As Kotaku previously posted, Ezio Auditore da Firenze’s Assassin’s Creed outfit is coming to role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 as downloadable content. Here are some screenshots that show Noel Kreiss, Final Fantasy XIII-2’s male protagonist, decked out in AC gear. Collaborations like this are neat and all, but they also seem off putting. Like, why…
Music has its Elvis impersonators, but video games? Video games have cosplayers, but there’s a difference in the nuance. “Cosplay” implies an element of play—as though you are going from outfit to outfit. Not this lady. This lady is Elin Kuzunoha, and while she’s cosplayed as characters from One Piece and Final Fantasy, there is…
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An American developer with serious Metal Gear cred. The production studio that made that MGS4‘s wild intro movies. Looking at the upcoming stealth game they’re collaborating on you could get the idea that this is just another Metal Gear Solid type game. You’d be wrong. The game follows a young girl named Hope who is…
According to a broadcast on Shenzhen satellite television, a Taiwanese man damaged the cartilage in his finger while playing mobile phone games. The man would apparently play mobile games for hours and hours on end each day, swiping and tapping his phone. As a result, his hand is now injured, and he cannot bend his…
During the 1970s, Japan made some amazing grindhouse flicks, like School of the Holy Beast and Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom. The country’s exploitation filmmakers have been going through a Renaissance in the past decade, concentrating on outrageous splatter flicks like Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl. And it does not look…
If you’ve played SNK fighting game Fatal Fury, you know Terry Bogard’s Power Wave. Over the years, it has evolved—into chopsticks, apparently. Watch as Japanese comedy site Megwin has Terry Bogard takes on some pigeons with the Power Wave. 木製パワーウェイブで鳩を追い払えるか？ [Kotaku Japan]
A brand new Lupin anime is airing in Japan. Dubbed Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, It’s centered on Lupin heroine Fujiko. The show is the first televised Lupin anime series in 27 years—and the first to feature a female director. If the teaser poster, which featured a topless Fujiko, didn’t clue you…
Goichi Suda’s next game is called Killer Is Dead. The game isn’t a sequel to his cult hit Killer7, but it does feature No More Heroes style swordplay. The concept art does make the title look quite different from his other work. It’s like salarymen plus the future plus stabby-stabby. For more about Killer Is…
This week, a typhoon hit Japan. It snapped telephone poles in half. It overturned trucks. It killed people. Footage of the storm in action showed just how powerful it was. Yet, when Japanese news station TV Asahi did its report on the typhoon, it also didn’t hesitate from showing a close-up of a woman’s skirt…
This is singer Kaela Kimura. She’s from Tokyo. The dialects throughout Japan are different—something Kotaku has covered before. In a recent series of chewing gum commercials, Kaela speaks in the Osaka dialect, instead of her usual Tokyo dialect. Her accent is overblown, and its all for comic effect. It’s pretty funny! But goodness, forget her…
Okay, yes. It’s only April. I know. But damn, the boxart for the upcoming Tokyo Jungle is glorious. Be sure to check out Kotaku‘s previous Tokyo Jungle coverage.
Last month, an article appeared in Japanese newspaper Nikkei. In it, Nikkei stated that Nintendo was targeting Asia. Moreover, the paper gave a specific example of this tactic—namely that Nintendo was launching the 3DS in South Korea on April 28. Nintendo aggressively refuted the article, releasing a statement that the article “isn’t anything our company…
Xia Xiaowei is one of China’s most famous “tech models”. Whenever big hardware is released, the 20-something year-old Xia Xiaowei, who goes by Vivihoney in English, is there to pose with it. Chinese tech models like Vivihoney pretty much exclusively pose with hardware, combining glossy gadget pics with pin-up photos. Vivihoney is actually signed with…
Goichi Suda, the man behind No More Heroes and Killer 7 (above), is working on a new game called Killer Is Dead. According to the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Suda is directing this assassin title. The game apparently takes its cues from both Killer 7 and No More Heroes. Killer Is Dead, however, is an…
Ever wonder what happens to the pigs in Angry Birds after they’re toppled? In the game, they go “poof” into a cloud of smoke. In real life, they end up on dinner tables. Chinese food maker Joycome is running a promotion with Angry Birds—the game is huge throughout Asia. Buy 800 grams worth of Joycome…
Final Fantasy characters sure are stylish. Maybe it’s their razor thin body types. Or the hair. But they look like models. And now, they don’t only look like them, they are. The latest issue of Japanese men’s fashion mag Arena Homme Plus features Final Fantasy XIII-2 characters modeling Prada’s summer collection. These are clothes for…
North Korea seems rough. It might be a wonderful place to visit. I’ve never been, so I honestly do not know. The Vice documentary on visiting the secretive country didn’t exactly make it seem like a good time. This video, however, does its best to get you packing your bags and ready for a trip…
It’s springtime. And when you say “spring” in Japan, images of cherry blossoms and picnics leap to mind. Screw that. You should be thinking about illuminated, dancing robot girls. Japanese pop group Perfume, whom Kotaku has featured before, is releasing a new single called “Spring of Life”. The video turns the leggy trio into dancing…
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