June 19, 2013

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NTT DoCoMo expected to launch Tablet made by LG in March 2011

NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s top mobile operator is reportedly planning to launch a tablet. Report says that the Tablet for NTT DoCoMo will be made by LG and will be running on Software made by Google. The Tablet is expected to be launched in March 2011 In Japan and have smaller than 9-inch screen. More details [...]

Sharp to launch Galapagos Tablets and Content Services in US in 2011

Sharp Galapagos Tablet Image

Sharp is planning to launch Galapagos content service and Device in US e-Reader Market in 2011. Sharp had launched its Galapagos media tablets in Japan recently. The company had also launched its Galapagos content service there. The company is looking to secure book publishers and content providers, and content will be provided in the EPUB [...]

Nintendo World 2011: Upcoming Nintendo 3DS Titles Unveiled

Nintendo World 2011 Upcoming Nintendo 3DS Titles Unveiled

Nintendo has updated the official Nintendo World 2011 website with a list of 3DS titles that will be available for the public to experience live in Tokyo next month. The list includes 32 titles, nearly half of which are playable, although it must be noted that some of the items on the list like the [...]

Onkyo’s “TA117″ Tablet running on Android 2.2 revealed

Onkyo'a TA117 Tablet Image

While so many tablets yet to be revealed at CES 2011, Japanese Company Onkyo introduced their new Tablet powered with Android 2.2 and Tegra 250 Chipset (1Ghz). Named “TA117”, may turn out to be more content-oriented than focused on mobility, as it measures 10.1-inches. This tablet also features two USB 2.0 ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, microSDHC [...]

New Earth Defense Force Coming in 2011

New Earth Defense Force Coming in 2011

After performing a countdown clock that ended on Christmas Eve, Japanese publisher D3 showed a trailer for four new episodes in the Earth Defense Force series. Two of the four titles in the trailer for console versions, dated 2011: Earth Defense Forces 2 portable [sic] on PSP in the spring, and Earth Defense Force: Insect [...]

Monster Hunter Passes 3 Million Sells

Monster Hunter Passes 3 Million Sells

Japanese consumers continued to swallow Nintendo software and hardware according to the latest Media Create weekly sales report (via 4Gamer.net). The recent success of Monster Hunter Portable Sony kept the third at the top of the charts, but fifteen of the twenty games run on Nintendo hardware. Monster Hunter came in the first place (again) [...]

Mario Tops Yahoo Japan 2010 Surveys of Games

Mario Tops Yahoo Japan 2010 Surveys of Games

Yahoo Japan has recently announced the results of its investigation in 2010 ranking all entertainment media and Mario finally score in first place on both games and game characters graphics. Candidates for the survey were selected on the basis of a set of criteria based on indoor games, including the number of Web searches, activity [...]

Samurai ІІ: Vengeance to be released for Android early 2011

Samurai II Vengeance Image

Originally developed for iOS, the Samurai ІІ: Vengeance is confirmed to launch in Android market early 2011, the developer; Madfinger Games announced that it will be available for Android shortly. The tweet from the Developer reads: “MADFINGER Games is proud to announce Samurai II: Vengeance for Android devices will be released early next year!!” Samurai [...]

Final Fantasy IV Trailer Released

Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection Hits PSP

For the umpteenth time is Final Fantasy IV remake. This time it is called Final Fantasy IV: Complete. Hopefully this will mean developer Square Enix is finished FFIV remake. The game features Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Final Fantasy will be complete next spring in Japan IV. Check out the [...]

NEC to introduce LifeTouch Dual-Screen Android Tablet at CES 2011

NEC LifeTouch Dual Screen Tablet

To compete in the market that has already been defined by the iPad, Android tablets need something special and unique to differentiate them. It seems Dual Display makes Sense for it. Dual-display devices have become a sort of pet project for notebooks and tablet makers, and it appears that NEC intends to experiment with this [...]

Samsung Integrating Mobage Social Gaming with Android Smartphone

Mobage Social Gaming Image

Shortly after the Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA acquired Ngmoco for $403 million, CEO Tomoko Namba told Inside Social Games that she hoped to quickly quadruple the revenue of her company in about four years, which already tops $1 billion yearly. As unlikely as that ambition sounds, the details of the plan are now emerging. [...]

JVC announces 3 new Everio HD Camcoder

JVC Everio Camcoder Image

JVC announced this morning three new Everio Camcorder with two of them, the High-end GZ-HM690 and GZ-HM670 (Picture above) comes with a 3.3Mpix B.S.I or Back Side Illuminated CMOS Sensor, offering better video quality in Low light. While the lower end model the HM450 only has a 1.5MP CMOS sensor. Both Models comes with AVCHD [...]