At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Atlus is holding a special stage event for Persona 5. The event, which will be held on September 19, will feature live musical performances as well as a live talk.
This is not a cosplay. It’s not a statue. It’s art. Fantastic art. Created by concept artist Deng Jing, who hails from Beijing, this work shows Piccolo standing in front of the Tenkaichi Budokai. Damn, this is good. The artist also did a rendition of Nameless Namek’s spaceship. Likewise, it’s fantastic. You can see more…
Prison School, which follows five boys who enter an insanely strict, former all-girls school, is getting a live-action TV show. If you’ve seen the anime or read the manga, you know where this is going. If not, well, the show’s trailer (below) should bring you up to speed pretty quick! Prison School’s protagonist is a…
Peaceful Living. Fudoin Temple in Mount Koya. Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. By Ruby Huang. 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: Take Me Home, Country Roads | Album: Whisper of the Heart Soundtrack | Artist: Yoko Honna Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Got a cat? What about a keyboard? Then, you know that those fuzzy friends love to sit on them when you’re typing. Let’s stop that. This is the Nekopochi Keyboard Cover. While I’ve seen shelves and organizers used as make-shift keyboard rests for cats as well as covers to put over your keyboard while not…
Some days, Rihanna looks casual. Other days, she’s a fashion icon. On this day, she was a Pokémon Gym Leader. While the photo is from last May, it wasn’t until this month that Twitter user Buildacastle pointed out that it looked like The Pokémon Company designed her outfit. Tumblr site Green Glasses created some brilliant…
The world of eSports has been turned into a PC game. Don’t worry, the game isn’t played in 300 actions per minute! Dubbed SC2VN, this is a visual novel starring a young, foreign semi-pro player named Mach trying to make it big in South Korea playing StarCraft II. You meet other players and try to…
This fall, a traditional Japanese screen painting with Mario and Luigi will go on display in Kyoto. Here is how that work of art was made. Nintendo released a video interview with the artist who did the piece, Taro Yamamoto. In it, Yamamoto talks about the work, which features Mario as the Japanese god of…
Blue Pond. Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. By Romell Roberts. 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: Magic of Love | Album: Level 3 | Artist: Perfume Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Today, Ubisoft announced that it will open a 10,000-square-meter indoor theme park in Kuala Lumpur. “Ubisoft’s intention for this park is to immerse people in reactive worlds where they can interact with each other and become the heroes of their own life-sized game,” said Jean de Rivières, senior vice president of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, on…
Sadly, One Piece doesn’t take place in the real world. But if it did, have you ever wondered where the Straw Hat Pirates would be from? A while ago, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda was asked this. Long time fans might know the answer, but a scan of Oda’s reply has recently been floating around…
Since Hello Kitty is put on just about anything, a Hello Kitty New Nintendo 3DS was only a matter of time. The Kitty-chan 3DS is outfitted with Hello Kitty faceplates (which are also sold separately for 2,000 yen or US$17) and is priced at 17,000 yen ($143). It goes on sale on November 28 in…
Back in August, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima tweeted that the violence in “only one scene” differed between The Phantom Pain’s Japanese version and the international release. This, it seems, could be that scene. Note: This article might contain spoilers! Yes, spoilers! Via Censored Gaming (and Kotaku reader Kazami), check out the differences in…
Tenryū-ji. Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan. By Sebastiano Quaranta. 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!
Fushimi Inari Taisha at Night. Kyoto, Japan. By Hien Nguyen 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!
Kojima Productions, apparently, is no more. The studio started by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has been “dissolved,” says Snake’s Japanese voice actor. The box art for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain does not read “Kojima Productions.” It does read Konami. On Taiwan’s Gamer forums, a member named Gtaaaaa decided to change that.…
After allegations that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics logo was a rip-off, the logo has been withdrawn. Why not use this?
Grace and her husband got married last month in Hawaii (congrats!). Since they’re big Final Fantasy fans, they decided that the logical thing was, well, a Final Fantasy themed wedding. Type-0 outfits made for fancy groom wear! And the bride is dressed asGarnet til Alexandros XVIIfrom Final Fantasy IX. There are a bunch of nice…
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