With The Last Story getting its European release next week, let’s take a few minutes to talk about its action-packed battle system. Fighting With a Tilt of the Stick The Last Story has no dedicated attack button. Rather, after running into range of a target, all you have to do is push the thumbstick in…
Gravity Rush (Gavity Daze in Japan) is one of Sony’s most anticipated titles for the Vita in the West. The entire game is built around manipulating your own personal gravity as you adventure through a floating city in a mysterious steampunk world. We’ll be posting our hands-on impressions of the Japanese release on Kotaku East…
Everyone’s heard about high score runs, but how about the opposite? In this video, NicoNico Douga user Haru@Yotsuba sets out to get the lowest possible score in Super Mario World on the SNES. Mario World becomes a very different game in this challenge, where killing Koopa Troopa or breaking a brick is the same as…
Gyakuten Saiban—the movie based on Capcom’s visual novel series, Ace Attorney—was released in Japan to sold-out theaters this past weekend. Staying closer to the source material than any video game movie before it, does this film prove that games can successfully be adapted into movies or does it reiterate the idea that games and movies…
Vita launch title Little Deviants is a portable game on a portable system. But some mini-games in this collection aren’t exactly suitable for your average morning commute… Little Deviants was released in Japan on Dec. 15, 2011 for the PlayStation Vita. It will be released in North American and PAL territories on Feb. 22, 2012.…
For those living in Japan and wanting to play Western games in their original format, the invention of the Blu-ray disc was a godsend. Suddenly games shipped with both versions, Japanese and English, right on the same disc. But for some reason, EA never followed suit. From Mass Effect 2 to Mirror’s Edge, the English…
For the 30th Anniversary of Pac-Man way back in 2010, the 3331 Arts Chiyoda gallery on the outskirts of Akihabara held an exhibition showcasing the most complete collection of all things Pac-Man the world has ever seen. One room was filled with every piece of merchandise imaginable-from lunchboxes to pens to T-shirts-while another was dedicated…
Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo (The Japanese that Japanese People Don’t Know) is a collection of real-life stories centering on a young Japanese woman as she teaches Japanese to a group of foreigners in Tokyo. Presented in manga form, the stories are usually about the simple questions her students ask her and the culture shock she…
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