Category Archives: Video Games

The Character Genetics of Final Fantasy

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Ben

So I was chit-chatting with my beautiful blond wife and talking about the children that mixed couples would have. If you think about it, any features such as blue eyes and blond hair would be pretty much eradicated by the … Continue reading →

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Audio Fiction Interview with channelAPA.com

Posted on May 11, 2010 by channelAPA

As part of their East Coast tour, channelAPA.com sat down with Audio Fiction’s lead guitarist Charles Park and drummer/manager Mark O’Toole. This indie group has leveraged the online medium to their advantage from selling music through iTunes to getting on … Continue reading →

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Street Fighter: Legacy Movie Promises to be Less Sucky Than Other Street Fighter Movies

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Ernie

Oh, Street Fighter movies. Time and time again, you excite your fans with promises of hadouken and spinning bird kick action, and then disappoint us when you have a Belgian guy who does the splits every single chance he gets … Continue reading →

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Hank Chien Crowned King of Kong

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Moye

When the going gets tough as an Asian American, I find it’s good to remember that sometimes we, as a community, just totally rule. This week, my spirits were down after learning that the awful man who caused the security … Continue reading →

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Tekken Movie Looks Like Tekken

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Ernie

We’ve had movie versions of Mortal Kombat that was kinda campy but watchable, and we’ve had movie versions of Street Fighter which were pretty bad to downright terrible. Now video gaming males from ages 18-35 — and Moye, ha ha … Continue reading →

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Review: Nintendo DSi’s Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: New Year Year’s Celebration

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ben

It’s tough being a little kid, let alone growing up with different cultures. So when you actually look at this preschool title of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: New Year’s Celebration for the Nintendo DSi, you have to smile. And guess what: … Continue reading →

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Ching Chong Beautiful: A Pretty Awful Name for a Flash Game

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Ernie

The indie video gaming scene has a lot of good things going for it compared to standard video game production — shorter and cheaper development times, and a greater variety of innovative practices. It can also make for some offensive … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Games Writer Freaks Out Over Nintendo DS Dating Simulations

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Ernie

A writer at Yahoo! Games recently talked about an anime style Nintendo DS game, Love Plus, a “dating simulation” where you can court several girls virtually, and suggests that “dating” video game characters go too far in the world of … Continue reading →

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Newly Approved iPhone App Allows Looking Up Skirts of Japanese Women

Posted on October 8, 2009 by John

If you’ve been following the latest advertising campaigns for the iPhone, “There’s 75,000 apps for just about anything. Only on the iPhone.” And if you want to see up a Japanese woman’s skirt and see her underwear, yeah, there’s an … Continue reading →

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For $25/hr, You Too Can Learn Starcraft From a Real Korean

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Ernie

Starcraft — a real-time strategy video game that was created by the same publishers as World of Warcraft — has been around since 1998, and while us American gamers have given up the game for the greener pastures of raids … Continue reading →

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The Green Dam Youth Escort: Not an Environmentalist “Dating” Service for Young People.

Posted on June 19, 2009 by jozjozjoz

…and the Green Dam Girl doesn’t have anything to do with dental dams. Actually, Green Dam Youth Escort (绿坝·花季护航) is “content-control software” developed in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Ostensibly designed to block pornography, Green Dam can actually be … Continue reading →

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8 Questions for Bang-yao Liu, the creator of DEADLINE (Post-It Animation piece)

Posted on June 17, 2009 by jozjozjoz

I found myself wanting to know more about the person behind that awesome video DEADLINE, so I reached out to the creator, Bang-yao Liu (劉邦耀), who was kind enough to answer 8 Questions (the first in a new series) for … Continue reading →

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