Japan’s Most Traditional Internet Cafe

There are loads of internet cafes in Japan. But it seems there’s only one that looks like a traditional Japanese inn. Welcome to Nagomi Style Cafe Located in Tokyo’s geek mecca Akihabara, this internet cafe is designed after a Kyoto inn. The Japanese word “nagomi” (和み) mean to soothe or calm. That’s exactly what this…

Poll: How Japanese Gamers Feel About the PS4

The PlayStation 4 was released in Japan nearly one year ago. So are Japanese buyers of the console happy with their purchase? Over 1,000 PS4 owners answered a customer satisfaction survey in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Many were happy. Some were not. Here’s what was asked, what was answered, and a bit of what was…

In Final Fantasy XV, Cooking is Important

Camping is a big part of Final Fantasy XV. And what is camping, without some campfire cooking? As previously explained by director Hajime Tabata, is part of the core gameplay of FFXV, and plays a vital role in adventuring the vast open world. To recap, camping in FFXV converts exp gained through battles into levels.…

How to Beat up Pokémon in Japanese Arcades

The new Pokémon fighting game, Pokkén Tournament is hitting arcades in Japan this summer, and a new trailer is out to offer new details, including a breakdown of the controls. In the newly released trailer, some of the previously announced playable characters were shown as well as some new details were on how the game…

New Medieval Combat Game Looks Like A, Well, Blast

In case this trailer doesn’t show you within five seconds, here it is from the developers themselves: “We were primarily inspired by Rust & Chivalry in the development of this game”. But that’s OK! Because if you’re going to rip two games off and make something new out of the stolen parts, you can do…

Overpowered Bot Puts Top Smash Bros. Player In His Place

If you’ve paid any sort of attention to the competitive Super Smash Bros scene over the years, you’ve probably heard of Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman. He’s won countless championships in every iteration of Smash and advanced the scene with discoveries about game physics and technique. Recently, he lost to a CPU. It all came of an…

The NES Was Once So Rare You Could Only Get It In Two Cities

It’s easy to forget now, given its enormous success, that the NES was once seen as a risky proposition. Coming on the heels of the great video game crash of 1983, into a market unsure if games were a fad that had already died out, the system didn’t just magically appear in stores across North…

What Books Are You Reading These Days?

Here at Kotaku, we don’t just play video games all day and night. Sometimes, we read. Sometimes we even read books! Wild, I know. I’ve read a few good books lately, and wanted to check in to see what you all have been reading. For my part, I recently finished Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, which…

Team Fortress 2 Player Sounds Like T-Pain

Not new-school, amazingly talented R&B-singing T-Pain either. No, I’m talking the T-Pain of yore—egregious amounts of auto-tune and all. This Team Fortress 2 player keeps the gag going, completely straight-faced, through an entire match, and it’s glorious. TwilightWolfVidjaGames stumbled across the mysteriously musical player in a random TF2 match, and he knew he had to…

A neat new trailer for The Sims 4’s job-driven expansion pack shows what it’ll be like to play as a doctor. So that’s how Sim babies are made!

Sunset Overdrive Once Had Less Jumping, More Shooting

What Sunset Overdrive looked like when it shipped—pretty, colorful, wild—is not what it looked like when development started. The games sport very little art, which is why we never see the early days. Fortunately, Insomniac has given use a glimpse at an unpolished Sunset Overdrive While Insomniac was prototyping what would become Sunset Overdrive, the…