If you’ve played video games, read manga or seen anime, they’ve probably made an appearance: that’s right, tentacles. For a segment of Japanese (and now, Western) pop culture, those phallic-looking feelers are in the visual lexicon. As Kotaku previously mentioned, one of the manga artists who is responsible for that is Toshio Maeda—aka the self-proclaimed…
Square Enix is readying a new Final Fantasy game, which has been referred to as “Lightning Saga”. It’s probably going to be Final Fantasy XIII-3: SOMETHING SOMETHING, but as Yoshinori Kitase pointed out today on Twitter, “The title isn’t Lightning Saga.” Phew! Rather, Square Enix will be unveiling the game’s title at its upcoming Final…
At a recent Street Fighter X Tekken tourney in Taiwan, a slew of cosplayers showed up, bringing the iconic fighters to life. This isn’t a first for Capcom—and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono once again got in on the act and dressed up as Chun-Li! He’s such a great Chun-Li. Lots of game companies embrace…
This fall, Resident Evil is taking over Universal Studios Japan as part of Halloween Horror Night.
Macross: My Boyfriend is a Pilot 2012 is the newest game included in one of Bandai-Namco’s hybrid packs which attach a brand new game to its corresponding anime for the Blu-ray release. In this case, MBIAP 2012 is attached to the HD remaster of the classic 1984 film, Macross Do You Remember Love. We already…
You ever see Gunhed? James Cameron is a fan. And as far as late 1980s sci-fi films go, it’s aged surprisingly well. The movie might be familiar to gamers as Gunhed went on to serve as the basis of a TurboGrafx-16 game, which was known as Blazing Lazers in the West. And there couldn’t be…
Earlier this summer, a trailer for Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, an animated Mass Effect 3 prequel, was released. As previously posted, Paragon Lost is a collaboration between BioWare and Production I.G., the famed Japanese anime house behind Ghost in the Shell and the animated scenes in Kill Bill. *Is* a collaboration? Speculation out of Japan…
Look. At. That. Japan is getting a giant Gundam box. Previously, there was only concept art, but the actual thing was recently showed at the Chara Hobby figure event outside Tokyo. That wasn’t the only thing on display. Besides a Gundam Toyota, there was a slew of character figures and statues—Gundam and totally not Gundam.…
PS3 game Atelier Totori: Alchemist of Arland 2 is getting ported to the PS Vita this fall in Japan.
The last time we saw Nervli (aka Melonpan), he was unboxing otaku stuff. In the bathtub. Now, he’s back—this time, with a man strapped to his back and a hug pillow strapped to his front. Oh dear. That’s right, Nervli jumped out of an airplane with an instructor (as required for novice jumpers!) and a…
The next Nintendo Direct will be tomorrow. It will cover the Wii and the 3DS, but not the Wii U.
Here you go, the trailer for the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei IV. The trailer is short on specifics, but does reveal that the 3DS game will be out next year. For those keeping track, that’s 2013! Shin Megami Tensei IV trailer is heavy on the atmosphere [Japanator] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet…
Hawken looks good enough as it is. But the prospect of playing the game using a virtual reality headset seems too bananas to be true. The Oculus Rift VR headset will be compatible with the upcoming multiplayer shooter, to the extent that not only will it work with the system, but Rift owners will get…
Ah, this is good to see. Instead of an indie releasing an actual Metroid tribute game, using the same characters, Finnish developer Arvi “Hempuli” Teikari has seemingly used Nintendo’s series as inspiration for his own game about space exploration, monsters and jumping. Environmental Station Alpha, and with its lo-fi visuals and wonderful soundtrack, is still…
Portal 2’s Wheatley doesn’t really have a body. He’s the robotic equivalent of a floating head in a jar. Which makes it easy for him to whizz about the game’s levels, but makes it hard to craft a decent action figure out of the guy. So custom toy builder KodyKoala went and built him one.…
In an age where games are given art books before they’ve earned them – ie, before they have a fanbase that cares – it’s nice to see Sony working the other way around, putting a nice Journey book together months after the game’s release. Out in stores “soon”, it should be a good read. Pretty…
If you can be bothered going back through the Fine Art archives, you’ll see that artists either currently or formerly employed at Ubisoft make up a disproportionate number of those showcased. The simple explanation for that is that Ubisoft hires a lot of talented artists, but there’s a little more to it than that. For…
While we’re yet to get our hands on Halo 4, I did this weekend get my hands all over small plastic representations of some of the game’s principal cast, including John 117 himself, Master Chief. To coincide with the release of Microsoft’s biggest game of the year, McFarlane is releasing three separate lines of toys…
Assassin’s Creed is easily one of the most successful and genuinely new properties to emerge from this console generation. But were it not for a few key changes here and there, things could have ended up entirely differently. Edge has a great feature up detailing the story behind the making of the first game in…
Howard Phillips might not be as big a name in Nintendo history as men like Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata and Gunpei Yokoi. But his story is just as interesting, and the story of his role in the company’s American invasion of the 1980s is one all Nintendo fans should enjoy. Speaking with Phillips – who…
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