Right. We all know by now that the Japanese can be pretty damned weird. After the jump you’ll find a video of a Japanese Wiiware game that’s just gotten an unlikely US release. In Muscle March, you’re tasked with chasing a burly thief who has appropriated your protein shake powder. You must apprehend the pilferer by imitating the poses he …

I haven’t been able to wrap my head around the new DSi LL. It’s large, cumbersome, and about as portable as a bucket of live eels. Sure, it’s been touted as a device to be used by the elderly and those with poor eyesight, but I haven’t really seen the point. Until now, that is. Using the DSi’s camera and …

Oh good Lord. A man has married a videogame character. Yeah…umm. Ok. Sure, we’ve started seeing a growing trend of Japanese men engaging in real relationships with faux suitors – but this really takes the (wedding) cake. A presumably Japanese man has taken the digital hand of Nene Anegasaki, one of three characters in DS dating sim Love Plus – …

  Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii (which I can only assume is Japanese for “Why does this even exist?”) has earned itself the dubious distinction of being crowned the worst selling Wii game. Ever. A quite frankly insane looking collection of nippo-centric minigames failed to ignite the Japanese sales charts, selling only a hundred copies. It seems not even the Japanese …

Bayonetta has been released in Japan already and with the first days sales figures coming in we can now see whether the Japanese are going to be loyal to the inferior PS3 version or are going to fork out for the higher quality Xbox 360 version. Is it all about the gameplay or is pixel count more important? Well I …

The global economy is still in the crapper, leading to far fewer purchases of big-ticket luxury items like cars,  yachts, and private islands.  We all know that! All of us except Toyota, who’ve instead blamed a rather unlikely suspect – video games. Nipponese Journalist Masahiro Kawaguchi, in an article about “date cars” has quoted a Toyota executive as saying “"Home …

You remember how, when it was announced that final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 would ship on 3 discs? Remember how the 360 fans retorted that changing discs would be better than sitting through a mandatory install? Seems that particular counter-attack may have been moot – as it looks like the PS3 version of the game – due in …

A Japanese videogame sales clerk has, via his personal blog, come forward to tell the world exactly what it knows already – The Xbox 360 is having a tough time in Japan. Despite trying really, really hard, and securing timed RPG exclusivity in the region, Microsoft’s gaijin machine has failed to capture the hearts of all but the “hardcore” Japanese …