I’ve updated the wallpaper section with two more great additions. I should hopefully be back on track soon with more.

Bullet Witch is finally out in the US, but none of the extra costumes & missions are available. You know the Japanese have the additional costumes/missions already so you log into your Jp account (Hey, we know you have one. How else can you get the Armored Core 4 demo early?) and download the files. No problem, they’re all free. You load up Bullet Witch and… it can’t find them. WTF!?

Well, the US version of Bullet Witch carries a new folder number (494707DB) and your files are saved to the Japanese folder number (434107D1). So what do you do? Easy! If you have the Datel transfer kit (attached XSATA or free-standing XPORT), you can port them over.

• Extract folder 434107D1 from Partition 3 > Content > 434107D1
• Change the folder number to 494707DB
• Insert folder 494707DB back into Partition 3 > Content

And you are all done. You can now access the additional costumes from the Options menu. Beats waiting on Atari, doesn’t it?

I’ve updated the wallpaper section with another of j-idol Yoko Matsugane and her famous B95(H) W58 H88 frame…

A quick, but needed wallpaper of Anarchy Studios‘ version of Vampirella known as Vampi.

A collection of the must see, for this moment:

• Bible Black statue
• Which Way Adventures (Choose Your Own Adventure type flash game)
• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden demo
• Love X2 Kiss UMD/Blu-Ray sim j-idol dating game (English announcement)
• Spider-Man 3: The Movie Game website
• Love & Berry Dance (with upcoming anime)
• The Achievement Generator
• The iDOLM@STER Bonus Figures
• Shadow of the Colossus (Counter-Strike map mod)
• Bullet Witch comic book preview
• Williams VS O’Brien: Wii Tennis
• A Japanese girl who really loves her Octopus

I’ve updated the wallpaper section of the gallery with two new walls of j-idol Yoko Matsugane with her famous B95(H) W58 H88 frame…

Project Blinkenlights is an interactive light show which can be overridden at any time by a cell phone user to play a game.. with the building lights. Tetris, Pong, Breakout, and Pac-Man are at your fingertips if you live in the right city.

Stuff Magazine has brought to us the only thing which could make playing the Wii even better… watching a hot girl in a bikini play a Wii. Thank you and goodnight!

No doubt fan-work, but ultimate cool no matter what. AICN originally started the ball rolling and Joystiq picked it up like some many others afterwards. Most refer the the style as Gears of War, though most seem to forget that is really the Unreal® Engine 3. Whether it’s Unreal or perhaps Half-Life 2’s Source engine from Valve, who cares as long as we one day get something like this game from Zootfly or another studio.

 Running around NYC, Ecto-2 (the Ecto-1 has been refitted with a new car), Venkman news conference (real-time in-game engine with movie dialogue), Ecto-2 driving through the streets.

Here is a girl who can bend just about any way you can imagine and then some.. (more…)

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Hideo Kojima has commented, “Blu-Ray is too small for MGS4″, on the current PS3 Standard disc (25 Gigs on a single layer Blu-Ray disc).

While Hideo Kojima doesn’t necesarily care much about HD, he says there’s a lot you can do with sound that would fill up a Blu-Ray disc really quickly. On top of everything else in the game this apparently makes the game go way past the 25 GB limit. And Kojima said that he wants to use the new higher spec 50 GB Blu-Ray for MGS4.

So how many Xbox 360 discs does it take to make a Kojima happy? 18? 50? Blue Dragon has already seen 3 discs in Japan…

Forget those expensive official limited edition swimsuits from Team Ninja for DOAX2. Instead, you can get a fan-made swimsuit to show off your love for the game. Sadly, it doesn’t come in a smaller size than M-L so hardcore DOAX2 fans like my girlfriend (an XS) can also turn some heads this summer at the beach and around the pool. (more…)

Needless to say, the next generation has quickly forgotten classic games like Mario Bros. Oddly enough, the girls are more than willing to turn on each other when their lack of skills goes from an experienced gamer to their fellow idol guests..

Idol Mario Bros.

7-year-old kills himself with Gameboy Advance

UK, January 5, 2007 - Nintendo’s Game Boy has hit the tabloid front pages, following the tragic death of a seven-year-old boy in Thailand. This morning, the Mirror newspaper reports that Connor O’ Keefe was electrocuted while uplugging his Game Boy charger in his hotel room, during a family holiday.

Local police have stated that the incident, which happened last Saturday, was most likely to have occurred when the boy attempted to use the electrical equipment while still wet, returning from the hotel’s swimming pool. According to the Telegraph newspaper, Wiraporn Ungathakorn, acting manager of the Sunset Beach Hotel in Thailand said: “The water must have gone straight into the plug. The safety cut could not save him. He was found by his parents in the room and we sent him to hospital by ambulance. Doctors could not save him. The hotel has paid his medical fees. This was just a tragic accident.”

However, speaking to the Mirror, Kathleen Curry, the boy’s mother, debunked the claims, noting that Connor was aware of the dangers of electricity: “There should be some kind of warning about the different electrical currents you get abroad because this would not have happened in England.”

In response to the story, a spokesperson for Nintendo told us, “Nintendo wishes to offer its sincere condolences to the family of Connor O’ Keefe. Details of the accident are currently unclear so we are unable to make any further comment at this stage.”

I would also like to thank Dolemite on TNL for the greatest response to someone calling Nintendo’s comment “low”:

What the fuck is Nintendo supposed to say? “Nintendo wishes to offer its sincere congratulations to the newest Darwin Award winner, Connor O’ Keefe, for managing to be the only person on Earth to kill themself with the previously non-lethal Gameboy Advance. Now he’s playing with power!”

I’ve re-done my Heaven’s Prison wallpaper for 1280×1024. The image is originally from the first volume of the manga series.

I’ve gotten around to adding the rest of my DOAX2 wallpaper series in the Gallery section. Ayane, Kasumi, Lei Fang, Kokoro, and Helena all get some screen time now.

You will also notice I’ve started to add some of my older wallpapers like Mahoromatic now.

Uploaded back in November, J-Idol Saaya Irie.

Well, they are… I re-did Gabe’s Penny Arcade wallpaper to fit my screen and correct a few errors in his.

In the great debate over which would I rather own right now, I am a heavy fan of the Nintendo Wii. So much so that after waiting all night with someone else who was going to get one, I bought one too. Now I just need Excite Truck, Zelda, and Trauma Center: Second Opinion.