According to reports out of South Korea, some of the country’s most talented (and fastest) players finished Diablo III in record time. While Western players have also completed the game, in the race to finish it first (and fastest), Korean clan EHG defeated the final Diablo III boss only 5 and a half hours after…
This guy is Mike La Jute Blanche. He’s a French cosplayer, and holy crap, he is good. Just look at his work. The outfits and make up are incredibly impressive, and he does a great job of capturing Predator, Dragonball‘s Piccolo, and Motal Kombat. The hip-hop Piccolo is especially wonderful. Sure, his Kratos cosplay needs…
Players are reporting a game breaking bug in newly released Diablo III. The bug kicks players off Diablo III servers, bringing up an Error 3006 message. The bug is triggered when players interact with the Templar follower early in the game, equipping the Templar with a shield. Players on Blizzard’s Diablo III forums are reporting…
As a kid, I grew up fascinated by movie make up. Even to this day, with all the CG there is in film, I still prefer good old fashioned make up effects. Above, actresses Zhou Xun and Vicki Zhao appear in a promotional still for upcoming supernatural fantasy flick, Painted Skin: The Resurrection. To achieve…
There’s a new cop on the beat in Kyoto’s Miyazu City: a four legged one. And he’s ready to help squash fraud. The cat was discovered as a two week-old stray, and the local police station eventually took the feline, named “Iemon”, in. And this past April, the cat joined the force. Iemon helps with…
In Japan, where the PSP isn’t dead, the latest Kenka Bancho will be out this summer. Check out the game’s trailer. Warning annoying guitar music. 『喧嘩番長Bros.』プロモ映像公開！”塔京”の名所も多たくさん登場 [GPara]
This year marked the first year in Japan that the sale of adult diapers surpassed baby nappies. The country’s population is declining. The country isn’t going gray. It already is. What it’s not doing is going extinct. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there was a huge youth boom in Japan that reflected a baby boom.…
Earlier this month, Astana, Kazakhstan played host to an international military equipment expo. You know, like E3, but with real guns, real tanks, and real fighter planes. So nothing like E3, then. Still, there were grenade launchers, sniper rifles, and an array of combat vehicles and aircraft—basically, a bunch of stuff you can see in…
Japanese games get pigeonholed: Young characters with big eyes swinging big swords. Screw swords, give them guns! Independent game developers Ayaemo Research Institute’s latest project, The Legend of Alfur, is a PC first-person shooter. There are shades of Sega’s Valkyria Chronicles, which was a third-person shooter. But make no mistake, The Legend of Alfur is…
At the Diablo III launch in Seoul, the country’s most famous cosplayer collective, Spiral Cats, was on hand to help kick of the game’s Korean release. Spiral Cats donned Diablo III outfits and appeared at a stage show for the game. In the world of Korean cosplay, the group is about as big as they…
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Super Potato. I’ve been to the Akihabara branch a whole blot—I’ve been to the Osaka branches of this gaming retail chain even more. I’ve seen tons of Super Potato photos. I’ve taken tons more. Yet, I’ve always liked the photos Danny Choo of Culture Japan takes (they’re usually quite nice), and this batch of Super…
Have a look at the latest entry in the Atelier series of Japanese role-playing games with the opening of Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Twilight Land. The game is out this June in Japan on the PlayStation 3.
Whether it been interesting outfits or make up, Tokyo’s Harajuku is famous for its inventive fashion. The latest trend, according to the Japanese media? Cat ear hair. For years, “cat girls” have been popular in Japan. The trope is ubiquitous in Japanese video games, manga and anime. But now, otaku (geek) culture is melding with…
Professional crook Fujiko Mine has her own new Lupin anime. In it, she looks sexy and fantastic. This new life-sized Fujiko figure, though, does not. Online retailer AmiAmi lists this life-sized Fujiko’s price at ¥504,000 (US$6,300) and calls it “high quality”. I call it “overpriced garbage”. Pre-orders for the figure start this summer. It goes…
Yahoo! Japan is running an auction that will give one lucky winner the chance to virtual pilot the one-to-one scale Gundam in Tokyo’s Odaiba. Don’t get too excited just yet. You don’t actually get to sit in the cockpit. The winner will get his or her image displayed on the one-to-one scale’s virtual cockpit. Thus,…
Because the folks at PlayStation Japan kindly posted one! Here is the Soul Sacrifice presentation in English for your listening pleasure. In it, there is game imagry, Japanese game people, and flashing lights. Who doesn’t love flashing lights?
It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real—and almost very deadly. Last week, a Hyundai YF Sonata pulled out of traffic and went tearing down the street, weaving through traffic, and piling into a stopped car. Ten people were injured (the driver broke ribs, while the passenger’s vertebrae was damaged), and the…
As previously posted, Namco is working on a new Tales role-playing game. Here is the countdown clock if you are into those. I’m not! Namco]
On May 12, a 54 year-old junior high school teacher spent the evening at anime shop, Animate, in Osaka’s geek district, Den Den Town. The teacher, Manabu Wakita, was a regular, but he wasn’t looking for DVDs or anime goods. He supposedly had something else in mind: trying to snap photos up a woman’s skirt.…
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