(via Gilcrows) Today Mikku Man X, a platform doujin mashup of Rockman and Miku chan, has been released.  This doujin game is pretty fun (among the enemies there is even Morrigan!) with a solid gamplay and great soundtrack (no Vocaloid 2 songs but a great arrangement of the original Rockman theme).
You can download the file here (but be patient since the server is overloaded with requests and it's not easy to download the zip).

Updated: I just found the file mirrored here (the link appears as an on-screen comment at 7:08 in the NicoNico video) .

(via 2ch) Next week NHK BS2 will start  a The Net Star: new show (11月27日（火）22：30〜23：10) dedicated to internet memes that usually pass under the radar of TV shows... I hope they will do more that show videos from NicoNico but The Net Star will hosted, among the other, by the super loli gravure idol Kyan Chiaki (official page / blog) and by the meganekko godness Ami Tokito (official page / blog).

Matteo Bittanti, Videoludica mastermind (or maybe we should call him academic videogame guru?), pointed us to Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25th Anniversary Celebration:  a retrocomputing event that will be held in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum on 10 December and will features legends like Jack Tramiel,  Adam Chowaniec and the psychedelic computer God Steve Wozniak.
From the official statement:

Our The Commodore 64 (C64) was an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore in August, 1982, and during it's lifetime (between 1982 and 1994), sales totaled tens of millions of units, making it one the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. Approximately 10,000 commercial software titles were developed for the Commodore 64 including development tools, office applications, and games.

Early entrants of micro computers began as early as 1975, with the first models available in retail stores around 1977. In 1981, The IBM PC release legitimized and expanded the market. During this era of microcomputer innovation, the market was dominated by the IBM PC, the Commodore 64, the Atari 8-bit family, the Apple II, and Tandy Corporation's TRS-80.



The C64 made an impressive debut at the 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, as recalled by Production Engineer David A. Ziembicki: "All we saw at our booth were Atari people with their mouths dropping open, saying, 'How can you do that for $595?'"


Although the history of the Commodore 64 is rich, the history of the people and the companies that developed these early personal computers is also critical to the personal productivity tools and business solutions we often take for granted in our daily lives.

* Geek note: I'm an akiba snob otaku who loves japanese retrocomputing and so in this post I used the main screen photo of the Commodore Max machine: a stripped down versione of the c64 for the Japanese market.

** LEVEL 64 image is totally unrelated to this post and is a painting by the Danish geek artist Isabella Rosendorf.

This beautifull Gundam 00 illustration is from Mugen Kidou doujin circle that will exhibit on 31th December during Comic Market (don't miss the great  "how to guide"  created by our friends at Heisei Democracy.)
Today the Club 54 has released Wan Ryumin Niujoku another doujinshi dedicated to the female characters of Gundam 00.
There is just a month till next Comiket so doujin world is starting to fight for visibility and releasing "major" doujing manga before the event seems a technic to attract more customers at its own circle table during Comic Market (コミックマーケット).



Akiba blog has posted some very NSFW photos here, here, here, here, here and here.

Now we only need to start to save up for the Comiket 3 days doujin marathon shopping!