On Tuesday, Nintendo released their next major firmware update for their Wii console, FW v3.00. The greatest change is probably how much faster the Wii boots up and resets itself after exiting a channel now. Then there's also a bundle of cosmetic changes. There's a digital clock added to the Wii Menu and the blue light turns on when you...

Woohoo! Dispatched yesterday and arrived this morning. Wasn't expecting it to be that quick with the extended strike going on. And the official European release date for Trauma Center Second Opinion is supposed to be Friday as well but, I'm not complaining. I'm glad I pre-ordered and paid for 1st class delivery with Gameplay. Saying...

Just when I was thinking about e-mailing Gameplay about my order yesterday, the package arrives this morning. It just also happened to be the day when the highschool exam results are sent out but that's another topic. Usually you'll see a student with straight As appearing on the news but haven't watched it today. I don't usually do...

First thought when I loaded up "Mario Strikers Charged Football" was how bad the graphics looked but then again, it was the same when I first loaded up Zelda:TP... The Wii's graphics just doesn't look that great and it bothers me a little because I know there's much better hardware out there. But as long as the gameplay's good, I can look...

That's right. There's going to be a novel of Shinkai's latest movie "5 Centimeters per Second" and it's going to have some extra content in it. In fact, it's already being serialised in the Japanese novel magazine, "Da Vinci" since the May issue. According to the official "5cm Staff Blog", what happened was some of Shinkai's fans who...

Well, that's twice I've e-mailed Animegamers.com since receiving my order from them two weeks ago. Nothing. I was expecting an apology or an explanation as to why my limited edition of "GetBackers Vol. 39" was missing the postcards that were supposed to have come with it. As I mentioned in my last post, they were the whole reason why I...

The Asian DVD (both the regular and limited editions) came out about a week ago complete with English subtitles. The limited edition contained the English dub too as well as other languages. I didn't pre-order this one like I did when "Spirited Away" was due for release even though I'm a fan of Ghibili's movies because its trailers just...

I actually have next week's "Trauma Center: SO" pre-ordered too but needed another game to play before then. Finished Zelda: TP a few days after getting my Wii towards the end of June. It was a good 50 hours. If only they would add in an enemy rush mode or something after you complete the game... Then it would be even better. Mario Strikers...

Since I will no longer be writing for Gamebrink anymore, I've decided to move my blog out again but not back to Blogger. Blogger's kind of too limited for my liking because its search feature isn't very accurate and there's no tagging or categories. So, it's back with Wordpress but since it's no longer hosted on a separate server, I cant...

Well readers, I've decided I'm going to stop translating Japanese gaming news. There doesn't seem to be that much interest in what other "weird and wonderful" titles come out in Japan anyway... Well, at least not more than what a machine translation can't cover. The other point is that there's plenty of bigger gaming sites and forums...