Archive for March, 2006

Final Fantasy XII Sells 1.7 Million Copies In First Week

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Looks like FFXII is doing pretty good. It tops the chart by A LOT. Sales numbers are for weekly Japanese sales.
1. Final Fantasy XII [PlayStation 2] - 1,764,266
2. Animal Crossing: Wild World [Nintendo DS] - 70,932
3. More DS Brain Training [Nintendo DS] - 67,222
4. English Training DS [Nintendo DS] - 39,940
5. Prof. Kawashima’s Brain […]

Pictures Of Games Running On PS3 Hardware

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Attendees were asked not to take pictures during Sony’s GDC keynote, but a guy on a Spanish forum managed to take a few.

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Battlefield 2142 Trailer

Friday, March 24th, 2006

A trailer for Battlefield 2142… quite a leap from the previous Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 games. It’s gonna be released this fall. So for better or worse, here goes:

Stop The Spam!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

I haven’t been bothered too much with spam. Usually it was just a few spam comments a month. No big deal. But last night it went crazy and I had to mark about 15 comments as spam. Now I just woke up to 71 comments awaiting moderation. I checked, it’s all spam. The only […]

Catch A Wave

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

On April 26 a movie called Catch A Wave (キャッチ・ア・ウェーブ) opens in theaters in Japan. It’s kind of a surfing version of the popular 2001 summer hit Water Boys, which I just love and own the movie version of on DVD, but the most interesting thing about the movie is the fact that the […]

Flock’s Upcoming “Cardinal” Release

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

When Flock was initially released I was super excited. But even though the Flock team had warned people I still started using it for about a month as my primary browser. It was hell. Well it acted just like Firefox in the beginning, which is good, I mean it’s based on it… but it […]

Orange Range

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Orange Range is one of the reasons I call this blog Orange Days. I really love them and have done so since August last year, which was almost two months before I started the blog. Back in the summer of 2004 is when they really took off in Japan and was without a […]

Chinese Farmers In The Gamedom

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

I found this very interesting clip on YouTube, which is a preview for a documentary called Chinese Farmers In The Gamedom. “Chinese Gold Farmers”, a term used by American gamers, are people hired by gaming workshops to play online games like World of Warcraft and Lineage. By gaming at least 12 hours a day […]

Greatest Video Game Collection Ever

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

He’s gotta be the luckiest kid in the entire world! I’m speechless.

Google Page Creator

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

I signed up for Google Page Creator about a month ago and today I finally received a message from Google saying that they had set up my new account.
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.
No technical […]

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