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VGN for November 18th, 2005

Video Game News:
Don't Buy the 360!!!

Just read the article.  Fair and balanced crap is still crap.  If you think they are being smart about reporting video game news, check out this subsequent article:

10 HOT games that won't play on the 360.

They list Nintendo DS and Sony PSP games, friggin dullards.    Go back to lying about the unpopular decisions our government makes...oh wait, you just do that for one side.

Nintendo quickly follows suit...

By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer
Wed Nov 16, 7:04 PM ET
SEATTLE - Nintendo Co. has become the latest console maker to promise parents the means to help restrict their children's access to violent video games.
 
The new version of Nintendo's videogame console, called Revolution and due out in 2006, will allow users to require passwords for video games that carry certain ratings, such as "T" for "teen" or "M" for "mature."

Many people associate Nintendo's game consoles with younger users, and few games designed for its systems have a lot of violence or sexuality.

Although the company didn't receive many customer requests for parental controls, "it is something that I just think is right to do," said Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo's U.S. headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

The move echoes Redmond-based Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to bolster parental controls with its    Xbox 360, due out next Tuesday.

Socom 3 tops charts

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Computer Entertainment America's third-person shooter "SOCOM 3:     U.S. Navy SEALs" was the best-selling video game in the United States in October, market research firm NPD Group said on Tuesday.

Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq:ERTS - news) had the second and third most popular games with sports titles "NBA Live 06" and "Madden NFL 06."

What I've been playing:

Stubbs the Zombie!!  Just beat it, great game!

Land of the Dead:  Road to Fiddler's Green.

MmmMmmmM...Zombies.

Anime News:

ANIME EXPLOSION: Phantom Master
Join us for our free, monthly showing of anime on the big screen!

When: Midnight, Friday, November 18th

Where: Lowes Cineplex at Universal Studios Orlando

We will begin wristbanding at 10:30 pm at the table just inside the lobby.

Phantom Master
 After wandering through the desert for days, a bitter warrior named Munsu is lost and unable to continue. His life is unexpectedly saved by Mon-ryon, a young man who dreams of becoming a secret agent for Jushin, a once-great country that was recently destroyed. Mon-ryon's goal is to save his girlfriend, Chunhyan, a born fighter who is held captive by the evil Lord Byonand. Then, from out of nowhere, blood begins trickling from his chest. He has been fatally wounded by the Sarinjas, a cannibalistic breed of desert goblin. The quick-thinking Munsu convinces these beasts to spare his life, in exchange for the peaceful handover of Mon-ryon's appetizing corpse. Although skeptical of Mon-ryon's motives, Munsu sets out to continue the mission that the young idealist described. Accompanied by an army of ghost troops, unleashed using the powers of Angyo Onshi, Munsu liberates Chunhyan. After visiting her boyfriend's final resting place, she declares herself Munsu's bodyguard and, together, they set out on a mission to punish those who stripped Jushin of its original glory.

Phantom Master: Dark Hero From Ruined Empire is a groundbreaking and important film in the history of Asian cinema, as it marks the first theatrical animation collaboration between Japan and Korea. Even the source material comes from mixed national descent. While the story originated as a graphic novel inspired by a Korean folktale, it morphed into a popular, serialized comic in Japan's Sunday Gene-X. Financing for the film came from both Korean and Japanese sources, shortly after Korea decided to open its borders to Japanese culture. The film brings together Japan's OLM, the animation studio behind Pokemon, and Korea's up-and-coming Character Plan. Combining quiet moments of poetry with striking, gruesome moments of death and destruction, this film places a thoroughly unsentimental emphasis on the apocalyptic. This depiction of hopeless desperation is also reflected in the film's wandering anti-hero protagonist and his resemblance to Clint Eastwood's jaded man-with-no-name incarnation in the films of Sergio Leone. In fact, the film has an alarming variety of visible influences, from Taxi Driver and the films of Sam Peckinpah to the trilogy and numerous works of anime. There's even a sequence involving zombies. Above all, though, Phantom Master amazes with its epic, action-packed vision and elaborately conceived, imagined world. Fans of Korean and Japanese cinema pay close attention, this may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Running Time: 87 minutes

Description from FanTasia

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