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Kotaku East
Persona 4: The Golden Is Coming to America
Good news, Japanese game fans! Persona 4 Golden is getting an official Western release. It will be out this fall in North America. Persona 4: The Golden is a PS Vita version of the PlayStation 2 role-playing game, Persona 4. It adds new animation, at least one new character and new voice acting to the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 2, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Japan’s Favorite Gay Porn Star on an Anime Motorcycle
In the West, porn star Billy Herrington is known for flicks like HotMen CoolBoyz. In Japan, he’s an internet icon and dubbed “aniki” or “big brother”. He’s achieve meme status, and his clips are often humorously mish mashed and edited. He’s the live action equivalent of the Yaranaika Guy In Japan, there are even Billy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Would You Like To Own Your own Sega Product To Pee On? You Can!
Remember Toylets? It’s that toilet-based gaming system Sega created for drunk people to pee on. If you thought that you had to go out to bars to enjoy pee-powered Sega mini-games, you were wrong. Sega recently let it dribble out that individuals can purchase the system, too. The hardware is ¥140,000 (US$1,747), while each mini-game…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Buy Photos of Bikini Cosplayers from Cosplayers in Bikinis
Late last week, cosplay event Cosgallery!4 kicked off in Tokyo. It was an event for cosplayers and cosplay fans. Increasingly there are more and more of these types of get togethers. And like many other cosplay events, the cosplayers themselves operate booths and sell their cosplay ROMs and DVDs—while in costume. The cosplayers were also…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku EastMetal Gear Solid HD Trailer Sneaks Out
Konami released a rather polished trailer for the previously announced PS Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition that walks through the Vita specific features. None of the info seems new, and it’s (mostly) in Japanese, but you should be able to follow along even if you don’t understand the lingo and enjoy the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Don’t Confuse Japanese Kids in White Face with Wanting To Be White
For years now, teens in Tokyo’s fashionable Harajuku have been pushing the envelope with their Gothic Lolita outfits. Many young Japanese are fashion conscious, but cliques in Harajuku excel at wearing truly head-turning duds. Whenever there is a colorful youth movement in Japan (and there always is), some Westerners look at the images that filter…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Schoolgirl Smuggler Caught with Skirt Full of iPhones
Last month, a 12 year-old girl was caught trying to smuggle iPhones into Shenzhen, China from Hong Kong. While the iPhone is assembled in China, there is considerable demand for the product in the Mainland. This has led to the birth of smugglers bringing the iPhone back into the country. According to recent Chinese news…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Have a Good Time with Pikachu’s…Um…Yeah
Poor Pikachu! If it’s not inflatable Pikachus that are totally inappropriate, it’s stuff like this. This is some sort of Chinese drink container, featuring a phony Pikachu, a straw, and an invitation to have a really good time. So, you do that—have a good time! 同桌的早点 [TT.Mop via はちま起稿]
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Full Scale Macross Fighter Is More Amazing Than You Can Imagine
How do you celebrate a 30th birthday? With some cake? Presents? If you are Macross, you do it with a 1/1 scale VF-25 Valkyrie. Sci-fi anime Macross debuted in 1982 as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which was reworked as part of the hodgepodge known as Robotech for the West. This variable fighter is on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012 -
Kotaku EastThat Game About Dating Disabled Girls is Excellent (And You Should Play It)
When I first heard that a visual novel centered around dating girls with physical disabilities was being made, my first thought was “only in Japan.” Of course, I was completely wrong. While made in the style of a typical Japanese visual novel—and even based on a Japanese sketch—Katawa Shoujo was created by a group of…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku EastA Reminder of Just How Cool the PS Vita Can Be
So PS Vita sales are nosediving. And Sony must be worried, because these are dark times for the Vita. Dark times. But just as everyone is forgetting what an impressive piece of hardware the Vita is, Sony released the PlayStation Developer Suite to allow developers to create apps for the Vita and other PlayStation certified…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku East
A Little Samurai Armor in the Living Room
May 5 is Children’s Day. Since my wife and I have, well, children, we get out a set of miniature “yoroi” (armor) so that our sons grow up healthy and strong. I’ve posted about this before, so forgive me if you read that previous post! But, I absolutely love getting out this miniature set of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku East
So, How Those Nintendo Machines Doing, Huh? Those Games?
Throughout its history as a game company, Nintendo has released an impressive array of game machines. Have you ever thought, hrm, I wonder how said game machines are doing? Let’s find out! Nintendo recently released worldwide lifetime sale data for its game machines as well as for its games. The data is of March 31,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku EastWhen Mother-Daughter Relationships Appear Just Awful
This week, Chinese model Gan Lulu once again raised eyebrows. She appeared at the Beijing Motor Show in a dress that was more skin than fabric. Right along with her, every step of the way was her mom, snapping photos of her daughter on her iPhone. There’s nothing wrong with close mother-daughter relationships. But their…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku EastHow Suicide Made This Japanese Game Developer Famous
Suda51 (Goichi Suda) is one of Japan’s most famous game directors. In the West, this is due to his cult classic PS2/GameCube title, Killer7, or his best-selling Wii series, No More Heroes. In Japan, however, he first became famous for another game entirely: Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special on the Super Famicom. Back in 1994,…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku East
China To Launch a New Console. Price Tag: $600!
For years now, there have been rumblings about the eBox, or its other moniker, the iSec. Yet, the console was pushed back, and then it seemed to vanish completely. Well, it’s back and slated to come out soon. Real soon. Now called CT510, this is the Chinese game console the Lenovo backed and co-invested in—the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku EastDiabolical Pitch Strikes Out
When I first played Diabolical Pitch, it was at the Tokyo Game Show 2011. There at the Microsoft booth, I played this Kinect title in two-player coop mode with a beautiful Japanese booth babe. I had a lot of fun. It was only when I played the game at home alone this last week that…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 27, 2012 -
Kotaku East
This Akira LEGO Diorama Will Make You Scream “Kanedaaa!”
Internet person Arkøv created this wonderful Akira diorama, complete with concrete rubble, Tetsuo, a flowing cape, Kaneda, and a laser cannon. Pew. Pew. The diorama is somewhat abstract, smartly sidestepping mini-fig representations to bring Akira to life. I am…impressed. In 1988, Akira was turned into a feature film anime by Katsuhiro Otomo, who created the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 27, 2012