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Hello Kitty Has Been Launched into Space. Literally.
One of Japan’s most famous cute characters is now orbiting the Earth. That’s right, Hello Kitty has been shot into space. According to Reuters, a 1.6 inch tall Hello Kitty is on the Hodoyoshi-3 satellite. The Hello Kitty figure is next to a window overlooking our spinning blue planet. Above the window is an electronic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 14, 2014 -
Kotaku EastJapanese Women Don’t Want To See Man Nipples
Of course, men in Japan have nipples. And seeing those nipples, it seems, is unsettling to some of the country’s women. Good thing there are several products for men to hide those nipples. In a report published on Huffington Post Japan, a recent poll asked 750 adult women, ranging from their 20s to 60s, if…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
This is an Overdose of Attack on Titan Manga
I’ve been reading the Attack on Titan manga for a while now, but ever since the anime came out, things have been getting out of hand. From its (relative) humble beginnings as a somewhat bizarre manga story about a world where humanity must live behind walls to protect itself from predatory giants, the success of…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
How Digital Game Sharing on the PS4 Will Work [UPDATE]
So, Sony’s upcoming update feature is going to let me borrow and play my friends’ games without actually owning them? Holy crap, I’m on board. But how does it work? And what game limitations (if any) are there? “How it works is, for example, say, a friend has a game that I don’t. I ask…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Dead Space: Missing, But Not Dead
“Is Dead Space dead?”, I asked Steve Papoutsis at the end of an interview about Battlefield: Hardline – the game Visceral is now making in lieu of a Dead Space 4. Here’s what Hardline’s executive producer said back to me, in what some people call ‘an answer’: This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “Is…
Ian Dransfield Published August 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
Ladybeard Is One Pretty Pin-Up Model and Wrestler
This is Ladybeard. Cosplayer, pin-up model, wrestler, and a heavy metal singer. Oh, and sometimes, a movie reviewer. The bearded idol has been perfecting this look for years now, telling GirlsWalker that he first wore his sister’s school uniform to a costume party when he was 14 years old, which got a good reaction. Since…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 14, 2014 - Kotaku East
Report: The Last Guardian Won’t Be at the Tokyo Game Show
Are you surprised? So, the bad news is that The Last Guardian will miss TGS. Again. The good news is that the team is apparently “making great progress.” When Eurogamer asked Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida if The Last Guardian will be at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, he replied, “I don’t think so. “Sorry.” The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Silent Hills Playable Trailer Can Be A Little Frustrating
Released as under the abbreviated name “P.T.”, the playable trailer for Silent Hills features a lot of wandering down the same two hallways. This webcomic by Bryce Corbett captures the frustration of trying to figure out the game’s puzzles: Speaking of the demo, have you seen the balcony ghost? And this video shows off the…
By John Struan Published August 13, 2014 - Culture
Who Watches The Watch Dogs? Oh, She Does.
Fabien Troncal is an artist who has worked for a while now at Ubisoft, first at the company’s Paris studio and now in Montreal. A lot of the stuff he does is promotional and production art, meaning he works on the kind of images you see on posters, or website ads, or magazine covers, or…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedIf You Want To Play This Arcade Game, You’ve Gotta Find It
The MAME emulator has, for over a decade now, let people play arcade classics in the comfort of their own home. But it’s worth remembering that while the vast majority of games are out there and playable, at least in some form, not all of them are. Some, you simply have to play on the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedSalmon Cannon Shoots Fish At 22mph
We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t fire fish over a dam in an enormous salmon cannon and…oh, wait, we can do that. This is quite literally a cannon for salmon. Just say that name a few times, test it out, see how it sounds like caramel dipping off the end…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2014 - UncategorizedBy Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2014
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EsportsComing Soon To Steam… A Baseball Fighting Game
Yes, you read that right. Baseball fighting game. Two combatants, two bats, one deadly, deadly ball. Oh, and some of the characters are skateboarding robots. The game is called Lethal League, and we wrote about it back when it was still a squalling baby flash game. Now it’s all grown up, feature-packed, and set to…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 13, 2014 - Uncategorized
Xbox One Will Soon Let You Play Pirated Movies & TV Shows
It’s not the kind of news that makes the headlines during a press conference, but it is the kind of news that can help sell systems: the Xbox One is getting native, official support for .mkv, one of the world’s most popular video formats (well, containers). Let’s get real: while they have many technical benefits,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2014 -
UncategorizedTitanfall Domination, Courtesy Of Grenades
Grenades: They sure do explode! In this video, YouTuber GameInReview demonstrates some high-level uses for frag grenades in Titanfall. I doubt I could pull off half of this stuff, but it sure is fun to watch him wreck other players seemingly at will.
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 13, 2014
