For gamers who aren’t exactly thrilled with the 3DS’ slide pad, a Japanese peripheral company has a cover cap that increases the pad’s size. One Japanese gamer decided to stack a whole bunch of them to make this slide pad joystick, which looks like it would be either great or plain awful to use. I…
This April, Japanese illustrator Mao Sugiyama offered to cook a special meal: the illustrator’s surgically removed genitals. The following month, five diners paid the equivalent of US$250 to eat Sugiyama’s bait and tackle, served with Italian parsley and garnished with button mushrooms. Approximately 70 people attended the event in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward on May 18…
If you are keen to snag upcoming role-playing game Tales of Xillia 2, know that Sony is also releasing a Tales of Xillia 2 controller—a controller that is a “best match” for a special PS3. From 2011. Last year, Sony released a truly lovely Tales of Xillia PlayStation 3, but it came with a plain…
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As I tend to play all the big name Japanese titles months before their western releases, I am often bombarded with questions wanting more specifics about the game itself or it’s overall quality. But every once in a while, I will get the question that always throws me for a loop: “Is the game worth…
Blood: The Last Vampire was one the big anime movies of the late-nineties anime boom alongside other films such as Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, and Akira. Since then, it has had a live action remake, a 52-episode anime series (Blood+), three games (four if you count Heroes Phantasia), and several manga adaptations. This…
Mecha game Zone of the Enders is getting an HD version. Check out its opening in full hi-def glory. Zone of the Enders HD Collection will be out later this year.
Last week in China’s Zhejiang Province, five people riding the same scooter were sideswiped by a sedan. The riders suffered injuries to various degrees, but thankfully, they were not life threatening and everyone survived. The video went viral in China and appeared on Beijing TV program Traffic Light (红绿灯), which has a segment called “Accidents…
They met through online games, the five of them. From there they allegedly hatched a plan. A plan to make money. A plan to sell drugs. Japanese police arrested a group of five male and female cohorts for selling drugs over the country’s most popular online bulletin board 2ch. Three of those arrested lived outside…
Before the 128-bit era, many Japanese games, especially RPGs, never left Japanese shores. But over the years, many of these classic, never-before-localized games have been released in English on consoles and handhelds. Walk Over My Corpse (Ore no Shikabane wo Koeteyuke), however, remains one of the few great JRPGs unplayed by western audiences—despite a PSP…
The best toilets in the world are Japanese. Pretty much every house has a john with a heated seat and a bum washer, and there have even toilets sold with embedded music players and spotlights so you don’t miss. Heck, Sega even recently released a pee-powered game. Japan’s toilet tech is world class. No wonder…
Spotted near the Mongolian border, this Chinese yogurt drink features characters that look like Mario and Yoshi. It’s like Super Mario World in a can—er, plastic bottle—in creamy liquid form. The Mario looks less like Mario, while the Yoshi looks pretty much like Yoshi, but with antlers on his head. So how does it taste?…
Ai Shinozaki is one of Japan’s most popular pin-ups. Like so many young Japanese idols, she’s released photo books and DVDs of her prancing about in swimwear on some exotic beach. She’s also paid her dues by appearing in swimwear (of course!) at fan meet-and-greet events in Tokyo geek paradise, Akihabara. But the 20 year-old…
Yesterday, it was revealed that the PC version of Dark Souls is Steam bound, while home consoles will also be getting the added PC content with a Dark Souls with Artorias of the Abyss Edition. Here’s a look at the elegant, dark packaging for both the PC and console versions. Stunning stuff. 「DARK SOULS」に追加要素を加えたPC，PS3用パッケージが10月25日に発売。PS3版はDLC単体での配信もアリ [4Gamer]
While the US has Captain America, China now has, uh, Captain China. Part of a secret “Super Human” project, he’s Soviet pistol wielding, cytogenetically frozen super commie from the days of the Chinese Revolution. So when President Obama visits China—to ask the Chinese for, I guess, money—who’s there to protect the President from an assassination…
With the 3DS, Nintendo brought us 3D imagery without the use of dopey glasses. Now, a company in Japan has developed a peripheral that can turn your iPhone into an instant 3D device. At the Wireless Japan 2012, an expo for wireless and smart phone devices and apps, Nippon System Project displayed its new “Picasso…
While the Communist government neuralyzes Men in Black 3, a Chinese gadget site iGeek is claiming that the futuristic Men in Black 3 is copying a Chinese invention. “MIB3 nakedly ripped off our country’s patented technology,” iGeek said via a Chinese social networking site. Described as “an exquisite specimen of Chinese workmanship”, the colorful analog…
R4 cartridges, better known in Japan as Majicon, are a major thorn in Nintendo’s side. The importing and sale of these devices that allow people to play pirated DS games was ruled as illegal in Japan since 2008. Generally, Nintendo has opted for filing civil complaints or civil lawsuits against violators, but at last, it…
In what looks to be the greatest graduation pic ever, a group of college students in Northeastern China toss their mortarboards in the air. In the background, their school dormitory is engulfed in flames. In the city of Dalian, a warehouse near the Dalian University of Technology caught on fire and then spread to the…
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