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Anime Practical Joke Goes Over The Line And Incites Mass Flaming
Who here remembers Candid Camera? (Kids, ask your parents.) Whether you’ve heard of the actual TV show or not, the legacy of Candid Camera lives on in present day reality TV and movies. The concept is simple: Play a practical joke on someone and catch it on film. The idea of Candid Camera was especially…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
No Metal Gear Solid 5, But Here’s All of Last Night’s Big Metal Gear News
In Tokyo earlier today, Konami held a 25th anniversary party for Metal Gear. Twenty five years! The time has just flown by. If you were hoping for Metal Gear 5, you’re going to be disappointed. But if you were hoping to be wowed, then wowed you will be. Here are the highlights from the event:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Kotaku East
Sink Or Swim, This Man Deserves A Medal For His Work On Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn producer and director, Naoki Yoshida wowed audiences with the beauty and splendor of the revamped game at the GamesCon event two weeks ago. On stage and off, Yoshida has been proudly and enthusiastically showing expectant fans what he had in store for them in A Realm Reborn. He should…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012 - Kotaku East
Want 800 Pages of Metal Gear? How About Metal Gear Tights?
Today at the 25th anniversary event for Metal Gear, Konami showed off a slew of Metal Gear related goods. Some of them you might want. Some, you might not. There was the usual array of gaming t-shirts (here, a collaboration between Uniqlo and Konami) as well as the more unusual: Metal Gear tights. They are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Kotaku East
How To End This Territorial Pissing Match? GIANT ANIME ROBOTS.
Japan and South Korea are at odds over the Liancourt Rocks. In Japanese, they are called “Takeshima”, while in Korean they are known as “Dokdo”. Tensions between the two countries have now reached the point where giant robots are involved. Enter Robot Taekwon V. According to reports, the jumbo Korean bot is now doing for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Kotaku East
Former IBM Honcho Nabbed for Being Creepy and Horrible
Tokyo police revealed that charges have been filed against former IBM exec Takumi Otoshi. On August 22, Otoshi allegedly used his iPod to film up a young woman’s skirt while riding the escalator at JR Yotsuya Station in Tokyo. Otoshi was the president of IBM Japan between 1999 and 2008. As Tokyo Reporter points out,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Kotaku East
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Looks To Be Full Of Clichés, But It Has a Chainsaw-Wielding Robot Dog
After initially being announced back in 2009 as Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and rebranded in 2011 after facing cancellation, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance looks like it’s “gearing” up for its finishing lap before release with some new info (pardon the pun). In an announcement in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Konami has revealed the sword-wielding cyborg,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012 -
Kotaku EastImpatient People Can’t Wait for the iPhone 5, So They Made This
Ah, the virtues of being patient. Screw that! While the iPhone 5 will be assembled in China, and while we should have specific details on it soon, one Chinese company decided it could not wait. So it made this. This is the “Goophone i5”. The Android phone was created based on leaks and renderings of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Giant Polygon Animals Come to Life (It’s OK, They Won’t Eat Your Face)
British artist Arran Gregory has an exhibition currently running in London where he’s showing off these terrific polygonal animals, which are covered in mirrored glass panels. If you’re in London, you can catch them at the Print House Gallery, where they’re showing until September 6. I’d love to buy that rhino head. I’ve been lying…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Konami Reveals New Metal Gear Solid Game [Update: Now With First Images]
Today in Tokyo, Konami showed off its brand new Fox Engine with a demonstration. The engine’s demo ran footage of something called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The thing is, this is not just a tech demo. This is an upcoming, new, open-world Metal Gear Solid game. “This announcement is a challenge from Kojima Productions…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
An Okami Figure That Looks Like it Was Made From The Skin of a Cloud
I’ve seen some Okami statues in my time, but I’ve never seen one made using a technique called “needle felting”, which I’m going to imagine involves flying to 20,000 feet, scooping some cloud into a basket then coming back down and knitting with it. The piece was made by artist Piquipauparro, stands around 8″ tall…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Guild Wars 2 Thinks Fun is More Important Than Money
There’s a reason I’m highlighting this quote from ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O’Brien: you just don’t see it anymore at the top end of the video game business. Pre-order money and first-month sales are everything for most publishers, and while Guild Wars 2 has had a big week – there were 400,000 people playing…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Culture
The Art Of Dishonored
It’s not every day you get to look forward to a game featuring the work of, among others, Half-Life 2 legend Viktor Antonov Developed by Arkane and published by Bethesda, Dishonored will be out on PC, 360 and PS3 in October. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Brand New Metal Gear! It’s..Um…a Social Game
Today at the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo, Konami announced that a new Metal Gear was incoming, but it might not be coming to the platform of your choice. Dubbed Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the game is a social networking game bound for Japan’s GREE platform. For those who don’t know what…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Super Nintendo’s Greatest Weapon Was Its Secret Spinning Tech
While in most areas the SNES and Mega Drive were similar enough, Nintendo’s one secret weapon – that Sega couldn’t match – was its Mode 7 technology. Allowing different “layers” on the screen to be rotated, it was usually used to move the “ground” separately from the background, and is perhaps most famously employed in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Is Going Hollywood (Again) with a New Movie
For years now, there has been chatter of a Metal Gear Solid movie. The project was at one time moving forward. Then, it seemed to die. Today, Konami stated that the movie is back on. Metal Gear Solid is going Hollywood. At today’s Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo, photos show banners with the slogan…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
You Are Getting Old. Street Fighter Just Turned 25.
On August 30, 1987, the very first Street Fighter game was released by Capcom. Making today the series’ 25th birthday. My God. How depressing. Not for Capcom or Street Fighter, of course. For them, it’s party time. But for most of us who grew up button-smashing our way through combos, it’s a stark reminder that…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Strategy Game About Managing An 80’s Arcade
Firebase Industries, the duo behind the wonderful Orbitron: Revolution, are back with a new game, and this one’s about as different as you can get. Gone are the spaceships and explosions, replaced by…the task of managing a 1980s arcade. The game’s called Arcadecraft, and will be out on Xbox 360 (the team are undecided on…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Might Finally Get to Use Your Game Boy During Take-Off
The Federal Aviation Administration has for years been the enemy of gamers, with its weird rules that electronic devices had to be shut down during take-off and landing, despite a complete lack of evidence they do anything of the sort. Mercifully, it looks like the body might be on the brink of lightening up, with…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012 - Uncategorized
PS3 Owners, You’re Getting Skyrim DLC. Eventually. One Day.
While Xbox 360 and PC owners are getting excited for Skyrim’s second piece of major DLC, PS3 owners are still waiting to get their hands on the first. So they’re understandably a little curious as to why the hell that is. Taking to Twitter, PS3 owners have been asking Bethesda’s Pete Hines for info and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 29, 2012