- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 20, 2009 01:54 JST
- Tags: Bloomers, Censorship, Mecha Musume, Moe, Ports, PS2, Sony, Xbox 360

The notorious “Sony check,” where Sony makes frequently puritanical demands of developers in order to keep any hint of sex off its consoles, seems to have reached new lows, with one developer describing how Sony would insist characters wearing normal gym kit be removed unless they had a compelling reason for sporting them…
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Microsoft has admitted the PS3 looks set to outsell the Xbox 360 even in its US stronghold, but defiantly maintains that the Xbox’s annual sales will still exceed those of the PS3, and that the Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 “for this entire generation.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2009 02:58 JST
- Tags: Bayonetta, Comparison, Microsoft, Oppai, Oshiri, Ports, PS3, Sega, Sony, Xbox 360


The suspicions that the PS3 port of Bayonetta would be markedly inferior to the Xbox 360 original have been born out, with comparisons of the demos revealing that the graphics on the PS3 are noticeably degraded, with muddy textures, fewer polygons and lower framerates…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 9, 2009 08:55 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

The latest console sales figures show what looks to be an irreversible and humiliating collapse in Japanese Xbox 360 sales, with the console by some margin the worst selling console on the market, even dropping once again below the PS2.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 8, 2009 23:13 JST
- Tags: Bayonetta, Censorship, Marketing, Oppai, Oshiri, PS3, Sony, Video Gallery, Xbox 360


Ero-witch action game Bayonetta has had a demo released, and an immediate bevy of screenshots shows even the PS3 version has almost survived the Sony Check intact, with all kinds of nude witch action present:
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The release of Tekken 6 on PS3 and Xbox 360 is imminent, and computer graphics experts have decreed that the PS3 version is superior graphically.
Sadly, the experts in question insisted on using Heihachi’s impressive yet geriatric physique to make the comparison, which can be seen below…
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The release of Sony’s PS3 Slim has seen Japanese sales of the PS3 surge, with 310,000 units sold in September, easily beating the Wii and even surpassing sales of the DSi.
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The PSP Go has apparently been hacked to run unsigned code within only 2 days of its release, with “backup” enthusiasts rubbishing Sony’s efforts to secure the console, though as yet actually running pirated games on the device is a long way off.
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Observers are wondering just what on earth Sony was thinking with these bizarre pantsu sniffing hentai adverts for the PS2, and just who it was attempting attract with them.
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Sony’s new PSP Go, which eschews a UMD drive in favour of reliance on the PlayStation Network’s game download service, was supposed to allow current PSP game owners to download the games they already owned for free, but Sony has dumped the scheme in a move which many will suspect is in the hopes of prompting PSP owners to repurchase titles they already own.
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The console war takes shape in wallpaper form, with the PS3 and PSP first bringing to bear their sexiest selection of female (or in one case, hermaphroditic) characters…
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The Karmapa Lama, one of Buddhism’s top leaders, has stated that not only does he play violent video games, he also thinks they are as effective as meditation in freeing the mind of worldly passions.
He also professes a liking for hiphop, though is too coy to name specific artists…
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