

Covert eroge Metal Gear Solid 4’s latest addition consists of a military grade bikini, which looks undeniably incongruous, if energetically animated at times:
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With the generously long beta testing period on the Xbox 360 finally over, Tales of Vesperia is finally nearing release on the PS3, and has been firmly dated.
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Nintendo has delighted its fans by finally offering the Wii in the same colour as the dark of night and the raven’s wing, but between it and the “Classic Controller Pro”, certain similarities to Sony’s PS2 are noticeable:
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The successor to Final Fantasy XIII has been announced as an MMORPG sequel to the venerable Final Fantasy XI, for the PS3 and PC; the Xbox 360 is notably neglected…
You can see the usual gorgeous CG trailer below:
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The developers of Soul Calibur (including Soul Calibur IV and the new PSP title Soul Calibur Broken Destiny) have delved into the 3D modelling techniques used in the game, but most interestingly they have explained just how Soul Calibur succeeds to effectively in recreating the motion of breasts during battle.
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The PS3 has so far attracted very little of the huge array of visual novels available on the PS2, and it appears this is for a reason, according to a recent magazine report on the subject.
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The tale of a newly wedded husband whose wife secretly sold his PS3 and games to watch his shocked reaction when she told him has given rise to a storm of outrage, with thousands uniting in disgusted condemnation of the deed.
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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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 8, 2009 01:13 JST
- Tags: Business, Controllers, Copyright, Marketing, Nintendo, Ports, PS3, Sony, Wii

Sony is said to be planning the release of a new controller which is all but a carbon copy of Nintendo’s Wiimote, and in fact goes even further by introducing enhanced motion tracking.
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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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 25, 2009 06:54 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Atelier, Gust, Lolicon, Moe, Otaku, PS3, RPG, Virginity


Otaku have greeted the latest in the Atelier series of alchemy RPGs, Atelier Rorona, with disgust upon learning that the loli protagonist Rorona is in fact “second-hand” goods, apparently having something of a connection with a male character in the game.
Clear parallels seem apparent between this and the second-hand Nagi-sama fiasco…
They soon populated an entire thread with their disgust at the prospect of having to play through so soiled an RPG, the highlights of which you can see below:
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