Fashion model turned famous lady Nozomi Sasaki has a new habit: She’s appearing in upcoming television series based on a social networking game as a boss character. The game is Kaito Royale, a popular cell phone title. Sasaki is a machine gun-packing nun named “Sister Snake”. The drama centers around a group of thieves. The…
And it’s not Red Dead Redemption. Christian Cantamessa, who designed and co-wrote the wonderful Red Dead Redemption, is going Hollywood. Cantamessa sold a script he co-wrote called Wake Cycle. According to Variety, the movie is set in an underground hyperbaric facility after a nuclear fallout. Every six months, two custodial workers can take care of…
Well not that creepy (kidding! sorta!). YouTube user WyldStallynsGames really likes Shigeru Miyamoto. He likes him so much that he wrote a ballad for him. No, he wrote a power ballad. On YouTube, WyldStallynsGames explains why he wrote this tune. “It was through the work of Shigeru Miyamoto that I discovered my own passion: creating…
Emiri Kato doesn’t just play Final Fantasy XI, she lives there. The voice actress has an impressive resume of anime and game titles she’s worked on, but that’s nothing compared to her FFXI playtime. As pointed out on website 4Gamer, Kato has played FFXI for 557 days and 18 hours. That’s 13,386 hours. Before you…
Ni no Kuni isn’t only the PS3’s most beautiful game, it’s also pretty darn cute. Thank Studio Ghibli for that. Know what cute calls for? A cute kid. Mana Ashida is one of the most popular stars in Japan. She’s only seven, but she’s already done way more than those twice—three times, even—her age, including…
Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services recently registered pokemongray.com. This is the same company that registered pokemonblackwhite.com, an official Nintendo site. When you mix black and white you get…gray. [IGN via Gimme Gimme Games!]
I guess they’re not that shy, because they are filming themselves singing songs and then uploading the clips to YouTube. There’s an entire subgenre of young females strumming their guitars, usually in their bedrooms, and singing about the nerdiest things imaginable, from StarCraft to physics. Many of them do a wonderful job, too. Kotaku‘s posted…
Mega | TOKYO, JAPAN: Dead Rising creator Keiji Inafune attended a Dead Rising event in Tokyo. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Here’s Harrison Ford. Playing Uncharted. [Updated] National treasure Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, your childhood) has popped up in an unlikely place: A Japanese television commercial for Uncharted 3. More » The Spies, Soldiers and…
Remember Toirettsu? It’s a toilet, outfitted with mini-games. As Sega Toys pointed out, “You’re able to game with pee!” Finally! The contraption is outfitted with mini-games, and there is a sensor that can apparently measure the speed of one’s urine stream. Some of the mini-games include erasing graffiti with a hose (with your pee), causing…
Sure you do! At the recent All Japan Plamodel Hobby Show held outside Tokyo, a whole bunch of figures were on display. There were the standard bishoujo (“beautiful girl”) statues, along with mecha and robot figures. Let’s focus on those. The gallery is Gundam heavy, but there are appearances by Zone of the Enders and…
In preparation for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launch, the beta for Call of Duty: Elite, Activision’s new social network and stat-tracking service, is going offline later today. According to an official release, Activision and Beachhead Studio are shutting down the Elite beta at 3:00pm EST. Before MW3 and Elite‘s launch, the following sections…
The next Xbox hasn’t been announced. There have been hints and rumors, but nothing official. Regardless, it is coming, and game designers, like the rest of us, have a laundry list of things they want. Gears of War Cliff Bleszinski is no different. Bleszinski told OXM, “I’m sorry, do you think graphics are good enough?…
Right before this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo suddenly revealed it was having a press conference. It was a total bust. Today, Nintendo suddenly announced it was holding another press conference. Will it be a disappointment, too? Dubbed “Nintendo 3DS New Information: Internet Presentation”, the event will be carried over Japanese video site NicoNico Douga…
Cosplayer Omi Gibson, perhaps best known for her Metal Gear work, is no one trick pony. Her repertoire includes obscure characters like Super Galdelic Hour‘s Toko and Thrill Kill‘s Belladonna, along with a willingness to cover herself in fake blood. Here, she cosplays as baseball-bat-wielding Bad Girl, a cosplay she’s donned before. This time, she…
In the West, you know them as movie stars. They’re larger than life. Even appearing on television often seems beneath them. But in Japan, they’re more than happy to sell you crap. For years, Hollywood movie stars have made no bones about appearing in Japanese commercials. Back home, they’d never dream of compromising their images…
As previously posted, Harrison Ford is appearing in Uncharted 3‘s Japanese television commercials. The above video shows Ford playing Uncharted 3 and talking about the game. It’s the best clip of the bunch—far better than the actual commercial, which feels phony. The commercial does feature Ford speaking Japanese as well as his calligraphy. Ford wrote…
National treasure Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, your childhood) has popped up in an unlikely place: A Japanese television commercial for Uncharted 3 Since nobody wants to play Sega with Harrison Ford, it’s about time he had a go at something others do want to play. Since the 69-year-old is famous for playing Indiana…
The Benz | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony held a GT5 event in Roppongi. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Don’t Get Mad at Need for Speed: The Run‘s Biggest Star Mad Men star Christina Hendricks’ latest role? Need for Speed: The Run According to PopWatch, the actress will play a character by the name of Sam Harper. More »…
The iSec, Lenovo’s home game console, was supposed to be out this fall. According to Chinese reports, it will get a limited release this December in the Mainland. Previously called the eBox, the iSec has Kinect-style controls and will cost 3,000 yuan (US$470). How iSec’s release will factor into China’s ban on game consoles, we…
Siri is not only miffed by Scottish English, it also doesn’t follow English spoken with a Japanese accent. “Work” and “walk” are notoriously difficult for Japanese speakers—largely because the Japanese loan word for “work” is “waaku” (ワーク). Japanese people are used to saying “waaku” for “work”. The gentlemen who recorded this video has a good…
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