Well, I guess there technically are words, but man. Just. Look. At. That. Previously, Kotaku posted how Burger King Japan was unleashing a “Kuro Burger” (“kuro” means “black” in Japanese) with black ketchup, made from squid ink and garlic. Japanese website Gigazine took one for the team and ordered the meal. How did it taste?…
We at Kotaku have already reported at some length how long the line was to get into the Tokyo Game Show this year. And with about over 95,000 attendees on the first public day, it’s easy to see why. And since literally thousands of people were standing in line with nothing to do, I decided…
Japanese toy maker Medicom is releasing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion figure. It’s Unit 02 from Rebuild of Evangelion, and boy oh boy can it ever strike cool poses. As website Tomopop points out, the Unit 02 is about 12 inches tall and comes with blades, two rifles, an umbilical cable, a core to target,…
Sony’s new commercial for its new PS3 iteration shows off the new hardware. It seems like just any other commercial. Until… 【TVCM】新型PlayStation®３ 「出る。」篇 [PlayStationjp@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.
Gundam mecha aren’t exactly easy to dress up as. It’s tricky to reproduce that mecha armor—even tougher if you want to give it an original spin. For a while now, Taiwanese cosplayer Ran has been doing both. Whether it’s Gundam RX79 or MSΖ-006 ΖGundam, she puts her own spin on the giant mecha, with heavy…
Here’s the latest Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle trailer. It’s magical! Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is headed to the PS3 sometime next year. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.
Akihabara is ground zero for Japanese manga, anime, and video games. No wonder the place caters to every nerd fantasy imaginable, such as maid cafes for guys (butler cafes for gals) as well as more adult services. The latest business to make a splash in Japan’s nerdom is always patrons to sleep with ladies. That’s…
Metal Gear Rising‘s special edition comes with a High Frequency Blade plasma lamp, among other goodies.
October is right around the corner—and so is Halloween. While I haven’t picked out my costume (must remember to!), I have been thinking about what I’d like to carve into an orange gourd. These Pocket Monster carvings provide plenty of inspiration. These photos popped up on Tumblr site Think Like No One Else, and I’m…
Fans of old isometric PC role-playing games, this is for you. Flare is a free, open-source RPG project that’s currently in alpha, but is already generally playable and, given the nature of the game and its price, pretty good! Because it’s open-source, it’ll be a cinch for anyone who wants to modify or improve basically…
As we’ve seen, StarCraft as we know it today isn’t how the game was originally conceived. Once much closer to WarCraft in design, it was only when Blizzard saw how far ahead its competition was that it was motivated to transform the game into the RTS giant it would eventually become. So you can understand…
There are two great football games on the market this week. Most fans will only buy one. It’s a tough call. Alone amongst major sporting series, the battle between FIFA and Pro Evo is actually a pretty fair fight. Both games present compelling arguments as to which is the better football game, depending on who…
Seems this was a question asked earlier in the week on Millionaire Hot Seat, an abridged Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Our friend here went with the worst possible answer. At least A is funny and C is even funnier, because it makes it sound like a Square Enix RPG. The…
If nothing says “early 90s” like MC Hammer, then nothing says “mid 90s” like shitty Sega CD games. How wonderful the two could come together, then, in Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire, a game that looked as awful as it sounded. It was never released, sadly/thankfully, and before you go making jokes about developers…
This is Orbitor, a game from Evil Alien, an indie studio from Canberra, Australia. It’s about, well, orbits! Before you go saying it’s a fancier Angry Birds Space, don’t; I’ve actually seen this project before, at an earlier stage, and having been in development for a while it pre-dates Rovio’s game by a long shot.…
A team from The University of Texas have, along with Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu, won a competition for the “BotPrize”, which is awarded to whoever can come up with the most “human-like” piece of artificial intelligence in Unreal Tournament 2004 Why UT2004 and not, say, Counter-Strike? Because the competition was sponsored by UT’s publisher…
Similar to companies like LucasArts, Rockstar have always sought to mix things up when their games first boot up. Which is why so many of them, even today, feature their own unique intro sequences, where the company’s logo is either introduced, lit up or blown up. The video above runs for over nine minutes, so…
A generation of military first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield may have millions of kids thinking they know modern warfare, but they don’t. As these videos are about to show. YouTube channel FUNKER530 exists as a repository for veterans to post videos they’ve captured of live, raw combat, and some of the stuff…
Nintendo has just detailed the New Super Mario Bros. 2 DLC that it first announced back in June at E3 There’ll be three packs made available, all of them courses for the game’s coin rush mode: – Ippatsu Shoubu de Dokidoki Pack (very difficult course) – Gold Mario Go! Go! Go! Pack (try and get…
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will make an appearance on GTTV tonight on Spike (1am ET/PT) to talk all things Wii U with host Geoff Keighley. Here’s a promo for the segment. It’s kind of hilarious: Reggie Fils-Aime Promo Clip [GTTV]
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