Meet Kong Suni. She doesn’t just wear cute frocks and eat all the food you shovel in her mouth. Oh no, she’ll also toot—because tooting is cute, and so is poop. In Korea—as well as elsewhere in much of Asia—doo-doo is often shown as adorable when presented to kids. This, of course, is to encourage…
Macross: Do You Remember Love? is one of the defining anime of the 1980s—which explains why this year’s Blu-ray 30th Anniversary Box is so full of amazing additions. We at Kotaku East have already looked at the hybrid pack’s PS3 title Macross: My Boyfriend is a Pilot 2012, but there is a download code included…
Aigis (née Aegis in Japan) from Persona is getting a new posable figure this December. It’s for Persona 4 Arena, and if you don’t like the color variation, sit tight. In January 2013, another color variation will hit—it’s a “Famitsu original color version”. Famitsu is a Japanese game magazine. You can see the new color…
Taiwan’s Weather Girls are have their sights set on Japan—not to make the weather “more fun” (they’ve already done that, apparently!) Rather, they hope to make it as popstars. Weather Girls originally debuted in August 2010 and were the brainchild of Next Media, the Taiwanese TV network famous for creating Sims-like news recreations. They didn’t…
China was one of the first countries to recognize internet addiction as a psychological illness—and then beat the crap out of people suffering from it. As The Register points out, a 2008 government supported report stated that those who gamed more than six hours in a day and then experienced withdrawal type symptoms suffered from…
Games, movies—these days everything seems to have its own collector’s edition. Filled with art books, statues and mini posters, few of them are really worth the extra price. So it’s always a surprise when a collector’s edition like the Macross: Do You Remember Love? 30th Anniversary Box comes along. First, the Macross: Do You Remember…
There’s a new Persona! It’s…a card battle game. For smartphones. Oh.
In 1971, Bruce Lee did an interview—a great interview—on The Pierre Berton Show It was the martial arts superstar’s only TV interview. The 25-minute talk was believed to have been lost, but has since been archived—and more recently remixed by melodysheep. Also check out the full, original interview. If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely…
At Square Enix’s 25th Anniversary event today in Tokyo, company honcho Yoichi Wada took the stage and briefly mentioned Versus. Very briefly. Here’s what he said (via Japanese Final Fantasy blogger Marshal.Alloc): “I cannot say any more than, ‘We are making Versus!’ Please wait a little longer.” This raises all sorts of questions: Is the…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy. And what better way to say Happy Anniversary than with a FF box set? That weighs 11 pounds? And costs US$445? The box includes the PlayStation disc versions of all the numeric Final Fantasy games from FFI to FFXIII. It also comes with a Crystal ArtWorks…
Who here remembers Candid Camera? (Kids, ask your parents.) Whether you’ve heard of the actual TV show or not, the legacy of Candid Camera lives on in present day reality TV and movies. The concept is simple: Play a practical joke on someone and catch it on film. The idea of Candid Camera was especially…
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn producer and director, Naoki Yoshida wowed audiences with the beauty and splendor of the revamped game at the GamesCon event two weeks ago. On stage and off, Yoshida has been proudly and enthusiastically showing expectant fans what he had in store for them in A Realm Reborn. He should…
Today at the 25th anniversary event for Metal Gear, Konami showed off a slew of Metal Gear related goods. Some of them you might want. Some, you might not. There was the usual array of gaming t-shirts (here, a collaboration between Uniqlo and Konami) as well as the more unusual: Metal Gear tights. They are…
Japan and South Korea are at odds over the Liancourt Rocks. In Japanese, they are called “Takeshima”, while in Korean they are known as “Dokdo”. Tensions between the two countries have now reached the point where giant robots are involved. Enter Robot Taekwon V. According to reports, the jumbo Korean bot is now doing for…
Tokyo police revealed that charges have been filed against former IBM exec Takumi Otoshi. On August 22, Otoshi allegedly used his iPod to film up a young woman’s skirt while riding the escalator at JR Yotsuya Station in Tokyo. Otoshi was the president of IBM Japan between 1999 and 2008. As Tokyo Reporter points out,…
After initially being announced back in 2009 as Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and rebranded in 2011 after facing cancellation, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance looks like it’s “gearing” up for its finishing lap before release with some new info (pardon the pun). In an announcement in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Konami has revealed the sword-wielding cyborg,…
Ah, the virtues of being patient. Screw that! While the iPhone 5 will be assembled in China, and while we should have specific details on it soon, one Chinese company decided it could not wait. So it made this. This is the “Goophone i5”. The Android phone was created based on leaks and renderings of…
To mark the newest Girls Mode fashion game, Nintendo is releasing a new 3DS XL color: Pink and white. The handheld will be released on September 27 for ¥18,900 (US$251).
Nintendo’s latest Tomodachi Collection is slated for spring 2013. Tomodachi Collection is a life simulator that is often compared to both The Sims and Animal Crossing. The first Tomodachi Collection came out in 2009 in Japan. It has not seen an international release.
Nintendo is putting a new spin on Paper Mario with its upcoming entry in the series, Paper Mario: Sticker Star. The game features sticker spin on the Paper Mario games, and players will be collecting stickers through out the game, which can even be used when battling enemies. The game will be out later this…
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