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  • Homestar Aqua: Sega Toys rolls out new planetarium for your bathroom (video)

    Homestar Aqua: Sega Toys rolls out new planetarium for your bathroom (video)

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Sega Toys' series of planetarium projection systems for home use, the so-called Homestars, is getting another update. The company has announced [JP, PDF] the so-called Homestar Aqua for the Japanese market (everyone living outside this country can pre-order the Aqua here). This version is smaller and can, as the name suggests, be used in the bathroom (it's water-resistant). And it's relatively inexpensive, too.

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  • CrunchDeals: Buy a white DSi, get a free game or headset

    CrunchDeals: Buy a white DSi, get a free game or headset

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the good old days when video game machines ALWAYS came with a free game? Sometimes even two! Nintendo had Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, Sega had Hang On! and Astro Warrior. Well that gravy train ended a while ago but you can hop back on, today only, as Amazon is offering a free game or headset with the purchase of a white Nintendo DSi.

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  • Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Sega's third-person action game Bayonetta was playable today at the first day of the Tokyo Game Show, both on Xbox360 and PS3. The game looked fine on both consoles and features a bespectacled female ("Bayonetta") as the main character. Judging from the demo versions and previews I've read so far, Bayonetta isn't much different from other third-person action games like Devil May Cry.

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  • A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    Posted on September 6, 2009 | No Comments
    It's not really a secret that Japan is absolutely crazy about cell phones. And even though domestic makers churn out more than 100 different handsets every year (some of which are simply amazing), the iPhone is selling over here. SoftBank Mobile, the country's exclusive iPhone provider, doesn't release official data, but estimates put sales in Japan at well over one million units so far - not bad at all in this hopelessly over-saturated market. In other words, Japan doesn't hate the iPhone, as some blogs suggested in the past. It never did. The local developer community has noticed and produced a slew of apps aimed at a global audience. What follows is my subjective selection of the "best" of these made-in-Japan apps, all of which are at least available in English. (I left out iPhone games released by big companies such as Capcom, Konami, Sega or Namco to focus on apps created by startups or individuals based in Japan instead.) My personal favorite is a free (and fantastic) GPS-based photo sharing app called Memory Tree (just like all the apps in the following list, it works worldwide). But here's a round-up of all the 32 apps I chose, grouped in six categories (games, productivity, tools, photography and art, music, and everything else).

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  • Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Praise jeebus! Marvel’s Executive Vice President of Global Digital Media Group, Ira Rubenstein, said Marvel is done making crap games based on movies. We are not doing movie-based games anymore,” Rubenstein said following yesterday’s announcement of Digital Comics for PSN at Sony’s GamesCom press conference. “Actually, wait … we are not doing crappy movie-based games [...]

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  • Comic-Con: Win a Bayonetta Xbox 360 from Sega!

    Comic-Con: Win a Bayonetta Xbox 360 from Sega!

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Attention Nerds- Sega and PlatinumGames are giving away one superduperkickass Bayonetta themed Xbox 360 tomorrow. Look at it! You want it! There are two ways of getting yourself into the party to win the one-of-a-kind 360. - Dress Like a Sega Character and attend one of our cosplay events. We should have at least two tickets to [...]

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  • First look at Sega’s Iron Man 2 videogame

    First look at Sega’s Iron Man 2 videogame

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments

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  • Review: Let’s Tap for the Wii

    Review: Let’s Tap for the Wii

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    “So, I’m supposed to put my Wiimote on a box and bang on that to play Let’s Tap?” Yeah, that’s pretty much what I kept asking myself while I unwrapped Sega’s Let’s Tap for the Wii. By placing the Wii Remote on a box and tapping the surface, the Wiimote’s accelerometer miraculously picks up on the vibrations and translates them on-screen. It’s a novel idea, sure, and I’m astonished that it actually works. I’ve finally replaced Wii Sports as my party game when friends are over and the girls are sick of the boys shooting aliens all night drunk on Pabst.

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  • CrunchDeals: Sega’s Columns free to all iPhone owners this weekend

    CrunchDeals: Sega’s Columns free to all iPhone owners this weekend

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    In honor of the fourth, Sega is bestowing upon all iPhone and iPod Touch owners a free copy of Columns all weekend. That’s great and all, but at the moment it’s nowhere to be found. And it’ll probably just be a “lite” version of the deluxe version. Maybe the weekend hasn’t started. I don’t [...]

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