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Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 31 - Feb. 6: Holding out for a Hero edition
The inescapable despair that surrounded us upon Activision's announcement that its putting its music franchises on ice is threefold -- the most potent sorrows stemming from the substantial number of gaming industry employees that will be terminated due to the cutbacks. The second sadness? All the f...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 16 - Feb. 22: Spit-take edition
"A spit-take is a comedic technique in which someone spits a beverage out of his or her mouth when he or she reacts to a statement during a take. In a spit-take, the reaction is usually one of surprise. Danny Thomas is sometimes credited with popularizing its use in comedy." (Source: Wikipedia, th...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 2 - Feb. 8: Redundant redundancies edition
Here's an interesting fact: In order to earn money through product placements, you actually have to have a pre-arranged deal with the advertised company. You can't just start interjecting their brand name into conversations and wait for them to send you a check. Alas, our meticulous plan for bring...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1: Money, money makin' edition
Times are tough, folks. If you live in the economically beleaguered U.S. of A., we think you're probably aware of what we're DRINK PEPSI talking about. We know you guys place us on a towering, resplendent pedestal, high above the recession's unforgiving grasp, but just like everyone else, we've ne...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25: Super prediction edition
If the trusty mechanisms which usher our incoherent ramblings onto the internet do their job, then this particular edition of the Japanese hardware sales should be hitting monitors across the globe just before the beginning of the 43rd Super Bowl. We devised this clever bit of scheduling because -...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 5 - Jan. 11: Pep talk edition
Oh. Oh, dear. While the first full week of the year is rarely typified by outrageous console sales explosions, we certainly didn't expect to see all seven of our competitors have their sales figures sundered in twain. We imagine the respective companies behind said consoles (and their curiously ste...
Japanese hardware sales, Dec. 29 - Jan. 4: New, new media edition
We're all pretty torn up about the collapse of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a magazine that got some of us through many a dull Social Studies class during our formative years, but with the sorry economic state print publications currently find themselves in, it wasn't a completely shocking turn of e...
Japanese hardware sales, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21: Resolute edition
We imagine that most of you will be spending the latter part of this coming Wednesday evening performing the same annual tradition that we've upheld for as long as we can remember -- waiting for Dick Clark to slip up, finally revealing his poorly disguised true identity as a backwards-counting rob...
Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30: Scholastic pressure edition
It's that wonderful time of year once again -- temperatures are plummeting, houses are being adorned in blinding flecks of incandescence, folks are dressing up like Eskimos, and college students are being crushed under the terrible pedagogical strain of final examinations. Those among you who are ...
Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23: Unwise purchases edition
We rarely ask any favors of you, dear readers, so we're hoping you'll oblige the following humble request. You see, in the midst of Black Friday's acquisitional frenzy, we may have gotten a tad carried away, making purchases beyond our fiscal means -- and far beyond our typical practicality. What ...
