Capcom has posted the extended Tokyo Game Show trailer for Resident Evil Revelations , and you can be sure that it’s fun for the whole family. Rachel has been loathed by many fans, and liked by others . I’ll admit, there’s something about her hair that’s strangely irritating, but I’ve got nothing against her. Not that it really matters, though — just watch this video to see what I mean. By the way,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Destructoid Discovery Date : 20/09/2011 21:30 Number of articles : 2
The typhoon Talas, packing gusts of up to 108 kilometres (68 miles) per hour, made landfall on the Pacific coast of Shikoku island at about 10 am (0100 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. In Nara, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Tokyo, more than 130 centimetres (50 inches) of rain has been recorded since Tuesday. Typhoon Talas cut across western Japan on Saturday leaving at least two people dead and five missing after heavy rains and fierce winds, officials and press reports sa
Gaga’s page reportedly suspended due to copyright complaint over a Japanese TV show clip. By Gil Kaufman Lady Gaga Photo: Cool Kids Club/ WireImage Lady Gaga has long been the Queen of YouTube . Her videos have racked up more than a billion views on the site and fans have flocked to it in droves to post their home-brewed takes on her outfits, fashion, music and videos. But little monsters who were looking for their daily fix of Gaga on Thursday were likely disappointed when they went to Mother Monster’s YouTube account and found the following message, “This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s Copyright Policy.” What gives? According to Time Out Tokyo Gaga’s official YouTube account was suspended because she posted footage from her recent appearance on the Japanese show “SMAP x SMAP,” on the Fuji TV network. The widely-circulated video of the 10-minute performance in which Gaga sang a medley of songs from Born This Way resulted in a takedown request from Media Interactive Inc. on Tuesday (July 12). The video features Gaga performing on a fog-enshrouded set with the popular Japanese boy band SMAP, and the issue appears to involve Gaga’s failure to secure the digital rights to display their performance on her YouTube account. In the clip, Gaga emerges from an ornate box wearing a an elaborate black dust mask and sings “The Edge of Glory” before sitting down at a piano housed in a giant bejeweled hand sculpture for a solo take on “You and I” that morphs into the album’s title track. The “Born This Way” performance features the members of SMAP standing and posing behind Gaga, joining her dancers in some high-energy choreography and singing light backup duties on the hit track. Spokespeople for Gaga and YouTube could not be reached for comment at press time. On Monday, Gaga tweeted her excitement about the SMAP performance, writing, “My performance+cooking show appearance on SMAP SMAP is airing now in Japan. Kawaii Monsters!” A week earlier, she Twitpic’d a sepia-toned photo of her with the group as well. Related Artists Lady Gaga
The earthquake hit at 8:16 am (2316 GMT Wednesday) with the shallow focus located in Nagano prefecture, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook central Japan on Thursday, seismologists said, injuring several people and causing cracks in a 16th-century samurai castle listed as a national treasure. It was followed by smaller aftershocks. The tremor damaged Matsumoto Castle in Nagano, causing cracks in the inner w
Despite his crew staging a mini-revolt and refusing to go to Japan due to earthquake and radiation fears, Justin Bieber is adamant that he’ll be there. The singer is scheduled to perform in Osaka and Tokyo later this month, but many of Bieber’s crew members boycotting the trip after the nuclear disaster. As a result, the May 17 and 19 shows are in limbo as of right now. While he hasn’t weighed in publicly on the feud between the crew and his manager, Scooter Braun, JB has reportedly decided that he’s going, period. If Bieber doesn’t have the crew to pull off stadium concerts, he’s willing to sing at smaller venues. Anything, sources say, not to let down his fans. Not sure how he’s gonna pull that off logistically on almost zero notice, but that’s dedication to the cause, people. Sometimes you just gotta Belieb!
Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.1 aftershock Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. The strongest aftershock since the day of the magnitude-9.0 megaquake was a fresh blow to victims of that March 11 quake and subsequent tsunami that killed some 25,000 people, tore apart hundreds of thousands of homes and has sparked an ongoing crisis at a nuclear power plant. Damage and injuries from the aftershock were not immediately clear. The Japan meteorological agency briefly issued another tsunami warning Thursday night, but later canceled it. Complete coverage: Disaster in Japan Officials at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there was no immediate sign of new problems caused by the aftershock. Japan’s nuclear safety agency says workers there have retreated to a quake-resistant shelter in the complex. No one there was injured. However, at the Onawaga power plant in Miyagi prefecture, two to three power lines went down, leaving the facility reliant on one remaining power line to service the cooling operations, a company official said. Officials say Thursday’s aftershock hit 30 miles under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The quake that preceded last month’s tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude. It was originally reported to be a magnitude-7.4, but the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., later downgraded the quake to 7.1. Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at USGS, said it struck at about the same location and depth as last month’s hug quake. It’s the strongest of the more than 1,000 aftershocks that have been felt since, except for a 7.9 aftershock that day. Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute. Source
‘I ate the rest of my salary,’ rapper recalls of subsidizing his income with free fast food. By Jayson Rodriguez Lupe Fiasco on “When I Was 17” Photo: MTV News Lupe Fiasco may be a man about the world now — check his past single “Paris, Tokyo” — but back when the Chicago MC was a teenager, he was only a local explorer. “When I was 17, I worked at this restaurant that was behind my house,” Lupe says during the latest episode of “When I Was 17,” airing at 11 a.m. Saturday on MTV. “It was literally my house, the alley, work. I used to jump over my back fence, and I was in the parking lot of my job. I was the short-order cook. It was fast food. It was really crappy. I would work 40 hours a week, and it was 60 bucks. I remember trying to get my homeys jobs there, and they would be like, ‘Are you stupid? I’m not working for 60.’ ” “We had better things to do than work at a restaurant,” Fiasco’s friend Doughboy said. “Especially when we knew how much he got paid and how long he had to be there.” The Lasers MC maintained he had a plan that his friends couldn’t quit comprehend. He knew he was underpaid, but he decided he would get his due by way of his stomach, if not his wallet. “They didn’t see my vision: I didn’t have to pay for any food,” he said. “I ate the rest of my salary that I thought I deserved.” His plan, however, wasn’t approved by management, and Lupe wasn’t afraid to voice his displeasure. ” ‘Well, you should pay me some more and I’ll stop!’ ” he recalled telling his boss. “When I Was 17” — this week featuring Jessie J , Tyrese and Lupe Fiasco — airs Saturday at 11 a.m. on MTV. Related Videos Check Out A Sneak Preview Of ‘When I Was 17’ Related Artists Lupe Fiasco
