it's a... More

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Square Enix “Will Focus On Social Gaming”

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After having posted the worst losses in its history and sacking its CEO, Square Enix has announced its new focus will be social games.

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  • Anonymous commented on February 9, 2014 23:04

    Yes, it's current slump is due to environmental changes, and not because it's murdered it's own genre with progressively worsening Final Fantasy titles. I mean hell, even with Ride to Hell: Retribution on the... More

  • Anonymous commented on January 17, 2014 17:58

    The social market is more appropriate for smaller companies. Square-Enix is too big with too many overheads, and they will physically be unable to make enough money on the social market to sustain themselves. Especially... More

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Maid Cafe Numbers “Have Halved!”

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The maid cafe industry is apparently having a tough time of it, with Akiba cafe numbers halving in recent years, and some fearing the maid cafe bubble may have actually burst for good.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 14, 2013 17:23

    And let me guess. Host clubs are still booming full of lonely housewives?... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 11, 2013 04:58

    Nope. Girlfriends have nothing to do with it. Married men will come out and look at other females if they are desperate enough or don't care for their relationship. The maids are there generally for the... More

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Index Corporation – the social gaming company which owns Atlus – has just posted its worse losses ever and is now both insolvent and in danger of being delisted from JASDAQ, throwing the future of the Megami Tensei and Persona franchises into grave doubt.

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  • Anonymous commented on November 4, 2014 03:48

    . .SEGA!!!!!!!!!!! i dunno. why... More

  • Anonymous commented on September 19, 2013 06:29

    You guys buy this bullshit? LOL. They are all owned by the same unnamed people. The are simply making corporate moves and doing shit behind the scenes that nobody will ever be aware of. Meh.... More

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After finally sacking its CEO for all the vast losses he caused, Square Enix’s new boss is promising “radical” change – starting by scrapping a lot of as yet unspecified projects and concentrating the company’s resources on what may very possibly turn out to be making social games for the Chinese and Koreans.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 28, 2013 15:35

    We can count on Tetsuya. He seems to be the only one making good shit... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 21, 2013 22:12

    Was there ever a good Secret of Mana game? Seiken Densetsu (Game Boy): dark,tragic and epic! Seiken Densetsu 2 or the first SECRET OF MANA (SNES): Kids in the jungle...and colors that will make your... More

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Square Enix CEO Resigns Over Colossal Losses

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Square Enix CEO Youichi Wada has announced he is finally taking responsibility for the company’s disastrous financial performance by resigning, after the firm posted a 13 billion yen loss in its most recent fiscal quarter.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 29, 2013 19:17

    Most of the team that designed their early SFC games is still with the company, believe it or not.... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 4, 2013 02:13

    For Tomb Raider I don#t know the reason since it's pretty good actually..but Dragon Quest X shows why not every fawking RPG series should be made into an MMO. Srsly I hate this Online Shit... More

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Methane Hydrate “To Make Japan Energy Superpower”

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Japan’s recent success in extracting methane hydrate is now expected to make Japan a gas export powerhouse, as there is estimated to be enough of the stuff around Japan to last a century or more.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 6, 2013 01:30

    You obviously do not know anything about science. Energy cannot be created out of thin air, and perpetual motion is impossible.... More

  • Anonymous commented on March 29, 2013 14:08

    Instead of burning everything that can be burned just to power few households, how about making a machine, that is capable of generating energy from "nothing" (motion perhaps)? In theory it is absolutely possible and... More

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Thermae Romae Mangaka “Got $10,000 of $62,000,000”

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The creator of the manga adapted into blockbuster bathing movie Thermae Romae has spoken of her outrage at learning that of the movie’s 6 billion yen gross she would only be receiving a paltry 1 million yen.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 16, 2014 01:33

    I wish Niizuma Eiji was real...... More

  • Anonymous commented on March 21, 2013 08:56

    Freakazoid knows what we're talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL91HQzhuc... More

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Square Enix has been making news again – this time for posting a loss of 5.7 billion yen in its most recent financial statement, having posted a profit of 5 billion yen for the same period last year – the loss now being blamed on intense competition in the Japanese video game market and the fact that for some inexplicable reason foreigners refuse to buy its fine titles.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 28, 2013 15:22

    Don't fret my friends. We have Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Kingdom Hearts 3 on the way. It seems like only Tetsuya Nomura is putting in work.... More

  • Anonymous commented on February 15, 2013 09:45

    This must be a part of their ingenious plan to loose so much money that the fabric of space time is warped and they become rich.... More

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Founder and former CEO of Square Hisashi Suzuki has damned the company’s merger with Enix as a “total failure,” declaring Square Enix has “no vision for the future” and pointing to its huge losses and a market cap which is now well below the company’s pre-merger valuation as evidence of the disaster.

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  • Anonymous commented on May 15, 2013 18:07

    Got a problem with gays?... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 15, 2013 00:31

    @Lonesnipa. FF9 was made before the merge of Square and Enix The logo you see is probably form the copy you got on the PS Store and caused the confusion...... More

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