This was already on Ask a Korean!, where I found it, and the giant Gizmodo, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t post photos of the North Korean Arcade. As AaK! says, ignoring how run down and 1982 this joint looks, it’s interesting that such places exist at all. I wonder how many varieties of […]

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Japanese girls dancing in high school uniforms? Ok, sounds fun. Dancing in said uniforms to music taken from an Xbox 360 game? Ok, not exactly my thing, but I still like the dancing. Doing said dance in said uniforms in front of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima?
Ummm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EBhqhz0a5k

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Imagine sitting down to watch a baseball game. You have your beer, your coffee, what have you. You turn on the game and put on your trusty retinal imaging display (RID) device, which looks like a pair of eye-glasses, and works kind of like something you’ve probably seen in the Terminator movies. You watch the game, […]

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From Reuters:
Gaming addicts with sore eyes and tired brains may be able to perk up with “Game Suppli”, a new Japanese supplement developed specifically for the country’s thousands of fanatic players.
Energy drinks really haven’t caught on in Korea the way they have in America and I’ve often wondered why. There’s actually a really old school […]

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I don’t play many video or computer games, but I recently tried out the Wii because a friend’s kid busted one out at ye olde cabin on a ski trip. I was pretty unenthralled, though to be fair, I was knocked out in Wii boxing by both the 10-year-old and my wife.
Wii has a new […]

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