Cosplaying Lady or Not, Blue Noodles Look Disgusting

This weekend in Tokyo’s geek mecca, Akihabara, eatery LittleBSD wheeled out a noodle selling kiosk. LittleBSD isn’t your typical restaurant—it’s cosplay themed. These weren’t your typical noodles—they were blue. The noodles were “negi sio ita yakisoba” (ネギ塩痛焼きそば) in the image of virtual idol Hatsune Miku. “Negi” (green onions) is what the virtual idol is often…

Bravely Default‘s Inevitable Sequel Will *Probably* Be on the 3DS

On Twitter, a Japanese gamer said she or he purchased a 3DS just to play Square Enix’s latest role-playing game Bravely Default—then asked the game’s official Twitter, if there were a sequel, would it also be a 3DS title? Here’s the reply: “Depending on the circumstances, I don’t think it would change. Because I think…

My Uncomfortable Lunch At The Hello Kitty Dreams Restaurant

I like the color pink, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I wear pink shirts, I have a pair of pink boxers and a few pairs of socks that accidentally became pink but nothing could’ve prepared me for my lunch at the Hello Kitty Dreams Restaurant. It was an overload of pink. A few…

How Burger Dreams Turn into Burger Nightmares

You know how promotional photos for fast food restaurants always look delicious? And then you get the burger, and it looks like a dog’s breakfast? That’s often the case, and the special burger tower that’s hitting Lotteria doesn’t look to be an exception. Japanese site Rocket News has photos of both tower burgers (which you…

These Kentucky Fried Chicken Flavored Potato Chips Look Finger-Licking Good

Starting on October 25 and for a limited time only, KFC Japan is launching a new flavor of fried chicken called “uma shio shouga chicken” (旨塩生姜チキン) or “savory salt ginger chicken”. According to Tokyo Walker, KFC worked with Japanese snack maker Calbee to bring this flavor to potato chips—also for a limited time only. This…

Youkai Watch, announced last year by Level-5, is headed to the Nintendo 3DS.

First Look at the New Iron Chef Host (Does This Man Love Bell Peppers?)

I love bell peppers. You know who else loves bell peppers? Iron Chef’s original chairman Takeshi Kaga. When news broke last month that Iron Chef was returning to Japanese TV after a 13-year hiatus, it wasn’t known whether or not Kaga would be returning with the show. Turns out, unfortunately, he’s apparently not. Instead, actor-singer…

Japan Isn’t Getting a PS Vita Price Cut Yet. It’s Getting Two New PS Vita Bundles.

This November, two new PS Vita bundles are hitting Japan. There’s a Bonus Pack which comes with a 3G/Wi-Fi PS Vita, 20 hours of pre-paid 3G data, a cradle, protective film, and a 32GB memory card, plus AR cards, etc. Then, there’s a Standard Pack, which comes with a 3G/Wi-Fi PS Vita, 20 hours of…

Hawken Beta Starts Real Soon

There have been some secret alpha tests going on for a while now, but a much wider pool of people will finally get their hands on mech shooter Hawken when it kicks off a closed beta on October 26. Invites will start going out this week, while the beta will run until October 29. More…

It’s Not a Crime to Paint LEGO

I mean, it should be. The whole point of LEGO is that it allows people to create (or recreate) things within the bounds of a visual style that’s supposed to be basic. Yet here we have a Maschinen Krieger vehicle (explanation here), painted like it was some Warhammer 40K miniature, and…it’s not terrible. It’s actually…

Game Developers Stuck in Jail Because Greece’s Legal System is on Strike

A month ago, a pair of developers working for ArmA developers Bohemia Interactive were arrested by Greek authorities, who claimed the holiday snaps they were taking of a military installation were acts of espionage. It seems a ridiculous story, and one that should have had a swift resolution, only…there’s nobody around to resolve it. Panagiotis…

Xbox Music Sounds Amazing (If You Use Microsoft Devices)

First announced back at E3, Microsoft today revealed the first serious details about its Xbox Music service, which will use the cloud to stream a music catalogue across platforms like the Xbox 360, PC and Windows 8 tablets. It’ll have around 30 million songs when it opens. It goes live on the Xbox 360 tomorrow,…

The World Ends With Awesome Cosplay

It’s always nice to see when a cosplayer wanders off the well-trodden path and dresses up as a character you don’t exactly see every day. Like this The World Ends With You outfit. Of all the Square Enix games people cosplay from, it’s criminally under-represented, so it’s nice to see it get its due here.…

Syfy’s Defiance Looks Like Resistance With Elves

We may not have heard about Defiance the video game since E3, but Syfy is still forging ahead with the TV show based on the property, releasing this new commercial for the series during New York Comic Con this weekend. Long ago conceived as a series where an MMO and a TV show would co-exist,…

See How Sleeping Dogs‘ Next DLC Lets You Beat Up the Undead with Magic Kung-Fu

Earlier today, Square Enix and United Front Games announced that they’ll be delivering a horror movie style add-on to the gritty open-world action of Sleeping Dogs. The publisher and developer showed off the trailer and some gameplay from Nightmare in North Point, and talked about the special weapons and abilities Wei Shen will get access…

Thank You, Metro: Last Light, For Not Shipping With Multiplayer

It’s kind of faded into the background now that most people like to focus their anger on downloadable content, but for me, multiplayer has always been the biggest problem with modern, big-budget video games. It just doesn’t, for many games, need to be there. At all. Sure, your big sports games and shooters need it,…

EA Accidentally Gives Away Thousands of Free Games

Over the weekend, some gamers received a special code from Electronic Arts as thanks for completing a survey. That code allowed them to download a free game from Origin, EA’s online store for PC games. Or, it would have if EA thought to secure the code properly. Instead, it was quickly discovered that the code…

The Week in Games: Licensed to Chill

Just 007 Legends from Activision represents the big console release in an unexpected lull in the fall release cycle. Serious Sam 3: BFE arrives on Wednesday for the Xbox 360. Monday • The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan (PC) Tuesday • 007 Legends (PS3, 360) • Doom 3 BFG Edition (360, PS3,…

The 360’s $50 Price Drop Is For Two New Bundles—But It Isn’t Limited to GameStop

With big thanks to our partners at Dealzon, we know a little more about this $50 price drop on Xbox 360 configurations. The big detail is that the cut isn’t limited to just GameStop. “These are new bundles, supposedly released Oct. 9, and are now selling for $250 at Best Buy, Amazon, and Gamestop, instead…

These Gamers Won $1 Million on Saturday

Those young men you see up there are five of the members of the Taipei Assassins, who on Saturday took out season 2 of the League of Legends World Championships at the Galen Centre in Los Angeles. They easily defeated South Korean team Azubu Frost – at the centre of a cheating controversy that rocked…