It was too good to be true. Chairman Kaga won’t be returning to the new Iron Chef series this month. The job will fall on actor Hiroshi Tamaki. It must be hard to fill the shoes of a previous host. I mean, I don’t think Drew Carey can ever be Bob Barker. Plus you know you’re going to be judged and scrutinized on how you do. The more popular the show, the harsher the judging. Sometimes unfairly so. Some of the opinions on Tamaki is that he’s too young and too handsome. Really? Too handsome? I can understand that change can be hard to take at times, and when it’s a tv show that’s known by millions, we all want what we fell in love with. But I don’t think you’ll ever get that back. The new Iron Chef will be the same but different. Regardless of the new host or new chefs, I’m excited to see it come back to the air. À la cuisine!
Looking to lose a few extra pounds? With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, I’m sure we’ll all be feeling like that. Well, the fine people at Creative Freaks have got your waist line and fondness for cute anime girls in mind. Burn Your Fat With Me is a dating/love game mixed with a Fitness app for your iPhone/iTouch or Google Play/Android device. Your character is a high school student and your trainer is a friend named Mayu. She’ll guide you on your path to a slimmer waste and possibly and little romance.
Coming from a 2D background I find this sort of technology so cool. The ability to make one of my 2D drawings more interactive is pretty damn awesome. I know realistically this can all be built in 3D, but I don’t care. It would be so cool to have this to make some of my characters look around and such.
This app is a free download on the app store and for Google Play. I just tried it out and it’s pretty neat. The girl (Shizuku) just says things in Japanese, but she will watch and follow your finger just like in the demo. It’s pretty cute, but that’s all she’ll do from what I can tell. She won’t react to you if you poke her or anything. I wonder when this will be available for consumers to use and how much it would be? I’d be interested in trying it out for sure.
Recently, I’ve been watching all the translated episodes of Game Center CX I can find. I came across a forum post on the Something Awful Forums that lists all the episodes they’ve translated and I’m so grateful to those that have done all this work. My full collection of the episodes goes from the beginning all the way through to season 13 (over 100 episodes), but very few were translated. I’m currently replacing all the episodes that I can with the translated ones. Not that I don’t care for the old ones. I love the show (probably my favorite) and still find it very watchable even with out the subtitles. But it is nice to know what’s being said or laughed at.
I recently watched the Castlevania 3 eps. That is one game I never did finish. I remember it being way to hard to beat on a weekend rent. Next is Gargoyle’s Quest for the NES. I never played this one ether, but I own the GameBoy version which is fantastic.
Have you ever seen or heard of this show? How about the DS game that came out for it? I own it and love it! Needless to say, I’m a huge fan, and I can’t wait to order the DVD’s when they come out. ^_^ Now I just need to find the newest episodes to download.
Update – DownTown Fanpage has a much larger list of down loads for Game Center CX! Woo!
This past week the Tokyo Game Show was going down in Japan. It’s a great time to see what news and games are coming down the pipe lines for the consumers. This year, a Japanese company called Neurowear showed off its new furry/cat tail powered by your brain. The tail syncs up with an app that reads your brain waves through a heart rate monitor you wear behind your ear lobe, and wages the tail appropriately. It also tags your location to share with your friends via Twitter or Facebook. So everyone in your friends list can know what you’re wagging about and were.
This new furry accessory is called “Shippo” which means Tail in Japanese. I call it a great way to check out the backside of chicks. I don’t know about you, but the girl in this clip is all kinds of cute. Neurowear unfortunately didn’t say when this tail would be available or even for how much. As cute as it make girls look, I bet having an actual tail would be annoying.
It’s been announced that the 3DS busty ninja game, Senran Kagura will be making its way to the PS Vita. The game will be called Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus and will be the beginning of a new series under the title rather than a sequel to the 3DS games. Nothing other than the title, the release date (Feb 28th 2013) and the price Â¥ 6980 (US$89) have been announced so there’s no screen shots or anything.
What’s pretty exciting about all this is that the PS Vita is region free, so that means that people here will be able to import it. Unless it’s a download game. Then we’re all screwed again.
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