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The Girlfriend Coat created in Japan by students at Tsukuba University
Hugs really have the power to make humans feel better. You know they do. Scientific studies say they do. And now students at Tsukuba University say so, too with a new machine they developed that can give hugs. Lots of hugs. On-demand hugs. Never tiring robotic arm hugs. Called... read
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Square Enix All-New Game Announced!!! — Murdered: Soul Suspect
Square Enix has announced an all-new game called Murdered: Soul Suspect. The project is due out for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC and will have players solving "possibly the hardest case of all." No developer or release date for Murdered: Soul Suspect was provided. It is possible the... read
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Miho Fukuhara Does Song for Nintendo 3DS Video Game
Miho Fukuhara has a new song, “Surely Someday”, done for an upcoming Nintendo 3DS game. “Surely Someday” is written by Miho Fukuhara and composed by Tomohito Nishiura. The new game is “Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies” and will be released February 28th. It is the 6th entry in the... read
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Nintendo Announces Two New Pokemon Games
During the years first Pokemon Direct it was announced that two new Pokemon games will be released. The games, Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, will be released worldwide in October, 2013. The game will be released for the Nintendo 3DS.There will also be three new starter Pokemons to choose from.... read
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Satoru Iwata Unboxing the First Wii U
Satoru Iwata, the current president of Nintendo, unboxing the Wii U for the first time. It’s like real history on film…kinda. ... read
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Tokyo Game Show it’s Global, it’s Mobile, it’s Electric Wonderland!
It’s not quite game over at the annual Tokyo Game Show opening Thursday, but with smartphones, tablets and other computer-like devices luring people away from the once-dominant consoles devoted to video games, the rules have changed. Adding to the uncertainty is the long wait for the possible successors to such game... read
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Naruto SD 3DS Game TV Ad
Namco Bandai Games streamed its first TV Ad for the Naruto SD Powerful Shippuden Nintendo 3DS game. In this game, the Naruto characters have been chibi-fied adding cuteness to the game. The commercial mentions that the ones who pre-order the game will get a "powerful headband case" that can hold three... read
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Dragon Quest X Hot as Fire in Japan
Japanese video game developer Square Enix released Dragon Quest X (10) on Thursday, and just like for previous releases in the series, fans in Tokyo lined up hours in advance to get their hands on the first one for the Nintendo Wii console. Series creator Yuji Horii was even present... read
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One Piece Getting PSP RPG
We can’t deny that the pirate manga and anime One Piece is popular not only in Japan, but also in other parts of the world. After the release of One Piece: Pirate Warriors, fans will now get a chance to play a One Piece role playing game! Entitled “One Piece Romance... read
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AKB48 Pachinko Game Coming Soon
Nintendo will be releasing "AKB48+Me" 3DS game this fall. Now, popular girl group AKB48 will have their own "Pachinko" game. Pachinko machine maker Kyoraku Sangyo has announced that they will be making one based from AKB48.The machine will also have a special lottery draw that will give 150 winners a... read
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Transforming a Nintendo 64 into a Handheld Console
TRANSFORMING A NINTENDO 64 INTO A HANDHELD CONSOLE Check out this picture gallery of how this guy transformed a N64 into an handheld. Read the rest of the story: Curiosities: Transforming a Nintendo 64 into a Handheld Console. ... read
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What if Nintendo’s characters came from Japanese legends and we had ukiyo-e prints to prove it?
This video shows the basic process of cutting one of the colour blocks for making an ukiyo-e style print. The block shown here will print two of the colours on Jed’s ‘Rickshaw Cart’ design. Here is the very first proof sheet being pulled from the key block for Jed Henry’s print... read
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Tokyo Jungle, Sony Japan’s game about post-apocalyptic fighting animals, coming to a console near you
Tokyo Jungle, Sony Japans game about post-apocalyptic fighting animals in a devastated Tokyo metropolis, may seem like the most Japanese thing ever. And it is. Thats not stopping the game from coming to Western PS3 consoles, though. While the game was originally revealed for European PS3s all the way back in... read
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Tops Amazon Japan’s Best-Seller List
Final Fantasy XIII-2, the latest Final Fantasy game from Japanese RPG stalwart Square Enix, is the bestselling game of 2012 on Amazon’s Japanese storefront. The company published a comprehensive list of all the top-selling products in all departments for the last six months (December 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012),... read
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Wii U Gamepad, Nintendo’s Answer to Tablet Gaming
Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U’s controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo’s somewhat surprising pre-E3 press conference. The controller itself looks somewhat similar to the prototype unit Nintendo unveiled at last year’s E3. This pre-briefing... read
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Online Crane Game – Toreba
Awesome! A crane game that you can play on a web browser. Why didn’t we have this sooner? Toreba, which was created by a game developing company known as Cyberstep let’s you actually get to win the items that you grab with the claw. If you do manage to win something, the Website will... read
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