
Disney has bought Lucasfilm and pledged to release a new Star Wars trilogy and then “release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years” forever after.
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Police have arrested the CEO and 39 male employees of a soapland chain which employed 635 girls and banked $125 million over the last 2 years, after they were deemed to have fell foul of an obscure zoning technicality.
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The US seems ready to dump its useless Japanese lackeys in favour of its much more affordable and numerous new Chinese friends, if polls of the American public are anything to go by.
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The plight of Japan’s animators, long famed for being paid slave wages, has been making headlines again with the news that Studio Easter, the makers of Case Closed, are being sued for allegedly paying their animators as little as $3 an hour.
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Bandai has announced its withdrawal from the US anime publishing business, a move greeted by the usual litany of piracy accusations from angry Japanese otaku with a less than favourable view of their overseas brethren.
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Namco Bandai Games have announced that Tales Studio, the studio responsible for producing its popular line of Tales RPGs, is to be disbanded and merged into Namco Bandai proper.
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A recently published study on the “otaku” market finds that as many as 25% of Japanese may now consider themselves otaku, an increase of 5% on the previous year.
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Apple tycoon Steve Jobs has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 27, 2011 14:20 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Business, China, Crime, Internet, Made in China, MMORPG, Money, World of Warcraft

Chinese labour camps are said to be forcing prisoners to farm gold for westerners too lazy to do it themselves, torturing prisoners who do not earn enough, the time spent playing apparently not punishment enough.
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Veteran seiyuu Kotono Mitsuishi, known for scores of top roles including Misato, Boa Hancock and Excel, has spoken out against the anime industry’s harsh treatment of seiyuu, saying it has forced them into penury and discards as soon as they become experienced rather than pay them more, causing a dearth of skilled seiyuu as a result.
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Even Chinese were surprised at the rather disturbing contents of a too cheap for comfort made in China pillow.
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Japan’s business elite are urging the government to let in more immigrants by making the country more like Singapore, so they can make more money.
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