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It all started with Breakout in 1976 created by Atari and was followed by the cult hit Arkanoid by Taito in 1976. I all the time since then so many clones have been made that it’s just unbelievable, such a simple concept of a game derived from Pong. Now we have Shatter by Sidhe a Wellington ...more

Hi-Rez have announced the release date for Global Agenda! It is to be released on the 1st Feb 2010 and is up for pre-order now in Steam and Amazon.com. Pre-Order benifits include: Beta Access Exclusive head gear Reserve your Player and Agency names Pre-Download the game You also get the option to sign up for one month free access to the Global ...more

Global Agenda is an upcoming "spy-fi" MMO by Hi-Rez Studios that is currently in the early stages of closed beta. Global agenda is built on the Unreal 3 engine and set on Earth in the 22nd century where after a global disaster open warfare became a thing of the past forcing conflict into covert operations. To ...more

The Laser Z2 Gaming mouse, it's the cheapest gaming mouse I've ever seen retailing at about NZD$70-80. 5 buttons (even though it says it has 7), switchable DPI between 800-1600-2200, and a "Rapid-Fire" function that means when you click the mouse it fires of either 1 aka off, 2, 3, or 4 clicks in rapid ...more

Been busy of late working on getting various things around the site fixed up and working, plus course has started again limiting my time to do the things I enjoy. Anyway, I've been watching Macross Frontier if you couldn't guess from the picture and I've become addicted to Ranka's (Nakajima Megumi's) singing, as I'm sure ...more

New Zealand is a small place globally speaking, it can be pretty hard to find niche products and groups. I'm lucky in that I have a couple of pretty well stocked anime/manga/figures/more stores handy. But that comes with the issue that a niche product in New Zealand is going to come with a hefty price ...more

I've been learning Japanese for a little while now and I've found a few things that help me learn in my daily use of the internet with Firefox. There are a few plugins that I would like to share that make learning Kanji a lot easier because I find that reading Kanji in context is easier ...more

Doujin Overload is coming to Auckland in a couple of weeks and as far as I know is the only annual doujin exhibition in New Zealand. Opening on the 25th of July 09 Doujin Overload is playing host to heaps of local doujin artists and events including cosplay, art contests, live performances and figure collections. Taking ...more

Fresh from E3, Supreme Commander 2 Trailer. Supreme Commander 2 Trailer Looks big, looks epic in good ol' SC fashion. more

In my ongoing path of learning Japanese (日本語) and combining it with my love of all things anime I stumbled across these two posters: These lovely posters created by na-insoo (lineart) and starshock12 (colouring) nicely cover the base Kana and I can see myself refering to them in the future just for amusment as I learn. ...more