So last week, the New Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan as was Monster Hunter 4G. Both highlight the obvious: Handheld gaming is still very big in the country. Let’s be honest, home consoles still aren’t really doing spectacular in Japan. But they’re not dying by a damn sight. According to Media Create, Sony sold…
Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is an iconic work of art. It’s also an upcoming fully posable Figma figure. Warning: This story has famous art dick. As with other Figma figures, you can make also sorts of interesting poses like this: Or this: Or, heh, this: Priced at 3,980 yen (US$37), Figma’s The Thinker will be…
Other than being made by the same company, survival horror series Fatal Frame and fighting game series Dead or Alive have had little in common—until now that is. Upon beating, Zero: Nuregarasu no Miko, the fifth and newest game in the Fatal Frame series, you unlock a series of four bonus chapters following DoA‘s ninja…
The first time we covered MMO-RTS Kingdom Under Fire II was way back in 2009. So last month, I sat down with the game’s director, Sang Youn Lee, during last month’s Tokyo Game Show to talk about what the game was, is, and how it’s changed over its seven years of development. In its original…
There are lots of things to like about the New Nintendo 3DS hardware. It’s a good machine. However, there are two things I’m not exactly crazy about. Have a look in the video below: In case you missed it, check out Kotaku‘s previous New Nintendo 3DS coverage: how the C-Stickworks, a simple speed test as…
Some people get excited when they find out they’re pregnant. Then some don’t want kids or don’t feel ready. There’s a whole range of emotions. But what about anime characters? How did they feel? This week, a new meme started up online in Japan under the hashtag #妊娠検査薬コラ, which means “Pregnancy Test Photoshop.” (Note: Today,…
During typical Shinto festivals, you expect to see gods like Ebisu. You don’t expect to see One Piece characters smashing into each other. Then again, this isn’t your typical Shinto festival. Here, you can see a festival float (山車 or dashi) with Ebisu holding a sea-bream. [Photo: yae-mottoshiritai] This is the kind of imagery that…
Japan’s grizzly sci-fi action manga is getting a video game adaptation. Following in the footsteps of the hit manga series, Attack on Titan, the manga series that has bug-powered humans fighting giant Martian cockroaches,Terraformars is getting its own 3DS game. Labeled as a single-player “3D battle action” genre game, Terraformars: Battle on the Crimson Star…
With Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS out, creator Masahiro Sakurai’s job is only half done. When one fan asked him how it felt to be done with the development on Super Smash Bros., he replied, “I’m not done yet…” “Game development is very hard.” Sakurai went on in his column in Weekly Famitsu. “You…
Now that he’s no longer helmingFinal Fantasy XV, Tetsuya Nomura seems to have a lot of free time to work on other projects. The Nomura version of Japanese virtual idol, Hatsune Miku, is currently on display in New York until the 19th as part of a Hatsune Miku art exhibit. Asked by Weekly Famitsu in…
Oh, and Monster Hunter. Let’s not forget that. Very important! Perhaps the most noticeable addition the New Nintendo 3DS brings to the table is a second thumb controller: the C-Stick. Two of the first games to take advantage of it are, of course, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Monster Hunter 4G I the…
Open up those wallets! Here is a one-to-one scale Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear from Attack on Titan. It looks just like the real thing (*save for the flying bit). The replica is made from aluminum, silicone, and resin. The whole contraption weighs 10 kilograms or 22 pounds. Try getting airborne with that on your back.…
Hey! It’s Thursday. Which means it is almost Friday. This has been a long week. Maybe it’s been good. Maybe it’s been bad. Let’s unwind with some silly photos. It’s been a while since we’ve taken a look at goofy photos you can find online in Japan. All these images were taken from funny photo…
Did you watch the match between Japan and Brazil last night? Neymar scored four goals against Japan in a 4-0 win. Not pretty if you’re a Samurai Blue fan! At least the game gave us one unexpected thing: Yokai Watch ads. Yokai Watch is an incredibly populargame and anime. And while the match was held…
One day, maybe robots will make amazing cups of coffee. That day is not today. At Japan Robot Week in…Japan, companies and researchers are showing off their latest “service robots,” which include a variety of ‘bots that range from nursing robots to disaster relief ones. This is important research. Then, there’s this one—dubbed Nextage—making coffee.…
A 700 year-old Buddhist temple in Thailand contains something visitors might find unusual: a blue robotic cartoon cat from the future. That’s right, iconic anime character Doraemon. Earlier today, Japanese website Gigazine introduced Buddhist temple Wat Sampa Siw, which features paintings of anime character Doraemon. This certainly isn’t a traditional Buddhist motif, and as the…
The New Nintendo 3DS went on sale in Japan last Saturday. You could either get the regular sized one or the larger New Nintendo 3DS XL. Which did most gamers in Japan purchase? The XL, it seems. Famitsu reports that during it’s first week on sale (which is, in reality, last Saturday and Sunday), a…
When you think of sumo training, you probably think of large men eating lots of food and wrestling each other. You should also think of large men sitting in a classroom and learning stuff. The Sumo Training School is located at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo stadium in Tokyo. New sumo apprentices must enrol, and as…
Across the ocean there is a magical land where some games debut months or even years before they do in the West—or sometimes never at all. But how do you get your hands on one of these mythical games from the Land of the Rising Sun? Kotaku East is here to help. [Note: While this…
One of the New Nintendo 3DS‘s most welcomed added functions is head tracking. Its purpose is to help make the 3D effect more stable, and you know what, so far, the function seems to work pretty well. In the video you below, you can see me testing the head tracking software. Keep in mind that…
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