
Japanese TV broadcasters are demanding makers of video recorders remove the ability to skip ads from their products.
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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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Ken Akamatsu, king of harem manga, is starting a free manga download site for out-of-print titles called “J-Comi,” and has announced all 14 volumes of Love Hina will be its first release.
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Square Enix watchers have discovered a correlation between Square Enix’s plummeting stock price (almost at a 10 year low) and the player population of Final Fantasy XIV, also plummeting.
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Square Enix profits have plunged and its stock price is at rock bottom – fortunately CEO Yoichi Wada has a plan to reverse this, including a dramatic increase in the company’s reliance on micro-transactions and item charging in its games.
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Microsoft is bombastically proclaiming Kinect launch sales will beat those of the Wii, and just for good measure says it will beat the iPad too.
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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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Square Enix watchers are busy marvelling at how Square Enix’s stock has halved in value in only 2 years.
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The controversy surrounding the production of Final Fantasy XIV has further intensified with the news that Square Enix is seeking Chinese speakers to run the game’s servers.
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Nintendo has announced release details for its new 3DS handheld, only to witness its stock price drop dramatically.
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Strike Witches fans are aghast at the news that anime studio AIC has been turned into the subsidiary of a pachinko company.
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Capcom has announced it will no longer be employing programmers or designers, and will in fact be scrapping them completely.
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