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To The Light. Singapore National Gallery, Singapore. By Kiki Nasution 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: Grace Kelly Blues | Artist: Eels | Album: Sixteen Tons (Ten Songs) 2003 KCRW Session Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Chun-Li And Dante Look Weird Now, Capcom 

As it is with video games, character designs evolve and change over time. Sometimes they get better, and sometimes they do this. Fans notice! For example, one character looks so different in Resident Evil 6 that his appearance launched conspiracy theories (more here, spoilers). Now, folks are noticing how in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite that…

“PPAP” Singer Starring In New Anime

Remember “PPAP”? The Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen singer is getting his own TV anime in Japan. Of course he is. Called Pikotaro no Rarabai Raarabai (Pikotaro’s Lullaby Luuullaby), the anime features the viral singer, who will voice himself and all the other characters in the show as he has various fairy tales dreams. According to Mantan Web, the…

Earth Defense Force 5 has been delayed. D3 Publisher changed the Japanese release date from “summer 2017″ to simply “2017.” The reason given is to improve the game’s quality. No word yet on an international release. 

Manga Pluto Being Turned Into Anime

Pluto, one of the most critical praised and best selling manga of the 2000s, will be adapted into an anime. The manga is an imaginative reworking of Astro Boy. Here’s how Viz describes it: In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere…

Qibao. Shanghai, China. By Mike Robinson. 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: Money To Burn | Artist: Richard Ashcroft | Album: Alone With Everybody Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Undertale‘s Japanese Localization Is Causing A Fan Frenzy

American indie game Undertale is finally getting an official Japanese release. Good for all the hardcore Japanese fans the game has! Its localization is already causing quite a stir. Namely, the way laid-back skeleton character Sans refers to himself. In English, we use the personal pronoun “I” to refer to ourselves. However, Japanese has an…

New Gran Turismo Racing Wheel Only Costs $800

Thrustmaster’s forthcoming T-GT high-end racing that will be available when Gran Turismo Sport hits later this fall. It will be expensive. According to 4Gamer, GT Planet and TjrSim, the wheel is priced at US＄799.99 plus tax. You get the wheel set up, a three-pedal set, and the power supply that looks like a turbo charger.…

Metal Gear Survive has been delayed until 2018. According to Polygon, a Konami spokesperson said it was “pushed back a few months” so the title could get extra polishing before being released.

Gotanda Crossing. Tokyo, Japan. By Thomas Ito. 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: 24 Hour Party People | Artist: Happy Mondays | Album: Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

PlayStation 2’s hack//G.U. Is Getting HD Remaster For PS4 And PC

The action role-playing game series .hack//G.U. will be reborn as an HD remaster for the PlayStation 4 called .hack//G.U. Last Record Set in a fictional MMORPG called The World, the first game in the series, .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth, was released in 2006, while the final one, .hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption, came out in 2007.…

The Most Beautiful Gundam Zaku Model Ever Created 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is exhibiting a special Gundam Zaku model. It is lovely. Made from traditional Japanese lacquer, the piece was created by Kyoto-born artist Kenji Toki, who specializes in exploring new ways to work with lacquerware. The Zaku’s New York exhibitionmade the TV news in Japan. Via Kenji Toki’s…

Sony Has Sold Over 60.4 Million PS4s Worldwide

As of June 11, 2017, Sony has sold 60.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles globally. The PlayStation 4 originally launched on November 15, 2013 in North America and later that same month in PAL territories. It went on sale in Japan the following February. Sony launched a revamped slimmer model as well as the 4K-friendly PlayStation…

Messiah Valkyrie in the Tokyo Sky Tree Mall. Tokyo, Japan. By Noel E. Esporo 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!

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Final Fantasy Comes To Life On A Japanese Hotel 

To mark Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, the side of a Yokohama hotel was turned into a FF spectacular thanks to projection mapping. This was how the InterContinental Yokohama Grand Hotel looked over the weekend during the special two-day event. Cool, huh?  Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

Report: The Hideo Kojima And Konami Saga Seems Endless

During last year’s Tokyo Game Show, Hideo Kojima commented on Metal Gear Survive. Respected Japanese news outlet Nikkei now has some of the alleged drama that surrounds that. When asked about Metal Gear Survive at a 2016 TGS stage event, Kojima replied, “I know absolutely nothing about it,” Kojima said. “That’s because it’s totally unrelated…