
Japanese asked to rank the most profoundly memorable video game systems give a list unlikely to elicit much controversy from gamers, whether Japanese or not.
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Microsoft Taiwan’s Silverlight mascot Hikaru returns to wish benighted users of Microsoft’s Flash clone a merry Christmas – complete with gorgeous wallpapers.
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Microsoft is resorting to seiyuu cleavage to promote Kinect, with Aya Hirano providing the glamour and several other seiyuu providing the cleavage.
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Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect has predictably turned into a marketing farce of epic proportions.
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Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect appears to be having trouble capturing public interest, despite the Xbox 360’s new-found family friendliness.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Nov 15, 2010 03:18 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Comparison, Gravure, GTA, Microsoft, Otaku, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360

Even Japanese gamers are complaining about the latest censorship massacre inflicted upon them, in this case in the form of Mafia II being ravaged by black bars.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Nov 13, 2010 21:16 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Eroge, Marketing, Microsoft, Moe, Otaku, Pantsu, Xbox 360

There are suspicions that Microsoft is trying to purge the Xbox 360 of creepy groping sims, one of its mainstays in Japan, in order to promote the system as a family-friendly platform together with Kinect.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 10, 2010 02:33 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

Game developer Tose’s proclamation that the PS3 had finally taken the lead in the current generation’s console war has proven false, and the company has issued a grovelling retraction.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 8, 2010 14:18 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

Statistics published by top game developer Tose show that with 42 million the total number of PS3s sold globally have exceeded the Xbox 360 by a million units.
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Some users are concerned about Kinect sneakily taking pictures of them dancing naked.
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Microsoft’s newly released Kinect controller is facing accusations of racism, after reports of it being unable to recognise dark-skinned people surfaced.
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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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