Awww <3

You mean there is a cafe out there...

where you eat your food surrounded by pet animals?

Why do we not have such a place in North America? I would certainly pay money to have tea with a monkey.

Aww, wook at their wittle paws.

Ugh! Imagine how a cafe full of cats must smell. I'd be sneezing and coughing and having an attack just getting near the place.

Virtual Animals >>>>> real live stinky ones

@battra92: sad

@battra92: A giant wad of fur in a coffee wouldn't be pleasant either.

Sega knows how to cater to us.

While a kitty cafe sounds fun in concept, it just screams worms.

3rd pic: "OM NOM NOM NOM"

It's Cat Cafe Calico dammit. Here's their homepage. No food, just drinks, and you pay by the hour to have fun with cats (800yen/hour or 2000yen for 3 hours and two drinks on weekdays).

Aww! So KYOOOOOT!

Hehe, I like cats.

Wow! Sonic Unleashed for Mario Galaxy, Sonic Chronicles for Mario RPG, Now Ume Neko for Nintendogs? Sega is counter attacking Nintendo big time! Maybe they're ashamed how well Sonic plays in brawl.

@jamar0303:

Aw, they whore out their cats! <3

I'd migrate to Japan for you, kitties!

@Komrade_Kayce: In Singapore, you get to have breakfast with an Orang-Utan.

strcat( 0xCAFE, "OVERFLOW ERROR");

So is shokotan allowed in?

Also, d'aawwwwww.

games and kittens. my morning is complete.

That's no cafe it a meme sweatshop!

wow, um I always new you guys were trendycore. Nintendo did not invent Pet Simulators just like God of War is NOT the first hack n Slash.

Neko Daisuki sega game gear 1996 thats all you need to know. Oh and Inu Daisuki is the dog one.

Is the one in the first picture named Barack? He's got the ears for it.

(Hey you knew someone was going to say it.)

Oh god. Sega you already sold the game to me. You didn't need to throw in the cute cat pictures as well.

My cat would fucking rampage through there :-( He's not social...

I awwwww'd though. But still, I hope they had litter boxes...

Yea its all Oo and awh until you receive a massive cat scratch!!!!

They're in your Kotakuz, stealin your blogz!!!

@rich8606: Since when did a character with no disjointed hitboxes, no projectiles, and little-to-no priority work in a game like brawl? XD

once you own a Maine Coon, you can never go back to "normal" cats.

@jamar0303: Oh, that rules so much it hurts. There are some pet stores around my place, where you pay $1 or so to hang around some pets, but they mostly have dogs. Cats are way more fun to hang around... and less moist.

I love cats but I'm also quite allergic to them. One or two is fine but more than that would have me blind in 10 minutes. I'd need to take allergy medication to hold off the sneezing and red eye.

Yeah cats are cute and all but it sucks that I'm allergic to them. When I went to PAX last year I stayed over at my friend's house for the weekend and she has some cats. When I was at her house I like wouldn't stop sneezing. Blarg.

@RPGr: I have exactly the same problem. Love cats, but I'm allergic. Smoking a lot and drinking coffee helps a lot though,...

For those that don't know, Yume Neko translates to "Dream Cats". Dreamcats! Sega knows what they're doing .

LOL Sega Dreamcats!

D'AAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

It's kittehz.

@Struct09: ROFL! Good one!

I'd love to visit that place :3

/sigh I wish I wasn't allergic to cats...

Darn it Kotaku :) I come on here to try to escape the fact that my apartment owners won't let me have a kitten/cat, and what do I see? These cute pictures make me want to go out immediately and violate my apartment rules. Very cute indeed. I hope the game is more than a cheap rip off of the other 1000 cat sim games out there (I personally only own Nintendogs, despite being a huge cat fan oddly enough).

Hm.... I'd rather play with my real cat, T-Rex

@Badmofo: I don't smoke or drink coffee...

I'd put an "unfortunately" in here but then again I don't exactly regret not smoking and drinking coffee :/

Can I has royalti chekz?

