SNK Playmore is once again in the hardware business. The Osaka-based game company is licensing a new (well, sort of) portable Neo-Geo gaming system. This is it. The handheld sports a 4.3 inch LCD screen, 2GB of onboard memory, and an SD card slot. There are twenty pre-loaded games, all of them old Neo-Geo classics.…
Takashi Sogabe knows a thing or two about the PS Vita. He should. He designed it. Sogabe, who also designed the Walkman, said at a recent Sony roundtable (via website CVG), “The original design of the PS Vita…was very much thinner than the current retail product. From a designer’s point of view, thinner is better-looking,…
Fighter | TOKYO, JAPAN: Pro-gamer Daigo Umehara plays the Street Fighter cabinet with big, punchable buttons. (Photo: 4Gamer) Photoshop Disaster, Diet Disaster Westerners notice it. The clothes run slightly smaller, and a medium in Japan would be a small-or even a petite-back home. Barring the exception here or there, Japanese people tend to have smaller…
The shooter Cave was teasing is DoDonPachi: Maximum. It’s slated for Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7. [Cave via WPCentral]
Capcom, who makes video games, has a bar, which serves food and drinks. Today, Japanese website Famitsu.com posted photos of a recent visit to the establishment. The place serves Capcom themed food, and it’s on the pricey side. Famitsu‘s photos, in the above gallery, don’t exactly make the dishes look appetizing. But maybe the food…
Well, duh. Skip to the 46-second mark to see the Assassin’s Creed assassin to take on himself in this latest round of SoulCalibur V gameplay footage. Besides fighting with himself, Ezio takes on Nightmare, Raphael, Viola, Mitsurugi, and Hilde. SoulCalibur V, the latest in Namco’s Soul series, will be out Feb. 2 in Japan and…
Kotobukiya, the famed Japanese figure maker, released photos of its upcoming Avengers Iron Man Mark VII ARTFX Statue. It’s stunning. According to the press release, the statue comes with a three-mode LED chest light-up feature and can be triggered by an on-board motion detector. Iron Man’s eyes also light up with LED! The figure is…
And who doesn’t? Kidding! (I love you Sega. I think.) Back in Dec. 2010, Kotaku broke the news that Sega was working on a urine-powered game system for Japanese toilets. The result, now installed at bars throughout the country, is doing more than measuring urine speed. “This gives bar customers more things to talk about…
Westerners notice it. The clothes run slightly smaller, and a medium in Japan would be a small—or even a petite—back home. Barring the exception here or there, Japanese people tend to have smaller frames. People are, generally speaking, thin. So what the hell is up with diet ads like these? The above photos appeared recently…
Comic book artist Alex Garner had so much fun with his Portal 2 fan piece that he decided to do his own take on upcoming game BioShock: Infinite The result pays homage to the iconic Saturday Evening Post covers of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker “But after drawing my layout, I discovered that the smart folks at…
If you’ve played any of Valve’s Left 4 Dead games, you’ll know how the zombie hand (and fingers) played into each subsequent installment. Artist VutiAru wondered if the still-unannounced Portal 3 could do the same thing and created this concept box art. According to VutiAru, it hints at a total new direction. That it does.…
At Starbucks, you see people with their iPads, their MacBooks, and, yes, their gaming portables. What you don’t usually see are people with their home consoles. There’s a reason for that! “Home consoles” are called “home consoles”, because gamers play them at home. “Portable consoles” like the 3DS and the PS Vita are created for…
Dragon Nest | TOKYO, JAPAN: HanGame promotes its latest title in Tokyo. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Japanese Mecha Game Invites Crazy Controller Holding The Armored Core games, from Dark Souls‘s developer From Software, give players the experience of controlling a giant mecha. As you can imagine, giant mechas are complex machines and, thus, so are…
Certainly not 100 percent scientific, but according to Kotaku Japan‘s PS Vita survey, 1 out of 10 Vita users had hardware issues and had to exchange or repair their hardware. Most everyone seemed happy with the Vita, though. [Kotaku Japan]
The Armored Core games, from Dark Souls‘s developer From Software, give players the experience of controlling a giant mecha. As you can imagine, giant mechas are complex machines and, thus, so are Armored Core‘s controls. The above photo appeared on Japanese forums recently during Armored Core V discussions. According to Mecha Damashii‘s Ollie Barder, this…
Shiro Suzuki, famed Japanese broadcaster, loves Resident Evil. As Kotaku previously posted, Suzuki discovered gaming over 15 years ago. It was Resident Evil that quickly became his favorite. At the recent Resident Evil event in Tokyo, Shiro Suzuki spoke about his love for not just the series, but also gaming. “I owe making it to…
Cave, the Tokyo-based shmup studio, teased a new DoDonPachi, dubbed DoDonPachi: Saidaioujou. More details on Jan. 23. [Official Site]
Ever wonder how much retro game idol Haruna Anno loves video games? Enough to make a retro gaming museum. Anno, who also does bikini modeling, believes that video games are culture and spearheaded this space to preserve that culture. The museum features old arcade games on free-play, old game mags to peruse, games, and retro…
Whenever Japanese bulletin boards discover bad Western cosplay, forum users begin piling on the bad cosplay photos, saying foreigners just cannot cosplay. (This is incorrect.) But then, inevitably, somebody usually pulls out a Maridah photo, pointing out that some of the best cosplay ever is not Japanese. Who’s Maridah? She just might be Japan’s favorite…
Kaoru Yosano looks like your typical politician—navy blue suit, glasses, and a Showa Era hairdo. Kaoru Yosano is anything but typical. He is a PC-building, nerd-hero. At Nicofarre, the teched out nightclub for Japanese video service Nico Nico Douga, Kaoru Yosano participated in the “Kaoru Yosano Triathlon” in which the well-known politician underwent five events…
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