Forget about Final Fantasy VII Remake! Square Enix has something else for you: wine and crystal wine glasses. Please be excited. Tonight in Tokyo, Square Enix revealedthe “Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Ultimate Wine Crystal Edition.” It includes a thirty year-old bottle of Chateau Meyney red wine and two Final Fantasy inscribed glasses with Swarovski. Isn’t…
Musou Stars, Tecmo Koei’s all-star Dynasty Warriors type game, was originally slated for a March 2 release in Japan. Today, the company announced it’s been delayed to March 30 to “improve quality.”
It’s not size that counts, but how awesome you can make tiny block sculptures. Nanoblock are much smaller than your typical blocks or bricks, with the tiniest Nanoblock measuring 4mm x 4mm. Japanese Twitter user Seibu_lina0505 has been creating Nanoblock sculptures of iconic fighting game and anime characters. Know that Nanoblock has released official Street…
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, the HD remaster of FFXII, will be released on July 11 in North America and Europe, Square Enix announced today. The game will also be out on July 13 in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
Japan is getting a set of very small collectible Splatoon guns. Cute! Packed with a piece of candy, these miniatures are 380 yen (US$3.34) each and are available at supermarkets and convenience stores across the country. According to Game Watch Impress, the first set will feature eight different weapons. Since each gun is packaged at…
Last fall, Kotaku reported Wii U productionwas slated to end“soon” for Japan. And today, we can say it’s officially finished. Update January 31 – 6:30pm: Nintendo of America issued the following statement: “Wii U production has ended globally.” The announcement was made on Nintendo Japan’s website under the Wii U hardware section. (Note that these…
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The free-to-play Animal Crossing for mobile was slated for release early this year. Today, however, Nintendo has announced that it’s been delayed to make way for Fire Emblem Heroes. Nintendo just made this announcement via a financial statement: For smart devices, we plan to release the game application Fire Emblem Heroes on February 2. We will…
This week in Tokyo, you can buy Kit Kat sushi. Dreams are real! According to Entabe and Tokyo Bargain Mania, the first street-facing Kit Kat specialty shop will open in Tokyo’s Ginza on February 2. (The other shops are located in department stores and in underground shopping areas.) To mark the event, the store will…
One of the individuals who built the Japanese gaming industry has passed away. In 1955, Masaya Nakamura established Nakamura Manufacturing, a amusement-ride company that turned into Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company or “Namco.” The company later merged with Bandai in 2005. During the decades following World War II, the rooftops of Japanese department stores were…
In Japan, Sony is rolling out special PlayStation 4 hardware to mark Nier: Automata’s release. Sony has both a 500GB HDD and 1TB HDD version of the “Emil Edition” PS4, each coming with themed hardware covers and downloadable wallpaper. The 500GB version is 33,480 (US$292), while the 1TB is 38,480 yen ($335). Neither is bundled…
Persona 5 takes place in a fictionalized version of a real Tokyo location. Atlus is now asking fans to stop bothering the folks who live there. As Kotaku previously reported, the inspiration for in-game location Yongenjaya is Tokyo’s Sangenjaya. Many of its real-world spots were reborn in the game, including as P5‘s coin laundry, batting…
Like sake? Wine? How about Capcom games? Then, Kyoto-based drinks maker Shiraito Shuzo has some beverages for you. As Famitsu points out, Shiraito Shuzo, which has been brewing sake since 1773, is releasing Resident Evil branded sake as well as a RE carved wooden sake box, known as a “masu.” The collaboration is to mark…
It’s called Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy Of Light and is apparently the first time that FF has been the basis of a live-action TV show. According to Model Press, the show is about the bond that develops between a son and a father while playing the popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV It’s inspired by a Japanese…
Today in Japan, the first location test for arcade game Attack on Titan: Team Battle kicked off in Tokyo. Previously, Kotaku showed off the game’s earlier controller, but now we get a close up look at the latest versions via Famitsu. They’re nice!
This might just be a plastic box, but hey, I think game cases are interesting. Perhaps you do, too. Via Twitter user Gaijinhunter, here is our first look at the Japanese retail container for Switch games. They do look like PSP game boxes! Let’s see how they compare. Have a look at more cases below:…
Surely, there were better options available than “SHAT.” You know, “shat” as in the past tense “to shit.” According to Asahi News and NetGeek, Japanese government employees in the city of Odawara donned these rogue jackets to protest alleged welfare cheaters. The acronym “SHAT” stands for “Seikatsu Hogo Akubometsu Team” (生活保護悪撲滅チーム) or the “Livelihood Protection Evil…
Wait, what? Isn’t PSVR already out in Japan? You bet it is. And yet, this morning, there were long lines at retailers across the country. The reason being that a new shipment of PSVR headsets hit Japanese shops today. Demand was so high at some locations that people had to line up for a chance…
Square Enix just announced Lord of Vermilion IV, the next entry in its long-running card-based arcade series. The game will be shown at next month’s Japan Amusement Expo.
Last fall, “PPAP” singer Pikotaro claimed hehadn’t made any money off his viral sensation. A trademark squatter in Japan certainly isn’t helping things. According to Japanese legal site Bengoshi.com, 53-year-old Ikuhiro Ueda has submitted multiple trademark applications for “PPAP” as well as “Pen Pineapple Apple Pen” in both English and Japanese. Pikotaro’s record label, Bengoshi.com…
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