A 43-year-old Japanese woman logged into her MapleStory account to find that she had been “divorced” from her virtual husband. She then logged into her ex-husband’s account and deleted his character.
The woman was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating data. She could face up to five years in [...]

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A Microsoft spokesperson told Edge Magazine that Microsoft has no plans of releasing Gears of War 2 in Japan or Germany. No clear reason was given as to why the game will not be released in Japan. The game performed very well in the East, selling over 33,000 copies in the first week alone. In [...]

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The Japanese psychiatrists are going crazy over Dementium: The Ward, a West-made survival horror FPS set in a deranged hospital. They are demanding the game to be taken off not only taken off store shelves, but also to take its website down.
They are being represented by the Japanese Association of Psychiatric Hospitals, which represents [...]

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  Japan may have been ahead of the curve all this time, but the country’s game developers have lost their edge to their western counterparts, believes PlatinumGames boss Atushi Inaba.
PlatinumGames is formed of numerous ex-Capcom staffers, including Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. It also features former employees of Clover Studio – the beloved developer of [...]

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Focusing quite extensively on the PSP this year, what with a new model coming out, Sony has announced that Japanese PSP owners will be able to directly access the PlayStation Store on their handhelds to download content. No PC or PS3 will be required for the download anymore.
To make the service that [...]

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The east may not always get it first, but this time it did: Microsoft has officially cut the price of the Xbox 360 in Japan down to $182 for the Core package. The Premium (with 60GB hard drive) and Elite bundles have also gotten cuts - $277 and $369, respectively.
Interestingly, the Xbox 360 is [...]

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While Sony may be having good times in Europe and America with the PS3, the Xbox 360 scored a small victory in Japan, outselling the PS3 2.5-1. The American-designed console has so far been a major flop in the country, being outsold by the PS2 on a regular basis. In fact, the Xbox 360 [...]

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For those of you who care, it was recently announced that Grand Theft Auto IV will be shipping in Japan for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 come October 30th.
Selling 3.6 million units in NA and Europe on the first day, and 6 million in the first week will we see the same booming success [...]

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While no release date is known for Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix revealed at its invite-only event last weekend that the game will hit Japan in 2009. It is not known whether both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will be released simultaneously or not since work on the latter version is yet to [...]

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