Some of Japan’s Most Wonderful And Strange Cosplay

Today, Osaka’s geek district Nipponbashi held a big street festival. The area’s main drag was closed off to cars, allowing cosplayers to roam free and cause all sorts of cosplay chaos. Every year at this event in particular, the costumes get more and more outrageous (though, there are some old favorites on display below). Either…

Watch Us Play the Cowboy Bebop PS2 Game

Cowboy Bebop, the immensely popular classic anime, has had a series, a movie, and two manga—all of which have come to the West. However, there is one Cowboy Bebop story that you may not be aware of as it has never left Japan: the PlayStation 2 title Cowboy Bebop: The Serenade of Reminiscence. To see…

Final Fantasy XIV Originally Failed Because of… Flowerpots

Well, that explains everything. As we all know, the first iteration of the second Final Fantasy MMORPG, released in 2010, pretty much sucked. Players were miffed, which prompted Square Enix to rework and re-release the game in 2013 as A Realm Reborn, to much better results. But what caused FFXIV to fail in the first…

How I Lost Weight Watching Anime

A little less than a year ago, I wrote about my success losing weight by spending an hour each morning playing Dance Dance Revolution. However, after nearly a year of this regime, I grew bored and felt the need for a change—so I decided to try watching anime on an exercise bike instead. A little…

The Rules of Rust Apply To Real Life: Never Trust Naked Men

This accurate real-world representation of the survival game Rust by Paddymazz points out that running around naked with a hatchet or with a stone is only a good idea in a video game. Here’s the clip. They got pretty much everything right: Airdrop – Rust [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Penguins’ Greatest Enemy? A Piece of Rope.

Who knew a simple piece of rope could cause such consternation? Penguins, that’s who. Last fall, a YouTube user named Smekh Eto Khorosho uploaded a video of penguins struggling to overcome rope tied to rubber rafts. (I believe the video was taken a few years back in the Antarctica.) Earlier today, the video started to…

“Gamers are being played [like a piano] every time you see the word SALE. This is a big psychology trick that is being used to siphon money from gamers.” Indie developer Cliff Harris, in a blog post on why discounted video games are harmful to both gamers and developers. Read his argumentsin the full post…

The latest glimpse of NECA’s Booker action figure.

Classic PC Series Reinvented With Female Lead

I saw a game turn up on Steam today called Heroine’s Quest. That’s funny, I thought, that sounds a lot like Hero’s Quest. Only with a female main character instead of a male. Turns out that’s exactly what it is. Heroine’s Quest is about as perfect a tribute to Sierra’s classic Quest for Glory series…

No Guns, Just Be An Old Dude Walkin’ Around, Exploring Stuff

Well, here’s a welcome change of pace. Spirit is, creator Holden Boyles tells Kotaku, “simply about the experience of walking peacefully through a magical ancient world, as you control an old man who has retired to a remote mountain village and just wants to explore his surroundings.” The game’s got a playable demo you can…