- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 9, 2010 20:44 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Guns, Mass Media, Suicide, Tennessee, USA, Weapons, Wii

A 3-year-old girl has accidentally shot and killed herself after allegedly mistaking a loaded pistol for a Wii controller.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 23, 2010 20:57 JST
- Tags: Bugs, Marketing, Namco Bandai, Ports, PS3, RPG, Tales of Graces, Tales Series, Wii

Bandai Namco has finally announced a humiliating official recall of its notoriously buggy Wii title Tales of Graces, a mere three months after release.
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Bandai Namco has announced a 31 billion yen loss for fiscal 2009, after previously predicting 8.5 billion yen in profits; the company announced its intent to sack almost 10% of its 7,000 strong workforce to stem the flow of red ink, some 630 people.
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The results of a market survey of Japanese Wii users seems to indicate the Wii is very much the console of little boys and older women, the two largest groupings.
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, a free-roaming otaku hitman sim for the Wii, has attracted note for the quality of its in-game mahou shoujo parody moe anime (complete with gratuitous jiggle and nude transformation scenes), and its companion shooting game, both visible in the below video.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jan 23, 2010 23:26 JST
- Tags: Microsoft, Nintendo, Parody, PS3, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360, Yaoi

The battle between the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 has been reconstructed in yaoi manga form, visible below.
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Sony’s rather suggestive PS3 motion controller, uncharitably thought by many to be a shameless knock-off of the Wiimote and Project Natal, has been delayed.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 19, 2010 07:42 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bugs, Eroge, Fail, Ports, PS2, Rankings, Video Gallery, Wii

The worst video game of 2009 has been all but decided, with 2ch’s 2009 “Kusoge of the Year” award being handed down to a title so buggy as to barely be playable, in fact possessing even more bugs than were present in the PC original.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 16, 2010 16:12 JST
- Tags: Christmas, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, USA, Wii, Xbox 360

Sony’s PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 in the core market of the US this Christmas, a major coup for Sony as it tussles with Microsoft for the much coveted status of being the losers in second place.
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Master artist Simoshi shares his vision of Muramasa: The Demon Blade‘s foxy Inari Kongiku, with Momohime and Kisuke visible below in another outstanding work:
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Capcom has expressed its disappointment with the Wii’s increasing inability to appeal to traditional gamers, blaming it for poor sales of some of its recent titles.
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Many have been disappointed by the news that blockbuster RPG Final Fantasy XIII’s sales have slumped rather sharply, with it dropping to fourth place in the crucial Christmas sales period.
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