Capsule

How will future historians be sure that Call of Duty: Black Ops II was released in 2012 or thereabouts? Because…

Iron Man is perhaps the most popular character from The Avengers in Japan. It's not just Robert Downey Jr.'s…

Didn't Spider-Man save J. Jonah Jameson's astronaut son from an out-of-control space capsule? (Answer: Yes, in Amazin…

"Diversify!" the people cried, and so our normal weekly roundup of five mostly iOS titles was invaded by a tiny ball…

Let's just get this out of the way: Yes, Quantum Conundrum is a first-person puzzler, just like Portal. Yes, it was…

The International Tokyo Toy Show roars through, well, Tokyo this week. Sister site Kotaku Japan got a sneak peek at…

Prior to the 2002 World Cup, hallucinogenic mushrooms were legal in Japan. They were sold in little vending machines…

EVE Online developer CCP bundled their players' names into a pod earlier this week and shot it into the stratosphere,…

We have Gree and DeNA, two huge social gaming companies, to thank for the massive growth in Japan's social gaming…

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