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After one month since I joined Mirai Inc we have been thinking a lot about our business model and we have finally decided to make a shift. From now on one of our main focus is gonna be making eroge (Erotic videogames). The reason is because the Internet market is too competitive here in Tokyo [...]

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The author of this blog was lucky enough to meet Shigeru Miyamoto (The creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, F-Zero…) and he even got a signature from Miyamoto on his old SuperNES. He put the signed machine on Ebay and right now the price is over 1.500 dollars! ¿Anyone willing [...]

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Many Japanese bookstores have some shelves filled with video game guides. There are huge guides, some of them have more than one volume! Those big ones explain even the most “stupid” detail about the game. There will be a day when you need to graduate from university in order to be able to finish a [...]

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Found at Kotaku.com a really interesting video showing the video-game market share evolution during the last eleven years in Japan.

Blue: Sony Computer Entertainment
Red: Nintendo
Green: Microsoft
Purple: Sega
Yellow: Bandai

It’s astounding how Sega disappears at the begining and Sony conquers the pie and keeps the majority during many years. At the end Nintendo starts to re-conquer and [...]

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I’ve been playing Wii Fit for a while, it’s pretty cool! You exercise while playing, it’s the same concept as Doko demo Yoga for the DS. Wii Fit is interesting because it comes with a balance board that acts as an extra controller calculating how much weight you are releasing on each area . More [...]

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I went with Pepinismo and Gamerah to this year’s Tokyo Game Show, we took many girls pictures and we also prepared some cool videos. This is one of the videos, Ale from Pepinismo.net plays the DS game “Let’s Yoga” with a cute girl.

Video’s music by Ale.

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Game Center CX is a Japanese TV show where a famous comedian (In Japan comedians are used for everything) called Shinya Arino plays video games until he manages to finish them. They usually select really difficult games, so it’s funny to see Shinya’s suffering face and interesting to see how well he plays.

Shinya Arino trying [...]

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One of the reasons why Sony was doing better than Nintendo some years ago was because they created a new market, Sony’s PS and PS2 and their games where aimed to entertain not only kids and youngsters but also young people from 20 until 30 years old. Nintendo focused on entertainment only for kids during [...]

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