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The latest release from the pillows is out! Tokyo Bambi. Had a listen, and very quickly went “squeee!” when I heard horns kick in! HORNS! TRUMPET~!!

I just got myself a trumpet for Christmas so I’m even more psyched now that I have a pillows song to learn!

Video is highly amusing. Henceforth, drums should always be played in a a bathtub. And Sawao does an awesome impersonation of a drunken sarariman at karaoke, ehehehehe!

But you know what was most squee-worthy about this entire track? That man playing trumpet with the cardboard box over his head on the television? Yeah! That’s the guest horn player!

Which guest horn player, I hear you cry?

None other than Nargo of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra!

Skapara and the pillows, together at last!

So….happy!

Oi! Cat Empire! You got some catching up to do!

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Kotaku compared the E3 trailer for the new episodic Sam and Max game from Telltale Games with the dropped game due from LucasArts. They commented that the LucasArts trailer looked better, and I have to agree. It was funnier, the voices sounded better, and the Telltale version looked like a half-hour mock-up job.

I will be buying the Sam and Max game anyway, but geez I hope it’s better than what this trailer leads me to believe. Watching the LucasArts trailer and thinking that they cancelled such a fantastic project makes me sad in the pants.

The trailer for the new Telltale game:

…vs. the old LucasArts trailer…

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I waited until after E3 to write about Wii because there was a rumour going around that it was all a huge viral marketing hoax, and not the real name of Nintendo’s next-gen console, codenamed Revolution.

But, alas, no big joke was unveiled at E3 and Kotaku posted that the Wii trademark was found. So it seems that we’re stuck with the worst game console name known to mankind. No really, it can’t be any worse than Wii. Even ‘Rotted Warts’ sounds better than the name ‘Wii’.

So, on that note, I will hereby always call Nintendo’s next-gen console ‘Revolution’ and now let’s never speak of it again.

It is looking sweet as, though. The last few days I’ve been glued to YouTube and the gaming sites for E3 goodness and while the PS3 will also be a must-buy for me, it didn’t quite give the warm-in-the-pants feeling that this video did:

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