The first broadcast, to be aired on Wednesday 10/9 will feature an interview with Sonic Team's Yuji Naka. Famitsu's latest project is 'Game Fantajista, Famitsu Presents: Creator Wave,' a weekly radio broadcast relating to the games industry. Err, that is, it's hitting the radio waves (seeing as how it already has a television show). FAMITSU RADIO TALK The biggest games magazine in Japan is hitting the air waves soon. See this story on IGN Xbox for a full report from the cafe.Įlsewhere+in+the+same+store,+Monkey+Ball+andStar+Fox+Adventure+get+big+displays+as+well. XBOX CAFE JISHI CHUUUUUU!!! Microsoft's latest marketing tactic for the Japanese Xbox is, oddly enough, a themed cafe! New to the new Marunouchi Building in Tokyo's main business district is the Xbox Cafe, a cafe where patrons can try out the latest in Xbox gaming. It will be joined on that day by a PlayStation 2 The Best series re-release of Space Channel 5 Part 2, also priced at 3000 yen. Sega announced this past week that Space Channel 5 with hit the PS2 on 12/12 for the budget price of 3000 yen. Now, over year later, and following the release of its sequel, the game is finally arriving at retail. UP DOWN UP DOWN GET GET GET Sega first showed its PS2 version of Space Channel 5 back at TGS 2001. Tsutaya+pushes+PSO+and+.hack+on+thegame+floor+of+its+store+in+Shibuya. J-League Winning Eleven Advance 2002, GBA: 7, 6, 6, 7.There isn't too much of merit coming out in the next week. Pretty boring issue, although there is a new DOAX ad (which you can download in the ad section below). Hmm.įAMITSU SCORE GET This week's Famitsu debuted Capcom's new PS2 Chaos Legion and. As you can see, it's filled with unsold Tekki units. This picture shows one half of the Xbox floor as it was late last week. The porn floor? Eh, we never went to the Laox porn floor anyway, since porn is readily available elsewhere.Īnyhow, here's why we think the store closed down: The Ningendo floor, with its child-friendly demo kiosks, no more. The Xbox floor, with its green hues, no more. We asked the representative what had happened to the game shop, and he pointed us in the direction of the Laox Hobby shop a couple of blocks down the way whose second floor had been converted to a movies and games floor. When we got there, all we found was a Laox representative standing in front of what had once been the Laox store but had suddenly transformed into some non-Laox generic camera and home electronics shop.

We headed out to Akihabara over the weekend in hopes of seeing what was new in the giant seven story Laox games shop. The times, they are achangin', and one of our favorite Japanese game spots is no more.

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