Stephen Chow, the guy behind Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle has a new movie out this month in China. It’s called Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, and part of it will look very familiar to gamers. Very. As numerous Chinese websites point out, a scene in Journey to the West: Conquering the…
So good! In Japan, KFC is teaming up with the new Dragon Ball Z anime film, offering DBZ goodies when you order special meal deals. But that’s not all. As previously mentioned (here, here and here), Japanese KFCs usually have Colonel Sanders statues out front. And now, at seven locations across Japan, the Colonel is…
Dragon Quest X‘s Wii U version goes on sale March 30 in Japan.
Sony is working on a new PlayStation machine. According to the story Kotaku broke, it’s called Orbis. That could be a codename—it also might be the console’s final name. There are some reasons why Sony might not choose to call its machine the PlayStation 4. In Japan, four (四) can be read as “yon” (よん)…
Here’s a look at the Ice Silver hitting Japan on February 28. Yep, it’s silver!
Perhaps the most creative game at this year’s JAEPO arcade game expo was e Sports Ground. Utilizing a series of motion tracking cameras and projectors, the game transforms the floor into the game screen and your body into the controller. In many ways, e Sports Ground is a retro game collection containing some of the…
Are ya ready, troops? According to English Russia, one of the most popular marching songs in the country’s military is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme. There’s video proof, too, of numerous troops marching to and singing the song, showing that this is definitely a thing. A delightful thing. [insert joke about how in Russia, SpongeBob SquarePants…
Just as not every anime can be a winner, not every animated image can, either! With all those still frames to deal with, you can bet some stinkers are going to slip past quality control. They always do. In Japanese, horribly drawn anime stills are called “sakuga houkai” (作画崩壊). They’re not necessarily only mistakes, but…
Download title Pokémon Scramble U allows 100 Pokémon to fight at once. It’s slated for this spring in Japan.
Monster Hunter is everywhere in Japan—including the JAEPO arcade game expo. However, this Monster Hunter arcade is not, as you might expect, a co-op boss hunting game. Rather it is an arcade style racing game titled Monster Hunter Diary: Oink Oink Pig Race As you may have guessed from the title, Monster Hunter Diary: Oink…
Watch the trailer for Lord of Vermillion III, Square Enix’s latest entry in its card-based arcade game series.
Later this year, Nintendo and Bandai-Namco will release a new Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Arcade GP GX, in arcades across Japan. Today at the JAEPO arcade game expo, Kotaku East was able to get some hands-on time with the game. Mario Kart Arcade GP GX will feature at least one new character (Don from…
Sega is back in the game console business! Well, sorta. Okay, not really. But this is pretty cool anyway. The Tokyo-based gaming company is licensing out its iconic consoles to be branded on laptop computers. The result is several Sega-themed notebooks: there’s the basic Sega motif, the Genesis Model, the Saturn version, and the Dreamcast…
Star Driver: Takuto of The Radiance is a 25-episode anime series that aired from 2010 to 2011. The show aired early evenings on Sunday, which allowed for a bigger budget and overall higher quality animation, but the show suffered from the fact that while it was geared more towards a young adult audience, it aired…
A Japanese tech journalist tweeted that his Sony email for the Feb. 20 event said “PS4 Meeting.”
Tonight, like every Thursday night in Japan, the Pokémon anime was broadcast across the country. This week, however, there was apparently some (accidental?) sexy time captured in this GIF and uploaded to 2ch for internet infamy. Gotta screw ’em all! 今週のポケモンエロすぎｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ [2ch] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest…
“As a long time gamer, I often find the stories told by games to be bothersome.” Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai writes in his Weekly Famitsu column. Indeed, many games seem to take their time laying out the beginning of their stories, showing long (and sometimes unskippable) cutscenes, or limiting what actions the protagonist can take…
It’s not everyday you see senior citizens talking role-playing games. It’s not everyday you see them thrashing one of them on Japanese television. In primetime. Famed Japanese actress Keiko Awaji, with credits in movies like Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, is a huge Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy fan. Did I say “huge”? I meant HUGE.…
Here are twenty reasons why Japanese people are glad they were born in Japan.
“What the hell is Demon Gaze?” was my first response when I heard about this new game for the PS Vita from Kadokawa Games. The game was released on January 24th in Japan under the genre of “dungeon RPG,” and almost immediately sold like crazy. Well… relatively crazy. It is a Vita game after all,…
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