This fall, fighting game franchise BlazBlue is getting an animated series in Japan called BlazBlue Alter Memory. More details on ANN or the show’s official site. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest…

This Wii U Game Doesn’t Seem as Polished as Its PS3 Version

The first Yakuza game debuted on the PlayStation 2. Last fall, an HD version of the game hit the PlayStation 3. This summer, it’s coming to the Wii U. How does it stack up? Today, the first screenshots for Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition for Wii U hit the internet. Via 4Gamer, there were…

Konami Explains Why Metal Gear Rising Isn’t on The Xbox 360 in Japan

In the West, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released on the Xbox 360. In Japan, it wasn’t. Here’s why. While speaking on theHideChan Radio podcast, Kojima Productions producer Yuji Korekado mentioned that Rising was originally announced for Japan. “However, around last year, Xbox 360 sales didn’t really grow [in Japan],” added Korekado. Meaning? That while…

These Keyboard Keys Are Not Popular

Look at your keyboard. It’s filled with keys! Some of them you love using. Some of them you probably rarely use. In Japan, a new survey (via R25) revealed which ones were totally unpopular among the country’s PC users. For those who don’t know Japanese, be aware that when people type the language, they use…

Have a look at the latest entry in the Guilty Gear fighting series. Titled Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-, the game runs on the Unreal Engine and is being directed by Guilty Gear maven Daisuke Ishiwatari. It’s currently listed as “in development”.

Nintendo Japan’s Early-90s VHS Commercials Are Incredible

Reader Toad has got hold of a ton of old VHS promos for Nintendo games, played in game stores in Japan in the early 1990s. These aren’t short TV spots or trailers. They’re long, detailed looks at each game, some running for over 5 minutes and including custom animation and live-action sequences. Some of the…

When Space Combat Games Are Also MOBA Games

The world does not need any more MOBA (League of Legends, DOTA 2) games, thanks. The ones we’ve got are more than enough for that crowd. What we do need more of, though, are space combat games, and if they’ve got to try and bring something fresh to the MOBA genre to do it, then…

What Is This Trials Level I Don’t Even…

I’ve watched this custom Trials Evolution stage twice now. The first time with white knuckles. The second time thinking I’d gone quite mad. Trials Evolution – Illusion 1800 [Custom Track] 1080p HD [YouTube, via Simon Carless]

You Might Soon Be Able To Draw Your Own Video Games

Pixel Press appears to hit that sweet spot where technology, ambition and design come together to bring to life something you could once only dream about. It’s part-game, part-app which comes in two parts. The first is a basic sketching kit, a downloadable and printable template that’s basically just an enormous sheet of squares. Users…

Iron Man? More Like Golden Man

This morning we’re looking at the art of Justin Fields, who over the last few years has worked at some of Hollywood’s best concept and effects studios, such as The Aaron Sims Company, Amalgamated Dynamics and Halon Entertainment. If you’ve been to the movies lately you’ve probably seen his stuff; Fields got the chance to…

55 Indie Games In 5 Minutes

It can sometimes feel like the world is being buried beneath independently-developed PC games, leaving us with far too many to keep up with. So Pixel Prospector has done us all a favour and put this clip together, rounding up 55 of the best-looking indie games either on the way or out recently, dropping them…

Got time for one last set of Next Xbox rumours? The Wall Street Journal has some

Samus Dreams Of Amazing Cosplay

Bit of a quiet week in cosplay last week, so there’s not much new stuff to share. Thankfully, there’s some new shots of favourite old costumes to get us through the dry spell. I’ll never get tired of seeing cel-shaded Borderlands cosplay. Never. Such a simple but effective touch. I will also post any and…

It’s Like Elder Scrolls, Only Made By Two Guys

This is Frontiers, a game designed and being developed by two men. Something that blows your mind when you see footage of the game in action. Developers AAD Productions describe it like this: FRONTIERS blends the feel of first-person RPG classics like Daggerfall with the relaxing tempo & simplicity of a point-and-click adventure. Discover ancient…

There Is A Kickstarter For “Flying Assault Butts”

There are genuinely attractive Kickstarters, there are joke Kickstarters, and then there are Kickstarters like this, which somehow manages to be both at once. Flying Assault Butts is a campaign to add a…very special new miniature to your tabletop game of choice. Of a butt. Warhammer, Warmachine, an RPG, whatever. It can now have an…

Cards Against Humanity was once a Kickstarter asking for $4000. It’s since made over $12 million in revenue. Here’s a great writeup on how the game, and its creators, got there.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII: The PS1 Masterpiece

Final Fantasy Versus XIII sometimes feels like it’s been in development forever. So let’s pretend that it has. And that “forever” is really “since 1997”. Artist Saku Hatakka has done the above image, which takes the look of the oft-delayed Square game and takes it back in time to the Final Fantasy VII engine. “It…

The Wii U has Nothing to Offer a Sports Fan. Does It Even Matter Now?

If it wasn’t obvious at its launch in November, then this past week should have made it clear: The Wii U is functionally irrelevant to sports video games, and there is no reason for any sports fan to buy the console. The only question now is how much that will really matter to the fate…

So, Call of Duty just teased this thing, which means we can look forward to a lot more about Ghosts at the next Xbox’s big shindig on Tuesday.

The Week in Games: Revised Revelations

The console port of last year’s Resident Evil: Revelations leads the list of this week’s new titles, accompanied by the Wii U version of LEGO Batman 2, a downloadable sequel to Call of Juarez, and an adaptation of the latest Fast and Furious movie. Tuesday • Sniper Elite V2 (Wii U) • Resident Evil: Revelations…