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In South Korea, the Shutdown Law was created to prevent gamers under sixteen from gaming during a six hour block at night. The law already impacted online gaming services, such as the PlayStation Network. It’s going to impact it some more. According to Sony, the PSN Store is going offline for all players starting on…
You’ve been there: You have a beer, but no beer opener. Some folks in China decided to see what happened with they used Chinese smartphone Meizu MX and an iPhone 4S to open some brewskies. What happened? Well, they damaged the iPhone—something I’m sure you didn’t need a video to tell you. The Meizu, however,…
Yep, it’s super sentai inspired pop group Momoiro Clover Z singing Mite Mite☆Kotchitchi, the ending track for the new Pokémon animePocket Monsters: Best Wishes! . ポケモン着ぐるみで踊る姿が可愛すぎる！ ももいろクローバーZ『みてみて☆こっちっち』のふりつけ動画が公開 [Kotaku Japan]
You might’ve seen those Google Chrome ads that feature Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber. Virtual idol Hatsune Miku also got a Chrome commercial, which Kotaku posted before. That commercial recently won Bronze Lion Award in the Direct Lions category of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. That festival is in the same city that…
Terry Gou, the dude who runs Foxconn’s parent company, has gotten in trouble for shooting off his mouth in the past. Once, he compared to managing the Foxconn workers as simply managing “animals” and lamented how those animals give him a headache. This time, Gou’s apparently catching heat for remarks he made about Koreans. While…
Upcoming PS3 exclusive The Last Guardian gets a dubstep remix for shits and giggles, courtesy of Mike McWhertor of Meat Bun (and more recently, Polygon) fame. If this year’s E3 gaming convention taught us anything, you can never have too much dubstep. No, actually, you can. So knock it off, world. You know what else…
For years, Japanese voice actress Rie Tanaka hasn’t been afraid of fan service: she’s cosplayed characters, she’s released hug pillows, and she even had her own trading cards Those days, it seems, are long over. Rie Tanaka just got married. Earlier this week, 33 year-old Tanaka revealed on her official blog that she tied the…
When people think of Square Enix and online games, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV—and perhaps the upcoming Dragon Quest X—are probably the games that come to mind. But late last year, Square Enix tried its hand at a free-to-play browser game by the name of MONSTERxDRAGON. MONSTERxDRAGON is a strategy RPG/card game hybrid…
In Japan, parents make bento lunches for their kindergarten kids. To make a healthy lunch look as appetizing (or rather, “fun”) as possible, many parents make them as cute as possible. As a parent of two boys, I’ve tried to make cute bento lunches, with the key word being “tried”. The materials you are working…
Chinese gaming and internet giant Tencent announced that it’s acquired a minority stake in Epic Games. According to Tencent, the company looks forward to sharing info and innovation with Epic across various platforms.
Japanese police recently arrested a 40 year-old illustrator for distributing “obscene material”. This past April, the artist apparently sold three drawings through his homepage for a total of ¥1,500 (US$18.96). While the original news report does not detail the drawings, it’s likely they are explicit, uncensored adult manga drawings, which are legal to own, but…
When people think of Japanese fighting games, they think of Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and BlazBlue. But would it surprise you to know that one of Japan’s most popular fighting game series hasn’t made it out of Japan since the GameCube era? The Mobile Suit Gundam VS series of games can be found…
Information for three new characters for upcoming PS3 gameAtelier Ayesha ~Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk~ has been released. Let’s have a look. The teal haired girl is Odileia, an android, or an automata, that was built from alchemy. She is the librarian of the “No. 2 Library,” and aids Ayesha by granting her access…
It’s a browser game. Yeah. But it’s still a new Valkyria Chronicles game….just one for your browser. Make that, a virtual card-based Valkyria Chronicles game for your browser. It’s called Valkyria Chronicles Duel. You can watch the game’s trailer above. Remember when people used to complain about Sega making Valkyria games for portables instead of…
When you finish playing with your Steve Jobs cards, you can snuggle up in your iPhone sheets and drift off to sleep, dreaming of apps and pretty Apple hardware. Sadly, there’s not much info about this three-piece bedding set, other than it’s apparently from China and it doesn’t need OS updates. iPhone床上四件套 你买了吗 [Baidu via…
Blade & Soul is out this year in South Korea on PC, and it’s eventually making its way to consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360). The good news is that it should be getting a Western release, too. The MMORPG’s open beta kicks off this week in South Korea. To mark that event, here’s Blade &…
No stranger to re-releasing its games—especially Okami—Capcom was rumored to be working on an HD remastering of the game for the PS3. It’s not entirely implausible, and it actually makes sense. Thing is, the Japanese site that originally posted the rumor—Game Jouhou—quickly updated its post, stating that, well, the rumor’s source wasn’t clear and then…
It was unlike anything the villagers had ever seen. The young news reporter who arrived on the scene was quick to point out that the “mysterious mushroom” felt “meaty”. Meaty, sure, but that ain’t no mushroom. On June 17, Chinese investigative news program Xi’an Up Close reported about a “mysterious mushroom” discovered in the rural…
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