
Musical anime White Album has a long history, starting off as an adult game by Aquaplus, and being adapted into a manga, an anime and a PS3 visual novel.
The character designs show some notable changes throughout:
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The Japanese games industry appears to be in the midst of a slump, with sales last fiscal year plunging and Japan’s overall share of the worldwide market shrinking to just under 20%, along with a precipitous 15% decrease in the size of the domestic market, reports Enterbrain, publisher of famed gaming magazine Famitsu.
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The Final Fantasy XIII demo will go on sale soon, accompanied by an added extra in the form of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete (the CG movie adapted to Blu-ray), or a 160GB PS3 to play it on.
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Nintendo’s performance in the all important US market during Christmas 2008 has cemented the company’s supremacy and likely ensured its future as the major player for some time, though gamers are unlikely to be too inspired by either it or the other successes of the season.
The Wii managed Yuletide sales more than double that of the Xbox 360, leaving little room for runner up S**y.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Akihabara, Games, News
- Date: Dec 21, 2008 00:04 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Cammy, Capcom, Oshiri, PC Gaming, PS3, Street Fighter, Xbox 360

Capcom has announced that much lusted after later mainstay of the Street Fighter series Cammy is to feature on the home editions of the game, due for release February 12. Presumably, she will also feature in the anime.
Since Cammy’s basic purpose is posterior service, I shall obligingly reproduce a few such images at the end of the article.
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Capcom have finally announced the release date of the long awaited Street Fighter IV, making a surprise announcement at the end of their recent exhibition; SF IV is set to have a multiplatform console release in Febuary 2009, they say.
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The latest in the excellent Naruto based Narutimate Hero (or Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, if you prefer) series of 3D action/fighting games has been confirmed as being due for a winter release on the PS3. The game is entitled NARUTO ‐ ナルト ‐ ナルティメットストーム / Narutimate Storm.
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Excellent strategic PS3 RPG 戦場のヴァルキュリア / Valkyria Chronicles, due in English in November, is set to receive a manga adaptation, which in something of a surprising move, is to be a BL title focused on homoerotic senpai-kouhai antics.
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Much hyped PS3 moddable community platformer LittleBigPlanet, due October 21st, has been subjected to a MikuMiku onslaught, with Hatsune Miku, or rather Hachune Miku, added and providing a rather terrifying level of negi swinging hazard. You can see her in action in this video:
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Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion seems to be departing from its normal aesthetic with the addition of this Alisa Boskonovitch costume (her name is rather unfortunately rendered into Japanese with the ‘v’ becoming a ‘b’). Just who is she cosplaying?
You can see from some of the other images that Tekken 6 is shaping up to be Soul Calibur IV all over again… Expect schoolgirl costumes aplenty.
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PS3 owning RPG fans will be interested to hear that popular musically themed RPG トラスティベル 〜ショパンの夢〜 ルプリーズ / Trusty Bell ~Chopin no Yume~ Reprise, or Eternal Sonata – Reprise, to give it its rather better English title, has just been released in Japan for the PS3, with the English language release due in mid October.
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And Microsoft’s reply would be “no thanks”? Crooked former billionaire felon Horiemon (堀江貴文 / Takafumi Horie), disgraced former boss of Livedoor, has come out in an interview saying that Sony would be better of selling off its hardware business, including the PS3, and focusing on pursuing its true calling of producing blockbuster movies, going on to claim he was planning to buy Sony and make this so.
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