Square Enix said it plans on supporting Dragon Quest X with new content for the next ten years.
Don’t you just love the amazing things people can make? One gentleman constructed his own working Batcycle from, what looks like, fitness machines and other bits and bobs. The result is absolutely heroic. Someone Made A Batcycle With Spare Parts And Exercise Equipment [Beijing Cream]
Japanese illustrator Momo Okada is everywhere of late. She’s done collaborations with Hello Kitty—and now, her take on Pokémon is getting its own line of products called “Poké Momo” for the Pokémon Centers in Japan. Okada’s illustrations look like “yura kyara”, which are the local mascots created to promote cities, towns, and rural villages in…
Diablo III‘s release was eagerly anticipated in South Korea. The country has always been a strong Blizzard bastion. But several months after its release, the game’s popularity is now on the slide in South Korea. Or is it? One of the country’s most authoritative online game ranking sites, GameNote, revealed that Diablo III has plunged…
It finally happened. For years, Japan has been waiting for the latest Dragon Quest game, and yesterday, it launched. Anxious gamers lined up in droves to purchase the title. In Shibuya, there was a special countdown event at retailer Tsutaya for the game. The first person in line appeared on stage and received his purchased…
Continuing their interview series from last week, Weekly Famitsu asked a group of game developers on their ideas and hopes for the future of gaming. Among the gaming bigs this week was Level-5 honcho, Akihiro Hino, who expressed his wish to make a new open world game. Asked about what technology he was most interested…
One intrepid Japanese model maker recreated the Morita Assault Rifle from Starship Troopers as a full-scale replica. Bless him. Toys guns were sawed into pieces and then connected to an aluminum frame. Other parts were crafted, and the gun was then finished to give it a nice sheen. The result is magnificent—even more so when…
At this year’s China Joy expo in Shanghai, booth companion Li Ling was booted from the show after appearing in a revealing outfit. This was the latest China Joy crackdown on companion outfits—a crackdown that swung into full force last year. But what are the booth companion regulations Chinese game makers must adhere to? And…
With the release of Resident Evil 6 only two months away, more and more information and footage is being released, I may not even need to play the game to find out all the “mysteries…” With the latest information of Ada Wong as one of the playable protagonists, the producers sat down for an interview…
At a Shanghai shopping mall, over a thousand volunteers recently participated in the a human dominoes stunt organized by a Chinese mattress company. In total, there were 1,001 human mattress dominoes that were toppled—a new world record. Unlike human Tetris, which spread from Asia to the West, human mattress dominoes is already a thing in…
Dragon Quest X, the first online iteration of the Dragon Quest series, was released earlier today in Japan. But how exactly does this MMO from Japan’s most popular RPG series play? Find out alongside Kotaku East as we play the first few hours of the game live for your enjoyment. We will be happy to…
Earth Defense Force 3: Portable, the portable version of the 2007 Xbox 360 game, Earth Defense Forces 2017 is coming to the PSVita at the end of next month, and with 5 years since the original release, there’s been a lot of time to refine and add a bunch of new goodies into the battle…
At the recent Wonder Festival in Japan, there was an array of figures. Heck, there was even fake food. There were also peculiar—odd, even—custom sculptures that were both strange and totally wonderful. Ever wanted to see miniature teeth and gums? Here ya go. Stereotypically, custom sculptures in Japan often refer to sexually explicit works. Sure,…
Dragon Quest X was released in Japan today and is an important milestone for several reasons. Not only is it the first MMO in the Dragon Quest series, but it’s also the first MMORPG the Wii has ever had. To make a game like this even possible on the Wii, DQX requires a 16 Gig…
It’s that time of year again. Time for the summer Fancy Frontier. The geek event is held at the elite National Taiwan University and attracts tens of thousands of visitors. Not all of them are dressed to the nines in fancy pants! However, there’s always a sizable number of cosplayers, showing off their dazzling outfits…
When Mr. Sato isn’t eating whoppers with a thousand pieces of cheese, he’s eating whoppers with a thousand strips of bacon. And when he’s not doing that, he’s patiently lining up for video games. Last night, he did just that: He lined up in Shibuya for Dragon Quest X, dressed as a DQ Slime (even…
Literally, the Japanese phrase “zettai ryouiki” (絶対領域) means “absolute territory”. But for Japanese geeks, it means something else—but something nonetheless absolute. The term refers to the area of exposed flesh between high socks and a hemline. This is a location that’s often fetishized in anime and manga—and soon, it’ll be a fetishized for advertising. The…
Being a superhero seems so glamorous. There are the outfits, the universe saving, and the crime fighting. But in Hong Kong, the lives of superheroes seem so normal. They get parking tickets, they work in markets, and after a long day, they sit down for delicious dinners. That’s the concept behind these photos, titled “Heroes…
At the recent China Joy gaming expo in Shanghai, a rich gamer apparently rented an entire booth so he could have it all to himself and play a new online game. According to reports, the gamer booked the booth for thirty minutes, and there were even three booth companions on hand to fan him while…
Spotted at the recent Wonder Festival, this 1/35 scale Space Battleship Yamato measures over 16 feet was was erected to promoted upcoming anime Space Battleship Yamato: 2199 The anime is a modern updated version of the first season of the classic Japanese space saga, Space Battleship Yamato 全長5メートルで圧倒的迫力のヤマトなど「宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199」ブース [Gigazine]
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