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Muramasa: Demon Blade Hands-On Impressions - Game Informer


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Muramasa: Demon Blade Hands-On Impressions
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The music makes the experience all the more unique: boss battles mix electric guitars with traditional Japanese music, giving the fights an even more epic—not to mention weird—feeling. The rest of the soundtrack is more subdued but still entirely

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Video: Robots crash into dummies, identify human weaknesses

The IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation is kicking off today in Kobe Japan. In other words, the world’s leading researchers in the field of robotics are gathered in a single location to plot our doom. Don’t believe us? Just check out the video after the break. It’s a research piece from the Germany Aerospace Center depicting experiments of robots crashing into human test dummies. They claim that the research explores human-robot accidents so that robots can be made safer. We’re not so sure though, judging by the devious laughter heard after the first gruesome impact.

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Girl power: Is there a new revolution in China? (Independent)

sashays on to the runway, all pink ruffles and girlish make-up. The cameras flash as she struts confidently in front of the most appreciative audience she’ll ever have, while other onlookers sip cappuccinos and eat expensive hand-made chocolates. At the end of the catwalk, she is embraced by her beaming, proud mother and the two pose for photographs, more hugs, and then she turns, hand on hip, …

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Review: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1

This megazoom camera has dSLR-like functions and can record HD-quality movies. But is it any good?

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Japan’s portable handset aims counterattack objective over at China…

Japanese mobile phone market in China in the battle, a serious inherited the tradition of Japanesehomeappliance problems, the cognitive…

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Girl power: Is there a new revolution in China? (The Malaysian Insider)

SHANGHAI, May 2 — She sashays on to the runway, all pink ruffles and girlish make-up. The cameras flash as she struts confidently in front of the most appreciative audience she’ll ever have, while other onlookers sip cappuccinos and eat expensive hand-made chocolates. At the end of the catwalk, she is embraced by her beaming, proud mother and the two pose for photographs, more hugs, and then she …

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Japan’s mobile phone ambitions counterattack goal again at China

Japanese mobile phone market in China in the battle, a serious inherited the tradition of Japanesehomeappliance problems, the cognitive…

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Tohtonku has the last laugh as Follow Me builds strong following (The Star)

WHEN Follow Me shampoo made its debut in the local market in the 1980s, many snickered at the choice of name.

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Children's festival: Giant fun for families - TheNewsTribune.com

Children's festival: Giant fun for families
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This year, the Tacoma Giant Magnet festival will feature a lineup that includes the Chocolate Drops, European jugglers and acrobats, Sufi dancers from India, a German magical clown, Japanese music and more. There'sa variety show featuring multiple acts

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Blu-ray player sales on the rise, report says

I haven’t bought a DVD in more than a year. Since getting a PlayStation 3–which plays Blu-ray Discs–I just find it difficult to justify paying a slightly lower price (for a …

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