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In this episode of Game Center, Japanese singer GACKT has been challenged to play Batman Arkham Origins. Surprisingly, the rock star doesn't like Batman (he prefers heroes like Picollo from DBZ) and after a brief debate about the super hero's choice of costume, he spends the rest of the video being amazed by Batman's "swooshy" cape. This episode was first played in April, but has only recently been translated into English.

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RN24: Online console gaming has been thriving for over a decade now, and ostensibly it should have brought gamers from all over the world into contact with one another as competitors and co-op teammates. In practice, though, regional differences in preferred genres, aesthetics, and overall play styles have meant that Japanese and Western gamers havent crossed paths all that terribly often. At least until Nintendo released Splatoon this year for the Wii U, that is. Combining the team-based shooter Western gamers have so embraced with the colorful quirkiness that their Japanese counterparts have always been fond of, Splatoons popularity is bridging the oceans. This is giving overseas Inklings a chance to play with gamers in Japanor to complain about them online and devise strategies to avoid them. Comb through tweets with the hashtags Splatoon and Japanese, and youll quickly spot a common sentiment.

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Sony's PlayStation Vita gets an unfair rap. It seems that any time Sony makes an announcement, people feel the need to comment that Sony forgot the powerhouse portable. That there are simply no games for the system coming out to play. Yet, there always seems to be a stream of new and interesting titles being released for the system. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of high quality indie games and quirky Japanese fare should consider the Vita the destination platform. To help make this point, Atlus and Aquaplus have added to the deluge of quality games for the device with Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library and the Monster Seal.

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Back in August, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima tweeted that the violence in only one scene differed between The Phantom Pains Japanese version and the international release. This, it seems, could be that scene.

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Today Sony Computer Entertainment posted on the Japanese PlayStation Blog five lovely minutes of gameplay of the upcoming PS Vita exclusive JRPG Tokyo Xanadu, by Nihon Falcom.

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The early signals for the performance of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in Hideo Kojimas Japanese home turf have been positive, but today the first chart has been released, showing that those signals are indeed part of something bigger.

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Kyoto-based multimedia artist Baiyon has done live painting, released his own albums, but now hes venturing into making his first solo videogame. Siliconera finds out why and how.

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The early signals for the performance of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in Hideo Kojimas Japanese home turf have been positive, but today the first chart has been released, showing that those signals are indeed part of something bigger.

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The early signals for the performance of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in Hideo Kojimas Japanese home turf have been positive, but today the first chart has been released, showing that those signals are indeed part of something bigger.