According to Japanese news reports, a 40 year-old bureaucrat from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, was recently arrested for groping on Tokyo’s Chuo Line. Between Mitaka Station and Yotsuya Station, the bureaucrat put his right hand on the crotch of another 40-something year-old male and apparently groped the passenger repeatedly for 30 minutes.…
Twenty-nine year-old Jin Yasuda allegedly swiped a friend’s game console. When it came time to sell the console (the make wasn’t specified), Yasuda didn’t stray far from his victim’s resident. That, it seems, was his undoing. Yasuda supposedly sold the console back to a local game shop. So when the victim’s eldest son wanted to…
Here’s a video of the first batch of DLC characters for Tekken Tag 2. The first batch of free characters. Actually, to keep the game balanced, there are no plans for paid Tekken Tag Tournament 2 DLC characters (keep in mind that doesn’t mean no paid DLC, just no paid characters). Still, those are very…
There’s a new Tales role-playing coming out. Last week, Kotaku posted the first concept art images of the game, as well as excerpt from an interview with Tales producer Hideo Baba. According to Baba, “We want players to be surprised at first and think things like, ‘What is this!?’ and ‘I’ve never seen this kind…
Okay, so the Pokémon games are not noted for their realism. Young people catch and train monsters. If this anime teaser is anything to go by, Pokémon: Black and White 2 is no exception. Pokémon: Black and White 2 won’t only feature new Pocket Monsters. It will also feature unnatural limbs. As the recent anime…
007 is back. This fall, Daniel Craig James returns as James Bond, along with Judi Dench, Albert Finney, and Ralph Fiennes. Dubbed Skyfall, the movie takes James from overcast England to the glitz and neon of China. Skyfall hits theaters this fall. The Bond theme starts in your head right now. BOND PLAYS WORD GAMES…
While 1995 was a simpler time, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a sexier one. Just look at the saucy hijinks Japanese game developers slipped into Kirby’s Dream Land 2. Oh là là! This game’s 5-5 secret stage shows what looks like lady parts in Game Boy pink. Kirby’s Dream Land 2 was re-released earlier this…
The coastal city of China’s Dafeng will soon play host to One Piece fans across the country—and perhaps, even the globe. See, China is constructing a new One Piece amusement park. The theme park has a budget of approximately US$76 million and will be built on 133-hectare plot of land. According to news reports, this…
This morning in Japan, kids and adults alike paused momentarily. They wore funny glasses and turned their eyes to the skies. This Monday morning, just as a new week started, a solar eclipse was visible. And Japanese television chronicled the whole thing the best way it could: sometimes serious and sometimes anything but. For several…
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As a rule, Portal guns don’t make everything better. But they can certainly liven up a round of Street Fighter II. Poor Blanka. Super Street Fighter II with a Portal Gun [YouTube, via Gamefreaks]
Raheem Jarbo, aka Mega Ran, aka Random, is one of the more noted video game musicians out there. For his latest album, though, he went a little further than just rapping about video games. With financial help from fans, he’s been able to put together a concept album that includes not just the music, but…
Scourge of internet comments sections and saviour of countless rainy days, the humble animated GIF file turns 25 this year, Compuserve having first introduced the file format back in 1987. To celebrate, here’s a ton of the things compiled in a mildly nauseating video. Note: only celebrate if you call it a “giff”. If you…
This week’s cosplay roundup here on Kotaku is mercifully short on Final Fantasy and/or Kingdom Hearts, two series that are a little, let’s say, over-represented in the field. In their place, we’ve got some costumes that are way more interesting, including some stuff from Warhammer, Tekken, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Lord of the Rings and even…
Indie adventure game The Journey Down, which has actually been available in various versions for a while now, but today sees the release of a “HD” version which turns the formerly low-fi experience into something a little shinier. If you’ve never played it, but love adventure games, you should see about fixing that. Of all…
For all the concern over Diablo III’s requirement to always be online – and it’s a very legitimate concern, given many people’s twitchy connections – let’s not forget the trivial flip side to that situation: the gamers trying to push the limits of just how connected they can be while playing. Reddit user puttputt has…
Sunday afternoon at New York’s Citi Field, and the stands are full to capacity. They’re packed not with New York Mets fans, though. They’re packed with 40,000 Ultra Orthodox Jews, there to attend a rally against the more nefarious aspects of the internet. These amazing images, snapped by Getty photographer Mario Tama, capture the rally…
BioWare’s extended ending sequences for Mass Effect 3, which are looking to give players a little more closure on the series, will feature lines from at least three of the franchise’s main voice actors. Lance Henrisken (Admiral Hackett), Tricia Helfer (EDI) and Raphael Sbarge (Kaidan) have all confirmed they’ve been back in the recording booth,…
Over the weekend, some supposed new screenshots of Beyond Good & Evil 2 – or at least BG&E2’s tech demo – look to have turned up. Interestingly, while they share the same setting as the last screens (and the tech demo video), these actually have star Jade front and centre, and show sequences not depicted…
Bar none, Hong Kong outfit Hot Toys make the most realistic action figures on the planet. So it’s nice to know that, with The Avengers destroying box office records all over the planet, Hot Toys has the license to produce large, expensive and very fancy figures based on the movie. Nearly every major character in…
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