Resident Evil 4 was released as a GameCube exclusive. And when Capcom ported the game to the PlayStation 2, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is quoted as saying he would “cut [his] own head off”. That infamous quote was probably a mistranslation. But there’s a reason why Mikami seemed so antagonistic towards Sony. What’s more,…
Circle of Mana, the newest entry in the Mana series, is a social card game for Android and iOS.
Back in the days before the infamous Grand Theft Auto “Hot Coffee” scandal, it was common practice in game development to simply leave unfinished content on the disk. Sometimes this data was cut due to time issues, other times it was old data from early in the game’s development that no longer fit the vision…
Yes, right here! Watch it! Originally released in 2000 on the PlayStation, Dragon Quest VII is headed to the 3DS in Japan next February. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.
To show its gratitude to the Final Fantasy and the Metal Gear series, Sony is launching a special “character bento” (kinda like this, I assume). Sony hasn’t yet unveiled the actual meal, but today it did show off the bento box the food will go in. The bento box that looks like a new PlayStation…
Earlier this week, there was a report on a couple of English language sites that a U.F.O. crashed in Japan, and the country’s navy released a photo. Maybe you don’t believe in aliens. Maybe you want to believe. Or maybe you just like to be amused. The story originated on website In Other Newz, a…
Monster Hunter, the franchise that breathed life into the PSP, and arguably one of the biggest reasons that the 3DS outsells the DS in Japan. In the latest incarnation of the series, Monster Hunter 4 players will be able to wield not just one, but two new weapons with which to combat giant predators: The…
Sega. Founded in 1940, the company has come a long way from its origins as a jukebox and slot machine maintenance firm. Until the boom of the PlayStation console, Sega stood alongside Nintendo as one of the Big Two video game console manufacturers. Long after its retreat from the console market back in 2001, Sega…
While it seems like Japanese police are arresting people for breaking the country’s copyright law, now one of their own has been busted… for breaking the country’s copyright law. A 38 year-old police sergeant in Fukushima has been charged after allegedly using his digital camera to illegally capture the latest feature film version of anime…
The Christmas season is upon us once again (as was frightfully apparent from the Christmas songs that started playing sometime around, oh, November 1st… (seriously, at least wait for Thanksgiving to be over)), and soon gifts will be piled under the Christmas tree for all to see and wonder at what goodies are contained within.…
In an interview with Asahi, respected general Colin Powell was asked about Japanese youth—namely those young men who are called “herbivores”. It seems Powell might have taken the term literally. The Japanese phrase is “soushoku-kei” (草食系), and it’s come to refer to a generation of less masculine males who are less interested in pursuing dates…
Just as cooking with beer works extremely well, cola is used in cooking throughout China—and beyond. Coca-cola is perhaps the most common in China, but Frito-Lay isn’t a division of Coke. It’s a division of PepsiCo. Thus, Pepsi-Cola chicken-flavor Lay’s potato chips. The chips launched earlier this year, and the flavor is less fizzy, more…
Sponsors make television possible. And in Japan, those sponsors dominate the commercial breaks. During each show, they even get one shout out right before a commercial break, with an announcer saying that the program is brought to you by whatever. Normal enough, right? The ensuing meme is anything but. Welcome to the world of “sponsor…
The latest PlayStation ad is trumpeting this holiday season as a “good chance” to pick up PlayStation games and hardware. Retro super hero Kikaider pops up to remind a family of just that. This is actually a Japanese pun as the character’s name “Kikaider” (キカイダー) carries the nuance of “machine” (機会 or “kikai”). Here, Sony…
Sega is suing the crap out of Level-5. Best known for the Professor Layton puzzle games, Level-5 isn’t taking this one lying down. As previously posted, Sega is claiming patent infringement in Level-5’s Inazuma Eleven soccer role-playing games and suing for the equivalent of US$11 million. Sega is contesting that Inazuma Eleven‘s touch interface that…
Meet Megumi. She got a Wii U, and she thinks the Wii U’s operating system is “too slow”. To show how slow it is, Megumi presses the settings icon and then runs a stop watch. It takes nearly 17 seconds. And then, she presses back to the Wii U main menu and clocks that loading…
On December 21, the world will end. So said the Mayans, apparently, and how can the Mayans be wrong? And while NASA and other rational heads believe that the world will chug on post December 21, one Chinese company, Chengdu Higgses Internet Technology Company, isn’t taking any chances. In fact, it’s doing one better: giving…
Ready those “F*cks of the North Star” jokes, because the iconic manga is now helping people practice safe sex. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, Fist of the North Star debuted as a manga in the early 1980s and was turned into an anime in 1987. Recently, Koei has been developing new Fist…
As previously discussed, Square Enix counted down to Star Galaxy, a browser game.
A few weeks back when I was checking out Evangelion 3.0 for the second time in the theaters, I walked into the neighboring Sega arcade. Right inside the door they had a raffle set up and anyone with a movie ticket got a free draw. Even though I didn’t win anything special, the consolation prize…
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