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Track: Bring on the Dancing Horses | Artist: Echo and the Bunnymen | Album: Pretty in Pink Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Japan’s Most Intense Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition 

Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying. Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or “janken taikai” in Japanese. “Janken” means paper-rock-scissors (“taikai” means “tournament”), and while I played this growing…

Japan Has Vegeta Refrigerators 

Because you store vegetables in fridges, and you can make a pun, I guess. This is what the Vegeta fridge ads typically look like, and they’ve been around for a while without an overt Dragon Ball nods. They have been “Vegeta” as in “vegetables” and not as in Super Saiyan. But now, no doubt, Toshiba…

Tech in Asia reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has new regulations banning the streaming of games that the ministry has not approved. This is bound to hurt indie games that are available via Steam, which is still not blocked in the country. 

And Now, The Inevitable Final Fantasy XV Porn Parody 

For a game that took so long to come out, the porn world had no problem shooting out a FFXV parody right quick. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. Of course, if it exists, there is a porn of it. Since Final Fantasy XV does exist, we have this, as noted…

Winter In Greece. Evia Island, Greece. By Elias Grammatikakis. 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! 

The First Global Mission For Pokémon Sun and Moon Was A Failure

The goal was for players around the world to catch 100 million Pokémon in Sun and Moon. They missed that mark by a lot. Thefirst global mission kicked off on November 29 and ended on December 12. Here’s how the English language Pokémon page portrayed it: Just missed! So you’d think they caught like 85…

You Can’t Play Final Fantasy VII Remake Yet, So Here Are Some Figures

When will Final Fantasy VII Remake be out? Probably not next spring! But you know what will? These FFVII Remake figures, that’s what. So far, Square Enix’s Play Arts Kai line has announced two figures for an April and May 2017 release in Japan: Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace. They’re listing for 15,984 yen (US$139) each…

The Winners Of The 2016 PlayStation Awards

Tonight in Tokyo, Sony held its annual awards ceremony. Not only are biggest PlayStation titles honored, but also people’s favorite games of the year. Via Famitsu and 4Gamer, here are the winners. Keep in mind that why some of these titles are multiplatform, all of the awards relate to how they did on PlayStation hardware.…

SoulCalibur‘s Anniversary Celebrated With…Pachinko 

Taking a page from the Konami playbook, Namco has announced a 20th anniversary SoulCalibur release for pachinko parlors across Japan.  Feel free to watch the NINE MINUTE AND FIFTY SECOND trailer for SoulCalibur pachi-slot. Surely, this franchise is getting more than this for twenty years of big swords. Let’s hope.  Kotaku East is your slice…

Nintendo’s Switch Presentation Begins At 11pm Eastern On January 12 [Update]

Nintendo previously announced it’s holding an online Switch presentation next January. Now we have an exact time: The online event will kick off on January 12 at 8pm Pacific and 11pm Eastern. December 13 – 7:48am Update: We already knew the date! But now we know the precise time. In Japan, the presentation will be…

Super Potato. Osaka, Japan. By Esben Hornbøll. 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! 

The Nine Best Movie Shootouts

Bang! Bang! For years now, movie makers have been thrilling audiences with blazes of bullets. Some shootouts are better than others. These are the best. These particular ones were selected on the basis of their technical bravado as well as their impact on other movies—and even video games. The following movies are listed chronologically and…

Track: Town Called Malice | Artist: The Jam | Album: The Gift Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Level-5 recently showed off its upcoming Inazuma Eleven game. The hardware is still TBA, but as folks are pointing out in Japan, it sure doesn’t look like a Wii U title or a 3DS one, for that matter. Hrm…

One Of Dragon Ball‘s Most Famous Memes Returns

Yamcha might suck, but he takes center stage in one of Dragon Ball’s most famous memes. In the most recent Dragon Ball Super, Yamcha returns, putting a new spin on an old meme.  Note: This article contains spoilers. The Dragon Ball Super episodes of late have been fun and silly. The upcoming story arc is getting…

CHAOS;CHILD 5pb. THE BEST was slated for the PS4 and PS Vita in Japan, but today, Famitsu reports that the game’s developer has cancelled the game, citing “various circumstances.”

One degree man. Kotaku reader and anime fan Donovan Harrell just graduated from Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication. He has the mortarboard to prove it!

First Glimpse At What A Super Mario Theme Park Could Look Like

In 2020, before the Tokyo Olympics, Universal Studios Japan will open its Mario-themed amusement area to the public. Today, Nintendo provides our first glimpse at what we might get. As Kotaku previously reported, this is not a standalone theme park, but a world in USJ—namely, Super Nintendo World. This was first revealed in May 2015, and…

Sea Pancakes. Orlando, Florida. By Calix Martinez. 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!