South Korean youth have fallen in love with a new hairdo. It’s called 하트 앞머리 (hateu aapmuhri) and means, “heart-bangs hair.” Koreans in their late teens and early twenties have been uploading photos of heart bangs on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. [Photo: duswn1004] Can’t see the heart? [Photo: sy_iiii] Be sure to do the heart…
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will not go on sale in Japan. According to the official Xbox Japan Blog, it was too difficult to get the Ultimate Edition, with its new content, to conform to Japanese ratings regulations. Previous Gears of Wars titles, however, were released in Japan.
I thought I’d gotten past what it was like to be a child alone in the dark. Yomawari is an upcoming game from Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi Software that captures the innocence and fear of being a child wandering the dark unknown. Check out the trailer below. The trailer begins with the monologue text: My…
There’s a new Silent Hill! It was just announced! Yay! But wait. Don’t get your hopes up, because they will be crushed. Just like when they were crushed when Silent Hills was cancelled. Okay, maybe not that bad, but still, frowny faces all around. The newly announced Silent Hill is for pachinko-slot machines. Why? Because…
A raunchy comedy about five boys incarcerated at a former all-girls school… And now they’re making a live-action version of it. Announced on Famitsu.com, the popular manga, Prison School, the anime adaptation of which is currently being aired, is being made into a live-action drama series. The story centers around the protagonist, Kiyoshi Fujino, one…
Higashi Honganji Garden. Kyoto, Japan. By Cheng Hoo Sew. 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!
It looks like a Warriors game, but the other way around; you’re one of hundreds of peons against an unstoppable force – a titan, as it were. It should come as no surprise that it kind of seems like a reverse Warriors game—the game is being developed by Omega-Force, the makers of the Warriors game…
If you’re in greater Tokyo and are looking for something to do, may I suggest walking through a giant anus? It’s for science! TV Tokyo, a large, proper television network, is holding a life-science type exhibit called Karada no Fushigi Daibouken 2015 (からだのふしぎ大冒険2015) or “The Mysterious Great Adventure of the Body 2015.” The event, which…
Mount Fuji from the bullet train. Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. By Hien Nguyen 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!
Colors so vivid your cornea will hurt. Fashion so sweet your teeth will hurt. Welcome to Kawaii Monster Cafe This themed cafe was created by artist Sebastian Masuda, who’s famous for his cuter than cute fashion shop 6% Doki Doki and creating the look for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s “PonPonPon” music video. I’ve always been a…
While Pokken may be a portmanteau word of “Pokémon” and “Tekken,” the actual game Pokkén Tournament is anything but a mixture of the two. When it comes down to it, Tekken is a complex fighting game filled with numerous combos that tend to result in your juggling your opponent in the air as long as…
Here’s the debut trailer for Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky, the new JRPG from Tri-Ace and Spike Chunsoft. For more on this title, check Kotaku’s previous coverage.
Move over Miku. There’s a new virtual idol in town and she’s got a game all her own. So come join me as I play it. Update: The stream is now over. And sadly, as a music game with copyrighted music, twitch has automatically muted most of the stream. However, a chunk of it has…
In Fire Emblem Fates, like in the other games in the series, the characters you control are able to fall in love and even have children. But while many players create intricate breeding plans of who will marry who, I tried something different: I let them fall in love naturally. There are actually three different…
Each August, traditional lantern floats are carried through the city of Aomori. This year, joining the traditional Japanese samurai floats, were Star Wars characters. Fitting, I know. The floats typically feature warriors, deities, and animals. See the below photos from Twitter user t_shicho, who lives in Aomori. [Photo: t_shicho] [Photo: t_shicho] George Lucas was heavily…
In Japan, there is an anime called Love Live! It’s about schoolgirl idols. It’s more than just popular. Way more. As Twitter user S1Amkshows, a Sega arcade in Osaka Prefecture set up a special area where Love Live! fans can prostrate themselves (bow completely down in what’s called “dogeza” or 土下座 in Japanese) before the…
Artist: Spitz | Track: Sarasara | Album: Sarasara/Boku wa kitto tabi ni deru Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
According to Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea’s biggest newspapers, some people in South Korea are apparently getting cosmetic surgery for their pets. One unnamed veterinarian told the paper (via tipster Sang), “Plastic surgery for pets in the past were for medical reasons but the result also brought better looking dogs, so there is a…
According to a report on Nikkei, the corporate culture at Konami—home of Metal Gear, Silent Hill and Pro Evolution Soccer—hasn’t only soured over the past few years, but has become almost terrifyingly Orwellian. Nikkei’s report alleges that the culture at the corporation’s video game division, famous for its console games, worsened in around 2010 when…
The first season of I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying ended on a major cliffhanger for the couple—one that is, unfortunately, ignored for the vast majority of the second season. Like with the first season, I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying is a short form anime about Kaoru—a mid-twenties office worker—and…
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