The country’s state-run television channel China Central Television is airing an anime that appears to be ripping off Japan’s Pokémon, Naruto and Digimon franchises. This is not the first time Japanese anime has been copied by Chinese broadcasts, reports website Record China. Both Crayon Shin-chan and animated film 5 Centimeters Per Second has been reworked…
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The new Final Fantasy XIII trailer features Serah, the younger sister of heroine Lightning and girlfriend of bandana-wearing character Snow. According to some, Serah’s character design isn’t new. Her hair style, clothes and even stockings look remarkably similar to Kurumi Imari, a character in high-school witch-coven sex-and-horror erotic game Bible Black. The title was released…
Over the weekend, Nintendo released Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver. The games were packaged with pedomters call Poké Walker. Sales were brisk in Tokyo’s Akihabara, and the game sold out at area retailers Yodobashi Camera, Sofmap and Messe Sanoh. This weekend’s release was much akin to the Fire Red and Leaf Green Gameboy Advance remakes of…
Imagine sitting in a dark theater, reaching out, trying to touch a wet and hairy Jake Gyllenhaal. Worth the price of admission, no? At Disney’s D23 Expo, website Latino Review spotted a poster showing Disney Digital’s 3D roster. Included in that roster is Prince of Persia. The film was not originally intended to be shown…
The day after Thursday is…? The day before Saturday is…? FRIDAY! Time for Tell Us Dammit. 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…
Apple Takes Swipe At Nintendo DS, PSP In Portable Game War Comment by: Innis Nominated by: Curse lily Apple is competing with the NDS and the PSP? Man i was way off on this.I thought the Apple was competing with Newgrounds. Obama Namechecks Xbox Once Again In Speech To Kids Comment by: Nulls Nominated by:…
Computer tactical role-playing-game Moe Moe Niji Taisen brought its Nazi and Allied vehicles to the PS2 and PSP back in 2009. An Xbox 360 spruced up port followed the next year. This year, a proper sequel is getting released — this December, actually. As we’ve pointed out previously, developer System Soft Alpha took its strategy…
Black and white and red Wii title MadWorld was made by Japanese developers, but wasn’t announced for The Land of the Rising Sun — until now. The “blood-soaked” game was released outside Japan last March by SEGA, which has a publishing deal with the title’s developer, Platinum Games. Due to its violent content, the game…
To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Come As You Are I’ve just been given a bottle of North Korean booze. I’ve never had North Korean booze…. What you missed last night Sony Cuts Nigeria Line From PS3 Slim Ad Sony: PS3 Sales Up 300% Gabe Newell Boycotting L4D Modder’s Campaign [Update] Torture In Video Games Brand…
Sony is coming to TGS and bringing games with it. Some games you can play — that is, if you are going. But what games? What, what, what? These games. • PS3 1. FIFA 10 2. Lost Planet 2 3. Shin Sangoku Musou MULTI RAID Special 4. Pro Evo 2010 5. Final Fantasy XIII 6.…
Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 is coming to the PS3 — it is a PS3 exclusive! Here is the "final" trailer for the game. The beginning of the trailer is a very cool, comic book style clip. The rest of it is traditional game trailer stuff. More comic book stuff, please!
This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Gundam. Things ranging from an enormous Gundam statue to a PS3 Slim bundle have marked the occasion. But that’s not all, oh no, that’s not all. Rocker Andrew W.K. has recorded an album’s worth of Gundam songs in English. The album is called Gundam Rocks and is perhaps…
Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaake! Metal Gear Solid 4 is getting its own set of key chains, complete with character designs and voices. Characters include two versions of Old Snake, Raiden, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and the exclamation mark. Voice samples include Old Snake saying “This is Snake. Can you hear me?” The exclamation mark, of course, makes the MGS…
Just a heads up! This past Spring, paper mag Otaku USA surveyed foreign otaku for a Famitsu article. Otaku USA‘s otaku-in-chief Patrick Macias stated at the time, “We want all foreign otaku to rise forth and fill out our ‘Foreign Otaku’ survey below. The results will be published this summer in an issue of Weekly…
The 1/1 scale Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba may be gone, but our memories live on and on and on — in statue form. This is not a life-sized statue you can own (crap!), but a 30cm, 4 kilogram model of the life-sized model. Relive the memories! Out Spring 2010, yours for ¥81,900 (US$893). That’s…
The iPod Touch does not have a camera. Apple honcho Steve Jobs explains why — it’s a game machine. “Originally,” Jobs tells The New York Times, “we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was,…
Sony’s original PS3 Slim price drop ad may have pleased gamers, but it pissed off the entire nation of Nigeria. As we reported, the ad was pulled, and now a reworked version has hit the airwaves. In the original ad, Sony’s fictional director of rumor confirmation stated, “You can’t believe everything you read on the…
At the Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party, Square Enix showed the new FFXIII Tokyo Game Show trailer. Square Enix would not allow anyone to film the trailer, so we had to describe it. Yet, here it is on Japanese morning television. There are a few short scenes of Lightning, Hope, Snow and Serah. There’s gameplay…
Yes, we’re already seen blurry magazine scans of character Sazh Katzroy’s afro-headed son Dahj. Here are non-blurry screens, plus a look at “Optima Change”. Optima Change lets players assign new roles to the AI characters in their party during battle — basically, you can change their abilities. According to Famitsu.com, it is possible to swap…
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