From Times Online:

Identities of online music swappers protected, EU court saysAbout time. If it's a crime, then it has to be handled that way - according to the rule of the law, and by going through all the necessary steps. Otherwise, hands off people's personal data ( Read more... )

It's only the beginning, but Project Soul's new venture, that is Soul Calibur IV, seems fairly promising.
For one, I dig the definitely crystalline appearance Soul Calibur has taken, and Nightmare's new armor (which is a well-rounded combination of his 1P and 2P outfits from the previous game).

And while it is my opinion that there is still a way to ( Read more... )

For those of you who have been curious about my hometown after either reading a few of my old posts, or watching the 2006 Winter Olympics, here's something helpful:

http://www.comune.torino.it/torinoplus/english/

There's a little history, sights to be seen, and a few more things - like Emanuele "Ironhead" Filiberto, who shall receive the Luche's ( Read more... )

Kotetsushin Jeeg. I must say, this is probably the best Nagai "classic" series on TV in a while.

The comedy elements don't feel forced as they were in Mazinkaiser (which suffered terribly from them, since the central episodes were a string of parodies) and actually work, the action and choreographies are good, and the artwork is always extremely ( Read more... )

For those interested in cars and automotive stuff, a classic just came back.
Small and practical, in many ways a forerunner of the "city car" concept, the original Nuova (New) FIAT Cinquecento was introduced on 1957, July 4.


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To those of you living in the USA...
I hope you had a nice 4th of July! Over here, as you may guess, it was just another day - though it was fairly OK, don't worry.

For those who are curious: the closest italian equivalent is Liberation Day, recurring on April, 25 (celebrating our country's emancipation from nazi-fascism).

Shueisha had a major update scheduled for the Ultra Jump website - in fact, they've redesigned it.

Navigation is now definitely easier, both on the eyes and in terms of browsing. The articles and pages within a new issue are superimposed to the main page and the local menubar for the current issue is spot-on.

Load seems a little less laggy too, maybe ( Read more... )

That, at the very least, was the background theme of my weekend. First, on a rather hot Saturday morning, I was among those attending the wedding of our secretary, Sara.

Her husband is a good young man - they're both still quite young, actually, but he kinda looks like Harry Potter with a bit of facial hair thrown in the mix and a more lively hairdo ( Read more... )

They are actually planning for Super Robot Wars (Super Robot Taisen) to evolve into an international franchise.
Also, Atlus is going to handle translations and adaptations.

Good luck with the copyrights, however; while Go Nagai may have managed to get a better hold on his intellectual property by reorganizing his property and subsidiaries during the ( Read more... )

While the Next Big Event in the Marvel Universe is underway, with the usual parade of spinoff and variants (making me think somebody suddenly forgot about the crisis in the '90s and how it started), one has to thank the guys at Activision and Raven Software for Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

I was a bit late in picking up the game (this one made it to ( Read more... )