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!
Dead or Alive 5 is coming to the PS Vita currently known under its working title, Dead or Alive 5 Plus. Above is the logo. Other than that, info is scant. Japanese game site Game Impress Watch wonders what does the “plus” refer to? Dead or Alive 5 Plus will be out in Japan on…
Via sister site Kotaku Japan (um, thanks?) comes this video of “Sekuhara Interface”, which is fancy software that allows you to pleasure daikon “Sekuhara” is Japanese for “sexual harassment”. And no, the daikon are not actually making noises. Created by a young artist named Etsuko Ichihara, this multimedia project debuted a few years back. The…
This is an intervention. While most of the gaming world has thankfully moved on from stupid countdown clocks designed to drum up silly publicity for forgettable games, Square Enix still clings to them. It’s time for Square Enix to stop. Enough! Now, you are overreacting, Brian Ashcraft, you say. Perhaps. But, countdown clocks are so…
On March 11, 2011, everything changed. Japan was hit hard with a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Lives were destroyed. Lives were lost. The country is still rebuilding, and the aftershocks are still being felt by those impacted most. As time marches on, some think about that day less and less. Google, however, is doing…
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