I think all of us are concerned that about how the recent devastation in Japan will effect the gaming industry. Post any news you find here. So far I've read:
Hideo Kojima and Suda 51 have confirmed they are safe.
Sony has shutdown several plants.
A member of Nintendo's Project Sora posted pictures of the deserted Tokyo business district.
I think all of us are concerned that about how the recent devastation in Japan will effect the gaming industry. Post any news you find here. So far I've read:
Hideo Kojima and Suda 51 have confirmed they are safe.
Sony has shutdown several plants.
A member of Nintendo's Project Sora posted pictures of the deserted Tokyo business district.
Well, as long as Nintendo's employees are all safe, I am happy. We need people like Miyamoto, Iwata and Tajiri to keep Nintendo afloat.
Also, I'm glad to hear Suda 51 is safe. He helped make killer7 and No More Heroes.
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Posted:
Mar 11 2011 11:44 am
The earthquakes seemed to affect a mystical underwater cave near hokkaido wich was inheritet by a giant squid/turtle-monster wich is called by the japanese people Squidorah.
It is heading straigth to the coasts of hokkaido to unleash its wrath.
it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times
Brian Ashcraft — About 2:45 p.m. Japan time today, an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the richter scale rocked the island nation. A devastating tsunami followed, rolling over cities, enveloping towns. Reports now put the death toll at 300 to 400, with at least another 350 missing.
Reports from Japan are coming in from those who were in the middle of the tumult and those in Tokyo, where Xevious game designer Masanobu Endo tweeted how he thought a Roppongi Hills skyrise was going to topple over.
CyberConnect's Hiroshi Matsuyama is going as far as opening his studio to complete strangers via Twitter, saying there is a television, beverages and some food. Matsuyama provides the studio's address, saying there is enough space for about thirty people and asking for replies via Twitter. With the phone lines affected by the quake, Facebook and Twitter became the go-to for many to get in touch.
The image above shows deserted Tokyo streets, but was not taken by a professional photographer. It was taken by a video game designer, Masahiro Sakurai — the man responsible for Super Smash Bros.
Sakurai noted the lack of cars as he posted the image on Twitter. He wasn't the only Japanese game developer to do so. The entire Japanese game industry seemed to take to Twitter, like Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, who let others know he was okay, like No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda, who warned others, or even like Last Guardian designer Fumito Ueda, who checked if others were okay. One Japanese game exec even apparently rescued a "helpless" junior high schoolgirl.
As the quake was felt throughout Tokyo, Suda tweeted to staffers who were out of the office to either take refuge or return to their homes.
Tokyo was hit hard, with the city's residents reporting severe shaking that lasted minutes. "I have experienced a lot of tremors in the eight years I've lived in Japan," game translator and Yokai Attack author Matt Alt tells Kotaku. "But something about this one was different. It was a sustained rolling motion that made it impossible to stand - we rushed outside at the start, but found ourselves clinging to the walls and then crouching on the ground in an attempt to remain standing. It probably only lasted a minute, but it felt much longer." In the city center, the quake knocked over game cabinets in the area's geek district, Akihabara — small potatoes compared to other areas. In Tokyo's Odaiba, smoke emitted from behind the FujiTV building, while a bus fell off a highway, taking at least one occupant's life.
Katsuhiro Harada, Tekken producer, tweeted that while everyone at his office is OK, his studio is a "wreck," adding, "Aftershock again and again!"
Earthquake Crisis Brings Out the Best In Japan's Gaming Greats Other areas, like Osaka where I live, were seemingly untouched (and I and my family are fine). News reports warn of incoming tidal wave, and people are stocking up on food and water. Even areas outside of Japan are being impacted by the quake. A tsunami is slated to hit everywhere from Russia to Hawaii to Indonesia.
The earthquake's epicenter was offshore, with Miyagi Prefecture and the country's north-eastern area perhaps getting hit the hardest. Bridges were overrun with giant tidal waves, causing flooding and pulling cars away in the undertow. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is sending the Self Defense Force to Miyagi Prefecture to aid with relief efforts. According to Businessweek, Sony closed all six of its factories in the area, as did car makers. A man was killed at a Honda plant after a wall collapsed. There are reports that over a thousand Sony factory workers are trapped in a Miyagi factory and cannot get out.
Earthquake Crisis Brings Out the Best In Japan's Gaming Greats Japan is no stranger to earthquakes. In 1923, the 7.9 magnitude Great Kanto Earthquake leveled Tokyo, Yokohama and surrounding areas. But it wasn't until after 1995's deadly Hanshin Earthquake rocked Kobe and Osaka that the country doubled its efforts to mute the effects of quakes, whether it be automatic shutdowns for trains and elevators or waterways to divert tidal waves.
The death toll for this latest quake continues to rise and is now in the hundreds as police continue to search for survivors.
And I think this is the image taken by Masahiro Sakurai, but I'm not entirely sure:
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Posted:
Mar 11 2011 12:36 pm
I heard this earthquake was facilitated by Nintendo to take out the guy who came up with the Wii's 2011 release line-up.
I think this is revenge from the spirit of Gunpei Yokoi. His restless soul will stop at nothing to get revenge on Nintendo for secretly having him killed.
Besides, I think Nintendo is prepared to clone Miyamoto if anything were to ever happen to him.
Nintendo's Japanese headquarters are in Kyoto, some 300 miles from the devastation of yesterday's tsunami. Still, many have asked if the 8.9 magnitude earthquake caused any damage. Nintendo tweets: "Thanks for your concern! During the earthquake no one at Nintendo in Japan was injured and there was no apparent structural damage."
"Let that be a lesson to you, your family and everyone you've ever known..."
"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"
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Posted:
Mar 12 2011 02:53 am
sidewaydriver wrote:
I think this is revenge from the spirit of Gunpei Yokoi. His restless soul will stop at nothing to get revenge on Nintendo for secretly having him killed.
Besides, I think Nintendo is prepared to clone Miyamoto if anything were to ever happen to him.
Yeah, Gunpei Yokoi's murder at the hands of Nintendo execs is what inspired my initial post, but it's obvious I wasn't thinking big enough.
I heard this earthquake was facilitated by Nintendo to take out the guy who came up with the Wii's 2011 release line-up.
If the nintendo assasins hadn't eliminated him, Segata sanshiro could have saved us all
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Posted:
Mar 14 2011 02:24 am
Not a big loss, (11's kinda old by now and 14 sucks) but Square-Enix has temporarily pulled the plug on their Final Fantasy MMOs to conserve power from the national grid.
"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!"
Not a big loss, (11's kinda old by now and 14 sucks) but Square-Enix has temporarily pulled the plug on their Final Fantasy MMOs to conserve power from the national grid.
