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It took 13 years, but we finally can play this game in English.
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I’ve been following this development closely these days. Infamous hacker Waninkoko and betatesters claim to have a working backup loader for the wii on their hands.

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I’ve been browsing through 2 months of news I’ve missed while I was away and the ones that caught my attention enough to re post them are :

-Denpa teki na Kanojo , light novel series by Katayama Kentarou and Yamamoto Yamato, the same duo that made the awesome Kure-nai will be getting an anime adaptation

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The special edition of Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360 which comes in a collectors box and a 10th anniversary soundtrack disc, released on Tuesday, is almost nowhere to be found on the internet and most places will have you pay a little more.

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Tactics RPG developer Nippon Ichi’s latest title is out today - a sequel to the popular Disgaea series.

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Some nice and new FFXIII images inside!

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Odin Sphere and Disgaea, two of Atlus‘ best publishing efforts are getting the Greatest Hits treatment. This means they will be available at the extremely low price of $19.99. This is no doubt a great success for Atlus and shows just how much they have grown this past generation.

While Atlus didn’t actually make these two games (Credit goes to VanillaWare and Nippon Ichi Software, respectively) This achievement speaks wonderfully about their plans to expand in America. Their in-house games like the Trauma Center and Shin Megami Tensei (Persona) series no doubt benefit from their competent publishing and localization house in ATLUS USA.

Think I’m sucking up too much? Screw you, these guys rock and they deserve every bit of praise. In the meantime, look forward to Persona 4 (PS2) and Dokapon Kingdom (PS2/Wii)

The world of HDTVs is one of rapidly improving technology. While many people are beginning to hype up the next big thing - OLED, LCD manufacturers aren’t cutting off on LCD R&D. Instead, we will be seeing a smooth transition from LCD to (O)LED in the years to come.

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The Naruto Ultimate Ninja series (or Narutimate Hero for those who import it) has had five PS2 titles as well as two PSP titles so far. Ultimate Storm is the first Naruto game for the PS3, as well as the first PS3 title by CyberConnect2 (Naruto: Rise of the Ninja for Xbox 360 was developed by Ubisoft).
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Later Today, Nintendo and Sony will have their E3 presentation. Some big news are expected: Nintendo will have to garnish their empty lineup and SONY will have to answer to Microsoft’s big FFXIII splash.

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