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Bonus Talk: Ex-Capcom Legend Okamoto On Tough Osaka Ladies

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2008-05-03 08:00:38 by Christian Nutt in GameSetWatch
...Osaka notorious for being stingy YO: People from Osaka are stingy? I wouldn't put it that way. It has a history of being a town of merchants, after all. It's not that Osakans are tight with their money, they just get bent out of shape if they can't get a discount on something. You know what I mean, right YMG: Actually, I'm from Osaka myself...
 
Tags: osaka, okamoto, osaka notorious, game, game republic, yoshiki okamoto, ladies, people, people talk
 
 
 
 
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Interview: Yoshi Ono On Bringing Back Street Fighter

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2008-03-22 08:00:54 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Osaka, it's being created in Osaka, but the producer guidance is coming from Tokyo. So that means a lot of business trips, a lot of phone calls So you're the only part of the team that's in Tokyo YO: Yeah, officially, technically, it's pretty much just me. Also the project manager. Ikeno, the art guy, is in Osaka; all the art guys are in...
 
Tags: street fighter, series, street fighter series, guys develop, guys, art, game, tech guys, art design
 
 
 
 
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Review - Yakuza 2 (Playstation 2)

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2008-09-18 18:22:13 by Mark Brown in British Gaming Blog
...Osaka streets. Much like Yakuzas spiritual predecessor, Shenmue, this microcosmic portion of Japan is steeped in eastern culture Yakuza 2 thrives on its atmosphere, its attention to detail and its unmistakable sense of place. While the game is strung along in a series of conversations and fights, it merges into the chatty, neon backdrop of a...
 
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COLUMN: 'GDRI Wisdom': Young Blood

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2008-10-08 08:00:05 by gdri in GameSetWatch
...Osaka, Japan-based Now Production as a game programmer, working mostly on the original Sonic Riders. You can also hear his voice on Mario Superstar Baseball for the Nintendo GameCube Now Production ("NowPro") has been a company of particular interest to GDRI. Like the infamous Tose, it has done many games for big name publishers such as Namco...
 
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Q&A: Ookibloks' Flanagan On His Ocean, Sega Past And Indie Future

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2008-03-12 16:00:06 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Osaka from Tokyo, I showed up at the interview to be told, 'your work is good, but we hired a Westerner (an American) before, and we don't want to repeat that mistake," Flanagan remembers After the disastrous and somewhat racist interview at Capcom Osaka, I braved the Sega CS2 entrance exam and got a 'borderline' result according to the...
 
Tags: japanese games industry, japanese games, japanese, japanese arcade games, flanagan, games, game, game designer, british games industry
 
 
 
 
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Interview: Capcom's Judd On How Japanese Development Does It Different

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2008-03-15 08:00:34 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Osaka, and is uniquely placed to explain some of the cultural differences going on in game development In addition, he has drawn attention for his high-profile work producing the next-gen Bionic Commando , in development at Swedish creator GRIN ( Tom Clancy's G.R.A.W. for PC), and in this in-depth Gamasutra interview, we discuss his work at...
 
Tags: japanese, japanese bosses, japanese development studio, development, game development, western game development, western, japanese industry, japanese workers
 
 
 
 
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2008-04-13 12:08:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...Osaka After Hours: Picking up doujinshi in the heart of Kansai Japan Festival 2008 in Houston TOMOPOP Tomopop About Town : Planet Comicon Excuse me Miss Exelica, your anchors are showing Resident Evil dog plush: you might get blood with your snorgle POPROX Pamela Anderson to Become a (Camera) Whore The Office and 30 Rock are back, baby South...
 
Tags: day, day coverage, town, fetal heart custodies, pamela anderson, heart, videogame spirit dtoid, comedic satisfaction, tomopop
 
 
 
 
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Japanese Game Schools: Two Points Of View?

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2008-07-03 16:00:12 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Osaka-based game academy In any case, the piece itself is pretty darn interesting in terms of educating about what goes on at one of these Japanese game schools - it seems pretty different to many North American game courses, at least. But even more interesting is a comment on the Gamasutra story precis from an anonymous game industry...
 
Tags: schools, japanese game schools, game, game school, japanese game school, trade schools, game schools, game development school, game development
 
 
 
 
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Movaya Releases PlugNPlay 2.0 for Mobile Content Distribution, and Welcomes Casual Game Merchants

2007-11-14 10:04:00 by SideShow in Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Osaka, Japan, the company maintains operations in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, Tokyo and Hong Kong. More information about Capcom and its products can be found on the company's web site at www.capcom.com Since its establishment in November of 2005, Capcom Interactive, Inc. has published several mobile games based on Capcoms celebrated...
 
Tags: content, mobile content distribution, distribute, plugnplay, distribute mobile-content, mobile content, mobile content sales, mobile games based, mobile games