Hello tacky! Sony is readying two PS3 super slim specials (one for Yakuza 5 and the other for Ken’s Rage). Both are shockingly unattractive. Why are they so ugly? Well, for starters, Sony has always been really good about releasing cool looking PS3 special editions. However, with the new hardware, the ribbed face makes decoration…
Late fall, Steve Jobs sadly moved on from this world. He’s gone and missed. Yet, a photo of Jobs in the back of a truck is now making the internet rounds in China. Could this be the information age’s equivalent of Elvis sightings? The photo was apparently taken on September 26 in the city of…
I’m a big fan of exercising. I don’t think I’m in a super great shape, but I like exercising—and I really think doing so is important if you have a sedentary job like mine. Perhaps you have a sedentary job, too. Perhaps you aren’t motivated. And perhaps you are into anime girls. Well, there’s an…
Hatsune Miku proved that virtual idols could be big business. There are Miku video games, live concerts, and endless merchandising. So it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise that Fuji TV is rolling out its own virtual idol, a “digital announcer” named Lune Anri. Female announcers on Japanese TV don’t just read the news or…
Gearbox lead writer Anthony Burch says Borderlands 3 is being planned. Shocking!
Ask your typical Japanese gamer what a soccer video game is, and he or she will immediately say Winning Eleven, or as it’s known in the West, Pro Evolution Soccer. That is the soccer game in Japan. One of the big reasons for this is that there is no national Japanese team in FIFA. The…
The Valhalla Knights 3 website is now open for your perusal.
If you think the internet is a place where information can be shared freely, a place where things like copyright law do not apply, and a place where you can do whatever you want, well, bad news. Starting today, a strict new download law ends your notion of the internet. At least in Japan, that…
Steve Jobs might’ve checked out before his time, but he left a legacy of innovation. Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is honoring Jobs with a wax figure, which website MIC Gadget recently checked out. The video tour of the figure is, to be frank, pretty creepy—complete with crotch pans, whisker zooms, ass shots, and John Lennon’s…
Don’t be surprised if Sony gives the PS Vita a price cut… next year.
To the internet! The internet always has the answer—and it seems to for this question, too. The question arose after watching this clip, which Japanese site Gigazine posted. In the clip, a Glock 22 fires off a jacketed hollow point underwater, and a high-speed camera captured the whole thing. According to YouTube user VuurwapenBlog, there…
The next Metal Gear Online will be developed in LA, says Hideo Kojima.
Production I.G of Ghost in the Shell fame is launching a Kickstarter for a new production. Dubbed Kick-Heart, the anime short is about ten minutes long and is helmed by Masaaki Yusasa. Here’s the S&M themed plot: Kick-Heart is a love story between Romeo, a successful pro-wrestler, and Juliet, a nun who lives a secret…
Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since they were small children—that doesn’t mean, however, that they’ve been using them correctly. In fact, many have not. According to a Meijiro University study (via Nikkei), something like 30 percent of people aged 40s to 50s…
Some call Japanese snacks “weird”. That’s not fair—the vast majority is rather pedestrian. There are some Japanese snacks that are, how should I say, peculiar? Many of them actually end up tasing great, first repelling you and then pulling you in with unique flavor sensations—or as I like to say, flavorsations. Chocolat de Tomato is…
Here’s the trailer for Gundam Breaker, the upcoming Gundam game that uses Gundam models of various scale (both large and small). It’ll be out on the PS3 and PS Vita next year. Gundam Breaker Crashing onto PS3 and PS Vita [Siliconera] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…
In the manga Saint Young Men, Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha are on vacation in Japan, doing their best to understand modern society—as well as hide their own identities. Sometimes they just hang out at home, eat noodles and blog, while other days they do things like going to amusement parks. The hugely popular manga…
North Korea doesn’t exactly scream cutting edge or progress or freedom or delicious burgers or a whole bunch of things. However, it does have an Android powered tablet. Earlier this week in Pyongyang, Chosun Computer showed off its new tablet, which seems to be running Android. It’s not clear, however, where the tablet is actually…
Well, I guess there technically are words, but man. Just. Look. At. That. Previously, Kotaku posted how Burger King Japan was unleashing a “Kuro Burger” (“kuro” means “black” in Japanese) with black ketchup, made from squid ink and garlic. Japanese website Gigazine took one for the team and ordered the meal. How did it taste?…
Japanese toy maker Medicom is releasing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion figure. It’s Unit 02 from Rebuild of Evangelion, and boy oh boy can it ever strike cool poses. As website Tomopop points out, the Unit 02 is about 12 inches tall and comes with blades, two rifles, an umbilical cable, a core to target,…
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