Dude, Kiler is Dead is pretty good. I haven't beaten it yet, but I'm getting acquainted to the overarching themes. Hopefully, the ending brings it all to a cohesive point because the payoff could be big. The gameplay is decently deep, but challenging. There isn't a whole lot of variety in the enemie...

Another week, another episode. We finish off the prefecturals with some mild tension and an assumed happy ending. Once again, the show skirts past what is now officially an over-hyped mystery of the Annual Ultimate Children's Relay Tournament of the Century. With all the swimming out of the way, hop...

Man, I could be down for a cheaper 3DS, but it's not even a clam-shell form! It looks like a doorstop and the uneven screen sizes are so noticeable. I wonder how annoying it would be to use those new, higher up shoulder buttons...   I got Spelunky yesterday when it debuted on PSN.  Damn that game is...

Namie Amuro's official YouTube channel released a promo video of an upcoming collaboration "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gBb01W57c">Namie Amuro x VOGUE JAPAN x Gucci</a>" which features a new song believed to be called "Ballerina." The song seems to be legi...

Wow, so 100K is basically a guarantee this week. I tell you what, I've got some crow to eat. When I thought the lead single was Gundan, I never would have thought they could pull off a hat trick, but Wagamama seems to have made a real impression. Music Station must have done wonders for them. A big ...

Interesting, but with the knowledge that the recent singles will be rerecorded without Reina/Risa, I wonder if all the older singles will just be new vocal recordings. I hope not :( I could totally be down for Wolf Boy. Raw, furry, feral. The scent of the hunt and the hunger for flesh. Music what now?

AEUG really isn't around these parts much these days, so maybe it's polite to not talk for him or his opinions? Just doesn't seem right...

[quote="Anderei"]
In case anyone was wondering, Tower Records confirmed that tracklist. And the newer singles are going to be without Risa and Reina's vocals.
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Do they have the two new songs (#14 and 15)?

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Al Kusanagi" data-cid="161441" data-time="1377550377"> It's fine on consoles. Yeah, it looks better on high end machines, but there isn't anything that diminishes it on consoles if you can't play it on PC.</blockq...

[quote="Al Kusanagi"] No one is playing Saints Row 4? Seriously, that game is pure joy distilled into video game form! Also, the best use of licensed music ever. [/quote]   The game look fun as hell, but I'm going to wait for a (small!) price reduction. It looks like it plays pretty poop o...

New games! The new Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational PS3 port really pisses me off. The graphics are a step down from Out of Bunds, the caddies are ridiculous, and the control scheme was fucked up again for no reason. There are some pluses: the shop system works well, the character customization is...

Sounds a little like those comedy schools like UCB or Groundlings. You pay to go through different levels of classes and, if you get good and hit the high levels, you very seriously get noticed by entertainment bigwigs. Except it's young girls trying to break into the young girl business. J=J is all...

Looking at it now, it seems obvious that he wouldn't want to add anyone at this moment. It must have taken a long time to set up these auditions and, with MM making it big on their own, adding a new person is counter to the Musume-Now campaign, so Tsunku passing on adding anyone due to timing makes ...

[quote="Tsuki"] I liked this week's episode, maybe more than last week. I enjoyed the little scenery clips interspersed that Kyoani does so well. I also liked that we got into Rin's head a bit more but he's still being a giant dick and Haru's still too dismayed for no good reason. The show...

Utada Hikaru's mother, once-famed enka singer Keiko Fuji (Junko Utada), <a href="http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/4 ... html">fell 13 stories to her death in Shinjuku this morning</a>. No suicide note has been found. She was 62.

New episode is finally up. Is it me or do these episodes feel shorter and shorter each week? Not much to say this week, but the connection between Makoto's fear and Rin was unexpected as was Rin getting the photo of his father, not just some other class of swimmers. The swimming sequence wasn't very...

I like the tone of that ad, but it's got a lot of filler and the concert footage is amateur hour. Love the black and white photo shot at the end. It's exactly how you should combat public unknowing: "this is what it is and we're picking up speed." I wonder if we'll see a more serious MM ov...

Microsoft's announcements are in! Here's the skinny:   - Microsoft's X1 launch line-up: [spoiler2]•Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (Ubisoft, Ubisoft) •Battlefield 4 (DICE, Electronic Arts)  •Call of Duty: Ghosts (Infinity Ward, Activision) •Crimson Dragon (Grounding/Land Ho!, Microsoft Studios) •Dead...

Gamescom is upon us! As I type this, reporters, devs, and gamers are converging on Cologne for one of Europe's biggest gaming things. We know Sony will be announcing their release information, Microsoft will try its best to scoot by under the radar, and Nintendo is there too? If you missed it, Micro...

Morning Musume is going to do a "special" "medley" of Wagamama and the newly arranged Love Machine.
<i>So sayeth Sir Seer.</i>

What was the song MM did a week or so ago with the new, bass-heavy arrangement? I think it might have been Help Me? I wonder if that was just a live-band-only thing or if it's indicative of what we can expect. A new version of the song everyone knows isn't the craziest idea.

[quote="neshcom"] ... a way to distance themselves from the crappier songs... Naichau, Pyoko, Lullaby Game come to mind ... Love Machine, RR21, The Peace are most likely.    [/quote]   [quote="Shoujo Q"] 01. LOVE Machine <div> 02. Renai Revolution 21 </div> <div> 03. The☆Peace </...

I kinda like Burqa. It's quirky, but it works well. I only remember the chorus right now, but I liked it a lot.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Anderei" data-cid="160415" data-time="1376508884"> The album is going to be 15 tracks that are re-recorded and remixed/rearranged. So, maybe the last few singles + new versions of some older stuff.</blockquote> No...

^Haha. I think the production is decent, but the lyrics are still kind of hamfisted. Better than Born This Way, but we've yet to see how crappy the rest of the album tracks are.

New episode is up! One thing I'm noticing is how much Nagisa--not Kou--is the audience surrogate. I've mentioned before how he's the major catalyst in a lot of the action, but rather than being a plot machine, he's indulging in what we want to happen. He instigates the beach episodes, the swim club,...

[quote="Shoujo Q"]
Albums are never big sellers for H!P groups, but I'm super excited about this. I've wanted this forever. <3
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The traditional best-of's have a decent track record. The first sold 2M copies and the second went gold. 

9/25? That's really soon... Doesn't seem like they would have such a short promo time on what should, categorically, be a big seller. Also makes any rerecordings seem really unlikely.

SAYU WORKING IT LIKE POW. Kudou and Ishida are the other amazing shots here. Glad to know someone isn't asleep on the job!   Oda and Riho are channeling pure Mitsui right now and being photographed was her worst trait. These girls need to give some motion, some emotion, some dynamic element to these...

Finished off Yakuza 4. I was really enjoying the story until act 4 when (I'm assuming) all sorts of shit from the previous games came into play. I was stupid into completing the mini games after the story, but I keep freezing when I win a fight in the coliseum, so fuck it. And I spent so damn long m...