The main draw at this weekend’s Wonder Festival was all the plastic on display. The twice a year event showcases recently released and upcoming figurines and statues, as well as rare, customized ones. Websites Gigazine and Akiba Hobby checked out the figure festivities, as did sister site Kotaku Japan. Have a look at the gallery…
Once upon a time, Maki Goto was a huge mainstream popstar in Japan. She was also a huge gamer and even appeared in Monster Hunter commercials in 2011. Now, supposedly, she’s just a huge gamer. Goto’s private life had been rocky in recent years with its share of tragedies and at the end of 2011,…
This weekend, the winter Wonder Festival barreled through Tokyo. The twice a year event is primarily for figurines, but hey, where there are nerds, there are cosplaying nerds. Here’s a sample of some of the cosplay on hand, with photos from Gigazine, Akiba Blog, Otaku.com, and Asagawo Blog. Some of the most interesting cosplay were…
When asked about a Killer Is Dead Vita version, game maker Goichi Suda said, “The Vita… Let’s wait and see for now.”
Well, they caught him. Apparently. After turning an anime director’s computer into a Trojan Horse for menacing messages, after threatening to blow up Nintendo, and after sending a Japanese cops on a wild goose cat chase, the man believed to be the country’s most wanted (and dangerous) troll is in police custody. The suspect is…
Have you ever wanted to log on to the Japanese PlayStation Network to download some demos or buy a game or two but have given up on the idea because you don’t know how to read Japanese? No problem. Here’s a step-by-step guide from Kotaku East that explains how to create a Japanese PSN account,…
The dating scene can be tough. It can also be awkward. And creepy. And even racist. A Tumblr site called Creepy White Guys is a collection of unsettling messages Asian women have been receiving on dating sites like OKCupid. Messages like: Docile? Submissive? Bwah? So clever! No. Actually. I hadn’t. Good thing you did! WHAT.…
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate‘s online play is region locked, it seems
Growing up, I had two game systems: a barely working Atari 2600 (which lived largely forgotten in our guestroom closet) and an original NES. These lasted me until 1997 when I saved up and bought a Super Nintendo—over a year after the release of both the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64. So, during my childhood,…
Upcoming erotic game Custom Maid 3D will be bundled with a very special controller. It looks like the PS Move, but with a few key differences—one of which is you put dicks in it. Dubbed Ju-C Air, the peripheral is a wireless masturbation toy that will respond and react in real time to your stroke…
Berserk is a franchise (in)famous for two reasons: compelling storytelling and ultraviolence. A dark fantasy, Berserk has its origins in manga but has been adapted into an anime TV series, three anime movies (the third of which was released late last week), and two video games. The first, Sword of the Berserk: Guts Rage, was…
In fall 2011, the Japanese city of Matsudo launched the first in a series of anime style posters, designed to appeal to young people and help stop crime. Since then, the character, who is named “Aya Matsumiya,” has appeared in several poster campaigns to help fight crime. There’s even a cosplayer who dresses as the…
Blurry Japanese magazine scans are often a source of new info about eagerly anticipated games. Games like Pokémon X/Y. That is, unless the scans are totally fake. Earlier this month, what’s supposedly (apparently?) a “leaked” image from a Japanese magazine popped up on YouTube. To date, the video has been viewed over 50,000 times, and…
How romantic! Japanese computer peripheral maker I-O Data is teaming up with a confectionery maker named Maple House for a special campaign in which three lucky individuals will get chocolate that’s shaped like a memory circuit board. Because additional memory looks delicious. The boards are incredibly detailed and realistic—so much so that I-O Data is…
Toukiden is the new PS Vita game from Tecmo Koei. Originally announced as an entirely new title from the Omega-Force development team (of Dynasty Warriors fame), the game trailer showed a female warrior hacking up and killing a giant creature in a very medieval Japan sort of setting. Well, according to information released to Weekly…
As previously reported, in Soul Sacrifice, players will find themselves making a lot of different choices as they progress through the story of a sacrificial lamb fighting through an evil sorcerer’s past in the form of a living book to gain the power to fight for his/her freedom. Japan’s gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has revealed…
After visiting a friend in Hong Kong, Swedish photographer Christian Åslund thought the streets below looked like the best video game he had never played. The result is this tribute to 2D gaming. According to website Hong Wrong, to make the landscape appear flat, Åslund shot from above, using a telephoto lens. Often while laying…
Fifty-five percent of Chinese computers are infected with malware. Yikes!
Dicks, why does it always have to be dicks? Before the Wii U’s user forum, dubbed the Miiverse, launched, I said that it would be a dick drawing inferno. Little did I know that Japanese Xbox users would launch their own Miiverse clone. But, I’ll tell you what, I sure saw the dick drawings coming.…
This morning, Japan’s Asahi News ran a story on the PS4. It included several things we’ve heard before, such as how the PS4 will allow you to share things with friends while playing (more here in a previous story) and that it will come with a DualShock 3 shaped controller—which Kotaku previously reported (Meanwhile, the…
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