Kirin has announced that at beginning of December they will release Beer Chocolat (5% alchool): the first industrial beer made with chocolate. Few years ago a small american brewerie exported a limited production of chocolate beer to Japan for Valentine day but Kirin choco beer will have a better taste...

(via MIXI) On October 11 the  "Tokyo Game Show 2008" will turn into the very first videogame music festival with live acts like  "GhM Sound Team (Grasshopper)", "TENORI-ON", and YMCK. More artists will be announced in the next weeks. Seems that the orgranizing comete loved the live chiptune show held last year held in a small booth (thatawent totally under the radar of magazines attending the show).
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(via InsertCredit) Brandon spotted WIZ, a new korean videogame console that got a gig of flash memory, which is neat, OLED screen, uses the arm9 processor, has stylus support, and comes with 12 pre-loaded games. The fact that Byulbram's games are shown working on it lends credence to the idea that games might be recompile-able for the new system... looks like it will be a hit in Akiba shops like Kaos and MarchRabbit at the end of the year!
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