I'm no big fan of Facebook, but in this case if they want their billions to go toward a company doing good things and don't seem to be making any obvious negative changes to their direction, I guess I can be on board with that. Oculus isn't the only game in town any more, but they're still the ones ...

Dondengaeshi is pretty unexpected! Gave me the most :O of a Hello! Project song in a long time.

I'm going to bet it just ends with an insanely implausible explanation for strange goings on, like the other ones.

I'm actually in the same place as you on Layton. The fourth game (Last Specter in the U.S.) is still a regular DS game.

Yeah, Fallout 3 did start to feel a bit "god mode" once you get to a point where every other bullet can make a mutant explode. It was almost refreshing to get to that DLC in the swamp area where their brand of weirdos could take a few more hits.   Still need to play Ace Attorney 5... and t...

Sounds like Tsunku's English song isn't just his English after all, but translated (way down in this blog entry). I wonder if this means they'll record a Japanese version as well.

 

It has struck me that Kanon wrote a song for herself with a personal pronoun as a name, and it's somehow not Maro.
 
EDIT: Also that between Kanon, Kodama Ameko, and Uozumi Yuki, this single has a lot of 20-something women behind the scenes.

We've known their next single was coming in early November for quite some time, but now there are finally decent details.   Unsurprisingly for a triple A-side, there are 3 regular and 3 limited editions. <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/HKCN-50462/&q...

[quote="Shiroi"]   I bought this day one but have yet to play it. I heard that most people complained about not having all the features available right away but Nintendo said they would release a patch that would make everything available from the get go. Hopefully they've released that pa...

One of these days they'll run out of ways to word it politely and just say "We hope the people in the next audition suck less."

[quote="Mizura"] That's good. There's a european and asian only game called Over Zenith (the swords of etheria) that I've been interested in recently. Since the PS2 is region locked, I figured I'd have no way to play it even if I did find a copy in english without having to import a europe...

Nowadays if I want to play a console game from something Wii or less advanced it's usually with an emulator on PC, so region locks are easy enough to get around.   I've got Space Venus, too. Those handful of 360-degree videos are the coolest thing in there, though viewing the ripped video in a diffe...

Haven't tried them yet, but I recently got ahold of some H!P PS1 games.

In the case of the second one it seems like just a visual reskin of an existing game--if the credits at the end of the booklet are to be believed, it doesn't even include any H!P music.

[quote="Valerie"] - Tsunku wrote lyrics and composition -- lyrics were difficult. [/quote] I saw it said the other day he wrote it, but I wasn't sure whether to believe it. I know he did some English singing, but has he ever written a full English song before?   [quote="TicTacAnyone&q...

[quote="aine"]You gotta give him points for taking it all with a poker face though. And they seem like a nice family. They blurred his kids' faces out, but perhaps someone could watch it closely and cross-check to confirm if his daughter is Hotzmic or not?   [/quote]   That much has been c...

Henkka (of Wota in Translation among other things) has started translating the book. Here's the prologue.

Trying out Super Mario Maker. It seems to start simple without all the options, but it seems well done. Maybe the most amusing thing is that whenever you place an item, it adds to the music with a very electronic version of its name. It's pretty subtle, I thought it was just some weird instrumentati...

Ugh. It was already mostly clear since his name stopped appearing on the covers, he stopped doing non-Morning Musume songs, but started doing more songs for outside acts... but still disheartening to see it's not a temporary thing. [quote="Anderei"] I don't think they will announce a repla...

The above post reminds me what a pain in the ass being into singles-heavy music had to be before digital formats came along in a big way. "Six minutes have passed, time to either listen again or change the disc!"

Tangentially H!P. Somebody left a message on the wiki that Nakanishi Kana's sister Marina (now going by Rina) joined the group Camouflage which I don't really know anything about. She also seems to have ditched her old Twitter account (with the great handle of @fishisfriend) in favor of the Camoufla...

I sometimes see booklet scans included with single/album torrents, but are there any good places for finding them gathered on their own? A quick Google search gives me <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.jplop.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5906">this jplop thread</a> which has a t...

[quote="JPope"]
Maybe someone should have given DANCE☆MAN a call.
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I don't know if you know this, but it's a pretty unfarfetched suggestion. After quite a few years of H!P absence, he just did the Kobushi Factory arrangement of Ramen Daisuki.

Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san no Uta (Promotion Edit) up at YouTube.

[quote="Anderei"] You'll see copies of singles going for super cheap after the week is over. Lots of people definitely just collect them or buy them for charts. I usually rip mine and put them on a device. They're really just for show. [/quote]   Yeah, the singles that had songs that didn'...

[quote="JPope"]
Is there president for such a low Day 2 total following a 100K+ first day?
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Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa / etc. / etc. had a 119K first day, #4 second day (don't know what #3 was), and #3 with 5K the third day.

I'm now remembering how I was hopping everywhere in Oblivion to help raise the athletics skill. But it worked!

[quote="Ap2000"] And, except for Fallout 3, Bethesda's main quests are usually boring as fuck.   [/quote]   Having to go through a bunch of Oblivion gates to shut them down is maybe one of the most boring repetitive things I've needed to do in a game I otherwise really like. At that point ...

Compared to previous Elder Scrolls games, or at least IV and V which I spent a lot of time with: *Weight isn't a thing. Inventory is just based on number of items, and heavier armor taking up more of your inventory isn't an issue. Impossible to end up overburdened--you just can't hold beyond your ma...

Lately I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online. Compared to the offline games there are some notable changes and compromises, but it does still feel very much a part of the series, rather than just random MMO with an Elder Scrolls skin. Not a lot of "Kill 5 wolves!" or "Bring me 5 appl...

^Pretty much my thoughts. Not to knock these two singles, but I was kind of glad to see that the first one was a little bit of a fluke, rather than that they'd just effortlessly and regularly outdo the entire history of S/mileage, Juice=Juice, and 97% of Berryz from the get-go.