Japan is making an Ace Attorney movie. Takashi Miike is directing, and actor Hiroki Narimiya is starring as Phoenix Wright. This is what he looks like as Phoenix Wright.

The movie was filmed near Kyoto and is slated for an early 2012 release in Japan. This isn't the first adaptation of Phoenix Wright. The all-female Takarazuka Revue did musical versions of the popular lawyer games.

映画『逆転裁判』 [マイコミジャーナル]

Yesterday, Japan's Nikkei estimated that over the past six months Nintendo has lost ¥100 billion. Today, Nintendo revealed its official figures, and...they're not quite that bad. The company instead has posted a loss of ¥70 billion. Here's to silver linings!

For a while now, Sony and Ericsson have teamed up to run a mobile phone company. That company released the Xperia Play, a device we used to call the PlayStation phone. Today, Ericsson is selling up its side of the business to Sony.

This means the company, once a joint venture, will become a 100% Sony-run operation, which has important ramifications for the PlayStation business. Why?

As explained when this was first a rumour, the Xperia Play is a half-assed device because Sony Ericsson was a half-assed company. Now that it's a full-assed company, completely run by Sony, we might one day get a proper PlayStation Phone afer all.

The deal will be completed in January 2012. Ericsson is selling up for 1.05 billion Euros.

Ericsson to sell stake in Sony Ericsson [Nine]

You might think those posters of big-eyed little anime girls are cute as a button. But according to FujiTV, nearly 80 percent of Japanese women polled give a big no thanks to dudes who cover their room with stuff like that.

On the FujiTV segment, women were interviewed about whether it was okay for men to decorate their rooms with posters of girls. According to the clip, 79 percent balked. It didn't just stop there.

"Eh, no way," replied one young woman, when asked about whether anime or game figurines were okay for a guy to have in his room.

The segment appeared on FujiTV morning show Mezamashi TV's "Koko-Shira" corner. The show is focusing on what kind of things are "safe" and what things are "out" in a guy's room.

"No girls ever come to my room, so my hug pillows and figurines are safe," wrote a Japanese commenter, seemingly with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

It wasn't only girly posters that apparently raised eyebrows, but also desktop wallpapers. "What is this, a game? This is no good," replied one featured in the clip, motioning towards a PC screen.

"At least leave desktop wallpapers alone," wrote another Japanese forum commenter.

One of the women interviewed in the segment mentioned how she wanted more manly rooms. I'm not quite sure what a manly room is, but apparently, it doesn't entail images of anime girls.

The reaction online to the segment seems to be mild annoyance by the online community. "Who the hell do these people think they are?" asked one commenter. "Oh, and I bet single women don't have any posters of men on their walls," chided another.

A Japanese tabloid once polled 800 Japanese women from their teens to their early twenties, and the most popular answer was that they didn't want to marry otaku—530 women said that. To put this in perspective, number three was unemployed men, and four was men who beat women (no, seriously). Number two was dudes who had never dated a steady girlfriend.

Know what this means? If you are a painful anime or game otaku with a room full of plastic figurines and cute posters, there are at least 270 Japanese women who might marry you. Go get 'em Tiger.

Sometimes I get stupid email from readers. Sometimes I get nice email. And sometimes, I get email from people with questions. Reader Joel sent me one of those: A question.

This is a Puckman cabinet. Before Pac-Man was called Pac-Man, it was Puckman. "Paku paku" (パクパク) is the sound in Japanese for people opening and closing their mouths, hence why the game was written as パックマン in Japanese, or "Pakkuman".

But, that became "puck", and "puck" sounds like "fuck". As awesome as "Fuckman" sounds, the game's U.S. publisher changed it to Pac-Man. Bastards.

Reader Joel has one of those Puckman cabinets. It's a cocktail cabinet, and reader Joel says it's one of the rarest cabinets you can find in the U.S.

Reader Joel said he got it from a friend who worked at Namco and Atari several decades ago. I'd imagine if you got something like this from industry friends back in the day, you'd conclude that this was real. Yet, Joel wanted to verify it's authenticity. He actually wanted Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani's email, which isn't mine to give out.

