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December 5th, 2008, 22:14 Posted By: wraggster
Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 400 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.
Christmas songs start popping up as the holiday season draws nearer and nearer. While the previous single Don't U Ever Stop by Kat-Tun is a red hot dance hit perfect for summer, the gently melancholic ballad White X'mas is excellent for winter.
While the Limited Pressing Version is already sold out, the CD+DVD Limited Edition is still available, watch the PV and see more of your idols.
Follow Prince Marus on his adventures to rescue his land from the clutches of evil in Fire Emblem. The NDS revival of the classic strategy RPG makes use of all the existing elements and more. This is reflected in the soundtrack, which is comprised of nostalgic pieces and new compositions to suit all the scenes in the memorable game.
Besides Jpop and game music, Sunrise's recently ended mecha TV series Macross Frontier gets a new soundtrack Nyantama. Since singers and pop music makes up a large part of this title, the soundtrack is comprised of numerous vocals.
Listen to the voices of the galaxy and fall deeper into the world of Macross Frontier.
Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, November 29th and Friday, December 5th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.
J-Pop Music releases (177)
ENKA Music releases (19)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (31)
Video Game Soundtracks (6)
Blu-ray Disc Movies (46)
Anime & Animation (42)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (14)
Japanese Movies (10)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (37)
J-Pop DVD releases (15)
ENKA DVD releases (1)
Misc Japanese Movie releases (2)
Idol DVD (9)
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...9-en-84-n.html
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December 2nd, 2008, 20:03 Posted By: wraggster
Tectoy, the company that brought licensed Sega games to Brazil, designed a console specifically for emerging markets. The Zeebo gives users access to a library of games that they can download for a fee, a plan Tectoy believes will thwart piracy problems. Tectoy has more companies than Sega signing up to have their games distributed via the Zeebo too. A product list on the Zeebo page shows Namco Bandai and Capcom supporting the Zeebo with a handful of titles. Tekken 2, Street Fighter Alpha, Sonic Adventure, and a mysterious version of Double Dragon are slated to come out on the console. Resident Evil 4 is sort of on the list too since you can see a link to a broken image in Tectoy’s HTML code, but the linked image says Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition. What?
One possibility is TecToy is distributing PC versions of these games since Resident Evil 4 and Sonic Adventure have PC ports. However, games like Alpine Racer 3 and Tekken 2 don’t. TecToy could distribute PlayStation ports, but that would require emulation for PsOne and PS2 games. It’s going to be interesting to see how Tectoy tackles the problem or if they’re going to use fancy mobile phone ports of console games like they’re doing with the Sims. Sure, all of these games are “last-gen”, but Tectoy’s distribution mechanism is so unusual it’s rather interesting. The Zeebo is close to a tangible version of the Phantom console.
Update: A tipster who wishes to remain anonymous shed some more light on the Zeebo system. The console uses BREW, a platform for mobile phone games and some of the titles listed like Ridge Racer and Pac-Mania are reportedly mobile phone games. Resident Evil 4 has a mobile phone version too so it’s quite possible that version will be distributed on the Zeebo. Some of the Zeebo mobile phone ports will be changed with new user interfaces, but it looks like the Zeebo is going to primarily deliver mobile phone games to a TV probably not near you.
http://www.siliconera.com/2008/12/01...sident-evil-4/
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November 29th, 2008, 00:14 Posted By: wraggster
Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 700 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.
The release of Gears of War 2 created a stir in the gaming community, the blood pounding action and the stunning graphics combined to create a memorable experience for all those who have played it. And these are all highlighted by the Original Soundtrack.
Written by Hollywood composer Steve Jablonsky, the orchestral themes bring out the grandness of the game's landscape and the excitement that comes with the combat.
While Gears of War 2 uses music written by a Hollywood musician, the Winning Eleven 2009 Soundtrack contains the combined efforts of the veteran composers with the rising stars in the English music industry. Let the soccer spirit spread through music and ignite the flames in your spirit.
