Was Celebrity Poker not enough for you? Do you prefer your major diplomatic decisions to be decided based on Chinese gambling games? If so, then you're gonna love Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku -The Legend of Koizumi. In this mahjong manga written and drawn by gag manga artist Oowada Hideki, world leaders fight it out in the most intense games of mahjong ever played.
These world leaders include former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro, current Prime Minister Aso Taro, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin, and of course, American Presidents George W. Bush and his father George H. W. Bush. Plus, according to the Canned Dogs article that brought this manga into the limelight, the pope makes an appearance in the sequel series: Kindai Mahjong Original.
Make sure you check out the post, which features quite a few intense, ridiculous, and not altogether flattering depictions of your favorite leaders. Fantastic stuff.
[via
Canned Dogs and
Japanator]
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Some very dedicated Japanese fans are preparing to celebrate one of the most important events in world history, an event that changed the course of countless lives for hundreds of years to come – and it never really happened.
That's because in February of 2009, the giant spaceship "SDF-1 Macross" from Shoji Kawamori and Noboru Ishiguro's original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series launched after its ten-year rebuilding period. As announced on the official Macross Frontier website, there will be a completely non-fictional event held in Akihabara, Tokyo to celebrate the fictional launch of the fictional spaceship. The event, which has been given the superfluous title "Macross: The Super Dimension Space Launching Ceremony ~It's Really 2009 Already…It's 2/22 (Nyan Nyan Nyan), Deculture!~," will feature guests from all over the world of Macross – yes, real guests like animators and voice actors.
Hey Japan, in case I haven't reminded you in the past couple of months... you're totally crazy, okay? First you have a funeral for Raoh of Hokuto no Ken, and now you're celebrating the launch of a fictional spaceship? You're crazy... but we love ya even more for it, kid!
[via
Anime News Network]
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The best GTA game that everyone forgot about has been making headlines this week on two accounts. First, the story of a young, preteen girl who helped her family to safety after their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee flipped into a ditch. According to her mother, Karen Norris, Audrey Plique was able to recognize the danger of an overturned vehicle and react accordingly, thanks to Grand Theft Auto! "She just knew, from playing Grand Theft Auto,” Norris explains. “She saw on there that when a car rolls over, it can blow up. She knew that could happen to us." Help arrived soon after and all members of the family walked away with only cuts and bruises.
Second, we have word from Eurogamer that, according to “sources close to Rockstar North,” the downloadable content exclusive to the Xbox 360 is on track and might be arriving sooner than we think. According to these sources, the content will take the form of two ten-hour-long episodes. New achievements for the episodes have also been reported, as well as other rumors running the gamut from new cities to extra story content. According to Eurogamer, the release date for all of this new GTA goodness is to be sometime in late November of this year.
[via
Game Politics,
Eurogamer]
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What novelty! This here gent by the name of Ken Hoang is the current international champion of Super Smash Brothers Melee, and is strangely enough now on the hit reality show Survivor. Hey man, what? I thought reality television died nearly two years ago, but if there's anything that'll bring it back to some audience(s), it would be a Smasher in the wilderness with a bunch of douches and broken personalities. Here's what we can expect from him (that is, if we remember to watch. I'll be putting this on my TV Forecast):
"He loves the fact that he will be considered an underdog because everyone will underestimate his prowess at playing mind games. Nobody would look at him and believe he climbed Mt. Fuji at the age of 20. Ready to exploit his slight physical stature, Ken will trick his fellow players into seeing him as a non-threat, only to smash them if they get in his way."
What?!
[via
CBS]
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When Nintendo unveiled their "revolutionary" new console name two years ago, they had no idea that somebody else already had the rights to it. Wii Yatani, a Japanese-American gamer living in New York City, has had the name for 26 years. Yes, he has known the pain of "wee-wee" jokes that Nintendo has suffered through for a mere 2 years.
The MTV Multiplayer blog has an extensive post up about Wii's experience (no, not the "Wii experience"), detailing his life of Wii jokes, and how the Wii has changed his life. (People can finally spell his name) Now, we're going to finish up this post before we all get confused about Wii and Wii and other people named Wii and their feelings about Wii and... We give up.
[via Joystiq and MTV Multiplayer]
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Now, here I was thinking that this game was just a shameful representation for Olympic sports and here Kosuke Kitajima was using Mario and Sonic at the Olympics to mentally prepare himself for the competition in Beijing. Flabbergasting! Naturally, you can't become a great swimmer only by playing some Wii; he ate and swam an assload and all that good stuff. When asked, he explained...
See, Mario does the breaststroke. And thus, it's perfect mental training for envisioning the actual Olympic hall.
So there you have it. Some video games can help you score some gold medals. I'm just wondering if he was envisioning all the other competitors as Bowser and Waluigi.
[via 北島「Ｗｉｉ」で「金」予行演習]
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When you were grounded back in high school, you probably wanted to kill your parents. But I doubt you ever tried to "off" them with the help of a hitman. That's exactly the route 16-year-old Cory Ryder took when his parents grounded him and took away his Playstation 3.
The Maryland teen was caught in a sting operation organized by his mother and local authorities, in which an undercover police officer acting as a hitman met him in a hotel room to discuss the possibility of killing his parents. Cory offered his stepfather's truck as payment to the hitman, allegedly telling him, "Two bullets is all it takes." The officer proceeded to arrest the boy on a charge of attempted murder.
Maybe I'm a bit crazy here, but killing my parents over being grounded is somewhere between running away from home and suicide on my list of options. And you just wait until Jack Thompson gets on this one. It was clearly the influence of the Hitman games that made him do it!
[via The Times UK]
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The ever-vigilant posters over at NeoGAF found this humorous easter egg/scary coincidence in the Super Mario Galaxy boxart. The little sparkles in front of the title clearly point out a set of letters, which when placed in order, spell--you guessed it--"U R MR GAY."
Have fun with this one, anti-Nintendo fanboys, since right here we have irrevocable proof directly from Nintendo that Wii is FTG (for teh gay). At this very moment, AniGamers is receiving word that Nintendo PR people are organizing a redesign in which the sparkles will spell an anagram of "UM SORRY."
[via NeoGAF Forums]
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