Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Pop Up Store at Giant Robot 2 Meat Bun Pop Up Store at Giant Robot 2 September 17 – October 16, 2011 GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 gr2.net (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot is proud to host the Meat Bun Pop Up Store at Giant Robot 2. For one month, the latest Meat Bun clothing line will be available in all styles and sizes. Meat Bun is a Southern California based company featuring video games graphics fused with a creative and thoughtful energy. Their t-shirts often use a graphic that’s inspired from a game that’s been recreated into an aesthetic more inline with an artistic work. Their new line of t-shirts promises to be their best yet. The opening day of the pop up store coincides with the video game event: “Game Night 6″ also at Giant Robot 2. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles as well as an online equivalent. Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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So this is happening fast. An Angry Birds theme park in China. It’s part of a larger park, but there is a section where people can practice catapulting in person. Undoubtedly it started without any permission as the article says, but from hearing experiences, sometimes in China you have to play with the piraters or else you’ll be getting nothing. This goes for film as well. They’ll do it regardless and you can stop them once you get injunctions and so forth and who knows how the Chinese legal system works. There’s merch too. (ABC – Angry Birds)
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When I pop in Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3, I was welcome by some familiar faces and new faces I have never seen before in the Gundam series.As I started the game I was welcomed by the Dynasty Warriors interface which shows: Story Mode, Online mode, or System were you have options and can even check out the gallery section which contains background of all the Mobile Suit pilots. The Mobile Suit gallery is an option were you can view information of each Mobile Suit you can encounter. BGM (background music) gallery contains music from the game and of course a movie gallery. By picking Story Mode you automatically start off as Amuro Ray the hero of Gundam 0083.{correction made by Nahart G} when in fact Amuro Ray is from Gundam 0079
“’Drama in the Delta’ is a non-profit, educational 3D role-playing video game that puts the player into the experiences of two Arkansas concentration camps where the U.S. government interned 15,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.” If there is an internet rule that says you can make a video game out of any topic or scenario, this certainly qualifies. Collaborators from the University of San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance and the San Diego Supercomputer Center are developing a video game called “Drama in the Delta”, which is intended to be an immersive first-player role-playing experience recreating what it was like to be an internee at the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas in 1944. When the game is completed in 2013, you’ll be able to play as a number of characters, including one of four teenaged Nisei girls. In our estimation, this is a pretty daring, ambitious and touchy construct for a video game. But you can actually judge for yourself, as the 292MB prototype is available right now for Windows-only download. In fact, we’d be interested to know what internees themselves think about this project and actual game play. (Chronicle of Higher Education – Arkansas Nisei RPG) And here is the official website: Drama in the Delta.
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