They’re making new Lumines! Remember Lumines? One of the best PSP titles is coming to iOS and Android this summer under the current title of Lumines 2016. This winter will also see the release of a free-to-play version called Lumines VS.
Of course it is. According to NicoNico News, Pepsi Sakura is launching in Japan on March 8. “Sakura” means “cherry blossoms,” and this is the latest in a long line of unusual Pepsi flavors to hit the country. NicoNico News adds that the drink is a light pink hue and smells of sweet sakura. To…
I’m fairly certain nobody asked for this, but here we are: Luffy from One Piece gets turned into a lady for upcoming merch. As pointed out on 2ch, MegaHouse, which is part of Bandai Namco, recently showed an unpainted prototype of a female Luffy D. Monkey: [Image via 2ch] The enormous curves shouldn’t be a…
In sci-fi anime Psycho Pass, authorities wield a precrime suppressor called the “Dominator.” We’ve seen a model version for sale before, but we haven’t seen one like this. This real-life version of the portable brain scanner gun can even transform like it does in the anime. According to ASCII, this one-to-one scale recreation is even…
Sticking Around Club Sega. Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. By John Puma. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
You are looking at two versions of a Hiroshige woodblock print. There are three differences. Try to find them. These images come via Curazy. If you get stuck, visit the site and click on the red box with 答えを見る (Look at the Answer). To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find…
Today, leaked photos of Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, the upcoming arcade update, circulated online in South Korea as well as online in the West. As tipster Sang points out, one of the photos was tweeted to Katsuhiro Harada, with the Twitter user writing that the image was circulating in South Korea. Harada, who oversees Tekken,…
In South Korea, you can eat lots of delicious food. Bulgogi, bibimbap, fried Pikachu. Wait, what? Actually, it’s fried pork shaped like Pikachu. People aren’t actually killing real Pikachus for you to eat! Afternoon News reports that online you can order cutlets that are shaped like the iconic Pocket Monster. [Photo: G-Market] In Korean, “Pikachu”…
In Great Detective Pikachu: The Bird of a New Duo, our titular sleuth is able to talk. But not everyone can understand him, including the women he tries to pick up on the street. The game’s intro starts with a dream sequence and then cuts to Pikachu in Rhyme City. When he talks to people,…
If anyone would know that, it’s Platinum Games. Whether it’s Bayonetta or even Anarchy Reigns, the studio has churned out a string of original titles over the past decade. That isn’t easy. In the most recent Weekly Famitsu, the magazine celebrates the studio’s tenth year anniversary. Platinum Games talks about how things have changed over…
As far as Pokémon trainers go, Ash isn’t that potent. As far as little kids go, he is superhuman. The ten-year-old isn’t only strong for a little boy, he’d be strong for a grown man. As Kotaku previously pointed out, this is because Ash is insanely strong. To recap: Ash picks up Pignite, who weighs…
Do you dream of making manga? Make those dreams reality. Because there’s more to making manga than drawing and writing. Here’s how people in Japan help shape the characters and stories you know and love by getting jobs as manga editors. Recently, Mami at website Tofugu visited Shueisha, the publisher of Weekly Shonen Jump and…
Tomorrow in Sapporo, Japan, the annual snow festival gets underway. One of the main centerpieces is an enormous Dragon Ball Super snow sculpture. Tons, literally tons, of snow were used to create this frosty relief. Below, via the event’s official site, you can see how heavy equipment moved the snow around. [Image: SnowFes] [Image: SnowFes]…
Caught in the Rain. Tokyo, Japan. By Hayden Zahn. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Back in 2014, Nintendo announced it would be releasing a new health-based platform sometime between 2015 and 2016. Well, it’s 2016, so where is it? Not ready, says Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima. It might never be. According to Asahi, it’s possible that the platform could be abandoned. The newspaper reports that Kimishima told investors, “It’s…
There are crimes afoot in the world of Pokémon, and only Detective Pikachu and his plucky human sidekick have any chance to solve the case! Update: The stream is over but you can watch all four hours of it at the links below! Part 1 Part 2 Detective Pikachu was released on the Nintendo 3DS…
Don’t worry! While Aipom might look dead, this Pokémon has only been knocked out in the newly released Great Detective Pikachu. That red stuff? Ketchup. Squashed tomato or not, damn, this looks grim. Photos: Brian Ashcraft | Kotaku To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East…
Night in Ginza. Tokyo, Japan. By Walter Kim. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Today, Nintendo announced pre-registration for Miitomo, Nintendo’s upcoming smartphone app, begins on February 17. It will be released the middle of next month in eight languages (Japanese, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, and Russian) and in sixteen regions around the world (the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Luxemborg, Spain, Italy, the…
You might know that Pikachu in the Pocket Monster anime now looks, well, like a changed Pokémon. But this isn’t the only instance of different Pikachus. Recently on 2ch, there was a thread about how characters change and one user posted the following image to show the difference between Pikachu variations. (The image, however, has…
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