‘Within the week, I think we’re gonna announce it,’ he tells MTV News. By Jocelyn Vena Simon Cowell Photo: Brian Ach/ WireImage This fall, Simon Cowell and his still-unnamed panel of judges will assault television screens with the American version of the hit U.K. talent show “X Factor.” The former “American Idol” judge wouldn’t cop to any of the names being tossed around as possible judges, but did divulge that he’s really stepped up his game for who he hopes will make up the final panel. “It’s gonna be a balance between guys and girls, and it should be a balance between people who have been singers and also, like me, have worked behind the scenes and know what they’re talking about it,” Cowell told MTV News. “It will be the best judging panel so far. I promise you: If I get the people I want, I’m really happy.” With nothing yet set in stone, Cowell did lay out the ground rules for securing a spot on that coveted panel, revealing that fans should know more soon. “I think you’ve got to put yourself out there and, as a priority, it is about the contestants to begin with. You’ve got to have a sense of humor. You’ve got to work hard because you’re gonna be mentoring the contestants on the final stages of the competition, which basically means you’re going to be responsible for what they sing, what they wear, how they behave,” he explained. “You’re like a manager/producer for up to 10 weeks, and I think it’s important that you have to have people on the panel that have made people into stars as well. And so you’ve got to be different, you’ve got to be original.” But finding those people hasn’t been as easy as he imagined it would be. “This has been harder than I thought,” he said. “You’ve got to negotiate people’s deals, you got to make sure you’ve met as many people as possible, and you got to find the right chemistry. I’ve got it in my mind now. I think of who I want this panel to be, and within the week, I think we’re gonna announce it.” Who would you like to see judge “X Factor”? Share your ideas in the comments!
Singer Phil Labonte tours picked-over convenience store, feels aftershock at the Tokyo airport. By Gil Kaufman All That Remains Photo: Prosthetic Records Massachusetts metalcore band All That Remains had barely arrived in Tokyo last Friday for a soundcheck for their show that night when a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake shook Japan and they found themselves caught in the midst of one of the worst disasters to ever befall the island nation. While Tokyo was mostly spared the devastation that nearly wiped out a number of northern cities closer to the epicenter following the deadly combination of the largest quake to hit Japan combined with a massive tsunami, ATR singer Phil Labonte and his crew definitely felt the ground shake. They ran down five flights to the street to see what was going on as the light fixtures and doors shook back and forth violently in the building. As they hit the street, they could see skyscrapers swaying from the initial trembler and several strong aftershocks. In an exclusive video diary recorded for MTV News on his iPhone, Labonte described the aftermath of the quake and the challenges the band faced in trying to catch a flight out of the shattered nation Saturday. The clip opens with images of confused and scared-looking Japanese citizens standing in the street as aftershocks continued to rattle the city. “Our area around [the venue] wasn’t really affected in the way [the northern city of] Sendai was. There was no tsunami, there was no major damage to any buildings,” he said, noting that you could sense “something has gone on” when you walked around on the streets outside his hotel. After a large aftershock in the middle of the night on Friday that set off alarms in the hotel, Labonte said he packed up his bags as a precaution in case he had to run outside in an emergency. “That’s really all that I’ve been doing is watching the news,” he said, before walking across the street to tour a neighborhood convenience store. Confirming reports, Labonte filmed images of store shelves stripped bare of food and water, with row upon row of essentials snatched up by worried citizens. “As you can see, a lot of food is not here,” he said. “You imagine all these shelves would be full in one of the most modern cities in the world. … Most of the water’s been picked away clean … and it happened pretty fast too.” While awaiting their flight to San Francisco at the Narita International Airport on Saturday morning, Labonte said things were initially calm. With the exception of a few bedrolls laid out on the floor by people who seemed stuck at the airport, he said things looked pretty business-as-usual despite the emerging picture of the massive damage done to northern cities such as Sendai and the then-burgeoning threat posed by failing nuclear-reactor cooling systems. “There’s some places where it looks like people have been camping out, trying to get out. I guess there’s been a lot of delayed flights,” he said. With nearly eight hours to go before their flight left, Labonte checked back in a short time later to report a strong aftershock, which he said caused the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the departure terminal to flex in and out. “It’s still a pretty active situation. It’s changing pretty much by the minute,” he said. Finally, the band made it onto the flight, and Labonte reported that the band and crew were all OK. “I should take a second to send our deepest sympathy to all the people that have had loved ones lost. … It’s really awful and we’re very fortunate to not only have gotten out of Japan with no injuries and survived with not a scratch on anyone, but to be able to actually document this.” A number of artists, from Katy Perry and Lady Gaga to the Jonas Brothers , Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and Diddy have urged fans to donate to the Red Cross and offered their condolences to the victims of the natural disaster. For more information on what you can do to help with earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan, head to MTV Act , or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Related Artists All That Remains
