This summer, your Commando dreams are reality, thanks to Japan’s Marudai Corp. For a cool ¥28,350 ($363), the company will sell you its PET Bottle Launcher RPG-7 kit. It contains all the parts to make your own bottle launcher. Once you have the RPG-7 built, you fill a plastic bottle with water, set the launcher,…
Anime blogger Danny Choo recently checked out the lava caves of Mt. Fuji, including the Fugaku Fuketsu (wind cave), which is cold year round and was previously used as a natural refrigerator, and the Narusawa Ice Cave, which looks to be even colder. The caves were created by lava, and there are about 80 caves…
Discovered at Shiro-Hige’s Cream Puff Factory in Tokyo, these Totoro cream puffs look like something out of a Ghibli movie. They also look like something I want to gobble up. The cream puffs are available in a variety of flavors, such as chocolate cream, custard, and whipped cream. There are also seasonal varieties, like strawberry…
The DMC: Devil May Cry trailer from E3 showed a hack-and-slash action game set in a dark world where demons/devils control society through media and products. In the game, the main character, Dante, joins forces with an Anonymous-like group called The Order to fight against the demonic rulers. Anyone who played the demo, got to…
For decades, Takahashi Meijin was one of the most iconic faces of Japanese gaming. Not only did he star in his own games, he also was able to fire 16 shots per second in shooting game Star Soldier. But back in spring 2011, he decided to hang up his controller and call it a day.…
So Nintendo is releasing an official USB memory drive for the Wii so players can enjoy Dragon Quest X. It’s…not cheap. If you order the 16GB flash drive directly from Nintendo, it will set you back ¥3,150 or US$40. For comparison’s sake, you can get 16GB memory via Amazon Japan for about ¥1,000 or $13…
Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 was announced at E3 with little more than a trailer and fan speculation. Now, Tecmo Koei has released new information on the sequel to Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage. Announced in Japan under the title, Shin Hokuto Musou (“Shin” (真) meaning “true” or “pure”) Ken’s…
Dragon Quest X is getting weekly updates with new quests and story segments—which should keep players busy! That’s not all—ten weeks after release, there will be a massive update with new systems and gameplay elements. [Siliconera]
There are many talented artists online. You see some of the stuff on DeviantArt, and you go, “Wow, there are many talented artists online.” But what about the untalented ones? Over on Japanese forum 2ch, a thread popped up in which people showed off their awful Pokémon drawings—drawings they knew were terrible. Many of them…
For nearly a decade now, Nintendo has made a very focused effort to makeover how Japan views video games. To do that, Nintendo’s needed help from the country’s most famous females. With the DS, Nintendo changed the stereotypical notion that video games were toys or for guys. It wasn’t just the games that had non-gamer…
The residence was packed with computer games and comic books. And back in 2003, Yasuyoshi Kobayashi was convicted of sexually assaulting four women and confining them at said residence. Today, ANN News reports that his final appeal was overturned and he will begin his 14-year sentence. Japanese police discovered over one thousand adult video games…
From what I remember, the 1990s were a good time. We didn’t really have the internet then, but we had good music, good movies, and good video games. This isn’t about any of those—especially the good video games bit. It’s about a Sega Saturn booklet that is so awful, it’s awesome. The game is Hop…
Gotta catch ’em all! And then, flip them over your shoulder. Judo athlete Ashley McKenzie, who competes for Team Great Britain, went from young Poké punk to serious athlete after a fight broke out over his Charizard card. When McKenzie was 11, another kid tried to swipe his Pokémons. “This Charizard was the best card,”…
The city of Xi’an in China has a new crosswalk signal. And neighboring Japan points out the obvious: this is way too cute for a traffic light. In China, the anime-style character on the sign, people in Japan speculate, is probably aimed at children. This traffic signal uses a young LED anime-style girl to preside…
Nintendo is selling 3DS games, like New Super Mario Bros 2 and Demon Training, as digital downloads. Those who don’t like purchasing items online can swing buy their local retailer in Japan and be greeted with aisles of download cards. Aisles of this. 3DSのDL版(店頭販売)が高すぎｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ [2ch]
There’s a time and place for everything. When you are in a Tokyo arcade, you should play video games, not with yourself. Common courtesy, folks! According to Final Round organizer Scott Popular, one male gamer seems to have confused his joystick with an arcade one. Recently, Popular was at Shibuya Kaikan, one of Tokyo’s most…
Get out those calendars! Today, Nintendo provided a list of upcoming titles it will release the rest of this month—and beyond. This isn’t a full list by any means, and many of these games (and release windows) are already known. But here they are all together in one place. •Japan 3DS Nintendo 3DS XL –…
More and more these days, companies are making games with a free-to-play model—focusing on micro-transactions to finance the game. While these have been popular for various PC-based MMORPGs, the Vita gained its own free-to-play MMO with the release of Samurai and Dragons earlier this year. But is this curious mix of a dungeon crawler and…
Phantasy Star Online was a trail blazer of a game, bringing the MMORPG experience to home consoles for the first time. Starting on the Dreamcast, it later had releases on the Xbox, GameCube and PC. Less than a month ago, its sequel Phantasy Star Online 2 was released as a free-to-play MMORPG on PCs. It…
Earlier this year the Vita got its first free-to-play MMO title in the form of Samurai and Dragons. While the game had a rocky launch that required it to be taken offline for the better part of a month, it is now online and running strong. Samurai and Dragons presents a strange mix of gameplay.…
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