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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…

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…

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…

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…

Wii U title Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is headed to the PS3 and the Xbox 360, Famitsu is rumored to report.

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…

Namco and Nintendo are teaming up for yet another Mario Kart arcade game. Details here

Go 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…

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…

North 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…

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata recently said the Wii U’s NFC, currently under development, is planned to be tested this year.

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…

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…

Studio Ghibli anime Kaguya-hime no Monogatari has been delayed to this fall, because the storyboards weren’t finished.

Listen 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…

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…

Japan’s Most Dangerous Hacker Served with a Wanted Poster and a Bounty

Mugshots. Artist’s sketches. Physical descriptions. Those are what you see on typical wanted posters in Japan. But this is not your typical wanted poster. It’s not even your typical crime. Instead, this wanted poster features descriptions of programming languages, viruses, and internet use. But like most wanted posters, this one also has a hefty reward.…

Afraid of his Mom, Chinese Kid Hides at Net Cafe

A ten year-old boy hid himself in an internet cafe in Changsha, Hunan province, for four days after receiving bad marks on his end-term exams. The boy, called Rui Rui, didn’t go to the net cafe to ease his pain—Voice of China reports that instead, he was hiding there to avoid punishment from his parents.…

Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft is hiring

Behold the Largest Robot Lantern in the World (Apparently!)

We’ve seen giant Gundam robots—real ones and totally fake ones. This isn’t a Gundam robot, but it is giant. And it’s a lantern. So burn, baby, burn. Billed as the “Tallest Robot Lantern in the World”, the 12 meter tall, 2.5 light up statue was shown in the city of Shuzhou, China. In a perfect…