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Donna Burke is an Australian voice actress, singer, narrator and businesswoman. She is also known for her vocal work on songs produced for video game series such as ''Metal Gear'' and ''Final Fantasy''. Biography Burke graduated from Edith Cowan University. Her education included "operatic voice, speech and drama" and she received classical voice training for ten years. From 1989 to 1995, Burke taught Media, English and Religious Education to senior students at Chisholm Catholic College. She moved to Japan in 1996 and initially worked as a teacher of English before obtaining some recording work. Burke married Bill Benfield, a British former teacher. In 2004, Burke and Benfield started a record label, Dagmusic, which catered for foreign artists. Burke released her debut album, ''Lost and Found'', through Dagmusic. Burke has worked as a freelance announcer at NHK since 1999. She is also the lyricist for numerous Japanese TV commercials, anime songs and J-pop group tunes. Burk ...
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Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ...
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Strange Dawn
is a 13-episode anime television series created by Hal Film Maker for Pioneer LDC (now Geneon) in 2000. The series follows the adventures of Eri and Yuko after they are transported to a strange world where all the people are very short. The series aired on Britain's Channel 5 during their Saturday morning children's slot in early 2002 and was later licensed by Urban Vision in North America, and the first two DVD volumes were released. However, the company never had any plans for releasing the final two DVDs in the series. Anime DVD distributor: 'Dybex' did release all 4 volumes on DVD with French and Dutch subtitles. Story Two teenage girls (Yuko and Eri) are transported to a magical planet which is dominated by small semi-humans. To the girls surprise they are treated as Gods by the little creatures. They learn that princess Alia used her magic-powers to transport them to their world, because they believe Yuko and Eri are the 'protectors' and will end the horrible war that ...
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The Sun Is In Your Hand
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F-Zero GX
''F-Zero GX'' is a 2003 racing video game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Nintendo for the GameCube console. It runs on an enhanced version of the engine used in ''Super Monkey Ball (video game), Super Monkey Ball''. ''F-Zero AX'', the Arcade game, arcade counterpart of ''GX'', uses the Triforce project, Triforce arcade system board conceived from a business alliance between Nintendo, Namco and Sega. Published by Sega, it was released alongside ''GX'' in 2003. ''F-Zero GX'' is the successor to ''F-Zero X'' and continues the series' difficult, high-speed racing style, retaining the basic gameplay and control system from the Nintendo 64 game. A heavy emphasis is placed on track memorization and reflexes. ''GX'' introduces a "story mode" element, where the player assumes the role of ''F-Zero'' pilot Captain Falcon through nine chapters while completing various missions. The ''GX'' and ''AX'' project was the first significant video game collaboration between Nintendo a ...
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Dino Crisis 3
is an action-adventure video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and published by Capcom for the Xbox. Like the previous installments in the ''Dino Crisis'' series, the gameplay revolves around fighting dinosaurs or other reptiles, but the enemies in this game are not real dinosaurs. They are mutations created from DNA extracted from various dinosaur species. The game takes place on a space station. It is the third and final game in the ''Dino Crisis'' series. The game was originally planned for both Xbox and PlayStation 2, but the latter version was scrapped early in development. Gameplay The player can use 2 guns with 6 ammo types (one gun and 3 ammo types per playable character), in addition to small machines called "WASPS" that help against dinosaur encounters. The game is played mostly through the character Patrick and only a small section is played as Sonya. There are three types of body armor available. Plot Set in the year 2548, it has been 300 years since ...
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Silent Hill 3
''Silent Hill 3'' is a 2003 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami. The game was released from May to August, originally for the PlayStation 2. The third installment in the ''Silent Hill'' series and a direct sequel to the Silent Hill (video game), first ''Silent Hill'' game, it follows Heather Mason, Heather, a teenager who becomes entangled in the machinations of the town's cult, which seeks to revive a malevolent deity. A port for Microsoft Windows was released later in October, and a remastered High-definition video, high-definition version was released as part of the ''Silent Hill HD Collection'', for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012. Originally planned to be a rail shooter, as a result of the initially slow sales of ''Silent Hill 2'' in Japan, ''Silent Hill 3'' was developed almost simultaneously alongside another installment in the series, ''Silent Hill 4: The Room'' (2004). Among the in ...
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Shenmue II
''Shenmue II'' is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. It was directed, produced and written by Yu Suzuki. Like the original Shenmue (video game), ''Shenmue'' (1999), ''Shenmue II'' consists of Open world, open-world environments, Beat 'em up, brawler battles and quick time events. It features a Persistent world, day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, and various minigames. The player controls the teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki as he arrives in Hong Kong in 1987 in pursuit of his father's killer. His journey takes him to Kowloon and the mountains of Guilin, where he meets a girl who is part of his destiny. Some of ''Shenmue II'' was developed alongside the original ''Shenmue'', which was the List of most expensive video games to develop, most expensive video game ever developed at the time. An enhanced port was released for the Xbox (console), Xbox in 2002; the Dreamcast ...
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