March Madness is in full swing, not just in the world of college basketball but Ningin. The craziness came to us this past week in the form of the Manga Mania special about all-things manga, an IRIS soundtrack + photobook giveaway, special edition The Host DVD giveaways and the Team Sowon vs. Team Wonderful MLG match. More »

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Before writing this, I swore I’d stay away from using cliches like “March Madness” but then realized, I can’t. I just wrote it, and you just read it. So read this: Wow, March Madness! Not just in the world of college basketball, but in the world of Ningin. This week in the world of Ningin, we’ve gone absolutely mad. First there’s this week’s Manga Mania. It’s a special, all about manga. Even madder, we’re giving away an FT Island MBC Collection DVD + photobook set to one lucky user. More »

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Before anyone makes any mistakes, today is officially the end of February — sorry Leap Year babies (Happy Birthday, btw.) As it is officially the end of February, it is also the end of a handful of our Fall in Love with Mixr giveaways and the closing of The 2010 Winter Olympics. Speaking of the Winter Olympics, we’ve been keeping a close eye on our favorite Asian athletes and you can read about it here. More »

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And here we are at the last week of the month of love. You might think falling in love with us was all too sudden, but I assure you that we’ll be loving you forever. How do I even start? Last week we launched a new weekly giveaway with a TVXQ The 3rd Asia Tour Concert “Mirotic” in Seoul 3DVD + Photobook + Bookmark set — courtesy of YesAsia. Not only do we love you so much, we promise to bring fun into your lives, constantly . Case-en-point? This weekend was the third round of the MLG ladder tournament. We’re also looking for volunteers for an upcoming Team Sowon vs. Team Wonderful match. Not only are we promising fun, we promise to keep you fashionable and chic with our new fashion site, OMGHaute. Also, manga lovers, you’re in for a treat with Manga Mania week coming up. Our love is true, my friends. More »

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Happy Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year, my fellow Ninginers! Nothing but love this week here, starting with our Fall in Love with Ningin special, dedicated to Valentine’s Day. If that’s not enough love for you, we got to interview up-and-coming indie rock band Tim Be Told and kicked off two more Falling In Love with Mixr giveaways; Rekuru’s Naruto: Shippuden, Vol. 6 DVD giveaway and FlauntMe’s Sephora by OPI nail polish and Lush Flush giveaway. Would you love us even more if I told you that there’s more? More »

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OH! My thoughts on this week can only be expressed through a poem: Roses are red, violets are blue, Ningin is awesome and so are you. I hope it’s not obvious that I’m trying hard to make you fall in love with me. Did I say me? Uh, I meant Mixr. This week, in the spirit of Valentine’s Day we launched the ultimate special of all specials, Falling in Love with Mixr. Not only will we be launching a Mixr network-wide Valentine’s Day editorial special, we’ve got tons of valentines we’re giving away. More »

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Oh! What a week we’ve had here. Oh! I don’t even know where to begin. Oh! Wait, now I remember. We turned Japanese this week with Rekuru and our Japanese Film Royale special. The general consensus this week is that we’re all pretty much in love with Japanese film. Speaking of love –you’ll soon be falling in love with us next month. Be patient, it’ll be good on many levels. More »

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Yet another exciting week has passed us! Of the most notable things to happen was the epic kick off of Mixr League Gaming Season I’s first round. This season is quite epic with not two, but four teams involved! So far it’s looking like Team Ningin may take a backseat for this round. Personally, as team captain, this has me stressed. Usually when I’m stressed, laughter is my best remedy. Speaking of laughter, we were able to interview an expert on laughter — comedian Steve Byrne! More »

