Hobby blog - GAMERS

NINTENDO DS HENTAI GAME

2008-07-24T15:46:00Z

The Japanese doujin circle TEAM DSX will release HALF ELF TENTACLE ASSAULT DS: an hentai / bishoujo game for Nintendo DS during Comiket 71 (on 16th august)!!...

iDOLM@STER For PSP: Panchira on the go!

2008-07-23T09:55:00Z

Brian Kot@ku M@ster just posted the Famitsu scans with the iDOLM@STER For PSP preview! This game alone will give 2-3 motnhs more to Sony handheld sales dominance but after Sony can only start to port bishoujo games with keeping the hentai scenes in!!

GAIJIN PARANOIA?!

2008-07-18T09:38:00Z

After my super favouire blog posted that this Au+Adidas AD echoes nazi culture (and after that the same blog posted that the Change manga/drama parody Softbak commercial is in reality a parody of the american politician Obama) I'm starting to think tha...

KORG DS-10 Synthesizer

2008-07-16T12:17:00Z

Few days ago I went to interview Sanodg, the producer of the revolutionary DS card KORD DS-10. I played with DS10 and it's even better than I tought!! The card will be released by Nintendo Europe before the end of the year but, if you wanna get i...

Danny Choo: New Shibuys Trooper!!

2008-07-16T12:08:00Z

Our friend Danny Choo just posted the new Shibuya Star Wars Video!

E-Mobile: Obama is a monkey!?

2008-06-27T18:37:00Z

The always great JapanProbe, this time, is totally misunderstanding the E-mobile moneky commercial stating that this commercial is a “parody of Barack Obama’s campaign”. Seems that bloggers don't have time to watch TV. If you ar...

Firefox 3 Japan release party

2008-06-27T02:38:00Z

Yesterday I went to the Firefox 3 Japan release party held at Shinagawa Grand Prince Hotel with Kirainet's ubergeek Hector and the legendary Peter Payne!!
After few beers and few sushi I found a table serving my favourite Japanese fo...

Hatsune Miku online game!

2008-06-25T19:06:00Z

Seems that Hatsune Miku is going to appear as a playable characater in the Korean online game Pangya ("a casual golf game that takes difficult rules of golf and transforms it into cute and ...

Mainichi against otaku...

2008-06-25T07:30:00Z

Seem that on waiwai closure I was WRONG!!
Sankakucomplex posted a great article about the real reasons of the WaiWai extinction:

The mangaka defunct rag WaiWai branded a paedophile, over his using a tastefully dressed girl character (above) to illustr...

GAKKEN SX-150: DIY Analog Synth Kit

2008-06-23T08:09:00Z

After realeasing the great mini Theremin kit, Gakken has just announced a new build your own analog synth kit called SX-150. This synth is controlled trough a slider (this is a clever choice made by Gakken to keep the kit super cheap) and can even be c...

Mainichi Daily News and Keromin WAIWAI censorship...

2008-06-22T16:52:00Z

Following a post about Keromin from Tokyo Mango the blog writtend by super Lisa Katayama (she just published an Urazawa book that's a must read for eveyone), I found out that Mainichi Daily censored the legendary WaiWai column... after their &quo...

TOKYO TOY SHOW 2008: MAKE YOUR OWN BUDDHA

2008-06-20T09:00:00Z

(via Hobbymedia) During the Tokyo Toy Show I spotted these super cool Buddha statue model kits made with Biomass. Finally tthe hobby world meets spirituality and ecology!

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YOKAI ATTACK: The Japanese Monster bible

2008-06-18T07:55:00Z

The legendary Matt Alt has just released his new book about Japanese Monsters. It's a must have for any otaku and asian cinema frek out there. For now it'sa only avaible in Japan but after summer Kodansha International will release it in bookstor...

Mainichi Daily News censures protest!

2008-06-15T07:02:00Z

Yesterday I was reading about the protest caused by brutality of Japanese Police on Mainichi Shinbun. Actually this news has been passed to me before by Pio D'Emilia (personal blog), an International Journalist working for the european TV channe...

OSAMU TEZUKA IS THE OTAKU NOSTRADAMUS

2008-06-14T09:37:00Z

Seems that a 2chan user found out that the earthquake that today (14 june) hit the northern part of Japan has been predicted by Osamu Tezuka’s BlackJack manga Volume 17. Osamu predicted the magnitude, the date/time, the location!...

MSG 4 Non selling as expected in Japan?!

2008-06-14T09:06:00Z

These days walking in Denden town and Akiba the buzz around MSG4 is way less than I expected... I'm sure the MediaCreate will clear this (and MSG4 will move 500.000 pieces in its first week) but right now I don't feel the huge promotional efforts...

SUMMER OF LOVE 2008

2008-06-12T08:59:00Z

I just found this great radio show celebrating the 20th anniversary of... ACID HOUSE
Damn I will never forget my Londons days back then!! After 20 years the only event that can give me the same rushis the Comiket!!

AKIBA IDIOTS WANTED

2008-06-09T19:08:00Z

Japan Probe posted a great story about otaku hunting for the idiots that, last sunday, were joking around akiba after the tragedy. I'm sorry to admit it but I support 2chan users efforts!!Youtube video here.
Meanwhile, the legendary otaku editor Patri...

6-8-2008 THE OTAKU 9-11

2008-06-09T15:30:00Z

UPDATE: Konami cancelled the MSG4 launch event... seems that the image of Solid Snake overlooking the stabbing rampage in Akiba has touched other people than me...

