Certainly, not all game designers dress like their characters. There is one, however. His name is Toshihiro Nagoshi. He is brown. Nagoshi, an accomplished game designer in his own right with a nose for good games, is famous (infamous?) for his love of tanning salons and tracksuits. Nagoshi has been known to don a black…
Love it or hate it, 3D is making major waves. Nintendo is the latest company to jump on the 3D express by releasing a glasses-free 3D handheld gaming device tentatively called the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo doesn’t only make games for hardcore players. It also makes games for the casuals. So when the company stated it…
This year’s Cannes Film Festival isn’t showing just one movie about gaming culture. It’s showing two. There’s French thriller Black Heaven with its naked bottom and now this, R U There with its awkward elevator propositioning. As website New World Notes notes, R U There is a Dutch/French film that was shot in Taipei and…
This snowy, super short teaser trailer for El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron has appeared on the internet for you and me to look at together. So let’s do just that. The multi-platform game (PS3 and Xbox 360) is being directed by Sawaki Takeyasu, who is best known for doing monster design in Devil May…
It’s already going to be shown in 3D, but Sony Pictures has revealed that the upcoming horror film will also be shown in IMAX. Afterlife is the fourth installment in the Resident Evil film franchise and stars Milla Jovovich. It is being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. As website Shock Til You Drop points out,…
Imagine you are at large electronics store in Japanese otaku mecca Akihabara. Imagine you go to the bathroom and *ahem* take a dump. Imagine that there is no toilet paper in said bathroom. What would you do? If you were self-styled anime song DJ, DJ Kacho, you’d call for help via the internet. Last week,…
Thirsty? Haruhi Suzumiya, from the franchise by the same name, is gracing the packaging of this “Haruhi Suzumiya Fruit Juice” from beverage maker Pokka. Website Chara-ani.com is taking pre-orders for the drink by the case One case comes with 30 drink packs, and there’s a limited edition card. Yours for ¥5,800. Drink up! Haruhi Suzumiya,…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Today we disemvowel… BATS TO DISEMVOWEL WITH. Kidding! Sorta! Spent the morning looking at wood baseball bats. Not metal, wood. Yes, wood breaks, but I like the feel of it. Metal bats are too light, the sweetspot is too big. I saw some nice SSK and Mizuno bats, but I’m…
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Those guesses at what these new Pokémon look like? Wrong! The latest issue of kids’ mag CoroCoro shows what the three new Pokémon for the upcoming Pocket Monsters: Black and White look like. The magazine does note that as with previous generation of Pocket Monsters the “type” is important. According to website PokéBeach, the game’s…
Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today’s 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s. While Coppola does concede that digital filmmaking is suited for 3D and that 3D has improved, he points out that the necessity of 3D glasses…
Yakuza. Shocking, we know. Actually, it is called “Ryu Ga Gotoku”, but that’s what all the Yakuza games are called in Japan. So, yeah, it’s still “Yakuza” for English speakers. The game has had a working title of “Project K”, but that has since been scrapped in favor of “Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou Kurohyou” or…
The world has seen enormous life-sized Gundam statues. You know what it is missing? An enormous 1/1 scale Evangelion bust. Evas are the huge biomechanical beings piloted in the hugely successful franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion. On July 23, Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park in Japan will open a new attraction: “Evangelion: World – Life-Size EVA-01 Construction…
You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…
This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in…waggle. Nintendo has had Wii Remote motion control since the console went on sale back in fall 2006. Sony, however, is adding a motion controller called to the Move to the PS3 later this year. While Sony…
Chest this, chest that. Prince of Persia star Jake Gyllenhaal is more than a chest. He is also wonderful hair. And good hygiene. “It took six months to grow my hair, and shampooing and conditioning it on a daily basis helps to develop a really really chiseled physique in the arms, you be surprised!” says…
Toad is in a whole bunch of Mario games. But that’s not all, oh no, that’s not all. Spotted at Toys R Us is this “Look Out” Tech Team bike. A Kotaku found it and then laid it out on the linoleum for all of you people to gaze at. There’s something game related on…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Mother’s Day This afternoon, Mini-Bash’s teacher stopped by the house for a parent teacher meeting. Was very happy to hear that the kid raises his hand in class and always seems to be paying attention and is generally well-behaved. Of course, when I was in first grade I was doing…
Would you like to know? Would you? Okay, then. As Japanese site Gigazine points out, this year is the 30th anniversary of Gunpla (Gundam plastic model kits) with the first one going on sale in July 1980. The made-in-Japan Gundam plastic model kits are, according to robot expert Matt Alt, the rolex watches of plastic…
Joining THE iDOLM@STER credit card is this: a Japanese Monster Hunter branded credit card. Popular in Japan, Monster Hunter is an action role-playing game that allows players to, wait for it, hunt monsters. The franchise sell millions of copies in its native Japan with games on the PS2, the PSP and the Wii. There is…
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