Brian Ashcraft

The Case Mod That Looks Like An Enormous Gun

Not sure where case mods go from here, but a giant gun will be tough to top. Via PC Gamer comes this Point Blank Barrett Radeon RX480. A team called Suchao Modding & Design created this madness. This is nuts, truly nuts, but damn, it’s so well made and well executed. It looks like the…

The Japanese Military Recruits With Anime Girls 

In the past, there was a tradition in the U.S. military to paint pin-ups on aircrafts. Today, that tradition lives on in Japan. But there’s an important difference: they’re not cheesecake pin-ups. They’re anime girls, and they’re not only on aircrafts, but also recruitment posters. During the annual festival at the Japanese Self Defense Force’s…

Anime Fans, This Tokyo Hair Salon Is For You

Make your anime hair dreams real! In Tokyo’s Akihabara, that is. As pointed out on 2ch, a new anime-themed hair salon called Off-Kai has opened in the city’s anime and gaming district with the distinctive English tagline “For animation fans hairsalon.” The salon offers video game and anime inspired cuts, and it’s filled with manga…

Yokai Watch Characters Working At McDonald’s 

Imagine walking into McDonald’s and seeing these characters at the counter. These characters, of course, are Jibanyan, Komajiro and Komasan. The Yokai Watch gang appeared at a McDonald’s in Japan to promote an upcoming calendar collaboration. Famitsu was on hand to capture images like this. It sure looks hard to move around in those costumes. …

Japan Has Halloween Taxis With Zombie Drivers 

Just in time for Halloween, a Fukuoka taxi company called Lucky Taxi is rolling out a pair of frightening cabs. Best part? They have zombie drivers in zombie make up. Like so. GAH. According to Yomiuri, the cabs will be running in Fukuoka’s city center, with drivers in full zombie make up from October 29…

Fall Colors. Sapporo, Japan. By leavesremix 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!

Square Enix announced a new Star Ocean for Japan. Details are scant, but it’s called Star Ocean Anamnesis and is slated for iOS and Android

The Zelda Arcade Cabinet We Deserved

But the one we never got. Here’s a spectacular fan-made Legend of Zelda cabinet that shows what could have been, but what wasn’t. Wyo over on the Arcade Museum forums made this beauty, outfitting the cabinet with a NES and 20-inch cathode ray tube. It’s about 95 percent done with some side art and instruction…

The End Of An Era For StarCraft and South Korea 

Today, the Korean Esports Association announced that the StarCraft ProLeague was ending. The league began in 2003, but this year, its last, brings a fourteen-year run to a close. StarCraft scandals have plagued Korean esports for years (here and here, for example), while these days, Overwatch and League of Legends are where it’s at for…

Free Ramen If You Can Eat It All

Hungry? Like, really, really hungry? Then you need to visit the Tokyo noodle restaurant known as Ramen Shop, because if you can eat one of their huge bowls of ramen in a certain amount of time, your meal is free. If you fail the “jumbo ramen challenge,” then you’ll need to cough up 2,000 yen…

Well, This Pokémon Go Parody Escalated Quickly 

Tokyo-based YouTube Channel RATE VFXcreated this clip that shows just how intense AR games can get when they’re mixed with paramilitary ones and endlessly spawning Team Rocket baddies. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am…

Super Moon. Seoul, South Korea. By Lexi@SeoulSearching.  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 Realistic Gantz X-Gun You’ve Always Wanted

Fans of Gantz will know all about this compressed energy handgun. Now, they can own one. Not an actual X-gun, mind you! But as far as one-to-one scale replicas go, a very nice looking piece. Priced at39,960 yen (US$383), the Master Product Gantz:0 X-Gun will be released in Japan next March. No word about an…

Nobody Has More Fun With PlayStation VR Than These Folks

The PlayStation VR is out. People are buying it and playing games with it. And some of them are having a very, very good time. We’ve seen endless clips of people getting freaked out (this, for example!) and having fun with the Oculus Rift. Now, it’s the PlayStation VR’s turn:  There are bound to be…

The Pokémon Anime Character Fans Want To Return

Next month, a new Pokémon anime series starts. It will have brand new friends as well as longtime ones like Pikachu and Ash. There is one character, though, fans really hope will come to Alola. And that character is Serena. Warning: This article has spoilers if you haven’t seen the most recent episode of Pokémon…

Goku Black is coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 as a pre-order bonus. The game will be out later this month, and you can check out in the character in in this debut clip. 

Inside Japan’s Persona 5 Cafe

This week, Persona 5 gets its own Tokyo restaurant, complete with P5 themed eats and drinks. As previously reported, the Persona 5 cafe is for a limited time only and will end its run on November 23. Dengeki Online and Famitsu were on hand to check out the cafe, so have a look at the…

Copenhagen Opera House. Copenhagen, Denmark. By Ray Ivey. 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: Shelter From The Storm | Movie: St Vincent | Artist: Bob Dylan with Bill Murray  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer

Well, this looks very good. Here is the second story trailer, apparently the final one before the movie gets its December release. I do imagine we’ll get a slightly recut international trailer (maybe Japanese?) with a few more seconds of new footage, but this should give you an idea of what to expect when it…