
Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing an anime based on the Halo franchise, employing some of the top names in the anime industry.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, Galleries, H
- Date: Jul 4, 2009 16:00 JST
- Tags: Cosplay, Image Gallery, Microsoft, Oppai, OS-tan, Oshiri, PC Software, Saku

Cosplayer Ayaka here portrays 2k-tan, the moe anthropomorphisation of relatively beloved operating system Windows 2000, in erotic fashion, complete with cleavage, T-back and gravure pouting…
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In those lucky instances where the gamer in question is in fact female, the above comparison seems to demonstrate the unfortunate reality of hopeful ideal (on the right it might be hoped) versus implacable reality…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 20, 2009 05:19 JST
- Tags: Activision, Business, Marketing, Microsoft, PS3, PSP, Sony, USA, Xbox 360

Major video game publisher Activision’s CEO has threatened Sony, saying that the PlayStation 3 is in a bad position and that his margins hardly justify developing for the platform.
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The cunning Key nude filter relying on Internet Explorer’s superior im age handling has inspired the creation of additional nude filters, centring on the prospect of nude tsundere Shana and her companions.
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The above illustration from Key’s visual novel “Tomoyo After – It’s a Wonderful Life” conceals an amusing easter egg visible only to users of dread browser Internet Explorer.
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The slide in Xbox 360 sales, which seems to herald the end of its Japanese resurgence, continues with the news that the console now occupies the most humiliating spot of all in the Japanese retail hierarchy: the wagon.
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Ota-idol Shoko-tan has attracted much consternation recently with her announcement that she has acquired a PS3 (along with a demo copy of Final Fantasy XIII), after only recently swearing eternal fealty to Microsoft, which is being read as a sign of the times – the Xbox’s Japanese rally is over it seems, and now the console flies into headlong retreat…
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Japanese PS3 sales figures for the month of April just released show the PS3 to have enjoyed a drastic increase in sales over this time last year.
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Whatever glimmer of hope Microsoft may have purchased at great cost for its console in Japan has been dimming of late, but that doesn’t stop Microsoft from pushing the marketing battle to the next level: here we see an aggressive piece of marketing published by retailer Messe Sanoh, making use not only of Xbox 360-tan, but also a blustering comparison of the PS3 to the vastly superior Xbox 360 (if they are to be believed).
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The much anticipated PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia was recently announced, and of the many extras included in it the most notable addition is pirate loli character Patty Fleur.
However, a 2ch denizen who just happened to be browsing the compiled code for the game with a hex editor (let us not enquire too deeply as to why) has discovered evidence that she was in fact in the game from the start, in the form of mentions of her name alongside those of other characters.
This plainly casts doubt on her “new” status, and possibly suggests that all this was planned from the start?
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The much heralded resurgence of the Xbox 360 in Japan appears to have been as fleetingly ephemeral as the life of a mayfly; the latest sales figures show it being outsold by the lowly and supposedly obsolescent PS2, and the PS3 is outselling it by a margin of nearly 5 to 1, also beating the Wii:
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