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Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.

For those of you who might recognize me from elsewhere, I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as Features Editor over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool people.

I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...



Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. I also happen to have something of a legendary love for Cammy, to the point that I am the site's unofficial official Cammy fanboy. And yes, I do play as her in Street Fighter and do so quite well, too.

Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser. Accept no substitutes. Not even Aerox.

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AIM: NihonTiger90
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Mad props to Ghost for this amazing card!

Great Retro Quiz! Results

Punch-Out! featuring Mike Tyson


Star Fox (winner)
ActRaiser (winner)
Dolphins!!
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart


Castlevania
Contra
Donkey Kong Country
Smash Bros.
Zelda II

Nihon's Gallery of Hotness:









(Yes, that’s one of Dtoid’s own, Hollie (a.k.a. phoenix-blood). I met her at PAX and she is awesome.)





(Ooooh, I think I found a new favorite :3)

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Ars Technica, VGCharts embarrass The New York Times Brian Szabelski | 11:21 PM on 04.26.2008 9 comments

I'm not sure if you guys caught this or not, but for "the paper of record," this is mildly embarrassing to say the least. Most of you probably remember their recent story on the Wii. Low attach rates, poor sales, retailers freaking out, etc. It was all bad news in one of the biggest papers in not just the United States, but North America and the world. Well, bad news. They didn't do their homework. Ars Technica decided to do some digging and found out that... well, the Times was dead wrong on several of their assertions. All it took was a quick look at Nintendo's fiscal earnings to find the necessary info. Now, to be honest, the fiscal info came out on the 25th of April, with the story running in the times on the 21st. But didn't the Times check and make sure those fiscal numbers weren't coming out? Especially to see if they would have torpedoed several of their main points? Oh, but it gets worse. Turns out their initial numbers came from... VGCharts. Who said the Times got everything wrong. Now, it's one thing to get the numbers wrong. It's another thing to trust VGCharts as your main source for information. Even we know better than that. Nintendo's own figures state each Wii owner has purchased 6.07 games for their system since launch worldwide, with US owners buying 7.48 games per system. There are now 26 million-sellers, including third-party games Guitar Hero III, Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, Carnival Games, Rayman Raving Rabbids, and even Red Steel of all things. So, apparently the panic over the Wii might be a bit too hyped up. It's not doing that bad yet, but that doesn't mean it can't be screwed up. :p