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The Coolest 2D Video Game on Earth Is Hong Kong
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Fifty-five percent of Chinese computers are infected with malware. Yikes!
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Japanese Xbox Users Made a Miiverse Clone. Yep, It’s Covered in Dicks.
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.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2013 -
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About that PS4 Price Rumor…
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Weddings Don’t Get Much Geekier Than This
When nerds get married, they often have very nerdy weddings. This ceremony in China checked all the geeky boxes—and then some. According to website China Explosion, the groom picked up his bride in an itasha that was covered with stickers of virtual idol Hatsune Miku. His bride was wearing a Hatsune Miku outfit, too, when…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
Kotaku East
This Isn’t the Hardest Music Game You’ve Ever Seen. It’s Snow.
A recent video popped up on YouTube, and it shows a spectacular rooftop snowfall in China. On YouTube and on various blogs, people are comparing the snowfall to difficult stages in music games like Beatmania and Guitar Hero. And you know, it kind of does look like that, but colder Rooftop Snow Falls In Spectacular…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
Kotaku East
It’s Like That Shocking Head Shaving Apology Never Happened
Last week, Japanese singer Minami Minegishi shaved her head after a tabloid photographed her leaving a boy band member’s house. In the strict world of Japanese idols, dating boys is a no-no. Cover-ups, however, are totally fine. After Minegishi’s group AKB48 uploaded her shaved head video apology on its official YouTube channel, the clip soon…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
Kotaku East
The Magic of Skyrim Mods: A Naked Man Swimming in Cabbage
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you really have not. The wonderful world of Skyrim mods never ceases to delight and amaze. These screenshots recently popped up online in Japan, with a forum commenter pointing out that The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim was a game in which you could play in a river…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
Kotaku East
This Enormous Transformers Snow Sculpture Will Blow Your Mind
There’s more than meets the eye at this year’s winter festival in the northern Japanese city of Asahikawa. There’s a huge Transformers snow sculpture. Since 1959, the city of Asahikawa has held an annual winter festival, and this year, Japanese toy maker Takara Toy is rolling out this enormous piece of snow art. “More Than…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
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Namco and Nintendo are teaming up for yet another Mario Kart arcade game. Details here
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2013 -
Kotaku EastGo Berserk With a Giant Sword and Slay Hundreds of Trolls and Demons
Since the start of the manga back in 1990, there have only been two video games made in the Berserk franchise. The first was the Dreamcast game released in the West as Sword of the Berserk: Gut’s Rage. There was, however, a second Berserk game which never left Asian shores: Berserk: Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku East
The Third Berserk Movie is by Far the Most Violent Thing I Have Ever Watched
Over the past year, Berserk has returned to the limelight in a big way with a trilogy of movies based on the first arc of the popular manga. I panned the first of these movies as an ugly, inferior rehash when compared to the 1997 anime adaptation of the story. I felt that the second…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku EastNorth Korea Uses Call of Duty and “We Are the World” in Truly Bizarre Propaganda
If those North Korean propaganda games weren’t odd (and unsettling) enough, the country’s state media is incorporating Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and “We Are the World” to show the U.S. under attack. Yeah Never mind that “We Are the World” was written by Americans (Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson) or that North Korea…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku East
McDonald’s in China Is Sorry about Serving Detergent
In Northeastern China, a McDonald’s restaurant served a customer detergent instead of Coke. He was taken to the hospital and was diagnosed with erosive gastritis, after being served detergent in a Coke cup at a McDonald’s in Northeastern China. The customer’s girlfriend drank it, thinking it was soda. She then experienced a burning feeling in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Wearing Cosplay Outfits Is the Best Way To Protest
A pair of Angry Birds are, wait for it, angry. Garfield and Donald Duck are rightly pissed, too. And don’t get the Chinese God of Wealth started. He’s livid Several migrant workers cosplayed as famous characters to draw attention to unpaid wages. According to Offbeat China, the five workers sat in front of China National…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku EastListen to Tomb Raider IN JAPANESE
The latest Tomb Raider game will be out in Japan this spring. The game is getting a Japanese language version, with voice actress Yuhko Kaida bringing Lara Croft to life. In case you were wondering, Lara speaks excellent Japanese. In case you missed it, check out Kotaku‘s Tomb Raider preview トゥームレイダー CROSSROADS 日本語吹き替え版トレイラー [YouTube] Kotaku…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Perhaps the Worst English Translations of 2013 (Or the Best?)
Living in Asia, you get used to mangled English. It stops being a source of amusement, and you can feel empathy for those trying to express something in another language. Then, every once in a while, you see something that makes you stop and go what. The. Fuck. Today, literally. The website of the Capital…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2013