Add One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP to the growing list of games delayed by the earthquake in Japan. Namco Bandai says the title is being held back for “various reasons”, which is quickly becoming code for the Tohoku quake. The fact that it’s a game with characters on boats probably doesn’t help. New release date…
With the blackouts, Tokyoites might want to keep track on the region’s power source. Here’s how they can do it in style. Evangelion style. The page provides info in real time, noting the maximum power supply as well as the current one. There is also handy info about which parts of Kanto are taking part…
Due to the power concerns that arose after March 11’s earthquake, the servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI were taken offline. The servers for both games will be back online on March 25. To make up for the outage, FFXI players won’t be charged for the April billing cycle. Final Fantasy XIV…
On March 11, the Tohoko earthquake and tsunami left the northeastern part of Japan in ruins. People were displaced, missing or dead. News coverage reported on the devastation. But what company wants to be the official sponsor of a calamity like this? Advertisers yanked their spots from television, leaving a huge void. In its place,…
Ninja are supposed to be cunning, smart and lethal. But some ninjas are anything but! Total War: Shogun 2 is a military strategy game. In it, players can send ninjas on missions. The ninjas have skills and attributes – thus, the better the ninja, the higher the chance they’ll take out their target. Most of…
Nintendo, the world’s family-friendly video game maker, formed under less virtuous auspices. Before Nintendo made video games, they made playing cards for gangsters and ran their own love hotel, which some assert their own president frequented—during work. Saucy! It’s deathly quiet. I can hear my footsteps as I trundle down a small side-street, where the…
SNAPSHOT | OSAKA, JAPAN: Children that appear under the age of six check out 3D gaming on the 3DS. Nintendo recommends that only players over 6 use the 3D setting. (Photo by Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Call Of Duty ‘s Cover Competition Has 32 Candidates, And The Fans Are One Never one to let…
Back in 2010, Sega held a competition to promote Yakuza 3 with a very dedicated prize: a full back tattoo like the one Yakuza character Kazuma Kiryu sports. Somebody actually won that prize and got the tattoo. The winner was 46-year-old Australian Fari Salievsk, a MMA trainer from New South Wales. The process took six…
Well, the Jill Valentine in the old Resident Evil film. Actress Sienna Guillory is once again returning to the role. “RE:5 alert! Training begins! I aim to mostly put less in the big hole on the front of my face than comes out of the little one on my arse,” she wrote via Twitter. Guillory…
New Yorkers! This Saturday, Nintendo is holding a midnight launch at the Best Buy in Union Square, complete with hands-on demos, entertainment, and schwag giveaways. Playable demos start at noon and wrap up at 8pm. Launch event to follow.
The recent earthquake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan, but it also turned much of the Kanto area upside down. Otaku are uploading images of havoc it caused in their nerd kingdoms. Of course, there isn’t even remotely near to the damage caused elsewhere in the country – damage that cost people their homes, lives and…
Music might not have worked out for movie director Troy Duffy, but that doesn’t mean games won’t. The director, known for crime flick Boondock Saints and the documentary of his implosion Overnight, is keen for a game version of the film that made him famous. “We’re thinking of making a video game out of Boondock…
In Japan, trace amounts of radiation are being found in vegetables and milk. People are obviously concerned, but fret not, because the guy from Brain Age is here to relax all fears. The Asashi Newspaper reports radiation that exceed government standards were discovered in vegetables grown in Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefecture. Milk with trace…
Dream Club is a hostess simulator that lets players get drunk (virtually) and talk to girls (virtual ones). There’s singing, too! The series spawned on the Xbox 360 and has a niche, but dedicated following in Japan. Niche, but dedicated following? That means only one thing: sculpted, collectible figures. This 1/7 scale statue of Dream…
On March 29, Capcom was planning to hold a get-together called “Nintendo 3DS x Capcom Premium Hands-On Event” in Akihabara, which was to have the first public hands-on with Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D and Mega-Man Legends 3. This event has now been canceled because of the earthquake and tsunami. [via Capcom]
The codename for Sony’s upcoming PSP successor is “NGP”, short for “Next Generation Portable”. Japanese game company Compile Heart of Hyperdimension Neptunia infamy fame is making a new title that is called “NPG”. NGP. NPG. Geddit? Makes sense, I guess, as Hyperdimension Neptunia was about the console wars, but the consoles were anime ladies. NGP,…
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The online portfolio of industrial designer Ben Peterson lists all sorts of projects he’s worked on or is working. One of those is apparently the next Xbox. In the past, Peterson’s work, like this concept “magnify” or electric kettle, made waves online. But an entry posted just yesterday in his online portfolio is bound to…
Daisenryaku Perfect: Ruler of the Battlefield is the latest entry in the Daisenryaku (Great Strategy) series of Japanese strategy games. It’s coming to the PS3 and the Xbox 360, but wouldn’t look out of place on the Sega Saturn. Perfect, this ain’t. The game is a port of the incredibly buggy PSP version – a…
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