The RoggBlog

This from Famitsu: Paperman, Cykan’s new first paper-person shooter, went into open beta on Wednesday. I can’t wait to get my hands on this one, I’m enjoying the concious rejection of higher-realism environments that put your PC through the electronic equivalent of a massive coronary. (more…)

Japan’s homegrown Sadville Second Life clone meet-me is holding a thousand-strong parade through the streets of virtual Tokyo next week. (more…)

Mantanweb has some new screenshots of King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match, SNK’s 10-year anniversary update to tag team fist-o-rama King of Fighters 98, taken from the first day of the AOU 2008 expo at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Feb. 15, 2008. (more…)

While flicking around on the Mainichi’s Japanese site today, as I am wont to do, it occurred to me that there is some interesting geeky news on here, news that gets something in the range of bugger all exposure in English.

So here is my attempt to redress the situation. I’m going to try and translate articles a couple of times a week, taken from places like Mantanweb. Despite the fact that stuff in there is old. Hmmm.