The fighting tournament in the game world is carrying on with the Togeki Series. Aspiring participants and novices alike should learn a thing from the veterans. See the smooth strings of attacks launched as the players face off with challenging opponents. The series continues with Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, Super Street Fighter IIX and Arcana Heart 2.
Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, November 22nd and Friday, November 28th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.
J-Pop Music releases (213)
ENKA Music releases (35)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (67)
Video Game Soundtracks (12)
Hong Kong Version Music releases (6)
Blu-ray Disc Movies (58)
Anime & Animation (95)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (38)
Japanese Movies (35)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (122)
J-Pop DVD releases (17)
Misc Japanese Movie releases (7)
Idol DVD (2)
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November 26th, 2008, 17:36 Posted By: wraggster
Do what now? This must be the season for left-field consoles to materialize.
The MyRacer is an oddly named handheld games device from Korea. It comes with a 320x240 color screen, an MP3 player, subway map and the ability to play Adobe Flash Lite files. It ships with Mini game heaven, Super Action Hero, Penoa jeongi, Punupunupong, and Come2us soccer 2006.
The 1GB of storage can hold up to 1000 Flash Lite games. Actually, I'm not sure there are 1000 Flash Lite Games. Maybe use it for MP3s instead. If you can't contain your enthusiasm, this will set you back 90,000 Won ($70-ish).
http://kotaku.com/5098984/myracer-+-...-lite-handheld
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November 26th, 2008, 17:21 Posted By: wraggster
Adafruit has just put their Uzebox based console into production. The Fuzebox is an 8bit game console based around the ATmega644-20PU microcontroller. Full 256 color 240×224 resolution video output is provide by either a composite connection or svideo. There is an SD card slot on board for future expansion. The chip takes care of all the I/O, so you just need to write your game code in C on top of it.
The kit looks easy to assemble. Almost all of the components are through-hole. The video chip is SMD and comes presoldered to the board. The kit has two SNES controller ports included, but you can use NES ports too. There are three ways you can load your program onto the board: 6pin FTDI, ICSP10, and ICSP6.
http://hackaday.com/2008/11/25/fuzeb...source-gaming/
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November 26th, 2008, 17:13 Posted By: wraggster
An awkward cross-breed time-travelling mongrel is a fairly fitting description for this mod that's jammed an Atari 2600 emulator into the shell of a Sega Game Gear. Sure, it's not the prettiest of mods, but taking the '80s-era Atari and squishing it into the '90s-era Sega took some tricky work: it has a built-in 40-game Atari chip, and can actually take 2600 carts into a slot on the back. The resulting "Atari Game 2600" has a 2.5-inch screen and can go for 7-8 hours on AA batteries, which seems pretty impressive.
http://gizmodo.com/5099168/atari-260...-backwards-mod
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November 25th, 2008, 21:24 Posted By: wraggster
Earlier this year, Blizzard once again impressed us with its ability to churn out a handful of April Fool's Day news pranks that were not only hilarious, but were uncharacteristically delivered on time. One of those was the announcement of World of Warcraft: The Molten Core, the first WoW release for a console, the Atari 2600. The game is a fabrication no longer — someone's made it.
While maybe not up to the spec laid out by Blizz and apparently not playable on a proper Atari 2600 emulator as some other recent demakes were, The Molten Core is playable and visually more authentic than previous attempts to make this joke serious.
