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About Hachi76

Well, I'm a leo. I like long walks on the beach and severely damaging people's faith in a caring, just God. I am both nerdier and cooler than you, and the sooner you accept this, the sooner we can move on. My areas of expertise are Video Games, Anime and Kung Fu Films, with minors in Manga, Film and Music circa the 60's to the 80's

Bethesda Announces The Evil Within, Hachi Reminds Himself to get a Tetanus Shot

Source: IGN For a while now, Shinji Mikami, the man behind Resident Evil (among other things) has been teasing his new game, previously code named ”Project Zwei”, because Mikami likes English like we like syphilis. The announcement came through this morning that … Continue reading

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Gamer Review: Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Release Date: March 20th, 2013 (24th in America) Developer: Next Level Games Publisher: Nintendo Ahhhh, remember the early 2000′s? Gods, those were heady times. The Dreamcast went under with the arrival of the PS2, Microsoft was … Continue reading

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Newsbreak: Arkham Origins Announced, Hachi Prepares to Become The Night…Again.

Source: IGN In a move that will surprise no one with a basic knowledge of series-milking, Warner Bros. announced the development of Arkham Origins, the latest in the critically and fanbase beloved “Arkham” series of Batman videogames. Precious little information … Continue reading

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Newsbreak: Dynasty Warriors 8 Confirmed For International Release, Hachi Starts Counting Seconds

Source: Koei Warriors In the most exciting news I’ve heard since sliced bread was used to power that Haitian dirigible (oh, you didn’t hear? Pay attention…), a producer over at Koei made it officially known that Dynasty Warriors 8 (known … Continue reading

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Hachimuse: Remembering Roger Ebert

 ”So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.” -Roger Ebert, on his last post on his website, April 2nd, 2013 Roger Ebert, one of … Continue reading

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Anime Theater: Basilisk

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpo Cho (just Basilisk in its English distribution) Year: 2005 American Distributor: Funimation When I say “love story”, what comes to mind? If you’re a literary sort of any kind, or if you ever attended a New York school … Continue reading

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Hachimuse76: Final Fantasy X HD: Why Buy It?

I miss being a young gamer. I really do, the days when I could just fucking LOSE myself in a game are long behind me. Sure, I still play games. I relish them, I dissect them, I obsess over them. … Continue reading

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Kung Fu Theater: Odd Couple

Bo Ming Chan Dao Duo Ming Qiang (Sweet Jesus) AKA “Odd Couple” AKA “Shaolin Saber vs. Wutang Spear” Year: 1979 Availability: Available in several compilations, and a few individual releases if you’re willing to look. Generally subbed, although a terrible … Continue reading

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Anime Theater: Shigofumi: Letters From the Departed

Shigofumi: Letters From the Departed Year: 2008 American Distributor: Sentai Filmworks When the time comes for you to die, what will your last thought be? As the darkness closes in around us, as we shut our eyes for the final … Continue reading

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Ace Attorney 5 Announced, Hachi Seeks His Fancy Tie and Wig

After several years of languishing in the depths of the “Shit We Don’t Talk About Because We Need To Focus On Re-releasing Our Fighting Games” closet at Capcom, website “My Nintendo News” revealed that the latest issue of Famitsu (basically … Continue reading

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Samurai Warriors 4 Announced For 2014, Hachi Seeks A Nearby TARDIS

Source: http://www.koeiwarriors.co.uk/ In a twitter post, Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musou) producer Hisashi Koinuma announced that Samurai Warriors 4 is indeed in development…and that it will apparently be coming out around the second coming of Christ.

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Newsbreak: Rumors Abound of FF Versus 13 Cancellation, Hachi Suddenly Recalls That FF Versus 13 Exists

Source: http://kotaku.com/5927645/rumor-final-fantasy-versus-xiii-is-dead In an article posted early this morning, Kotaku added some fuel to the ol’ rumor mill by announcing that, according to several of their sources, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, part of the series of games planned to take place … Continue reading

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Gamer Review: No More Heroes

There comes along, once in a while, a game that utterly stuns you with its uniqueness. It resides so far outside the bounds of what you, or others for that matter, are used to that even as you play it, … Continue reading

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Resident Evil 6 Announced, Hachi Resolves to Get His Evil From Foreign Distributors

Source: IGN Earlier this week, news broke about a teaser site that, in all likelihood, was to build interest for the new Resident Evil game. And lo and behold, here we are, a new one announced and on the horizon. … Continue reading

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Gamer Review: Shinobi (PS2)

Games are meant to fulfill a variety of “enjoyment types”, so to speak. Some of them are meant to evoke strong feelings of relation to the characters that populate its world, like JRPGs. Others are meant to simply pull feelings … Continue reading

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