I remember watching The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke was training on Dagobah. At one point, he looks over his shoulder at Yoda and asks, “Is the Dark Side stronger?” Yoda, in his ever-wise (at least until the prequels) way answered firmly, “No. Quicker. Easier. More seductive.” I kept remembering those words pretty much through…
Akira Toriyama is returning to Dragon Ball once again with the release of the new anime movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. But apparently, all is not well with the famed series creator. In a March 24th TV program celebrating the release of the new movie, several of Toriyama’s written answers to previously selected…
At the end of January, it was announced that GungHo Online Entertainment would be acquiring Grasshopper Manufacture, developer of artistically unique games like Killer 7, the No More Heroes series, Lollipop Chainsaw, and the upcoming Killer is Dead. Now, roughly two months later, they’re working on their first game together. “The game will obviously have…
Soul Sacrifice is the latest game from the mind of Mega Man creator, Keiji Inafune. The game is scheduled to hit stores in North America on April 30th, and in Europe on May 1st, giving people living in those areas a month to wait. However, for those of us fortunate enough to live in Japan…
Continuing with their series on the PS4, this week, Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu published the second half of their two-part developer interview, with several more Japanese developers sharing their thoughts on Sony’s new console. Once again, the standard 3 questions were posed: 1. What are your impressions of the PlayStation 4? 2. Of the…
The Fox Engine. You’ve heard about it. You’ve seen the PR. We know it’s going to be the game engine for the next Metal Gear The Phantom Pain. So what’s it all about? Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, in a recent tweet, revealed the concept of the Fox Engine, his thoughts on games, and reminded…
Japanese people have different tastes from their Western counterparts (Heck, many of Kotaku East‘s Culture Smash columns focus specifically on this sociological difference), and Japanese gamers are no exception. Every week, Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu collects user impressions of newly released video games. Users rate games from 1 to 10 and comment on what…
Last week, Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu asked their readers what they thought about the PS4. In this week’s issue, the question was lobbed in the direction of many of Japan’s biggest game makers, to get the developer point of view on Sony’s as-of-yet faceless console. Take a look at what some of them had…
As people may have realized from my previous few reviews of figures from Hong Kong collectible toy company Hot Toys, I have been slowly gathering the Avengers team (among other cool figures). I suppose I’ll get to my reasons as to why eventually. Anyhow, I received an email shortly after my Joker 2.0 review informing…
Sony announced the PlayStation 4 last month to much fanfare and a complete lack of an actual console. The stone has been cast and now we get to see the ripples. Japanese gaming magazine, Weekly Famitsu conducted a questionnaire between February 22nd and February 26th, where they asked Japanese game fans for their thoughts and…
Error Code 105-3102. That’s apparently what some Japanese users have been running into when trying to access Nintendo’s e-shop on their Wii U. Not just the e-shop, but as prolific youtube video poster MEGUMIbernadette (who previously posted a video on the long load times of the Wii U) demonstrates in her video, attempting to update…
I believe my exact words when discussing the possibility of reviewing Gundam Unicorn Episode 6: Two Words, Two Tomorrows were, “I will crawl over Richard‘s corpse to review this.” As I’ve stated before, I am a huge Gundam fan. While I was initially against the idea of expanding on the Universal Century timeline any further,…
Last week, Japanese game designer Kenji Eno passed away at the age of 42. Eno was well known for his survival horror games, D, Enemy Zero, and D2, as well as his unique and sometimes eccentric opinions and behavior, like the development of the Sega Saturn game, Real Sound, a video game that features no…
“I wonder what games I can play with just my left hand?” writes Masahiro Sakurai, designer of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series, in his Weekly Famitsu column. Get your mind out of the gutter; this is serious. Over the past several weeks, Sakurai has written in his column about his condition which has…
Brace yourselves. I’m about to give some people a migraine from rolling their eyes too hard. I am a massive Gundam fan. So much so that I probably straddle the line of “geek” and go straight into “nerd” territory. Heck, I even know why Char chose to take on the name “Quattro Bajeena” for the…
A new Wii U downloadable app now allows 3DS Monster Hunter 3G players to enjoy co-op play over the internet. The Nintendo 3DS Monster Hunter 3G Packet Relay Tool is a free application available on the Japanese Nintendo eShop that basically turns a Wii U into a network router. By pairing a 3DS with the…
“We want more people to play with the PS Vita” said Hiroshi Kawano, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. In an interview with Weekly Famitsu, Kawano talked about the reasons behind as well as the timing of the recent decision to not only drop the price of the PS Vita, but to make both the…
Gameboy Advance Color Zelda games (Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons) are virtual console bound in Japan on Feb 27th.
So another Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece figure finally came out, and, as is my nature, I simply had to get it. This time, Hong Kong collectible figure maker Hot Toys came out with a version 2.0 to their highly popular Dark Knight Joker figure. Interestingly enough, the first Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece item I ever…
Star Driver: Takuto of The Radiance is a 25-episode anime series that aired from 2010 to 2011. The show aired early evenings on Sunday, which allowed for a bigger budget and overall higher quality animation, but the show suffered from the fact that while it was geared more towards a young adult audience, it aired…
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