@Struct09: For those that don't know, Yume Neko translates to "Dream Cats". Dreamcats! Sega knows what they're doing .

So you're saying they make lots of clicking and whirring noises and sound like they are going to break all the time?

That would be cool if they released the game in the States as such. Sega Dream Cats would make a great pun. Of course had it been on an actual Dreamcast it would have been better.

These neko-kissa places sound like a fun idea, but surely they are a little cruel too? Cats don't always like being picked up and mauled the way dogs do :)

But after that recent study that claimed that cat-owners are 40% less likely to die of heart problems, perhaps we should be able to get them on prescription.

Cute. I love cats. [insert random cat image macro here]

Cats are cute. Cafes are cool. A cafe full of cats sounds like a way to eat hair and have your plate walked on. :/

@battra92:
Hey I remember Dreamcats... that makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE than Ume Neko...

dammn cats. hate the lot of them.

yeah, they sit around looking cute. but when the revolution comes, you know they all gonna abandon you!

they don't give a rat's arse about backing you up.

they won't even take a bullet for you.

might as well have a flock of birds, at leased you can release them in a smoke screen of feathers.

Just think about that when your up against the wall, with the firing squad and you see the smirking cat who you used to feed and cuddle and "love" walking freely on the bullet riddle wall.

well, ha! serve you right.

in the next life choose a dog, at leased he'll die by your side.

>_>

Dogs>Cats

oooo kitty pitchurz!

Japanese people should pay to come to my house. I have 8 cats.

and yes it smells perfectly fine as long as you're not in the room with the litterboxes when it's poopin' time.

@goomba478:
Me too. At launch, I drove to 3 stores all across town (about 90 minutes of driving) just so that I could get the Nintendogs version that I wanted, and then when I got it, I played it for barely a couple of hours before wishing that they had Nintencats. I would get one of the cat simulators, but they all look sketchy to me and I think I would only trust one from Nintendo. I am giving my wife a DS for her birthday (she asked for one, I am not just forcing it on her) and I will probably let her have Nintendogs. She can put my Nintendog to sleep if she wants because I have let him get covered in fleas. (Not as scary as my Animal Crossing house though.)

@rainofwalrus [XBL]:

Amen.

Actually, I HAVE owned two raccoons as pets. The first, nicknamed (appropriately) "Cajun", lived with my wife and I in our apartment. We even had little girls coming over and taking him for a walk on his leash. He disappeared one night when we were visiting my folks out on Cross Lake in Shreveport. We replaced him with another named Dante. When I moved from my apartment, I had to give him away to a family in Anna, outside of McKinney in Texas. I haven't had another pet since, although my wife (a different one) and I are contemplating getting a cat after being together 20 years without one. Still, an ebony grand piano and leather sectionals have made me a bit anxious about it.

@Onizuka-GTO: Sorry but you fail....my cats are so smart that you don´t believe how they behave,just intelligent as a dog,they follow wherever I´ll go,they fight against anyone trying to hit me,they obey me when I´ll send them to say hi to visitors...

The secret? education and much,a lot of love.

@OT79: Yeah, most of my cats are crazy smart too.

It seems that the more you have, the smarter they are, and the more personality they show.

@Onizuka-GTO: When the robot revolution comes, and the rout of civilization begins, the cats will sit by and do nothing.

When the forests are razed to the ground and the oceans seethe and boil, the cats will sit by and do nothing.

When the skies are enshrouded in ash, and stormclouds weep noxious tears, the cats will sit by and do nothing.

But then one robot will try to sit in one of the kittys' chairs, and ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE.

me has ds

@rainofwalrus [XBL]: For sure. I miss mine.

This post has totally made my day. Kitties and games.

It's like Kotaku went on a date with Cute Overload.

One of my two kitties is leaning against me, with his head on my lap, purring RIGHT NOW. I'm typing around hims pointy widdle earz.

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......OMG CUTE EXPLOSION

I would love to go to that café, though my friend's eyes would shoot geysers if he came near that place.

KITTY!

I want one T-T since you guys make me miss mine.