It looks like the Namco Cocktail table. And at the risk of turning this into the Antique Roadshow, it seems to match up with photos online. But this isn't the Antique Roadshow, and I'm not Toru Iwatani. I'm Brian Ashcraft.

There's currently a rather clever scam fishing its way through Facebook at the moment, looking to cash in on one of the most popular video game series of all time: the humble Mario Kart.

You know you can't play Nintendo games on Facebook. I know you can't play Nintendo games on Facebook. But millions of more casual Wii owners, who may own a copy of the game but not be up to speed on platform licensing deals, might not know that. So they might click on the above banner, thinking, hey, I can play Mario Kart on Facebook!

They won't be. What they'll be doing is answering a dodgy survey, then quite possibly being asked to install some shady software as well.

So if you catch a friend or loved one reaching for a Facebook game that looks too good to be true, please remind that it is too good to be true.

Mario Kart on Facebook? Fast-spreading scam hits many users' accounts [Naked Security]

Say hello to Mike Fass. You might be familiar with this guy if you watched Street Fighter: The Later Years or if you attended the Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition earlier this year.

The Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition was to pick the top "bear"—or manly, hairy gay dude.

Fass has worked as a rock drummer, an actor, handyman, graphic artist, and more, but it's his Zangief that he's best known for. That's because his Zangief is so damn awesome.

More photos in the link below.

ザンギエフ写真集 [RocketNews24]

You end up spending a lot of your time in Dark Souls dying. Being stabbed, burned, crushed, bludgeoned, whatever. So this custom rig for the game, built out of a coffin, seems wonderfully apt.

The coffin was built for a competition run by publishers Namco Bandai in Australia, and features a big LCD TV, surround sound system and space for either an Xbox 360 or PS3. It's also padded throughout, meaning you can recline and play inside the coffin, just as the game intended.

Morbid, perhaps, but if you're the type to enjoy the game you'll be the type to appreciate the humour.

Blizzard's annual Blizzcon is, for the most part, a friendly get-together for like-minded fans, a place where people can hang out and revel in the fact they all love the same games.

It's a shame, then, that this year's show was closed out by a video featuring little else but slurs and a guy saying fuck a lot.

Warning: the above clip is NSFW.

The guy in question is George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher, lead singer of metal band Cannibal Corpse, who performed on-stage at Blizzcon's closing ceremony.

In addition to lending his talents to the closing gig (it wasn't actually Cannibal Corpse playing), Blizzard also aired an interview with the guy, a devoted World of Warcraft player and passionate member of the game's Horde faction. The version shown at Blizzcon was "bleeped", but we've posted the original here, just for the full effect.

It's awkward viewing, especially the "homo" and "die" parts. As you'd expect from a game with over ten million players, there are a number of World of Warcraft subscribers, gay or otherwise, not happy with Blizzard's screening of the clip, viewing it as a passive endorsement of sorts of Fisher's behaviour.

Additionally, gaming website GayGamer has been contacted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) about the matter.

You've seen the bad of the Street Fighter craze of the early 90s. Now see the good. No, not good. Amazing.

In this clip, from 1993 movie City Hunter, we see martial arts superstar Jackie Chan take a bit of a beating. After which he starts seeing things. Namely, characters from Street Fighter II. Then he becomes one. Then more. It's martial arts cosplay. And it's one of the best things that ever punched its way out of the 1990s.

City Hunter isn't a Street Fighter movie. It's actually an adaptation of a classic Japanese manga by the same name, which was published between 1985 and 1992. The City Hunter comics were over-the-top affairs, as a private detective mixed deadly combat on the streets of Tokyo with light-hearted gags and character quirks.

The 1993 live-action adaptation, shot in Hong Kong and starring Chan, was even more light-hearted. As you'll see in the four-minute excerpt to the left, which culminates in Jackie Chan wearing a Chun-Li outfit and taking on Ken Masters in a fight that uses wires to actually simulate the in-game moves of the character.

God, what isn't there to love about this. It's not just that these guys (Ken, played by Tekken's Gary Daniels, is just as good) look the part, they act it. Note Ken's little "horns" victory signal, and how much Chan seems to revel in the role of a kick-ass Chinese girl with massive thighs.

Not that he did - he apparently hated the movie, and his performance in it - but he looks like he did. What a pro.