Play-Asia’s deal for the week is Blue Dragon for $20.

Yeah, that Blue Dragon. The Xbox 360 game that actually brought up system sales in Japan. The game from the creator of Final Fantasy, the creator of Dragonball, and the composer of the Final Fantasy games.

It’s too bad that the game is only compatible with Japanese, Asian or “suped up” (read: modded) 360s, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this right now. If you have a special 360, hit up Play-Asia by clicking the picture. Your welcome.

Originally written on Playstation Underground SingStar forum:

So there’s been a little bit of talk out there about whether or not there’ll be Asian songs on the SingStar Store. Personally, I’ve always thought that it would be a great idea because arguably, karaoke as an activity is much more popular among Asian people.

Over the weekend, I got to see this in action with SingStar Pop and a bunch of people, mostly Chinese, both guys and girls. After the Houston / Jazz game, someone suggested karaoke, and everyone seemed pretty excited. more…

“Which of these Hamlets is in Hungarian?”

“What? Go! Hmmm…. Well, it’s not C. How come? Because C looks like Spanish. Oh yeah, the ‘es’s. Yeah, A looks like it has Spanish roots also, so either B or D. Might be B, but then it could be D. Why does D have random capital letters?

“D is Klingon; it’s B.”

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“What the #*@&?”

“Yay, we WIN!”

Well, I guess I just branded myself a bit there, but I’m sure that a lot of people would recognize romanized phonetic Klingon is they’d seen it before. It wasn’t that weird. Besides, it was a great way to cap of a huge Cranium win from behind. By the way, someone needs to go and make some Taboo expansion card packs.

So it’s not actually the middle of April, but it’s pretty close. Somehow, I always thought that “April Showers” refers to rain, not 10 inches of snow. Here’s some fun stuff you can do on a day like this.

Listen to the new Insomniac podcast, the Full Moon Show: The third episode came out last week and they’ve have a new one up on the 19th. While it may be a bit dry for the folks who aren’t Insomniac Games fans, or aren’t interested in getting into game development, the ravings of a disgruntled Englishman are usually pretty provocative. Interested in Resistance updates or Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction? Click on the image to go check it out.

Open your windows (especially if it’s windy) and play SSX: I used to do this quite a bit. Surround sound move over, this gives you that “surround feel” feeling. You probably should bundle up a bit though. The hands don’t work quite as well when they’re frozen.