Alright, this bit of news isn't directly related to videogames, but doubtless there are reasons for gamers to get excited over it.
Fans of the singing virtual characters known as "Vocaloids" (the most famous being Hatsune Miku) probably know that there's a nifty freeware program out there called MikuMikuDance. It's basically a CG animation kit that facilitates easy machinima creation. Countless memes and bizzare creations have spawned from its virtual loins and populated the Japanese nerdspace, just one example of which is embedded below.
Now, dedicated fan are hard at work porting MikuMikuDance to XNA, the development framework that empowers - among other things - the community creating countless Xbox Live Indie Games.
But what can gamers expect from this stunning windfall? Well, other than lovely things like the video below, they can expect to have another powerful tool at their disposal to create high-quality...dance..game..things? I'm not completely sure, but if nothing else, the PSP and Japanese arcades will no longer be the only platforms to deliver potential videogame Vocaloid joy to the masses.
Are they actually porting it or creating a similar game? There's a strict review process for games, and copyrighted material is always an instant failure in the acceptance criteria.
Japanese Girls! Teacher, mother, [lusty] secret lover.
Urge to masturbate...rising...rising...rising -- fading! Rising...
rising
[family sighs]
Come, family. Sit in the snow with Daddy and let us all bask in
erection's warm glowing warming glow.
The Vocaloids craze scares me almost as much as the Touhou craze. You can't cross the internet without tumbling over a mountain of fan-art from either one.
i had to stop watching that video about 40 seconds in. i am not going to lose whats left of my sanity by staring into that evil fucking vortex of evil sinful evilness.
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5:00 AM on 03.16.2010
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Urge to masturbate...rising...rising...rising -- fading! Rising...
rising
[family sighs]
Come, family. Sit in the snow with Daddy and let us all bask in
erection's warm glowing warming glow.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gx-UWz5Pp4&feature=autofb
I definitely need to get this. Hopefully, it does well so we can get games like Idolm@ster and all the other Miku Hatsume games.
Or this.