During the sixities Manson never killed anyone (almost personally), the good thing i...

Neo Geo Online Collection: SunSoft PS2

2008-06-09T06:23:00Z

Our friends at Neo Amusement has started the preorders for this new PS2 title for SNK Freaks. This collection features two games produced by Sunsoft for the Neo Geo: Galaxy Fight and Waku Waku Seven.
As every Neo-Geo Online Collect...

Ghost'n Goblins: Table game

2008-06-06T10:34:00Z

Few days ago, while I was raiding used games shops in Akiba, I found this super sweet board game ispired by Capcom's Makaimura. This game has been ported to all classic platforms (Commodre 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC 464/6128, Amiga, Atari ST...

Street Fighter 4: Move list

2008-06-02T15:39:00Z

(via HobbyMedia) Last week, the legendary Akiba game center HEY held the latest Street Fighters 4 location test. Photo were forbidden but I managed to take some pictures of moves lists. During the next location test Sagat and Vega will be playable

DREAMPARTY: Hentai Game Show

2008-06-02T08:08:00Z

The italian monthly magazine XL (published by the newspaper La Repubblica) has just posted my reportage about the Dreamparty: the Japanese hentai game show. There is also a photogallery with some hentai game images provided by Light....

Nintendo DS: Cellular Automaton Music

2008-05-31T05:48:00Z

GlitchDS is a new homebrew Cellular Automaton music sequencer for the DS that uses grid model of the evolution of cellular structures to create music. It’s perfect for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. To run GlitchDS you will a DS Fl...

Real size Howl's Moving Castle

2008-05-03T23:44:00Z

During Maker Faire Scott Beale from laughingsquid spotted an impressive reproduction of the Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城, Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) created by an american otaku! IT would be cool to see something similar d...

JAV TALK: Banana Boy is back with his own www.javbb.com

2008-04-12T11:43:00Z

Banana Boy, the JAV super hero, is back with his own domain: www.javbb.com
BB on Jav Talk: " I still haven't quite forgiven them for losing the original site. 3 years work, almost 5000 posts, all gone. Some good writing there too; not just the to...

Hobbymedia.it

2008-04-08T16:29:00Z

I'm not dead... I'm working on a new blog since the platform I used for this is simply not working anymore... I hope to be ready in a couple of weeks! Thank you and sorry!!

Per i lettori italiani:
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SEXY EASTER BUNNIES...

2008-03-23T18:04:00Z

Happy easter to all GAMERS!!

We are not dead: while I was travelling our provider decided to corrupt our blog database withou giving any support for recover so I'm moving the website to a new server withing few days!

I wish everyone to have a really...

UPDATE: DS - KORG DS10 Synthesizer

2008-03-15T15:41:00Z

Amazon Japan has just started preorders for the Nintendo DS Korg DS-10. This card will be released on 24th July in Japanese shops....

FREE TIBET: Sega supporting Dalai Lama?

2008-03-15T03:33:00Z

Xeni at Boing Boing just made an update on a series of previous posts (on Boing Boing super blog) about pro-Tibetan-independence protests in Lhasa: violence grew dramatically today. Snip from report issued today by the US-government-funded news agency ...

NINTENDO DS: KORG DS-10 Korg Official Tablet Synth

2008-03-14T21:04:00Z

Our friend Jaime pointed us to Create Digital Music blog post (ok I've been offline for a week so 2 days ago in my analog world are still a news) about Korg working with AQ Interactive to release an
MS-10 analog synth emulator for DS!

Product info, specs, samples [AQ Interactive; English]

Blog [Japanese only]

Now I just wait that Propellerhead will wake up and produce my old dreasm: a DS version of Rebirth (I'm dreaming about a portable version of Rebirth since Game Boy Advance and the first time I saw the DS I tough that Roland sooner or later will produce a card with a 303 or a 909 emulator) !

Features:

Dual dual synths: Two patchable virtual synths, with two oscillators each
Drum machine: Four-part drum machines loaded with samples of the virtual synth
Sequencer: 2 synth tracks, 4 drum machine tracks, 16 steps
Effects: Delay, chorus, flanger
Input methods: Touch-control screen with real-time sound control, a keyboard screen, and matrix screen

OFFLINE WORLD...

2008-03-12T23:35:00Z

I'm in Italy right now and my providercan't solve a technical problem started last weekend... actually I lived my firt offline week after 15 years and I understaood something: off line Italy sucks (ok if you like old buidingds and dead people paint...

GAME BOOK: LoneWolf DS

2008-03-09T03:12:00Z

LoneWofl DS is an homebrew that looks like a professional release. I think F. Calendini made a great work and I'm curious if there is any non-Japanese videogame company that would ever pay someone to create a game like this. Actually I think Sal...

FEZ PLUSHIE: indipendent game goods

2008-03-08T14:25:00Z

Our friends at Albotas have spotted this really cool plushie of Gomez: a character from Fez, a game made by the Kokoromi Collective which won the award for Excellence In Visual Art at this year Independent Games Festival. Fez's chiptune soundtrack has ...

Watch the Sky with your Nintendo DS.

2008-03-07T00:24:00Z

The Japanese magazine "Hoshi Navi" (published by Astro Arts) has just announced that this summer they will release "Starry Sky Navi": a stars observation software for Nintendo DS. The card will have a built in tilt sensor so that it...