Ein Entertainment has released a cool new app for the iPod touch and iPhone, an alarm clock which features moe girls shouting at you to wake up in the mornings;

The concept of developing this application is based on the hope to get woken up by girl’s cute voice, and to get excited a little every morning. The voices of three Japanese popular voice actresses, Manabi Mizuno, Rie Tanaka, and Shiho Kawaragi are recorded in the application to get a user up with “Moe” manner. Three original girl characters, which totally have 40 different wake-up words, are illustrated. A user is able to choose one of the voices with one girl to set as an alarm.

The app will cost you about It 230 yen.

Some of the featured phrases;

お・は・よ、早く起きないと、いたずらしちゃうぞっ – O.ha.yo, hayaku okinai to, itazura shichau zo~ (Morning. If you don’t wake up, I’ll play a prank on you…)

早く起きて。そうしないと後悔させるよ! – Hayaku okite. Soushinai to koukai saseru yo! (Wake up. If you don’t, I’ll make sure you regret it!)

おはようのキスをしてあげるね チュ – Ohayou no kisu wo shite ageru ne.. chuuu

(I’ll give you a morning kiss, chuuu~)

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Not a surprise that PS3 beat Xbox360 for Final Fantasy XIII sales, but I still didn’t think the difference in sales would be this great;

First month figures for Final Fantasy XIII are in, with the North American version of Square Enix’s role-playing game epic moving more than 1.3 million copies in the United States. The vast majority of those were on the PlayStation 3.

According to an early statement from Sony Computer Entertainment, the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII “sold nearly double the Xbox version.” In actual numbers, that broke down to 828,200 copies of the game snapped up by those in the Sony camp and 494,300 who preferred the Xbox 360 version. A win for Sony, but also a good showing for Microsoft, who snatched console exclusivity from the PlayStation side in 2008.

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The 5 million unit sales mark for the PS3 has been reached, in Japan anyway;

As of April 11, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has revealed that over 5 million PlayStation 3s have been sold in The Land of the Rising Sun. Domestically, the top three selling games for the system are Final Fantasy XIII (1.8 million copies), Metal Gear Solid 4 (706,461 copies) and the recently released Yakuza 4 (526,093 copies)

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A really well made video created by Patrick Jean and Matias Boucard:

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Independent web videos.

In the 1990’s you could own most  of the games released and have beat them, now it would be near impossible to even name them all;

According to listings at MobyGames, 2,840 games were released in 2008. The folks at gaming sites like MobyGames have devoted themselves to comprehensively listing all titles, and they are essentially databases. Even they make choices about what to exclude — MobyGames only includes commercially released games. The sheer amount of product ensures that no source can truly be definitive.

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It’s not to surprising that video game’s make children fat, but  its not the only contributor to this epidemic;

The World Health Organization, which called out video games as a prime contributor to sedentary lifestyles obesifying the planet’s children.

Nearly a third of kids globally spend three or more hours per day playing sitting in front of a screen, whether that’s to play video games, watch television or chat online with friends. The WHO says kids aren’t getting enough exercise whether they live in a rich or a poor country.

“Growing up in a poor country does not necessarily mean that kids get more physical activity” the WHO’s Regina Guthold told Reuters.

What’s enough exercise? According to the WHO, it’s at least an hour of exercise – not counting any P.E. at school – per day for five days a week. By this measure, the WHO says just 25 percent of boys and 15 percent of girls get enough exercise.

By contrast 25 percent of boys and 30 percent of girls qualified as sedentary, which means three or more hours per day sitting on one’s ass playing games and such. The WHO conducted its study of 72,845 kids ages 13 to 15 from 2003 to 2007; the kids lived in North and South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

I wouldn’t say gaming make’s children fat though, it’s just that children use their time gaming instead of doing regular exercise. If children played video games 4 hours a day and did 1 hour of exercise a day there wouldn’t be a problem.

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Konami has announced that they will launch Love Plus for the Iphone, Ipod and Ipad on April 5th. The game will actually be three separate apps: Love Plus iM, Love Plus iR and Love Plus iN. Each app will cost 600 Yen and will have one of the girls from the DS Love plus game; Manaka Takane, Nene Anegasaki, Rinko Kobayakawa.

Features

- The love Plus girls can be used as a clock, the girls read the time to you when you tap the iphone/ipad screen. Their voice changes according to season and time.

- Calendar feature.

- Augmented reality camera, you can take pictures of someone and a Love Plus girl will be pictured as well

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The game Air Raid, has gone for sale on Ebay reaching an astonishing $6,500 with still 8 full days of bidding to go.

It’s the box, not the weird T-shaped handle on the cartridge, that makes this game so rare. The game itself was a Taiwanese hack of a game called Space Jockey, and until now, a box of the game had never surfaced.

“We had a chance to view the box in person and have no reason to doubt its authenticity,” says Atari Age. The seller says he bought it in the mid-1980s from a store in Texas. The price tag is still on the box.

Now its a matter of time to see if this game will beat Stadium events record auction price or not.

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Torne the PlayStation 3 DVR add- on is doing better then anticipated, sales of the torne hit 62,000 in its first week;

According to ASCII, as passed along by Impress Watch, Sony sold 62,000 Torne units over the week of March 15 through March 21. The device was released on the 18th — a Thursday release, similar to most game software.

The 62,000 figure includes sales of both the Torne kit on its own and as part of a bundle with a special 250 gigabyte PlayStation 3 hardware set. The peripheral version accounted for 75% of sales, with the bundle making up the rest.

Thanks the simultaneous release of Torne and this week’s number one game Yakuza 4, PlayStation 3 hardware saw a sales boost of 69.5% over the prior week to 45,000 units. The system topped ASCII’s hardware charts for the first time in three months and has now sold a total of 4.95 million units.

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Nintendo has just decided to reveal a new device thats in the works, the device is called 3DS,

What’s known about the new console in the works thus far:

- That a new handheld, called the Nintendo 3DS, will be released sometime during Nintendo’s next financial year (Apr 2010 – March 2011).

- It will be capable of producing 3D graphics, without the need for 3D glasses.

- The 3DS will be backwards compatible with the entire line of Nintendo DS products.

- It will be properly revealed during the E3 trade show in Los Angeles, which will take place in June.

The new portal game console is going to be able to create 3D effects without  3D glasses. People stipulate  that the 3D may work something like this;

More information is going to be released at E3, so everyone is going to have to wait until then for Nintendo to give us more information.

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