The Windows-only download is a mere 2MB and, according to its author, offers about 20 minutes of gameplay. I've yet to walk to the Windows box to try it out myself, so downloaders beware.
http://kotaku.com/5097928/world-of-w...tari-2600-port
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November 25th, 2008, 21:08 Posted By: wraggster
We may take the system for granted now, but your inner 10-year-old is simply amazed by the Yobo FC3 Plus. A console that's fully compatible with NES, SNES and Sega Genesis titles, you can finally put those old cartridges to use without filling your home theater setup with unsustainable levels of boxes and wires. Including an NES-compatible light gun and two controllers, the FC3 Plus is a smart eBay purchase for the time being, going for about $50 from various independent retailers.
http://gizmodo.com/5098589/yobo-fc3-...sis-cartridges
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November 24th, 2008, 22:56 Posted By: wraggster
What hasn't Doom been ported to at this point? You can't answer "Flash 10!" anymore, as an enterprising Newgrounds contributor has gone to the effort to port the id Software classic to Adobe's platform, making the first-person shooter playable in the web browser of your choice. It's a tidy little port, if a bit slow on my 2 year old MacBook Pro.
Sound is a little wonky — there's no music either — but we can't lodge complaints against this version of Doom. If you've never powered through the thing, here's just one more option for the pile. It's as promised. Doom. Flash. Playable.
http://kotaku.com/5097812/doom-finally-ported-to-flash
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November 21st, 2008, 20:55 Posted By: Shrygue
via Slashphone
Scalado is presenting its new Scalado Camera Solution, which will improves JPEG image handling performance by effectively managing the large files produced by high-resolution images, enables zero-shutter lag, burst capturing and instant zoom/pan in the camera.
“Thanks to the new technology, manufacturers can now offer real-time viewing and capturing of high-resolution images, totally eliminating shutter lag. As a result, camera phone users can finally take memorable photos instead of missing the moment.”, says Sami Niemi CTO of Scalado.
With Scalado’s new ‘zero shutter lag’ feature, however, users can be sure that the image which they see in the viewfinder is the image that they capture. Users can then instantly zoom into the resulting JPEG images to review the details of the image in real-time.
The Scalado Camera Solution is based on two products: The SpeedTags IP and The Scalado Camera Engine. The SpeedTags IP is a minimal modification to the HW JPEG encoder that enables the encoder to produce modified JPEG images, referred to as SpeedTagged JPEGs. Several camera sensors and camera modules for camera phones are already embedding the SpeedTags IP, such as sensors from both Aptina, OmniVision Samsung and MtekVision.
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November 21st, 2008, 16:57 Posted By: wraggster
Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 630 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.
NEWS released their third album, Color, this week. The album stays true to its title, with Spanish and Latino styled songs such as Taiyo no Namida and relaxed Jpop songs such as Happy Birthday, this album shows the large variety of music which the group excels in.
Collaborating with famous song writers such as Seamo and GReeeen, this album, available as Standard and Limited Editions, contains all the colors to paint your life with.
Uverworld seeks to whisk their listeners away to a new world through music. Their rock numbers rips the fabric of the reality apart and opens up a portal to another space. Hakanaku Mo Eikyu No Kanashi is exactly such a a rock song.
This is particularly suitable for Gundam 00 which parodies the strives between nations and people so well. The newest opening of Gundam 00 Second Season is available in these editions: CD+DVD and Gundam 00 Limited Editions and Standard Version.
The Limited Edition carries a DVD that records live performances of the band doing some hit songs from their last concert.
Just in time for a family holiday, Disney's animated feature film Kung Fu Panda is available as a gift set. The box comes with both the comedy which your loved one can share with his/her whole family and a plush toy which he or she could monopolize.
Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, November 15th and Friday, November 21th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.