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Jinra is too busy washing her hair or something, so I’m writing this week’s prize winners/updates. In case we haven’t said this enough times, we just launched HTCYou - a site for HTC phone users and Google Android news. That’s site #10 for us yay! Soon, we’ll be giving out unlocked HTC phones as part of the promo. I bet that got your attention. There was also some Mixr League Gaming action or MLG for short. We didn’t have just one tournament, but two: Ningin defeated the evil chimera known as BlitzKuTek; and the Battle of the Sexes, where the guys were oh so close to beating the girls. We’re still experimenting around with various rules, length, team sizes, etc. but so far so good. The much more intense MLG 3-month long ladder starts this week. My bold prediction, someone from a Mixr site will win! More »

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Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, but life would be so boring without you. If not for Ningin, I wouldn’t have a reason to be blabbing about all the greatest news and announcing prize winners in a weekly blog post such as this. I mean, how or where else could I blog about the fact that our flash game gaming league, the MLG, just hosted it’s first official tournament here this past week? Or simply the fact that a flash game league exists? (Btw, go team Ningin!) Or that last week we also put together a New Year’s Resolution Special starring you? I could only tell you that if not for you, I’d probably be clawing my eyes out due to sheer boredom. More »

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Welcome to 2010, Ninginers! We hope you had a great time ringing in the new year with our End of the Year Special and the kick-off of the first official Mixr League Gaming Tournament. According to the latest report, things are getting intense between Ningin and Wirebot. More »

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I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday week. I know I did. For Christmas this year, Hoc gave me the present of taking the torch of announcing weekly prize winners and updating you with all the Ningin news. Hoc’s like that relative that actually gifts you with things you need, like socks. Truthfully, we needed this present — clearly, I am the cuter person for this weekly blog post. Speaking of presents, we really hope you enjoyed the ones we got you this year, like our 12 Days of Christmas Special and our new flash games sub-site. More »

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I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by. Lots of pretty cool moments this year on Ningin. Hmm, I’m thinking we should do an End of the Year special just to recap everything. If you recall, we did one for 2008. This year, the End of the Year special will be more epic! But I’m getting ahead of myself. We still have a few more days before Christmas. Jinra and the Ningin Bloggers have been really nice this year and hopefully Santa will grant them everything they asked for in their 12 Days of Christmas Special. Though, Jinra already has lots of sexy, hot Asian men surrounding her on a regular basis. I guess you can never have enough of those. Since all Ningin users have been really good this year, we have something special in mind for all of you! It’ll be unveiled in a few days or so. I hope you guys like games! More »

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This past week was one of the craziest we’ve ever had. A big part of the reason why is because of CrazySingleLife, our new dating reality site that launched a few days ago. You’ll find that it’s not like any other dating site. CrazySingleLife is about sharing stories and experiences and helping people feel ok about being single and lost about love. Who knows, it just might help you the next time you go on a date. Then, there was the Mixr Holiday party which can be best summed up as this: unlimited Grey Goose vodka and karaoke. It was an unforgettable crazy night! Can I just tell you, we have so many good singers here. Be on the look out for a Jinra CD cause she’s flat out amazing! More »

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This week started off with a bang. Or rather, a boom since we had a casual interview with Boom Boom Satellites. We also learned that Ninja Assassin grossed $21 MM over the Turkey day weekend. It’s not at $35.8 MM worldwide gross at the time of this writing. I have to wonder if there’s gonna be a sequel because it made a lot more money than it cost to produce. We also launched our beauty site on Tuesday, FlauntMe. That’s #8 for those keeping count at home. Jinra and the Ningin Bloggers cranked out another special for that, the Ningin Tribute to Asian Beauty. Site #9, CrazySingleLife is due for unveiling this week. I just posted a short preview of it. Since things have been going really well here, we’re doubling the number of bloggers across our new sites. If you like writing, getting free stuff, having access to events, interviewing people, and working with fun people, then you should consider blogging for us! We have a lot more sites planned for next year too. More »

