
Some of the most egregious examples of failed attempts at fansubbing are collected below, demonstrating quality control is often not foremost in the minds of those attempting such translations…
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Nippon Ichi’s Worst Game of 2010 nominee Last Rebellion has sold a staggering 3 thousand copies in Japan.
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Nippon Ichi’s newly released PS3 RPG “Last Rebellion” has already been awarded the dubious honour of “Worst Game of 2010” candidacy.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2010 07:42 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bugs, Eroge, Fail, Ports, PS2, Rankings, Video Gallery, Wii

The worst video game of 2009 has been all but decided, with 2ch’s 2009 “Kusoge of the Year” award being handed down to a title so buggy as to barely be playable, in fact possessing even more bugs than were present in the PC original.
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Shangri-La, an anime whose DVDs sold so badly that the release of volume 7 and onwards was abruptly canceled, has recently attracted even more opprobrium for the bizarre happenings on its covers; the first four start off well enough, probably better than the anime deserves in the eyes of many:
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A list of the most disappointing games of 2009 which has begun circulating provides some uncontroversial choices, with the disastrous King of Fighters 12 port heading the list…
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The common stereotype that woman drivers are less capable than their male counterparts probably persists thanks to the existence of images like these:
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A passage describing Nazi guillotine sex action has won the unprestigious 2009 Bad Sex In Fiction Award, thanks to such memorable phrases as “I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg,” and “This sex was watching at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon’s head, like a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks.”
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Nintendo’s much maligned DSi LL has sold 104,000 units in two days, according to Enterbrain estimates, double what Sony’s nogoing PSP Go managed in three weeks of release.
However, the DSi LL itself barely managed half the DSi’s two day sales of 170,000…
The tale can readily be told in release day queue comparisons:
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A recent book highlights some of the less than reassuring exam answers given by UK schoolchildren.
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Nondescript gender swapping anime Kämpfer has finally attracted some attention, though perhaps not for reasons which will delight its creators – the above still shows a truly fascinating grasp of physics on the part of the animators in several key respects…
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For whatever reasons the builders of this humble dwelling apparently thought better of going through the troublesome process of removing the telegraph pole, instead opting to build around it…
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