Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of jiggly fighting franchise Dead or Alive and the upcoming Devil’s Third, is keen on getting into Japanese politics. Oh, he also thinks the country’s game industry is dying and that Japan failed to import Western capitalism. After agreeing that the Japanese game industry is dying, Itagaki tells Edge Magazine, “Japan failed…
An authoritarian state. The future. Whom can you trust? Britain’s Channel 4 has launched browser game The Curfew. In it, players are given data that could bring down the regime and find refuge in a safe house, which is being occupied by four individuals: the immigrant, the dissident, the ex-cop, and the youth. The Curfew…
You’ve probably seen this before. The painting (above) isn’t a copy. This is the real deal. This is “The M.K.” that appeared at the very first I Am 8-Bit art show in 2005. It was painted by Jose Emroca Flores. This painting (below) recently popped up on eBay with a starting bid of US$1,500. It…
To combat its recent rash of suicides, Foxconn has installed safety nets, nixed suicide compensation, raised wages and even considered moving factories to China’s interior and increasing automation on the assembly line. The company’s latest brainstorm? Foxconn is looking at hiring more mature workers. This comes as last week a 22-year-old female worker fell to…
Microsoft’s controller-free Kinect platform is getting a 4GB bundle that comes with an Xbox 360, 4GB of memory, a Kinect sensor, a game and a controller. That doesn’t look like the only bundle. The Australian packaging for the 4GB bundle shows what appears to be a 250GB bundle that comes with a 250GB hard drive…
Gran Turismo, which was first revealed in 2006, was supposed to be out in March 2010. Then it was delayed to “TBA”. It is now supposed to be out on November 2. Today is August 9. The game is not done. “GT5 is getting to where it will be finished shortly,” Gran Turismo designer Kazunori…
Disney is making Tron: Legacy. Disney owns Disneyland. Know what that means? According to website Stitch Kingdom, Disneyland’s California Adventure is hosting auditions for a new nighttime show in honor of the upcoming Tron flick. Tentatively titled “ElecTRONica”, the auditions is calling for male and female hip-hop dancers to perform on outside stages in the…
After multiple drug arrests and numerous peeping incidents, Masashi Tashiro has been banned from Japanese television for years. He’s now popping up in a music video for doujin shooting game Touhou Project. Tashiro was a popular comedian during the 1980s and 1990s. He was a regular on variety programs and comedy shows. Even the country’s…
Friday? Yes. Friday. F-r-i-d-a-y. Time for Tell Us Dammit. Here we go! Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about…
To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: The Big Apple We know Crecente is going house hunting. I have a Kurt Vonnegut drawing I want to get framed, so I’m gonna look for a frame! Maybe I’ll make tacos. Maybe. Maaaaaaaaaybe. Tacos and Vonnegut, what a weekend. What abou you Mister Totilo? What will you be up…
We already knew The folks behind World of Warcraft and Starcraft are hard at work on a totally new massively multiplayer online game. We didn’t know that Activision Blizzard was pouring gobs of money into it. Ditto for the new game from Bungie, the creators of Halo. Bungie has inked a deal with Activision to…
Why? No, really? Why? Please tell me. I’m flummoxed. Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2011 will have, for some reason, a story mode. A fitness game. For the Nintendo Wii. With a story mode. According to the game’s developer, …Jillian and the player use fitness skills and nutritional expertise in a series of missions to shut…
Nippon Ichi Software is suspending new game development and halting work on three games currently in production due to a “severe marketplace”. That isn’t stopping it from releasing a game in which players spank bad little girls. The Gifu-based company is best known (and loved) for its Disgaea tactical role-playing games. Earlier this year, the…
Voice actress Aya Hirano doesn’t seem to want to be a voice actress anymore. The 22-year-old is trying to make the leap to mainstream celebrity and ticking off her rabid fan-base in the process. Hirano is best known for voicing schoolgirl character Haruhi Suzumiya in the animation adaptation of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. She…
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Foxconn is famous for two things: Manufacturing electronics (the PS3, the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360 and the iPhone) and having employees that commit suicide. This year, 12 Foxconn workers have taken their own lives. A 22-year-old female worker from Jiangsu Province has fallen to her death this week at the company’s Kunshan factory. Foxconn…
During the early 1980s, Namco wasn’t only conquering arcades with games like Pac-Man. The company was doing something else. Something important. It was building robots. Namco made a handful of bots for the Japanese Science Foundation Musuem, including “Largo” the stamp robot. Kids would press Largo’s red nose and the robot would then stamp their…
Micro-blogging service Twitter allows people to share what they are doing with others. That might include playing erotic computer games. Game developer Moonstone is shoehorning Twitter functions into its adult title AngelRing. Those functions will allow players to tweet, reply, tweet about the scene they are currently playing, collect tweets about the game and the…
Masahiro Sakurai of Smash Bros. fame is currently hard at work on a 3D version of Kid Icarus. His version of Kid Icarus’s protagonist Pit, he says, “feels like a new character”. Here’s why. “One thing I can talk about is that Pit uses a lot of weapons and this is a very important aspect…
Sony’s R&D wizard Dr. Richard Marks has two impressive entries on his resume: Creating the PlayStation EyeToy motion controls and the upcoming PlayStation Move motion controls. And he thinks controller-less controls are “limited”. “I created the technology for EyeToy which we made a controller-less device and it was really neat and it enabled new things…
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