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…
Hack and slash game Dynasty Warriors 8 has over 70 characters. That’s a lot!
Last week, shortly after an earthquake rocked Japan, a tweet tore up Twitter and pissed the country off. The tweet by @Reonandnene read, “Because of the earthquake, my house collapsed, and moreover, I cannot get out. I’m trapped under rubble. Please call for help.” The tweet raised the concern of a local fire department and…
It’s a parody. With edited porn imagery. Yesterday, this faux commercial appeared on Japanese video site NicoNico Douga, and since then, the clip has been spreading around Japanese cyberspace. This Wii U parody plays on the “game/gayme” pun and uses some footage from Japanese gay porn A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream (“Manatsu no Yoru no…
As the title suggests, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney crosses the mystical puzzle-solving mysteries of the Professor Layton series with the courtroom logic puzzles of Ace Attorney—but not exactly in the ways you’d expect. As you play the game, you constantly switch between Layton and Ace Attorney style gameplay. The Layton side of the game…
Japanese erotic games do feature hardcore sex scenes, but there is an “adventure” part during which players interact with fully clothed characters. While there are exceptions, those clothes are often dorky. Very, very dorky. A recent thread on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, asked why erotic game characters wear such unfashionable threads. “It’s because people…
Just as Mario looks strange clean shaven, Yoshi looks truly odd without his round, bulbous schnoz. Then again, so does everyone. During the recent earthquake in Japan, a Yoshi figure was unfortunately damaged, which lets us see the iconic Nintendo character in a new and somewhat unsettling light. ACK! These are two photos of the…
Dark Souls II has a website. It’s… dark.
Japanese comedy site Megwin bought a cardboard Wii U and put it through the paces, complete with plastic throwing stars, toy swords and pellet guns. If you don’t know Japanese, click on the annotations button for English subtitles. WiiU世界最速レビュー!!体験体感超楽しい!! [Megwin@YouTube via Tiny Cartridge] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…
Just look at Jabba! He’s so cute. And George Washington. And Bismarck. All of them are just adorable with those big Japanese anime eyes. This fall, Tumblr site The Kawaii Project started getting attention online for its series of “cuted up” photos of famous (and regular) folks with giant anime eyes. Since then, the Tumblr…
There’s a teaser site up for a Theatrhythm game. Smart money says it’s a mobile port.
Longtime owners of Nintendo hardware know how the handhelds and game machines have always been built tough. In recent years, that seems less true (DS Lite hinge problems, anyone?). And even less so for Nintendo’s newest hardware, the Wii U. In Japan, a Twitter user uploaded this pic of a busted GamePad, writing that it…
PSY is sitting on top of the world. His song Gangnam Style is about to log its one billionth view, and PSY is performing in Washington D.C. in front of the President. Everything is going well for PSY, except one thing: his anti Anti-American protests. Born Park Jae-sang, the 34 year-old rapper went to college…
“Please retweet this,” @Reonandnene’s message started. “Because of the earthquake, my house collapsed, and moreover, I cannot get out. I’m trapped under rubble. Please call for help.” The tweet hit only an hour after the quake. It was retweeted over 12,000 times. And it was all a lie. Tonight, a very real earthquake did rock…
Following in the vein of the games of the Layton series, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney has more than its fair share of fully animated cutscenes. But while seeing Professor Layton in anime form is hardly anything new, this game marks the first time the characters from Ace Attorney have gotten in on the anime…
E.X. Troopers is a spin-off title to Capcom’s Lost Planet series. Like the main series, it takes place on the thawing ice planet of E.D.N. III. Yet, even one single glance at the game is enough to tell you that this is not Lost Planet as you’ve seen it before. Instead it’s a manga-style, flashy,…
DS game Devil Survivor 2 is being made into an anime called Devil Survivor 2 The Animation. Such a clever title!
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