Homebrew-enabling devices such as Flash Cartridges are now banned from Britain. In an anti-piracy law that was discussed today, the UK has decided to make a ruling against any flash cartridges being imported or sold in the UK, including, but not limited to, M3DS Simply and R4DS just to name a few. While flash carts were originally used to boot homebrew software like Web Browsers, Organization Software (see DSOrganize), IRC Clients, Email Checkers and all sorts of useful tools, their legality has been questioned as commerical game backups can easily be downloaded and booted on the console thanks to flash cartridge software loaders.
As usual the latest System Menu version set out to remove any homebrew you might of installed on your Nintendo Wii.
Although it did succeed, It’s success has been short lived.
On July 26th, The Homebrew Channel was updated to 1.0.7.
This update is compatible with System Menu 4.3.
Other updates in this (Homebrew Channel) update include the end of DVDx, as a new exploit has been found that allows direct communication with the Disc Drive.
This update also includes a new look and improved USB support.
To update you can either download the update from the link mentioned below or update through the channel itself.
Some Japanese anime/moe character fans have built a desktop pack for Ubuntu (called Moebuntu), transforming the bland “Coffee Brown” appearance into something more appealing. Everything is customised, including title bars, colors, icons, sound sets, and the works. This pack would be perfect for people with female friends that are also into anime, or people who want a change from the generic themes. All Ubuntu software packages still work as the pack uses an installed copy of Ubuntu to achieve the desired effects.
Black Rock Shooter’s bikini-clad heroine makes a epic return in the form of a 55-minute long OVA. The Original Video Animation is a continuation on the actual Black Rock Shooter song sung by Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku. While originally crowned as the “alter ego” of Miku, the heroine has a eye that bursts into flames when enraged, and also carries a sword. Some fans have also raised an eyebrow as to the hair style, which is somewhat similar to Azusa from K-ON’s twin-tail hair style.
The eagerly awaited for second issue of “WAaI! boys in skirts” was released today to much excitement. This comic magazine is aimed towards otaku transvestites, and does not disapoint at all. Even if you’re not into that sort of thing, it is still a great read. The magazine features, many video game and anime characters in drag, and various other original works.
The real meat and bones of the magazines are the original doujin chapters featured.
Issue two will feature chapters 2 of Reversible, Sazanami Cherry, I-mistress young tinny?, Sometimes Otokonoko Onnanoko, Secret baby Devil. There is also a new series introduced called Pasutofyu Cha and they are publishing the one-shot special Only man’s daughter could use her arms.
Gamasutra, a gaming body, has released an article that details the Top 5 major sellers for games that are buy online, download online, following the media-less principle. The NPD group claims that US digital download purchases reached 21.3 million in 2009, which is roughly 48% of the total game sales for that year. However, retail game sales slumped 23% in 2009 due to the increase of digital download purchases.
The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S has got a iPhone pose-mimicking advertisement in a newspaper that a twitter user, under the username of @jmcomms found while reading their local newspaper one day. With Android devices stealing a page out of Apple’s design book now with the iPhone-styled phone shape and 4 button front panel layout (while the iPhone only has the “Home” button on the front panel), it looks like Apple needs to step up to the plate and up their advertising a bit more. Despite considering the issues with iPhone 4, it looks like people who want real performance and don’t mind extra buttons, the Samsung Galaxy S may be a worthy contender for people to make the switch from the iPhone platform on to the Android platform.
CoalGuys has released their subbed version of K-ON!! Season 2, Episode 16. Once again, CoalGuys have done a great job at translating and subtitling the episode. You can download the episode over at the CoalGuys’ website which is located here.
On a related note, Frostii seems to have picked up their game and they have also subbed episode 13 to 15 of the same anime. While CoalGuys is a quick translation team, Frostii had a delay as the translators where on holidays, possibly attending to other matters. None the less, both translation teams will keep fans happy of the mentioned anime series. Watchers can disable subtitles in their media players (Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, VLC, etc) if they don’t want to see what the characters are saying.
Anime, Manga and Gaming (not to mention sometimes not-safe-for-work) Blog Sankaku Complex has been quietly slipped in the Google Blacklist of words, thus as an result, being removed from search results in the mentioned search engine’s auto-complete features and the system is slowing removing results from the search results for the “Sankaku Complex” term.
However, Google doesn’t seem likely to release details as to why the site has been censored from search results. This has also happened to some other websites, which involve content that is inappropriate to list here. There is also some debate over the censoring of certain words in some languages, while a innocent-looking word can be censored when a non-family safe word slips through the so-called “SafeSearch” filter. It is even worth noting that websites with porn content may not be censored from “SafeSearch” enabled searches.
That crazy scamp Jessi Slaughter has done it again! Beyond all thoughts of decent parenting, this small insane scene-child was released into the internet. Her ever so loving parents made sure she had a webcam, and know she will never make any bad choices when always on some of her favorite sites like Stickam, YouTube, and 4chan. Also note the fact you have to be 18 to browse 4chan. She is currently being protected and watched over by the “cyber police.” Jessi has always been known to act very mature for her age using gratuitous amounts of foul language and obscene gestures, although she still claims she is not a whore and we are just haters. There is no denying that she dun goofed with posting scantily clad pictures of herself and claiming that she “haz moar titz than u!” Anons everywhere saw this abomination of parenting and the child herself and decided to troll her, and she and her parents responded like any normal person would. By screaming, yelling, and crying in a YouTube video telling people to stop trolling “or else!” Her father, finally stepping up to the plate “backtraced [our] emails” and “called the cyber police on us.” Unfortunately for us, real police and law enforcers got involved and now there are actual consequences about to be put into action.