What’s the size of a manga tankobon but brimming with Japanese Arcade goodness? It’s “Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan’s Game Centers” by Brian Ashcraft (of Kotaku) with Jean Snow (previously with the now dead Pingmag). Compact in size the book nevertheless remains an eye opening experience on Japanese arcades, known there as game [...]

I came really early to the office this morning, and took a couple of my colleagues out for breakfast. On the way back, I saw a road rage incident on the stretch from Taman Bahagia to SS2. The guy actually stopped traffic by parking his Saga across both lanes, stepped out and went to have [...]

This is one cool rap music video from Dan Bull, titled Generation Gaming. Quoting an e-mail I received this morning, it’s an epic rap documentary of the history of gaming from the early 90′s to the present day. Listen out for the witty lyrics: Dan Bull’s critically acclaimed album, Safe, is available for free at [...]

We all know that the new NDSi comes equipped cameras, but what about us Nintendo DS/DS Lite owners? Well, there’s no need to feel left out as your little Nintendo money-makers can be equipped with cameras as well. First up, you’ll need a NDS/NDSL console. Mine is an old phat NDS, yup, it’s old-school but [...]

Play too much video games and you might end up with “Playstation palmar hidradenitis”, a form of “idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis”. In one particular patient, she, a regular console gamer, had “intensively painful sores on the palms of her hands”. Thankfully she recovered after 10 days of abstinence. Read all about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907489.stm

Here’s your chance to own HellBoy: Science of Evil for the Playstation 3 at a hugely discounted price of USD 12.90. If you don’t mind a Korean manual, but English game, Play-Asia is selling the Korean version of the game (the game is still in English) at that price. Check it out here!

Lone Wanderer’s Bad Conscience: Draw straws?! Fiddlesticks. Why not we draw a gun at her head and have her march into that irridiated death trap and switch the damn purifier on. Lone Wanderer’s Neutral Conscience: Yay, straws! I like straws! Come on, BC, we are all going to die anyways/ So let’s draw straws with [...]

Have you watched the Classic Game Room HD videos on YouTube? No? Then you are missing out some really interesting video game reviews published in video form on the Internet. It started of as the first classic video game review show on the Internet back in 1999 and 2000. Armed with one camera, a green [...]

Yup. That’s right. The end is here for Flight Simulator, at least the series didn’t go crashing through an airport with the last iteration, Flight Simulator X. I heard it was really good. Read all about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm?lss

There’s little information regarding developing WiiWare games, and the little information I garnered include: Development Tool: WiiWare SDK costs around USD 2000 Point of Entry: Developers must be licensed and approved by Nintendo Pricing: Nintendo controls pricing of Wiiware games Now, compare this to Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Community Games, whereby you get to create games, [...]