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What a week here on Ningin! It started with the Ninja Thanksgiving Special that we did with those ninja-holics on Wirebot and Rekuru. I had no idea we were gonna crank out so many ninja related posts — it was ninja-epic. Make sure to check all of it out if you haven’t! On Tuesday, I got to see Boom Boom Satellites in concert and it was awesome to say the least! On Wednesday, Ninja Assassin came out in theaters and Boom Boom Satellites came down to the Ningin office to hang out with us. It’s not everyday we have rock stars in our office, but it does seem to be more common now. The interview with BBS is schedule for tomorrow so be sure to check that out. We also got a few autographed stuff from them, so look out for that too. Then of course you have the Thanksgiving weekend where I ate till I passed out and had lots of catch-up sleep. What did you guys do for the holiday weekend? More »

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By now most of you know that we’ve giving out game systems to random users. That’s not the only contest going on either. We have Ninja Assassin Gear, Justin Chon autographs on SwanDiary, Swarovski iPhone faceplate on Girlybubble, and ESPN Magazine subscriptions on BlitzNation. If you think that’s a lot, it’s just the beginning! Soon, there will be some sort of regular prize for all our sites like Xbox/PSN point cards on Wirebot, bobblehead dolls on BlitzNation, and so on. If you’re in the city of Rhode Island (why call it a state?) Wirebot is hosting a Guitar Hero 3 Tournament and giving out $100 in Amazon gift certificates. Btw, have you checked out our new Ningin-spin off site for Japanese entertainment, Rekuru.com? Jinra and the Ningin bloggers are hosting a Japan-a-thon special in honor of its launch. Wirebot is going Japanese too. It’s fun when sister sites work together! Expect a lot more of that going forward. Last but not least, we have a cool interview with Takeshi Kaneshiro who’s starring in the new Red Cliff movie out right now. Speaking of movies, I hear Ninja Assassin is coming out this Wednesday. It’s in your best interest to check that out. More »

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What a week we had on Ningin! I think I might have mentioned this somewhere before, but I got to interview Rain and Director James McTeigue from the Ninja Assassin movie. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? There’s not one but two giveaways for it…so far. First there’s the Ninja Assassin gear, and we’re giving our copies of the 28-page Ninja Assassin press junket package. Then we launched a new website, Swandiary, for vampire lovers. Jinra and the Ningin Bloggers put together a fun little Bloodsucker special for it. Speaking of Jinra, her b-day might have been during this past week. Not sure. But I’m sure she’s glad that someone (hint: he was in ninja a movie that’s coming out soon) remembered. So all that was last week. This week, we have another website, Rekuru - for Japanese entertainment, scheduled to launch. And perhaps finally, you’ll see the game system contest we’ve been promising. More »

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November is shaping up to be quite a month. We have a new website launching just about every week. The mysterious Swandiary launches this Friday the 13th. We picked that day for a good reason which will be revealed soon enough. We’re also designating November to be the official month of Ninjas, the site’s namesake. In honor of Ninja month, there will be TONS of ninja related coverage and giveaways. What could those giveaways possibly be? You might want to check out the upcoming Warner Bros movie, Ninja Assassin, for some ideas. Then of course, there’s Jinra’s birthday being this Thursday. Expect champagne and special pins that day. The previously mentioned game system contests are schedule to start sometime this week. And if you live in Rhode Island, Wirebot is hosting a Guitar Hero tournament with cash prizes. Sounds random I know, but it’s part of a much bigger plan which we’ll get into later. More »

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Lots of things going on lately. First, I hope you guys enjoyed the wonderfully put together Halloween Special by Jinra and the Ningin Bloggers. Mixed within all of that is two great interviews of Harry Shum from Glee and my personal cosplay hero, Alodia Gosiengfiao. Then there’s the Wirebot - gaming community - expansion. The door was cracked open last week, but we’re going to make a big gaming push this week with tons of gaming related articles coming your away across the entire network starting tomorrow. And already it’s November 1st. November is going to be all about expansion as we’re looking to launch one new website a week. Yes you read that right, one website a week! Of course, we got some great prizes coming up from autographed memorabilia to Nintendo Wiis and Xbox360s. Lots of things to look forward too! More »

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