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Congratulations, Real Men Network! After careful calculations, and not to mention money laundering a massive amount of healthy donations and adsense revenue from one of the world’s greatest independent game making sites and selling off all of its creative assets to rich oil tycoons, Kenton Anderson, our glorious leader, has finally made the smart move for the future of this business and finally purchased himself a major league sports franchise. But with so many disposable options at his disposal – which one of them should he buy?

It’s up to you to decide.

Which one of these *sarcastic tone* “amazing teams” have the best chance of turning themselves around in a short time frame into a legitimate champion?

You must choose now...for the sake of the future...

Yeah, March 5th, what’s up with that? I thought that you guys were on top of the ball on these sorts of things.

Either way, it’s not a massively huge deal, but I am curious: who’s in charge of updating that and how come there hasn’t been any updates in a while? It’s not like we haven’t had much to talk about on here lately.

- So the rumors of a new Sailor Moon remake WERE true afterall!

As of right now, the first three episodes of a twenty-six episode full season is currently ongoing in Japan and is being streamed online on sites like Crunchyroll and Hulu every two weeks with each new episode release. I would imagine that once the first season has finished wrapping up by sometime in 2015 that this will be released worldwide and dubbed into many different languages like it was previously before. I’ve heard of many rumors that there was going to be a remake for this, but I just suddenly heard about it just right now from a friend.

As a curious onlooking male who stumbled his way into the series as a kid back then, Sailor Moon was pretty much the first anime I had ever seen before Dragon Ball and Pokemon came around. I basically owe my entire curiosity towards the subject thanks in large part to this show. I remember back then that if you were a guy and you watched this show back then and told people about it – you’d get your ass beat at school for it. But I didn’t care. I wasn’t the only guy who watched this show and wasn’t the only one who loved it. And I’m extremely pleased to see this show come back for a new generation of kids and adults.

The artwork looks amazing – and I’m glad that they’re speeding things up in terms of the episode count. I mean, they’ve already have introduced Sailor Mercury and Mars already, so that’s definitely a much faster start compared to the previous.

I’m excited – how ‘bout you guys? Did you guys end up watching the original back then when you were kids / teenagers like me, or was this one anime you personally avoided for some reason in favor of other shows? If you’re a guy that grew up watching this show, like me – were you ashamed to tell anybody about it? What was their reaction when you did? Also, who’s your favorite scout? Mine’s Jupiter because she was into sports, looked the most normal and toughest of the group, and is pretty my idle GF. :)

Newsbrief: Today, Capcom announced that at its most recent investor meeting, its shareholders voted to end the company's takeover defense -- which means that Capcom could now be acquired if a company buys up large amounts of its stock.

Many companies have defenses against a stock purchase takeover, and there are various schemes and strategies they can adopt to block a party from gaining control of the company by buying up its stock.

Capcom originally put such countermeasures in place in 2008 following a shareholder vote. This latest development won't stop the company's management from attempting to "react to make necessary measures within the admissible limits of applicable laws and regulations," the company said in its statement.

Source: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/219300/Capcom_shareholders_open_company_up_to_takeover_possibility.php

- It’s a fire sale! Everything must go!

Really, I’m not too surprised about this, considering Capcom’s recent track record and their last financial report that was released around last year, this was bound to happen, but it’s just so hard to take all of this in right now.

With this latest announcement, it’s soon going to be a major bidding war in an attempt for other companies to get their hands on some of its major IP’s, such as Megaman, Street Fighter, Dead Rising and Resident Evil.

I’m hoping that Nintendo might throw their hats into the ring, but I seriously wonder who else might be interested… Either way, this doesn’t look too good…

We’re witnessing the death of a legend, my friends. A legend that I hope survives somewhat even after death.

Square Enix have announced Rise of Mana, a new entry in their Mana series, for release on iOS and Android. Revealed in Famitsu this week, the game, like other recent Square Enix mobile titles, will follow a free-to-play model with micro-transactions.

The story begins when the main character falls from the heavens and lands on Earth. For reasons currently unknown, he or she has a body that is half-angel and half-demon. The real-time system will allow up to 8 players to play together at a time and be able to swap between angel and demon on the fly.

So this was definitely a welcoming surprise when I first heard about the news. For someone who grew up playing some of the earlier Mana games for the SNES and PS1 – I was wondering when Square-Enix would announce another one of these things.

Although the trailer for this game looks absolutely fantastic, it’s quite disappointing to see that this game isn’t being ported to any of the home consoles as well, like the PS4 or even the Xbox One or even offer cross platform play for the 8 player multiplayer component. As of right now, Dawn Of Mana, which was released waaaaaaay back in 2006 is the last home console Mana game to be released, which was about 8 years ago. (And that makes me actually quite sad.)

The free-to-play / mini-microtransactions worry me a little though, of course. After seeing some of the other mobile free-to-play / mini-microtransactions RPG games being heavily scrutinized as of late *cough* *cough* TALES OF PHANTASIA *COUGH*, I’m a bit concerned about how all of this is going to turn out. Although most of the mircotransactions, for now, seem to be centered around the weapon crafting system – or whatever the hell that means – I’m still worried that they’re still going to screw this up and do something stupid like charge people to save their games or something, similar to what Tales Of Phantasia did.

Oh well, this is still pretty good news. ^^