And joining the spaceships from Star Wars and a Gundam MS-06 Zaku II helmet are mechs from Sega’s Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Japan’s Fine Molds created Star Wars models; pricing here Check out more Shizuoka Hobby Show photos from Japanese website Gigazine in the link below. プラモデルや模型の一大見本市、「第50回静岡ホビーショー」全記事一覧まとめ [Gigazine]
A rumor for now, but apparently the PSN is up for game developers, but “a bit shaky at the moment”. This would jive with Sony’s “select group” testing. [NeoGAF Thanks, Gerardo!]
In Japan, pin-up model Aki Higashihara’s blog is notorious. It’s called the “Death Blog”, after manga Death Note. In the popular comic, writing people’s names in the “Death Note” notebook leads to their demise. On the Japanese internet, the same is said about Higashihara’s blog. The notion that Higashihara (above) pens Death Blog has been…
GUN HAZARD | TOKYO, JAPAN: To celebrate 15 years of Resident Evil, a Tokyo airsoft gun bar is being turned into a RE shooting range. (Photo: Capcom) Controversial Game Brought to Life With Tight Rubber, a Nice Lady and Fake Blood Thrill Kill, a violent S&M-themed fighting game, was too much for the PlayStation 1.…
At a retail event today in Japan, Nintendo gave more Star Fox 64 3D details. The game sports a “64 Mode” and a “3DS Mode”. In the 3DS Mode, players can control the spacecraft by using the 3DS’ internal gyroscope sensor. That means, moving the 3DS right causes the spacecraft to go right, moving it…
For decades, the term “youge” (洋ゲー) or “Western game” was pejorative. In Japanese, “you” (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be “Western music” (洋楽) or “Western clothes” (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been. “Even now, there have been people in Japan using the label youge- (Western games) with…
The recently revealed Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011 (temp. title) is an upcoming fighting game for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It’ll be out fall 2011. This is what it looks like!
Why, you’d play video games on it, just like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. did at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As website Joystiq points out, it took 57 workers four months to complete the 332.5 ton, 720p screen, which is comprised of 9 million LEDs. Dale Jr. Takes World’s Largest HDTV For a Test Drive…
Game designer Denis Dyack, who labored on action game Too Human for years, thinks that social gaming is a bubble waiting to burst: “The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry’s seen in a long time and I think when it crashes…
Thrill Kill, a violent S&M-themed fighting game, was too much for the PlayStation 1. It’s not too much for Metal Gear cosplay queen Omi Gibson. In her latest photoset, Gibson cosplays as cattle prod-wielding, sexually charged dominatrix Belladonna. The character “accidentally” killed herself with said cattle prod, something echoed in this cosplay. While the game…
Namco Bandai doesn’t only make video games. It’s Bandai arm has toy and game licenses for iconic Japanese institutions like Gundam, Kamen Rider and Ultraman, as well as new favs like One Piece and Haruhi Suzumiya At an Akihabara showcase, Namco Bandai displayed the latest entries in its high-end collectibles range. The end results are…
At any geek event in Japan, you’ll see them: cosplayers. Convention centers are not ideal backgrounds for the fantasy of fancy costumes. Amateur photographers who aren’t happy with the shitty con setting even rent private spaces and hire cosplayers for more professional looking photos. While cosplayers continue to favor real backgrounds like abandoned buildings, empty…
DRINK UP | OSAKA, JAPAN: Spotted in Osaka’s geek district, Den-Den Town. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) The Beautiful Art of Brink Comes from Some Unlikely Inspiration So, Brink is out. And it’s divisive! Some people appreciate the new things it’s trying to do, others lament the fact the game is in many ways simply broken, while…
Kotaku‘s played Street Fighter X Tekken, but from the sound of it, nobody outside Namco will playing Tekken X Street Fighter anytime soon. According to Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, each studio is making the game free of input from the other studio. Capcom is developing Street Fighter X Tekken, which puts rival fighting game Tekken in…
If going on a Love Plus vacation tour wasn’t embarrassing enough, there’s this: the upcoming 3DS version of the popular love simulator features a “girlfriend introduction” mode. According to game magazine Famitsu, in this mode, players can introduce their virtual girlfriend to family and friends. Thanks to the 3DS’s camera, she can “remember” the people…
According to the latest issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu, mech action game Armored Core V will be out this October on the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The game hits next year in the West. Have a look at these ACV screens and the title’s trailer. [ゲーム情報！ゲームのはなし]
Clothing changes, sunglasses and a wide variety of locales. But what makes this video isn’t the rap or the beat, but just how earnest and irony-free the whole thing seems.
Currently unnamed, a new Dragon Ball Z is headed for the PS3 and Xbox 360 this fall. According to Japanese reports from last week, Namco Bandai is readying a new title called Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011, which sounds like a temporary title. That game will center around 3D fighting. [Eurogamer]
When March 11’s earthquake shook North-eastern Japan, lives were lost and destroyed. Less importantly, video games ended up delayed and canceled. As the country continues to pull itself from the wreckage, one adult game company is stating that for the time being it cannot go on. Ari Design, known for its bishoujo adults-only games, is…
Namco Bandai is bringing PS2 role-playing game Tales of the Abyss to the 3DS next year. In other Tales news, PS3 game Tales of Graces F, the enhanced port of Wii title Tales of Graces is getting a Western launch next year. It was released in Japan in late 2010. [Eurogamer]
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