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It’s Morphin’ Time! Two Power Rangers Scheduled To Appear at IF Con 2015!

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

IFCon2015 The list of guests for The Island Fantasy Convention continues to grow and with their latest announcement, I squealed like a nerd.

Our fair city of Victoria, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, will see in 2015 not one but two Power Rangers! Wether they are here as special guests of the con or they are expecting the Empress Hotel to be smashed by a giant creature is anyone’s guess. I’m just happy they’ll be here — destruction or no.

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Little Farm: Spring Time review

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Fans of online resource management games will find Little Farm: Spring Time for Android devices enjoyable and addicting. It mimics the dynamics of another game, Hayday, which should not deter would be experimenters of farm culture to check other versions out. The barnyard graphics are cute and crisp. Perhaps the reason this game is appealing is that it successfully fuses the Asian art style with Western aesthetics. Just playing the game alone will reveal that most of the players are from Asia, meaning an instant market.

With this growing community, this product will no doubt gain a quick cult following and a problem: there’s no translation service on their Facebook page to tell fans around the world what an announcement is about. In the game, the same problem exists when a gamer from the East ‘messages’ someone from the West with a resource request. A built-in auto detector for foreign transactions can come in handy. That can be important when economics and commerce is concerned.

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Sakura Con Guest: Range Murata

Murata is best known for his beautiful conceptual and/or character design work on such anime series as Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6, Shangri-La and SoltyRei.

Winner of the “Best Artist of the Year” at the 2006 Seuin Awards, he has published numerous doujinshi and artbooks including Racten, robot and futurhythm.

Murata has also been involved in console games. His work has appeared in Sega Saturn’s Wachenröder and Playstation 2’s Spy Fiction for Sammy Studios.

Previously announced guests at Sakura-Con include Shigehiko Sato at Fuji Creative Corp, Mami Koyama (Sailor Moon & Urusei Yatsura), Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan), Christopher Smith (Digimon Fusion and Crossfire: B-Daman), Matthew Mercer (Tygra from Thundercats reboot) and performance artist ELISA (Hayate the Combat Butler and Project Railgun S).

To buy your tickets to Sakura-Con, visit their official website.

Finding Family Ties with Game Cycle

Game Stop 1 — Otaku no Culture’s James
Shaw is always on the hunt
for something to buy.

Ontario-based operation Game Cycle has traveled west, as far west as it can, to give sailors and Esquimalt residents an outlet to buy, sell and trade videogames and movies. This store has been in operation for over a year now, and it’s an independent extension of the Ontario run business. And according to regional manager Justin Hembree, the traffic from the local community has been good.

“We get a lot of regulars through, a lot of locals,” says Hembree, “and the military comes in.”

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Tour the Newest Dragon Age

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

BioWare’s newest Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer is out now and it looks very promising. Using Frostbite 3 as it’s foundation, the environments look stunning. It appears BioWare is going more for a game where a player can get lost in the lands on a grand adventure ala Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

At 1:43 of the video we can see there is a place in the lands where you can find a large tear in the Veil. But the location that has me most excited is the opportunity to explore the Dwarven Deep Roads. The Deep Roads was the gem of both Dragon Age I and II.

Although I may have to update my computer for this one, it would almost certainly be worth it. Hopefully Dragon Age: Inquisition will not be a disappointment as Dragon Age II was. Reusing the same environments was just one of the problems. It made the game feel tedious.

Dragon Age: Inquisition launches this fall on Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and PC.

First Look: Anime Winter 2014 – Final

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

First Look: Anime Winter 2014 – Part 1
First Look: Anime Winter 2014 – Part 2

Warning: At least one of the videos contained within this article is not suitable for children.

Thank you all for reading my reviews for the winter 2014 seaon. It took alot of typing and many hours of viewing but in the end it was all fun. Perhaps next season I will have the articles published earlier. I hope to read your comments whether you agree with me or not. But for now enjoy the article. And you can bet your last box of Pocky there will be a spring 2014 article.

D-Fragments
D-Frag!
Diifuragu
ディーふらぐ！

The Plot: Kazama Kenji is known as a juvenile delinquent but even with this reputation in mind, the high school’s Game Development Club are desperate to recruit anyone just to keep their club status including Kazama.
The Good: There are some chuckle moments throughout the first episode.
The Bad: The chuckle moments are few. The comedy style feels forced and it is one that doesn’t appeal to me. And after watching the first episode there really isn’t enough to convince me to watch a second episode.
The Ugly: Student body vice president Ataru wanting to catch the female president’s spit. Ick and creepy at the same time.
The Verdict: The first episode feels like there is nothing to drive the show into a position to be a serious contender this season. This series is running on empty.