Archive for November, 2007

PS3 folds its way into the record books

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The PS3 has made it into the Guiness book of records. Stanford University's Folding@Home project is the world's most powerful distributed computing network. All those PS3s working together produce a ... Read more..

Final Fantasy XI event Sells Out in Osaka

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted in Japan | 1 Comment »

We heard about a Final Fantasy XI event in Osaka, yesterday and headed down there to get a few pictures. The event was much bigger than we were expecting, and ... Read more..

The Chipmunks coming to DS

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Posted in DS | No Comments »

The DS is to get its very own Chipmunks game! Fans of the squeaky voiced musical beasties will be pleased to hear that the game is going to be a ... Read more..

Mario Canned

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Posted in Mario, Stuff | No Comments »

Someone built a giant Super Mario made of cans. It's for charity, and it's Mario, so you gotta love it. [Read] Read more..

Blue Dragon Anime coming to Xbox Live

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Japan, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »

The first two episodes of the Blue Dragon Anime are coming to Xbox live in Japan. The episodes will be free to download between November 15th and January 1st. The downloads ... Read more..

We Got Super Mario Galaxy, but the Japanese prefer Ace Combat 6

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Japan, Mario, Wii, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »

Super Mario Galaxy went on sale today in Japan. We went along to Osaka's Yodobashi camera store to get our copy. hoping there might be some kind of promotional stuff ... Read more..

Gashapon Capsule Toys

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Japan, Stuff | 1 Comment »

There is perhaps no better use for that Y100 coin you have cluttering up your pocket than the gashapon pod. These things are everywhere in Japan, they're found around shops ... Read more..