Brian Ashcraft

Lifetime Sales For The Nintendo Switch And Nintendo 3DS

Wonder how Nintendo’s current gen game machines are doing? The Kyoto-based company just released life-to-date tallies for both the Switch and 3DS, as well as software totals for each. For comparison’s sake, Nintendo included lifetime sales figures for its other game hardware. Have a look.  

Osaka Sunset. Umeda, Osaka, Japan. By Tugrul Günes | Website | Twitter | Instagram JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Mr. Bojangles (Live) | Artist: Sammy Davis Jr. | Album: The Best of Sammy Davis Jr.: Live Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Chinese Esports Team Has An Amazing Training Facility 

China’s OMG (Oh My God) dominates not only dominates League of Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but also esports compounds. Check out its training facility. The digs were designed to look like a spaceship (success!) and were completed last year. Recently images have been circulating on websites like Sohu.com, HK01 and Dexerto Here are more photos…

Street Fighter Pros Appear On Prime Time Japanese TV

Yesterday, popular Japanese sports talk show Junk Sports featured Street Fighter pros Momochi and Chocoblanka. Professionally gaming still doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves in Japan, so for fighting game fans, simply seeing these two on mainstream Japanese TV was a big deal. Junk Sports features a handful of guests, and this episode featured…

Unlike in Pokémon, Digimon Humans Keep Aging

In the Pokémon anime, Ash is ten years old. Eternally. But in the Digimon anime, the human characters are getting older. The upcoming Digimon movie, which marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary, stars a 22-year-old Taichi (“Tai”) and Yamato (“Matt”) When the anime started, both characters were boys and now, years later, they’re adults The fact…

Austin Road. Hong Kong. By Keith Chan. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Long Walk Back to San Antone | Artist: Junior Brown | Album: Long Walk Back Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

God Eater Online, the online version of God Eater for iOS and Android, is ending service on September 27 in Japan. The game was originally released on February 16, 2017.

Sega game Golden Axe is getting a stage play adaptation in Japan this December. Costumes and stage photos haven’t yet been released, so it’s unclear how the play will address muscle-bound giants, skimpy outfits and fire-breathing creatures.

McDonald’s Japan Gets In Trouble For Using Fake Roast Beef

Last summer, McDonald’s Japan rolled out a “Tokyo Roast Beef Burger.” The ads featured what looked like real slices of roast beef. That wasn’t necessarily true of the actual burgers. Ditto for the Tokyo Roast Beef Muffin that was sold during the same period. According to Asahi, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency recently said that McDonald’s…

Genbaku Dome. Hiroshima, Japan. By David Leonard. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Love Interruption | Artist: Jack White & Ruby Amanfu | Album: Blunderbuss Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Here is the teaser for the upcoming Evangelion: 3.0+1.0, which is dated for 2020 in Japan. As previously reported, the movie doesn’t yet have an international release date.

English Language School Recommends Studying Over Nintendo Switch

An advertisement for English language school Menten in China states that people have time to play video games, but don’t have time to learn English. The ad appeared on Chinese social networking site Weibo and was uploaded to Twitter by Chinese Nintendo (via Nintendo Soup). The ad reads, “They say: ‘I’m too busy every day…

Politician Made Anti-LGBTQ Comments On Dragon Quest Composer’s TV Show

Japanese politician Mio Sugita has made international news due to her anti-LGBTQ comments on a television show. The program is co-hosted by Koichi Sugiyama, who composes music for the Dragon Quest games. This was pointed out by Twitter user Shaun Musgrave (via Duckroll at ResetEra): The network is very right-wing. The show isn’t mainstream, nor…

Big Load. Hanoi, Vietnam. By Jean-Louis Potier | Flickr JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Zeroes, 2018 | Artist: David Bowie | Album: Loving the Alien (1983 – 1988) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This Cheeseburger Is Not Screwing Around

Dom Dom Burger, Japan’s first fast-food hamburger chain, has rolled out a limited edition cheeseburger, which features two beef patties, onions, tomato, a slice of yellow cheese and Camembert cheese for buns. Goodness. That’s right, thick slices of Camembert cheese take the place of buns. No doubt Dom Dom Burger is offering such a strange…

Konami Updates Metal Gear Solid V: TPP, Makes Quiet Playable On FOBs

In July 2017, Konami updated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, making Ocelot playable. Now a year later, the game has been updated once again. This time, Quiet is playable. It’s not possible to change the character’s outfit, and the character has no other head options. The update also brings new items, such as…