How Lady Gaga Finally Delighted Nationalists in Japan

Last week, Lady Gaga wandered around Tokyo. Her outfit made some people (not all!) on the Japanese internet upset. But when she left, she donned clothes with nationalistic Japanese connotations, making some unhappy folks happy. The outfit that originally got under the skin of some Japanese online featured the Korean script for “color” (컬러). The…

Smartphone Gamer Dragged Through the Subway

Last week an incident broke out in the Beijing subway system. A young woman got into an altercation with her apparent boyfriend over a mobile phone game, it seems. The end result: she dragged the man onto a subway train. But was this just a PR stunt? Sina Games reports that the incident took place…

The Official Pikachu Maid Costume

Considering how popular maid cafes are in Tokyo’s gaming district, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Pikachu Cafe got a maid outfit of its own—temporarily, at least! That’s celebrity Rika Adachi working as a maid and restaurant manager in a special event held at the cafe. According to Inside Games, this is the first…

Today, Sony revealed that a 500GB Charcoal Black PlayStation 3 is going on sale in Japan from August 28 for 25,980 yen ($253). The current 250 GB models (here and here) are priced at 23,790 yen ($232) each and will ceased being shipped by late August in Japan. No word about how this impact PS3s…

“Stunning New Pokemon Project” To Be Announced

There’s a new Pokemon project in the works. More details will be revealed in a “big announcement” next week. So yes, this is an announcement of an announcement, with the teaser site saying, “This summer, details of a stunning new project from Pokemon will be announced.” The teaser site specifically states, “shougeki no shin purojekuto”…

Track: Sister Sophia | Artist: Floor | Album: Oblation Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Star Trek Homage Figures It’s “Better Late Than Never”

Ah, Star Command. It was a pretty good mobile game, but the mobile game we got isn’t what we were promised when the project was successfully backed on Kickstarter. That promised game is still coming, though, even if it’s almost two years late. Having promised to keep working on things following the mobile release, Star…

New Minecraft LEGO Will Fit Your Minifigs

There’s been Minecraft LEGO for a whilenow, but it’s been on a tiny scale, with tiny little figures. These new sets are “normal” scale, meaning your Star Wars v Minecraft fan-fic role-playing just got a lot easier. The two sets, “The Cave” and “The Farm”, aren’t huge, but they are big enough to accommodate 3-4…