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“I wonder what games I can play with just my left hand?” writes Masahiro Sakurai, designer of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series, in his Weekly Famitsu column. Get your mind out of the gutter; this is serious. Over the past several weeks, Sakurai has written in his column about his condition which has…
Sushi is delicious. There’s a variety of different kinds, but certainly everyone has his or her favorite. And if you do the math, you should be able to deduce the most popular kind of sushi in Japan. So let’s do that. Math. Nari Nari reports that Asahi polled 830 people across Japan (443 men and…
Brace yourselves. I’m about to give some people a migraine from rolling their eyes too hard. I am a massive Gundam fan. So much so that I probably straddle the line of “geek” and go straight into “nerd” territory. Heck, I even know why Char chose to take on the name “Quattro Bajeena” for the…
I’m no marine biologist, but I’m pretty dang sure that fish don’t have pig faces. There are hogfish and pigfish. But little pig eyes? Pointy pig ears? Nah. That’s bunk. Call it a hunch. Yet, this photo has become a hot topic on uber popular Chinese bulletin board, TT.mop. With river pollution a serious problem,…
The PS Vita isn’t dead in Japan. Yet. Kidding! (Well, sorta.) Earlier today, the PS Vita’s Japan-only price cut went into effect. Along with the cheaper portable, Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus (and its limited edition pack) also went on sale. Thus, there was a line at the Yodobashi in Tokyo’s Akihabara. Granted, this doesn’t mean…
On Japanese TV, there are lots of comedy shows. And on those comedy shows, there are often pranks. And, boy, Japanese pranks can be so cruel, but also so epic. Japanese comedy shows typically aren’t centered around pranks. They are often elements of the shows, as are the games known as “batsu geemu” (罰ゲーム). These…
Today, screenshots showing the PS4’s user interface have popped up online. 2ch, Japan’s largest online bulletin board, is pointing to a series of images on Japanese site Game no Hanashi The images looks like the user interface Sony showed at its recent event in New York City, and depict the user home page, which lists…
Nintendo is about as family-friendly as video game companies can get. This goes double for the company’s merchandise, which normally begins at t-shirts and ends with plush representations of cute little Mushroom Kingdom characters. So it’s strange to see this figure of Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening on the 3DS turn up, not only because…
You’ve probably heard the term “procedurally-generated” thrown around gaming in the last few years. It’s fancy tech, which at its most basic level means something that’s built randomly each time you ask it to be built, but it’s certainly more complicated than that, as content still needs to follow certain rules. The best way to…
It’s been inching its way through the rest of the internet all week long, so it was only a matter of time before “goats screaming like humans” made its way into video games. You can see the original clip (itself based on an old Usher joke vid) here—1:23 might be the funniest thing I’ve ever…
American artist Jason Felix has been working in the video game business for over 13 years now, and has had his artwork contribute to the development of series like Dead Space, Prince of Persia and even the ill-fated StarCraft Ghost He’s also done some movie work, most recently with Blur Studios on Girl With The…
Hide the Fart is a simple Korean browser game that’s all about, well, hiding your farts. You play as a guy at a bus stop, where he’s stood right next to another guy. Decorum forbids just farting, so you need to time your releases to coincide with passing traffic. The real challenge comes from the…
This isn’t the first attempt we’ve seen to convince LEGO to make a Legend of Zelda set, but it’s easily the most fully-realised, because the builder has gone to the trouble of actually building a prototype unit out of real bricks. That builder also happens to be the same man who drew this incredible LEGO…
Proving that there’s still life—and imagination—left in good old-fashioned print advertising, HBO took out a two-page ad in the New York Times and used it to fly a dragon right across the middle to promote the return of Games of Thrones to the TV. If you’re about to say something snide about editorial surrendering to…
A group of stunt performers has made a video that will instantly have anyone who’s ever played a Star Wars video game clutching at their hearts and whimpering “pleeeease” through clenched teeth. It’s a first-person lightsaber duel, shown from both the perspective of Darth Vader and a Jedi. We’ve had games try and do this…
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When I started SABBAT, I had no idea what to think. It asks you what’s in your drawers, and then makes it obvious you’re about to kill a bunch of animals in sacrifice—in the hopes that darker powers take you away from your miserable life. This interactive fiction certainly has an unsettling start, but curiosity…
While Electronic Arts certainly doesn’t have the best reputation among hardcore gamers, they do have a good track record for supporting gay rights. And next week, the giant video game publisher is holding a conference to talk about all sorts of LGBT issues. Kotaku just got an invite today. Here’s the whole thing: You Are…
This “origin” trailer tells the story behind the Tim Burtonesque survival game Don’t Starve. More info here
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