Crackdown on Anime Piracy The Sequel

2008 August 16
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by Pyoro

For lack of a better title

While it wasn’t Odex this time, they have become synonymous with anime piracy, so they get the blame.
Nope, this time it was Showgate inc.

A quick check on Animenewsnetwork came up with this
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War has Changed…Sackboy Edition

2008 August 5
by Pyoro

Konami has announced a special edition MGS4 edition featuring Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet! Fans rejoice!

Nah found this on kotaku posted by Chocograph on AU gamespot. Another indication of the immense potention user generated content can have on games.

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OMG FF13 on Xbox

2008 July 15
by Pyoro

OMG let me just go into rabid fanboy mode here. ff13 is gonna be released on the xbox 360. Needless to say i am completely devastated by this piece of this. I was always a strong believer that ff13 should remain on the ps3. apparently, square enix thinks otherwise. I bet the japanese didn’t see this one coming. it is an outrage, and curse square for letting the financial clout of microsoft get to them.
I am very very disappointed and i hope sony has something to show for to counter this tomorrow.

Edit: kotaku has a live blog going on now with regards to this

http://kotaku.com/5025033/liveblogging-square-enix-press-conference

E3 2008 Microsoft Press Conference

2008 July 15
by Pyoro

Well the first major press conference for E3 kicks off in about one and a half hrs’ time according to gamespot. I will be doing a mini live blog just to reflect my reactions on the event. Hopefully, we will hear some unexpected announcement, perhaps a new halo game? *crosses fingers hurhur

You can watch the live feed from gamespot here.

Anime Season First Impressions

2008 July 11
by Pyoro

So the first week of the new anime season has come and gone. Here are some thoughts to some of the anime that has premiered over the last week.
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Cosfest VII (2008) – Day 2 Pyoro’s Impressions

2008 July 6
by Pyoro

Aye aye tedfox-sama! Ahh it’s that time of the year again. Cosfest VII got off to a great start yesterday and tedfox-sama and I were eagerly anticipating the continuation of that quality but alas, the quality of the cosplayers were relatively less than stellar. HOWEVER, they were still awesome, especially Haruhi, Dgrayman and the almighty Exia but I will get to that shortly.

After a quick lunch at burger kings (from which tedfox owes me 2 bucks for), we headed off to the Marquee, the tradition venue for this awesome event, armed with our measly little digital cameras hoping to catch a glimpse of some singapore cosplaying hurhur.

Yes, the crowd was this big and yes, my camera stinks.

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