While we are waiting anxiously for the so-called “PS3 Slim” to be confirmed at Gamescom Cologne 2009 in Germany, the Xbox gets it’s own slim version first.

The Xbox has been modded by a guy called Bandit5317.
His Xbox is one-inch wide, losing the clunky disc drive and replacing it with a 320GB HDD.

Slim Xbox is amazing! Looks cool and not clunky anymore. It’ll definitely be selling like hotcakes should that ever get officially released.
Source: Xbox-Scene via Gizmodo via Kotaku

We should all know by now that every event will have their interesting moments, or stories.. I found these information rather interesting and funny at the same time. Over at C76(Comiket 76), let’s forget about the great figurines they have on display, the awesome otaku crowd and concentrate on the moments that happened there ^^”.
By the way, Comiket 76 breaks the attendance record of having 180,000 on Day 1, 10,000 more than last year’s C74.

Summary of C76 Day 1:

Good Smile Company’s queue was longer than Type-moon! The domination of Type-moon …

Comiket 76 started on Friday and will end today, August 16 2009. It’s being held at Tokyo Big Sight currently, lots of figurines shown there. Already did a post for the figurines shown at Wonder Festival Summer 2009, so I’ll list those that caught my eye – for now. ;)
First up, Nendoroid Kirisame Marisa from Touhou Project by GSC. Finally a colored one! ^_^. Nice nendoroid.. I really want to buy her, if I could but what is this feeling that I have that she’s exclusive?

1/8 scale of Ein PVC, …

To celebrate the milestone of the Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance film’s two millionth viewing, with the box-office receipt reaching three billion yen (Eva 1.0 only had two billion yen), an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) movie poster is being auctioned for charity on the Yahoo! Auctions Japan website. An autograph of Co-director Kazuya Tsurumaki is also on the poster.

The auction will benefit the Japan Committee Vaccines for the World’s Children (JCV). You can view the auction for the 18m poster here.
A separate 2.78-meter-tall (9-foot-tall) character poster(image below) is also being auctioned …

As we move nearer to the Fall season (which is October) – It dawned on me. 2009 is coming to an end, soon! Alas, I noticed that lots of figurines updates have been posted: Delays and delays!
Just last week I heard news of Fate T.Harlaown getting delayed. Upon checking the Alter’s Website, I found out it was true! Truth was, I don’t know whether I should feel happy that she’s getting delayed (My wallet will feel better this month), but the month of October will be a killer XD.

Besides Feito, …

So how many of you here has built a Gundam before? You know how much hard work it takes right? So imagine a scenario where your suspect your mom wants to throw it all away. Does that justify attempted suicide by trying to burn down your house with you inside? Apparently this man in Kasai city seems to think so.

Police in Kasai City near Kobe have arrested a 29-year-old factory worker named Yoshifumi Takabe on suspicion of burning down his own home on Sunday. The suspect reportedly doused his room …

Just how otaku are you? I believe many of you out there collect a variety of figurines and stuff. But how about going all out just for 1 series? Lol I think I can build a Nanoha Shrine with my collection but I still go for other series: Shana; Gundam. And I am not as hardcore as the other Nanoha fans in Singapore. I had to sacrifice some of my buys because of my tight wallet =P.
Besides having an Otaku purchasing 29 boxes of Petit Nendoroids, how about some of …

A poster advertisement for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) was made staring characters from Summer anime Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.
It will be used for the PR of the rescue activities of JGSDF. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is produced in cooperation with JGSDF 1st Division, Tokyo Fire Department, 3rd Regional Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo Disaster Medical Assistance Team.
So basically… Code Geass May have gotten Pizza Hut… but this series is so awesome it has the Army xD
(Which we all know are secretly building Gundams for world domination)
Ironically I haven’t seen any JGSDF’s …

Fancy going to a Maid Cafe? Or have you already went to one before? Looks like it’s a “sengoku-boom” now, that someone actually started a Sengoku Maid Cafe =O

Could this be due to the anime series Sengoku Basara? LOL.
Sengoku Style Cafe & Bar Mononopu has cute girls who cosplay in a combination of maid costumes and samurai armor. The cafe is only a 5 minutes walk away from Akihabara Station.
I only went to the Meido Cafe here.. and well the food is okay? It’s not a Japanese Meido Cafe so …