Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Pokémon anime. And next summer’s big Pokémon movie looks like it will celebrate that milestone by going back to the beginning. The first Pokémon TV anime aired in Japan in 1997, and the following year, the first feature hit theaters. To date, there have been nineteen Pokémon animated…
Starting late January 2017, Japanese stores won’t get new copies of the PS Vita Kantai Collection title, which debuted this February in Japan. The download version also won’t be for sale starting late next month. The official site apologized but didn’t give a reason for the sudden announcement.
This holiday season, a lucky few can ride around one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist spots in a Pac-Man shaped rickshaw. Because nothing quite says Christmas like this? According to Famitsu, the ricksaw will only be in operation from December 23 to December 25. It will take folks on rides around Asakusa, an area of…
Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying. Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or “janken taikai” in Japanese. “Janken” means paper-rock-scissors (“taikai” means “tournament”), and while I played this growing…
Because you store vegetables in fridges, and you can make a pun, I guess. This is what the Vegeta fridge ads typically look like, and they’ve been around for a while without an overt Dragon Ball nods. They have been “Vegeta” as in “vegetables” and not as in Super Saiyan. But now, no doubt, Toshiba…
Tech in Asia reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has new regulations banning the streaming of games that the ministry has not approved. This is bound to hurt indie games that are available via Steam, which is still not blocked in the country.
For a game that took so long to come out, the porn world had no problem shooting out a FFXV parody right quick. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. Of course, if it exists, there is a porn of it. Since Final Fantasy XV does exist, we have this, as noted…
The goal was for players around the world to catch 100 million Pokémon in Sun and Moon. They missed that mark by a lot. Thefirst global mission kicked off on November 29 and ended on December 12. Here’s how the English language Pokémon page portrayed it: Just missed! So you’d think they caught like 85…
When will Final Fantasy VII Remake be out? Probably not next spring! But you know what will? These FFVII Remake figures, that’s what. So far, Square Enix’s Play Arts Kai line has announced two figures for an April and May 2017 release in Japan: Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace. They’re listing for 15,984 yen (US$139) each…
Tonight in Tokyo, Sony held its annual awards ceremony. Not only are biggest PlayStation titles honored, but also people’s favorite games of the year. Via Famitsu and 4Gamer, here are the winners. Keep in mind that why some of these titles are multiplatform, all of the awards relate to how they did on PlayStation hardware.…
Taking a page from the Konami playbook, Namco has announced a 20th anniversary SoulCalibur release for pachinko parlors across Japan. Feel free to watch the NINE MINUTE AND FIFTY SECOND trailer for SoulCalibur pachi-slot. Surely, this franchise is getting more than this for twenty years of big swords. Let’s hope. Kotaku East is your slice…
Super Potato. Osaka, Japan. By Esben Hornbøll. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Yamcha might suck, but he takes center stage in one of Dragon Ball’s most famous memes. In the most recent Dragon Ball Super, Yamcha returns, putting a new spin on an old meme. Note: This article contains spoilers. The Dragon Ball Super episodes of late have been fun and silly. The upcoming story arc is getting…
CHAOS;CHILD 5pb. THE BEST was slated for the PS4 and PS Vita in Japan, but today, Famitsu reports that the game’s developer has cancelled the game, citing “various circumstances.”
In 2020, before the Tokyo Olympics, Universal Studios Japan will open its Mario-themed amusement area to the public. Today, Nintendo provides our first glimpse at what we might get. As Kotaku previously reported, this is not a standalone theme park, but a world in USJ—namely, Super Nintendo World. This was first revealed in May 2015, and…
Next summer, Attack on Titan is getting a stage version in Japan. Details are scant, but it will be called Live Impact Shingeki no Kyojin, with Shingeki no Kyojin, of course, being Attack on Titan’s original Japanese title.
I know I sure didn’t earlier this week. But did you? If not, look closer, and maybe you can put your finger on it. Still no? Okay, via Hayabusa, this will point out the mistake. Yep, actor Shun Oguri’s hand has six fingers on the poster. The actor doesn’t actually have an extra finger—not that…
The eagerly awaited Attack on Titan Season 2 will debut in Japan next April. The anime will begin broadcast in April and run until September. WIT Studio will once again handle the animation duties.
Itsukushima Shrine. Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan. By Shu-Yung James Wu JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
The day before Yakuza 6 comes out in Japan, its release in South Korea has been cancelled. It was supposed to come out in 2017. In an official release (via tipster Sang), PlayStation Korea said the decision was “due to the nature of the content.” Hrm…
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