First shown at last month’s Comiket, this Metroid: Other M statue features heroine Samus in her Zero Suit. Here’s a better look, because this figure deserves one. The 1/8 scale PVC statue is expected to go on sale this June in Japan. Pricing will be announced at a later date. There was also another Samus…
Chalk this up as Japanese developer minutia, but Keiji Inafune, creator of Dead Rising and Onimusha, pulled a muscle in his calf while playing tennis. Recovery will take a month. [Keiji Inafune だぜ！！]
This summer, Square Enix is releasing a new third-person shooter dubbed Gunslinger Stratos. It’s not a home console game—yet. Rather, it’s a four-on-four team-based online arcade game that allows players to battle others in game centers across Japan. Gunslinger Stratos runs at a brisk 60 frames-per-second on 60 inch, full HD displays. It’s slated for…
Shoemakers make shoes. Carmakers make cars. And video game makers? They make video games. Tokyo-based Namco Bandai Games is developing, wait for it, a new video game. This is apparently a picture of the teaser, which was snapped in the upcoming issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu The teaser features four young women, all in…
Link from The Legend of Zelda is good at many things: slaying enemies, solving puzzles, and saving Zelda. One thing he totally sucks at is haggling. Pwn Stars (geddit?) is a gaming parody of reality program Pawn Stars (geddit?). In the above clip, Link tries to get the best price for the Triforce of Courage.…
When you think of Japanese pop culture today, schoolgirls with big eyes probably come to mind. It wasn’t always that way. Japanese pop culture used to be giant monsters, badass superheroes, and robots. They still exist—today’s kids still love super sentai shows and Kamen Rider—but the moé aesthetic dominates anime, manga, and video games. Thank…
Those familiar with adventure game Uncharted will notice something familiar about I Am Alive— it’s climbing gameplay. Kotaku‘s I Am Alive preview should shed more light on what to expect when Ubisoft releases the game sometime early this year. Until then, enjoy this brown gameplay footage from CES. I Am Alive – Climbing Gameplay (CES…
Game developer Ross Mills noticed something he found, tongue planted firmly in cheek, appalling: a British retailer specializing in educational toys had the gall to sell Anakin Skywalker stuff. Mills did what any responsible Padawan would: he wrote an email. “Now, I didn’t really mind,” Mills blogged. “I merely thought it amusing that the murderer…
Male Commander Shepherd. Female Commander Shepherd. Good Shepherd. Dickwad Shepherd. The main character of BioWare’s space opus Mass Effect can be played a bunch of different ways. But Lieutenant Commander Ferret Shepherd? Hunting, rather, ferreting out the evil Geth across the universe, no doubt. This is the work of Amales, and check more of the…
Delicious | TOKYO, JAPAN: Part of a give-away to promote the game in Japan. (Photo: GameWatchImpress) Report: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plan in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony products. More »…
Thank website Doodle of Boredom and be glad Vader is out of the ladies room and back where he belongs: riding a Pocket Monster. Better than Dewbacks [Doodle of Boredom]
You’ve already seen a man clone himself and play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the violin. Now, you’re going to see a man clone himself and sing the game’s iconic theme. The man here is Diwa de Leon. Don’t fret; there are hats and instruments, too, including, yes, violins! Well, a violin that’s been…
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s. According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they…
You might not know Japanese illustrator NekoshowguN. But you damn well should. The young artist first made her splash as part of the Osaka art collective Digmeout. She’s done art for music games GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, but her highest profile work to date is lead character and weapon design for Goichi Suda‘s upcoming hack-and-slash Lollipop…
For all intents and purposes, HezaChan has been cosplaying since the dawn of the internet. Granted, loads of people were online before 2001 (many of you included), but take a look back at her cosplay photos from 2001. It looks like a million years ago. HezaChan’s first cosplay was Saber Marionette J at the 2001…
The PlayStation 2 was released back in Oct. 2000. That’s well over a decade ago, and the damn thing is still selling—and selling lots As Kotaku marveled back in Feb. 2011, the PS2 continues to shift consoles. And today, Kotaku will marvel at this some more. According to an official Sony Computer Entertainment release, “The…
Beams, the Japanese hipster brand, is designing a set of PS Vita carrying cases, straps, and clothes. Have a look. The Beams Design Pouch and Strap Set goes on sale Mar. 22 in Japan. Available in Dark Gray, Impact Blue, and Red & Dark Blue, each set is priced at ¥2,800 or US$37. The PS…
Tokyo is expensive. That new Shinjuku office Square Enix is moving into must cost a large fortune. Some of the country’s most expensive real estate is Tokyo’s Ginza and Osaka’s Umeda. There are deals to be had, but land is expensive and space comes at a premium in big cities. That doesn’t stop people from…
Occasionally, people ask me, “Brian Ashcraft, is Kotaku ever hiring?” To which I reply, “No, random person, it is not.” But if you were to ask me that same question today, I’d have a very different answer. Kotaku is looking for a few good men/women/whatever in the Tokyo area for increased Japanese gaming coverage. Do…
Sumioni—a wonderful, upcoming PS Vita game—is getting a new female character, a princess named Mitsuhime. You must rescue her! According to Famitsu, the game will also feature multiple endings—three to be exact. During last year’s Tokyo Game Show, I got hands on with Sumioni. It was the best title I played at the show, and…
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