You can do lots of stuff with Kinect. You can view media with it. You can play games. You can act like a doofus in your living room. Soon, you might even be able to do banking. A Lithuanian company called Etronika is developing an application that uses a Kinect interface, reports PC World. The…
Time Travelers, that mysterious 3DS game, is also headed to the PS Vita and the PSP. It will be out next year. [ゲームメモ]
Good cosplay isn’t only about good costumes. It’s about good backgrounds. Kansai-based cosplay collective Akasha-Chronik nails both. The group, lead by cosplayer Mao Inumoto, focuses largely on Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as well as sporting picturesque backgrounds that look straight out of Square Enix’s art department. In the above gallery, Mao and Akasha-Chronik take…
UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn’t make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did. The 8-ton, 29-foot-tall and 39-foot-wide UFO Catcher appeared in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills over the weekend as part of a promotion for…
Often, in-store erotic game display are totally crazy. This is no exception. The game is adult PC title Taisetsuna kimi no Tame ni, Boku ni Dekiru Ichiban Koto (“The Best Thing I Can Do for You”). The in-store display consists of heroines from the game with their cardboard legs wrapped in black pantyhose. The kicker?…
Aksys Games is bringing BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend to North America. The game features a new playable character, new modes, and new scenarios. It’ll hit the PS Vita, the PS3, and the Xbox 360. No word on when.
In movies, it’s not unheard of for several famous movie directors to team up, each contributing a short film to a larger motion picture. There are several examples, like New York Stories and Four Rooms. In gaming, it’s rather uncommon. Level-5, the studio behind Professor Layton, is releasing a new 3DS title called Guild 01.…
My native language is English. Yours might be. It might be another language, I don’t know. Chances are, if you are reading Kotaku, you understand English—which is why you don’t hesitate to use the #corrections tag when we seemingly don’t. Not everyone understands English, and that’s fine. Millions of Japanese people live productive and happy…
It’s not yet Thanksgiving. Heck, Halloween is weeks away. Yet, select retailers in the U.S. are rolling out holiday decorations. And it’s not just the U.S. Select Japanese retail is also already selling Christmas trees. So why should an iOS app be any different? Santa’s Village from social game maker Making Fun was released in…
Motorsport | OSAKA, JAPAN: A copy of Forza 4 and a press kit landed on my desk today. Can’t wait to check it out. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft | Kotaku) Clive Owen’s Embarrassing Video Game Past British actor Clive Owen is a badass. A man’s man. He’s got a deep voice, a heavy face, and is…
To celebrate Akira‘s 30th anniversary, Bandai Namco is releasing a replica of the cow-hide leather jacket worn by Akira protagonist Kaneda. There’s also a black version, which is based on Kaneda’s jacket. It reads “2019 A.D. 28 Neo Tokyo”, with the number 28 referring to Kaneda’s test research number. It costs ¥69,800, which is a…
Starting Oct. 23, Nintendo is releasing a black Wii bundle that includes New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack CD, a black Wii-mote and Nunchuk. Yours for $149.99.
The PS Vita has a beautiful OLED screen. You don’t chuck OLED screens in your backpack or your pocket! You need to put the Vita in a pouch. Or a case. Like these. Today, Sony revealed a handful of new PS Vita pouches and cases. There are white and blue carrying pouches, priced at ¥1,800…
Like really dirty games. You know, porn. Online retailer BD-Game is selling Blu-ray versions of adult PC games, meaning that the PS3 can play them. The adult games offered are hardcore. They include chesty sister wifey game Shimai Tsuma, the stomach churning Lolita-at-home title Hajimete no Orusuban, inevitable tentacle game Inda no Hime Kishi no…
In an interview with Dengeki PlayStation, Sony’s Yoshio Matsumoto said that the company is still looking into offering UMD owners the opportunity to re-download their games on the Vita for a special price. At last month’s Sony press conference, Sony also mentioned it was looking into a solution for UMD owners who want to experience…
Did you blink? Well, you missed it. Halo: Helljumper is an upcoming fan-made web series that is slated to premiere next January. Hopefully each episode is longer than six seconds. To learn more about the web series and to see production stills, check out Halo: Helljumpers‘s Facebook page You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author…
The dudes from Japanese car site Cliccar get out of their boring civvies and got dressed up as Mario and Luigi. Then, they hopped in two street legal X-Karts and took to the avenues and boulevards of Tokyo. Priced at ¥ 379,800 (US$4,900), the X-Kart is a self-styled “mini sports car”. It weighs only 95…
When the PS Vita goes on sale Dec. 17 in Japan, it will cost ¥25,000. With the weak dollar, that’s US$326. So it’s best to go by the portable’s American pricing: $250. With that in mind, how much are Vita games going to cost? According to Famitsu, Uncharted: Golden Abyss costs ¥5,980 for the cartridge…
Put down that leaked Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim manual! And watch this clip. This clip is from the folks responsible for June’s live-action Gears of War 3 fan trailer Fan film director Blake Armstrong and his crew at Try Force Productions turned their attention to the upcoming Skyrim via a live-action trailer, which they churned…
This past weekend, a parking lot in Tokyo’s Odaiba glimmered with geek pride. This weekend saw the Ita G Festa expo. Gear-heads gathered and showed off more than their appreciation for automobiles. They showed off their appreciation of covering their cars in otaku decals. “Ita” refers to “itasha”, which literally means “painmobile”. The removable decals…
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