Nope. Think the wait for Gran Turismo 5 is really long? Check out the game’s opening. It’s over seven minutes of raw materials, factory metal and cars, cars, cars. YouTube user GTisTopGear uploaded this footage, which is supposedly Gran Turismo 5’s opening credits. Another YouTube user, You5825, previously uploaded footage of himself apparently racing through…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Six Years, A Bazillion Stories I’ve never been to Russia — I’d like to go! Seems like a beautiful place. I don’t know any Russian, but I do know that the Japanese word “ikura” or “roe” is apparently from the Russian “ikra”. Not a big fan of ikura as I…
At a presentation in Kyoto, Japanese developer Tose, best known for its Nintendo games, claimed the PS3 is outselling the Xbox 360 worldwide. The company is now apologizing for that. Oh, the shame! According to Tose’s original data, the Xbox 360 has sold 41 million consoles worldwide, while the PS3 has sold 42 million. If…
Gal☆Gun is one crazy game. It’s wall-to-wall underpants. And when there aren’t underpants, there are tentacles. The game — certainly “suitable” for players under 18 — even has a panic screen. No wonder Microsoft wants some changes. The game is only 79 days away from release, but Microsoft requested meetings with the title’s developer, Alchemist.…
In years past, Club Nintendo gave loyal Japanese members a whole host of awesome prizes. This year, Club Nintendo won’t. This year’s “Platinum Member” prizes are so lame. This year, Nintendo is offering either a handkerchief set, a button set or a calendar as part of its “rewards”. For comparison’s sake, let’s review highlights of…
In 2008, Sega’s war saga Valkyria Chronicles was turned into an animated series. It should come as no surprise that PSP game Valkyria Chronicles 3 is getting an anime send-up, too. The new Valkyria Chronicles cartoon does not look to be a series, but a two-off production, available through the PS3’s PlayStation Network. Shame that…
First person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops is out. People are playing it. But just wait until they find the floating apple, then they won’t. They’ll be too busy being horrified for that. This is infinitely worse than the “Javelin Glitch” that plagued Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Just look at it! It…floats.…
Just as massively multiplayer game Hello Kitty Online celebrates the character’s 36th birthday, a Dutch court ruled that a Hello Kitty friend is too similar to one of the country’s beloved characters, yanking the Kitty pal from store shelves. The Hello Kitty friend in question is “Cathy”, a bunny character. According to The Straits Times,…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Daylight Savings Time is over. Kiss it good-bye! Japan doesn’t have that clock-switching system, so tonight, my last post goes up at 11:30pm. That’s late! So…time to pass out. Oh and speaking of time, congrats to you for six years at Kotaku. What you missed last night Call Of Duty, Time…
Over the weekend at the SoCal Regionals fighting tournament, Street Fighter player Tokido duked it out for top spot in the losers’ bracket. And then won the hearts of everyone in the room. Tokido is one of the top Akuma players on the fighting game circuit. After defeating player ClarkyD, Tokido didn’t miss a beat…
Ever wonder why Dame Helen Mirren agreed to appear in upcoming Wii ads? Maybe she likes the Wii. But maybe it was the two-day commercial shoot and the very hefty paycheck. Ka-ching! According to MSN News, the 65 year-old Oscar winner received £500,000 (US$800,000) to appear in a Wii Fit Plus advert. “Nintendo insisted they…
First revealed in summer 2009, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is an action game starring Metal Gear creator Raiden and set between MGS2 and MGS4. The game was expected to be out in 2011. Those expectations, it seems, are wrong. Kotaku has been told that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will miss 2011, and will instead hit…
This fall marks the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. What better what to say “congrats” than with a fan-made Super Mario game that puts Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3 and Super Mario World in a blender. Drink it up! Available as a free download, the game also features a 2 player co-op mode,…
The Pokémon Company held a “Pokémon Popularity Contest”, polling players on which Pocket Monster they want to meet in Pokémon: Black and White. The winner is not Pikachu. That Pocket Monster wasn’t even second! Number five is Mew, and number four is the iconic yellow monster, Pikachu. Number three is Deoxys, while number two is…
This Sunday, 75-year-old Yoshinobu Nishizaki, co-creator of 1970s animated series Space Battleship Yamato (imported to the West as “Star Blazers”), fell from his 485-ton boat “Yamato” at an island port in southern Tokyo. Nishizaki produced other nautical-themed anime like Space Carrier Blue Noah, Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight and Yamato 2520. The other co-creator of Space…
In an effort to give Japanese gamers a hands body-on with Kinect, Xbox Japan set up a demo station at a large electronics store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Make that, a lonely demo station — for now, at least! According to the individual who took these images, the photos were snapped sometime between 1 and 2pm.…
During the 1980s, Japan saw trends like Hello Kitty-type character products and brand-name fashion. The 1990s gave birth to Tamagotchi, Bandai’s portable game character, as well as sticker picture machines and even Windows 95 fever. Now? Now, Japan has eco cars and “fast fashion”, which are clothes from cheap chain stores. Not very exciting! As…
Early Friday morning, a worker at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant “fell to death”, reports Xinhua News Agency (via Reuters). Foxconn manufacturers the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Wii and the iPhone. Not including this latest incident, there have been at least thirteen suicides this year. According to Xinhua News Agency, “The death was confirmed by the…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: That was a fast week I don’t know what they give now — hence the past tense. Over the weekend, we went to Mrs. Bashcraft’s grandmother’s house. Her grandmother recently moved to a new apartment, so there’s been a great deal of packing and unpacking. Her grandmother came across this…
Singer Reina Tanaka was never a lighting rod for controversy. The twenty year-old is a member of the popular girl group Morning Musume. She has her own anime and a spin-off mobile phone game. That is, until she offended Koreans. On the singer’s blog, Tanaka posted pictures of herself and fellow Morning Musume members Sayumi…
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