Mega Man 9 hits stores next week
Mega Man 9, also known as Rockman 9: The Ambition’s Revival! (Rokkuman Nain Yab? no Fukkatsu!) is slated to be released September 22 in North America. It will be the first Mega Man title to get a number designation since Mega Man 8 way back 1996. As far as the story goes, Dr. Light (Mega Man’s creator) is blamed for a robotic rampage with which Dr. Wily supposedly doesn’t have anything to do. However, since this is a...
Yamapi graduates
Unlike many teen stars all over the world who drop out of high school and wallow in the pool of their own idiocy and talent fees, J-dorama star and Johnny’s Entertainment boytoy Tomohisa Yamashita (Yamapi for fans) took the admirable route of entering school to finish a college degree. Hats off to him as he has finally graduated from Meiji University’s School of Commerce. He started out in 2004 and finally finished in time...
Utada Hikaru to release new English album
Universal Music Group has just recently released as few details. Aside from their profit numbers (which no one except stockholders and finance geeks are concerned about), they also announced that Utada Hikaru’s upcoming English-language album will be arriving soon – sometime in the end half of the fiscal year (October 1-March 31). UMG plans a strong release schedule for the second half of 2008 with new albums from Black...
Okashii News: Berlin shops sells shroom-laced chocolates
Another seasonal feature here on Sugoi Stuff would be Okashii News – newsbits that are funny-odd (okashii meaning strange, amusing, funny). This might not be funny to you but some members of Team Sugoi are just plain choco-fiends, with our latest contributor, GenkiChelli, a choco dealer as well. The lot of them have been trying to convince me that chocolates will cure my depression claiming the age-old argument that chocolates...
Iron Man sequel to feature War Machine and Mandarin
To me, Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever. Well, that is because I consider The Dark Knight as a crime drama who happened to feature a guy in a cape. Anyway, Iron Man. It was pretty obvious that it will have a sequel with hints of War Machine and Mandarin shown in the first movie. And yes, fans, we have confirmation that these two will be in the next movie. In a press fest for the upcoming Iron Man DVD, director Jon Favreau...