
Sony Ericsson’s upcoming PlayStation Phone is coming under fire for its tacky design – particularly when compared to some of the svelte mockups which were circulated prior to it becoming a real product.
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Japanese asked how they would try to get someone they have their eye on to ask them out offer up a list of tactics considered likely to elicit the desired advance.
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Virtual schoolgirl courting sim Love Plus is either being subjected to the highest form of flattery or the lowest form of plagiarism.
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Japanese asked to rank what they consider to be the likeliest signs a partner, male or female, might be acting unfaithfully yield up an unsurprisingly (for Japanese) mobile-phone centred set of signals to watch out for.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2010 06:11 JST
- Tags: Apple, DS, Epic Games, iPhone, iPod, Keitai, Marketing, Nintendo, Technology

Epic Games has dismissed the 3DS as being unable to run its widely used Epic engine, whilst the 3DS has been unfavourably compared to the iPod Touch, making Nintendo’s upcoming handheld look increasingly underspecced and overpriced.
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Square Enix have been accused of blatant plagiarism for publishing “Samurai Eleven,” a football game which bears more than a striking resemblance to Level-5’s popular “Inazuma Eleven” series.
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A senior game creator has told industry figures that Japanese gamers can now be divided into a “game elite” and “light gamers.”
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Index, the company which just announced the dissolution of beloved RPG maker Atlus, recently unveiled the latest title in the Persona franchise – Persona 3 Social, a mobile phone game promising the latest in “social” gaming with the advanced graphical capabilities of a mobile phone handset, and with players nickelled and dimed for each item.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2010 08:07 JST
- Tags: Apple, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Internet, iPhone, Keitai, Marketing, Technology

Scores of iTunes users have had their accounts hacked and used to buy software, much of which was in the form of pirate manga apps. Some users report thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases.
Apple for its part only acknowledges banning some developers in connection with “fraudulent purchase patterns,” and then suggests cancelling any cards linked to a compromised account.
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Apple is already facing no less than three class action lawsuits launched by iPhone 4 users irate at the smartphone’s inability to function properly unless held in a Jobs-approved manner.
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A group of schoolchildren face possible child pornography charges after their leader tied a 12-year-old girl they were bullying to a chair and stripped her naked, making videos of the event which she then sent to her friends.
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The launch of Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 4 is fast turning into a debacle, with users discovering all manner of unwanted extra features, not least of which is the fact that the phone loses signal if held incorrectly, a problem which Apple blames on users…
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