It started with a promise: “If the class’ test scores this month are the highest for this grade in school, I will teach in a maid’s outfit,” a teacher in China apparently told her students. According to Xinhua, the teacher stayed true to her word, showing up in a frilly maid outfit and teaching a…
PS3 firmware (4.30) is causing Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. to freeze, Sony said. An update to fix is incoming.
Tales of Xillia is a great game—perhaps the best JRPG on the PlayStation 3. It was the second best-selling PS3 game in Japan last year (ninth best-selling in Japan overall), with 660,000 copies sold. And in a country where anything over 100,000 copies sold is considered a financial success, Tales of Xillia was a run-away…
In the press image Burger King Japan released of its new “Bomb Pumpkin” burger, you can see the lettuce sitting atop ten slices of Japanese squash. In reality, however, it’s a different story. Japanese site Gigazine ordered the pumpkin behemoth burger, which didn’t appear to have any lettuce whatsoever. Oh, but there is lettuce—a solid…
Spotted in a Japanese men’s fashion magazine, this hair and make-up job is Pikachu themed. It’s also frightening. The ears look like clip-on decorations—they were supposedly made with what’s called “sukige” (すき毛), which is fake hair that’s sometimes used for more volume. These were then colored yellow and black. The look is completed with face…
What roleplaying games have that separates them from other types of games is their focus on story more than gameplay. And with this deep exploration of the story comes a game far longer than other genres. While you will spend an average of ten hours on most single-player titles, RPGs can easily last triple that…
Browser Sengoku Basara, the browser game version of Sengoku Basara, is going offline after debuting this summer.
To kick off Surface, Microsoft held big launch events in China. At the midnight event in Beijing, there were dancers, loud music, and one pissed off grandma. That’s when things got ugly. According to Sina, the noise was apparently keeping her grandchildren awake—a problem since the next day was a schoolday. So the grandma and…
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Bandai’s annual Tamashii Nations figure event steamrolls Tokyo. Do you like collectable, plastic friends? Then this might be the event for you. On display were an array of Japanese figures, ranging from super heroes to heroines, as well as robots and monsters. Websites Moeyo and Gigazine were on hand to…
Nintendo is offering free online for Wii U title Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G HD Ver. Generous!
One of the more noticeable differences between the East and the West is the prevalence of the handheld console. The popularity of handhelds in Japan is fairly understandable. For one thing, the high population density makes open space one of the island country’s most precious commodities. Also, the widespread use of public mass transit leads…
In the upcoming Animal Crossing 3DS game, there will be a “Nintendo Town” (ニンテンドー村 or “Nintendo Mura”). It will have various Nintendo themed items to check out and collect. Here’s a first look.
WiiWare title Fluidity is heading to the 3DS as a downloadable title this December in Japan. The game will take advantage of the 3DS’s gyro function, having players rotate their handhelds to play the game. Nintendo Direct [Official Site]
Jam With The Band is heading to the Nintendo 3DS next year.
Wedding bliss turns into a newlywed nightmare. According to a report out of China, a young bride sadly passed away on her wedding night after being kissed on the neck. The kiss, report states, caused the bride to go into a daze. Her complexion turned pale, her body went cold, and she collapsed. A doctor…
As part of Final Fantasy XIV’s reboot, the game is getting a reworked character creator. It allows you to customize your character’s appearance, such as height, eyebrows, and even jaw and tail length. This recent batch of screenshots (via Siliconera) shows how you can customize your character’s bust size: from Very Small to Very Large.…
Next March, Monster Hunter 4 is slated for the 3DS. The game is a huge boon for Nintendo as it will definitely move loads of 3DS portables. So many Japanese gamers cannot wait to play this game! Today, Capcom released a handful of “field” screenshots, showing off the game’s scenery and locations. Monster Hunter 4…
It all started with One Piece. Last fall, Macau-born Sunny Lin exploded on the scene with a cosplay of One Piece character Boa Hancock. Online in Asia, she was declared the closest the world would get to a real life Boa. Lin was able to parlay that into magazine spreads, such as this on her…
Namco Bandai is releasing a new PSP game called Battle Robot Damashii, featuring mecha from the Robot Damashii toyline.
Capcom thinks the Wii U could let it make a “unique Resident Evil game”. How about a scary one?
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