On August 6 in Shenyang, shops shuttered. Merchants vanished. On their shops, there were signs like “temporarily closed”. Online, people said parts of the city were nearly ghost towns. Many of the shops carried fake goods of one kind or another, and the rumor was that Chinese authorities were going to crackdown on these gray…
New Super Mario Bros 2, the latest game in the Mario Brothers franchise was released in Japan on July 28th and already players are chugging away, gathering coins, coins, and more coins. One of the side objectives/achievements of the game is to collect a million coins, and it looks like hundreds of people have already…
Whenever some new wild restaurant opens in Japan, there’s a flurry of attention online. And then? Then, these one-trick-pony restaurants often just fade away. But before that happens, somebody needs to take one for the team. Website Yattar News did just that. The site checked out the Robot Restaurant, which is less a restaurant and…
Continuing its interview series with various game creators, this week Weekly Famitsu sat down with Kenichiro Takaki of Marvelous AQL to talk about his thoughts for the future. Takaki is famous for his hand in busty babe-featuring games like the Battle Vixens series, and the Senran Kagura series, as well as the non-busty babe-featuring Half-Minute…
The latest DmC: Devil May Cry footage shows off some of the game’s platforming as well as the giant wall-crawler, Succubus. That’s not all. In the trailer, words like “die”, “obesity”, “stupidity” flash in the background. “Kill Dante” also appears. Subtle, no? (Then again, when has Devil May Cry been subtle?) Not subtle, sure, but…
Mother Nature is dangerous business. Weather reporters in Asia (and elsewhere) are often sent into the eye of a storm—if anything, just so they can show how severe the weather is. And a typhoons are pretty dang severe. On August 8, typhoon Haikui hit Hepu County in China, sadly leaving two dead in its wake.…
It’s not uncommon for video game companies to reference their own games in…their own games. But Yakuza 5, never one to turn down a tie-in, has something else: Yakuza 5 features another company’s game. Namco’s Taiko no Tatsujin appears in Sega’s upcoming gangster opus. When you visit an arcade in Yakuza 5, you can play…
You know him, you love him, he’s creepy. That’s right, the infamous “hentai” (perverted) Woody figure is back. Kaiyodo’s Sci-Fi Revoltech Series No. 10 Woody figure has returned to retail. This month, the figure re-launched, going on sale again in Japan. With creepy Woody back on the prowl, no plastic figurine is safe. Geek site…
PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale supports arcade sticks. How original.
The IT Crowd. Friends. How I Met Your Mother. Even in the West, these popular sitcoms have influenced other shows. But in China, one show isn’t exactly “inspired” by these programs. The Shanghai television program in question is Ipartment (which loosely translates as “Love Apartment” in Chinese). It features a couple of guys, a couple…
Sony’s PS Vita sure is struggling! Launching new hardware isn’t easy—just ask Nintendo. But while Nintendo was able to turn the 3DS around, Sony hasn’t done that yet with the Vita. Japanese celebrity and Pokémon queen Shoko Nakagawa might have the logical answer. Nakagawa, who has done Zelda commercials for Nintendo, recently seems to have…
As previously mentioned, the Disgaea Team’s newest role-playing game is not a new Disgaea, but The Paradox of God and the Fate Revolution. The game follows a high schooler who suddenly turns into God. He, along with the seven angels, makes people’s wishes come true. When the game was first shown last month, game maker…
This isn’t a joke. It’s a true story. Late last week a photo of a lady binding a sex doll to a tree appeared online. Info was scant, but now reports out of China state that the woman, who lives in the city of Shangdong, was fed up with cars speeding through a pedestrian crossing.…
Back in 2005 (2005!), Koei revealed Ni-Oh! for PS3. The game was supposed to be based on an unearthed script from Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo, Seven Samurai). But it was never released. Ni-Oh! just…vanished. In a recent interview with Famitsu, Tecmo president and co-founder Yoichi Erikawa confirmed that the game still existed. “We just finished the…
New BlazBlue arcade game is getting a PS3 version in Japan. And Xbox 360? Um…no word yet.
Dragon Quest X is the newest game in the immensely popular Dragon Quest series. It is also the series’ first MMORPG. While the prologue of the game (the first two hours or so) is a strictly single player affair, the game soon opens up into a massive online world. But as Dragon Quest X is…
So Namco Bandai is making the new Smash Bros. games. Know what that means, don’t you? There’s a really good chance Namco characters will pop up in Smash Bros Tales director and producer Yoshito Higuchi tells The Official Nintendo Magazine that he would totally be happy if Tales characters appeared in Smash Bros. Of course…
Computers are an important part of our lives. They have transformed the way we lived. Right now, we are living in the future. But what did that future look like in a 1960s Japanese children’s magazine? Like this. In 1969, Shonen Sunday published a series of articles called “Computopia”. They depicted how computers would be…
While doing our Kotaku East live stream of Dragon Quest X last week, the most common question I got was “What is the battle system like when you’re in a group?” Well, at that time, I was just starting out and had yet to get a full group going. However, since then I have spent…
Sony trademarked two new games: Rain and Until Dawn. Go ahead, imagine the trailers IN YOUR MIND.
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