2011年1月27日星期四

You may have seen these cheap LCD games

Here is the example given in the book for the word “decide”: “Let's decide the supremacy of the Earth by the blows of robots”. The series was spun off into PSP and Nintendo DS games. Other Moe game followed, with one featuring 5,000 English questions that cover the spectrum from junior high school school tests to the Tokyo University swiss replica watches entrance examination.Learning English is hard. Many of our readers are not native English speakers but have picked up the language and can use it with tremendous ease. As a father whose son struggles with the language, I am truly impressed. Ditto for whenever I met Japanese individuals confident enough to strike up a conversation in English.

But these days, the learning English craze might not be as big as it was in the 1980s, when the Japanese economy was exploding. Still, the desire to learn English shows no signs of slowing especially for otaku. This March sees the release of an English teaching game with cybergirl Nanmi the “training android”, and this month a new vocabulary book (NSFW) hit bookstores in Tokyo's geek district, Akihabara. The book features replica brand watches revealing pictures of women with clusters of English words on their bodies. These might help students remember English, but the continual uphill climb for speaking slogs on.Culture Smash is a daily dose of things topical, interesting and sometimes even awesome game related and beyond.[Pic: Aussie Bill's Flickr]"

"You may have seen these cheap LCD games offered as McDonalds Happy Meal toys before. They've been run in several territories around the world. But you've never seen them advertised like they were in Pakistan. Back in 2004, what must surely be one of the world's least popular McDonalds outlets tried a unique method of selling the replica watch gift Sonic games: an animated commercial that looks like it was made by a 12-year-old. In 1994.Oh, and Rouge the Bat is naked. Creepy.[via Tiny Cartridge]”In multiplayer shooters, I'm the worst, and peripherals offer the seductive idea of an advantage. CTA Digital's Assault Rifle Controller, for PlayStation Move, looks like something that could point-and-shoot me to pwnage, or at least not sucking.