J-Pop Music releases (160)
ENKA Music releases (42)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (27)
Video Game Soundtracks (2)
Blu-ray Disc Movies (71)
Anime & Animation (100)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (18)
Japanese Movies (15)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (96)
J-Pop DVD releases (83)
Misc Japanese Movie releases (12)
UMD™ Video & Music (2)
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November 17th, 2008, 23:10 Posted By: wraggster
Apparently the dmedia G400 MID was announced at the WiMAX Expo in Taipei back in June, but this is the first we've seen of it, and solid information is still a little hard to come by. The device will boast a 800 x 400 touchscreen, WiMAX, HSDPA / WCDMA, and GPS radios, a microSD slot, and will come in both 3.8-inch and 4.3-inch configurations. From what we could glean, the system with run atop a SiRFprima CPU, though we haven't seen a lot (say, any) of MIDs using those chips. So, is this actually just a glorified PND? It's hard to say, but we hear the units will hit retail sometime in the beginning of 2009, though we don't know how much they'll cost or where they'll be available.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/d...ax-mid-or-pnd/
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November 15th, 2008, 22:25 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom won't be releasing a Street Fighter IV arcade version in the United States, despite the franchise's strong history as an arcade attraction and extensive ties to tournament gaming. Chris Kramer, Capcom's senior director of communications and community, gave the word to Edge: "At this point, it does not look like Street Fighter IV arcade machines will officially hit the U.S. arcade market."
http://kotaku.com/5088784/no-arcade-...hter-iv-for-us
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November 15th, 2008, 01:28 Posted By: wraggster
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have just announced the release of the Meggy Jr RGB, a fully programmable handheld console with an 8×8 RGB LED matrix display. Like its big sisters Peggy and Peggy 2.0, the Meggy Jr is driven by an ATmega168 microcontroller and is made up of a bank of fully addressable LEDs. Unlike its siblings, the device boasts six buttons and the ability to be mounted inside of a custom case (or “handle set”) constructed from plastic or wood, drastically altering the look of the console. Using the popular open-souce Arduino environment, users are able to write custom software for the device. While it works great as a game console, of the many possible configurations and suggested uses, we think “disco floor for your Lego minifigurines” is the most amusing.
http://hackaday.com/2008/11/12/meggy...game-platform/
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November 15th, 2008, 01:24 Posted By: wraggster
Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 370 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.
YUI's voice is compared to an an angel's harp for its soothing quality. Differing from a lot of singers, the young singer/song writer includes minimum gimmicks in her songs to give her listeners a pure unadulterated pleasure of listening to the messages of her songs.
Each song is a slice of life or a standalone tale of its own, My Short Stories [Limited and Standard Editions] includes 15 songs from her hit singles and the Limited Edition carries PV's of some of the songs and an extra, unpublished clip of the singer performing in a Live concert.
Besides music, two anime films are released this week, The Girl who Leapt Through Time [US & Japanese Editions] is an award winning movie that portrays the snippets of a girl growing up in a heartwarming way.
If you have the ability of going back time, what would you change? But beware, one change may lead to chains of events that is bound to get out of your hands.
The projects that Katsuhiro Otomo involves in usually contain a deep plot and hyper cool graphics. Freedom is the only thing that the residents of an utopian world lacks. But how utopian can a world be if there is no freedom? And how far would the people go to attain it?
Admire the cutting edge graphics and special effects of Freedom [Standard and Limited Editions] on Blu-Ray discs on your HD T.V.
Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, November 8th and Friday, November 14th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.
J-Pop Music releases (86)
ENKA Music releases (11)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (14)
Video Game Soundtracks (5)
Hong Kong Version Music releases (2)
Blu-ray Disc Movies (30)
Anime & Animation (22)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (21)
Japanese Movies (28)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (114)
J-Pop DVD releases (23)
ENKA DVD releases (1)
Misc Japanese Movie releases (1)
Idol DVD (4)
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November 15th, 2008, 01:21 Posted By: wraggster
It was 25 years ago today, Scott Safran taught the world to play... Asteroids. On this day in 1983, 15-year-old Scott Safran began playing Asteroids at an arcade in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Three days later, his last ship was crushed by a vector rock and he staggered back from the cabinet with a record-breaking score of 41,336,440 points. A record that has remained unbroken ever since.
So how about it, readers? Did they just make 'em a lot harder back in the olden days or is Asteroids just out of fashion? Has coping with inertia and splitting space rocks just become one of those lost skills - like long division, scrimshaw or making fire with a bow?
http://kotaku.com/5085851/asteroids-...n-for-25-years
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