I stopped in to my local EB Games last night to pick up “Mario Party 8”, and grabbed one of their flyers on the way out — it looks like they are having a pretty nice sale on stuff. Check it: If you have not grabbed “Shin Budokai: Another Road” (or just “Shin Budokai 2” …
The newest commercial for the Microsoft Zune features quite an interesting little Dragon Ball Z reference: Big thanks to everyone who has written in and posted about this one. From the sounds of it, you can check out the commercial on (at least) American television right now, especially on MTV and Cartoon Network.
Posted on our forum by Ash, we have learned that the performer of the second closing theme to Dragon Ball GT (“Don’t you see!”), and additionally the writer to the series’ opening theme (“DAN DAN Kokoro Hikarete ‘ku”), has passed away today at the age of 40. Izumi Sakai, the singer of Japanese pop group …
Episode #0079 of the podcast is available for download! This week, we took a look at the initial announcement of Sparking! METEOR (Budokai Tenkaichi 3). Are we excited? Should we be? I took a look back at how my excitement from Sparking! to Sparking! NEO was shattered by the final product, and speculated on whether …
Anime News Network is reporting a story from over on ZAKZAK that a 24-year-old Japanese man has been arrested for bootlegging (and then, of course, selling) over 100 copies of Dragon Ball movies on DVD via an Internet forum.
For fans of the Japanese versions of these recent games, you will be happy to know that the official website for “Sparking! METEOR” has launched:
Atari’s formal press release announcing “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” (recently announced for Japan as “Sparking! METEOR”) states a whole lot of interesting things: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) one of the world’s most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, today announced that Dragon Ball Z(R): Budokai Tenkaichi(TM) 3 is in development for Wii(TM) and PlayStation(R)2 …
Episode #0078 of the podcast is available for download! We recorded the episode before the news on Sparking! METEOR broke, so you can expect a great deal of thoughts on the game on next week’s episode. Until then, check out all the rest of the news we posted about yesterday… that’s what you’ll be hearing …
Shoko Nakagawa, generic Japanese otaku-idol-of-all-trades, has released an EP of anime cover songs. The first track and single off the CD is none other than the closing theme to Dragon Ball, “Romantikku Ageru Yo”. The five-track EP is entitled “Shokotan Cover ~ Anison Ni Koi Wo Shite”. There is a special CD+DVD bundle that includes …
Atari issued a press release earlier this month stating that that are in the process of a workforce reduction of approximately 20%: Atari Announces General and Administrative Overhead Action Plan – Reduction of approximately 20% of the total workforce – NEW YORK, May 1, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), …