Fit’s is a brand of Lotte chewing gum, and this August, there will be “Slime flavored” gum for you to chomp on. But it’s not really “Slime flavored”. PHEW. “Slime” (スライム or “suraimu”) is used as a pun: “suppai-raimu” (スっぱいライム). “Suppai” (here, スっぱい) means “sour” and “raimu” (ライム) is Japanese for “lime”. The flavor is…
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Online game developer Funcom revealed today that it’s signed a deal with LEGO to make an online game based on LEGO Minifigures. LEGO Minifigures, of course, are the little inhabitants of the LEGO universe: whether that is knights or policemen, Minifigures have been a LEGO mainstay for decades. According to the release, “The massively multiplayer…
Fighting games featuring characters from other fighting games or completely different genre games is nothing new. Still, the Virtua Fighter characters Sarah Bryant and Akira Yuki appearing in Dead or Alive 5 holds a little more meaning for the creators at Team Ninja than the average guest appearance. In a three-way interview with Weekly Famitsu,…
This week, hacker-activist collective Anonymous allegedly attacked a number of Japanese government sites, such as the Finance Ministry’s site and the Supreme Court’s site, among others. New, strict Japanese copyright law that could imprison people for illegally downloading copyrighted content incited the attack. A website, dubbed AnonPR, claimed to speak for the group and launched…
Gundam is a bit like a Japanese version of Star Trek: It’s an epic sci-fi fantasy series with multiple spin-offs and games (some of which fans don’t like to talk about), a massive fan base, a gargantuan library of technical information, and it all came from an original series that was canceled during its initial…
Taiwanese peripheral maker Thermaltake created this: a gaming mouse with a fan that, and I quote, “blows away your gaming tension and sweat.” Better than just saying “it blows”. Thermaltake’s Element Gaming Mouse Cyclone Edition’s cooling fan is detachable, because, c’mon. The Cyclone Edition is the world’s first pro-gaming mouse with a fan—and probably the…
Raw liver has long been a delicacy in Japan, but after food poisoning worries, the country’s health ministry decided to ban the raw food. This week, liver lovers have been rushing to restaurants to get their last taste. Four of them ended up ended up ill. According The Mainichi Daily News, four women in Fukuoka…
Right now, there’s one type of 3DS handheld you can buy. This summer, a larger 3DS, called the 3DS XL, will be released. So, you’ll have two options. What about a third option? You know, with the add-on extra circle pad already on board? At a Nintendo meeting today, honcho Satoru Iwata (above, blowing crap…
The fighting game community gets a bum rap. Sometimes it’s deserved. Often it’s not. There are good people in the fighting game community. People like Daigo Umehara. People like Osamu Ichikawa. And people like the folks at Shoryuken. Osamu has cerebral palsy, a condition he was diagnosed with when he was one. For his whole…
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Not long after we brought you the story of Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger, former pro Counter-Strike player and now pro poker player, comes another tale of a champ gamer hanging up the controller in exchange for a cold stare and a fistful of cards. Englishman Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery has made over $600,000 playing poker, using skills…
Kelly Bourdet writes a column over on Vice called Future Sex. It’s about “how technology affects our personal relationships”. In this case, it’s about signing up for Zynga’s Sims clone The Ville and trying to knock some digital boots. Sadly, the game is a little obstructive. “Frustratingly, the “make out” and “snuggle” options, which my…
Square Enix and art group iam8bit have gone and done a thing. They’ve paid for a TV show based on first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum, and it’s going to be hosted by Kevin Pereira. It’s called The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning’s Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacular!!, and will put contestants in a replica of the game’s…
There’s been talk of a Hollywood adaptation of classic educational series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego for years now, but it looks like the project is finally starting to pick up some steam. Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever) is writing, while one of the producers, Jennifer Lopez, is still looking to star in the…
Cyril Tahmassebi is a French concept artist and visual designer who has worked on games like Darkworks, I’m Alive, Project Kane and, most recently, Dishonored and Cyanide’s Game of Thrones RPG. While that lost one might not have been much of a game, the art Tahmassebi put together for it is terrific Every piece you…
Colorful, a Chinese firm specialising in Nvidia cards, is bringing us this. The iGame GTX 680. It’s ostensibly just a single GTX 680, currently Nvidia’s flagship single-GPU card. But look at it. The iGame GTX 680 doesn’t have a fan like just about every card on the planet. Instead, it packs its own pair of…
There was much fanfare today as Atari celebrated its 40th birthday. Only, it’s not really Atari’s 40th birthday. I hate to be that guy, but the Atari of 2012 has about as much in common with Nolan Bushnell’s original company as my beard trimmings do. Maybe even less, since Nolan has a killer beard. The…
One game featuring a German with extendable robot arms is a thing. Two is a coincidence. But three? All starring in games developed by Japanese studios? OK, three is a pattern. This post over on GameWTFs, highlighting ten cyborgs starring in Super Nintendo games, contains not one, not two, but three Germans with robot arms.…
Hi there Kotaku, and a happy Wednesday to you. It’s 10:30 PM, and that means it must be time for the open thread. We’re all so constantly connected to social media that it’s easy to forget just how many people can see everything we say. So thank goodness for WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com, who have put together a…
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