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Gundam: Gizmodo Japan
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This gigantastic glowing Gundam mech may not be as massive as the full-scale 59-feet solid Gundam, but it's as tall as a house and is made of several AT&T 300-page bills. OK, it's not, but at least that way those bills would make some sense. [Gizmodo Japan]
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You may remember that SD Gundam was the best selling PSP game ever in Japan, selling more than 150,000 units in its first week alone. It looks like Bandai and Sony are ready to kick some ass again. Battle Royale allows four players to jump into their favorite Gundam and fight against or with their friends in a pretty cool-sounding cooperative mode. It looks like the entire franchise is represented in this outing, so Gundam geeks are going to go wild when this game hits Japan in October.
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Six Japanese government drones in the Agriculture Ministry were given a verbal wag of the finger for dumping hours of worktime into editing Wikipedia, with one guy racking up over 260 contributions to Gundam-related entries. Speaking for the ministry on the matter, an official commented that "the Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam." (No joke.) Yeah, that would be the Ministry of Giant Robots. (Joke. Maybe.) [Yahoo!/AP, Flickr]
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The next limited edition PSP system is designed for the new Gundam game. Sporting a red face and a black back, the system is tattooed with the "Principality of Zeon" and a logo. This limited edition system comes bundled with the upcoming game and will be priced 25,890 Yen (around $212). The bundle hits the Japanese populace on February 7th.
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On October 5, 2007, an employee in Japan's agriculture ministry was reprimanded for allegedly contributing 260 times to the Japanese-language Wikipedia article about Gundam. Ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura noted, “The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam.” [4]
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