Because that’s exactly what the world needs, another alarm clock! I wake up to my iPhone, so I guess Sony figured PS Vita owners would want the same. But do they really need to get Trophies for that? Besides a variety of skins, there’s “Mezamashi Doumei” or “Alarm Clock League”. It’s built on the concept…
Daigo Umehara is the Guinness World Record holder as “the most successful player in major tournaments of Street Fighter,” and became world famous in 2004 with his amazing comeback victory at the EVO 2004 Street Fighter Tournament. In his new book, “勝ち続ける意志力” (The Will to Keep Winning), Daigo describes his upbringing and experiences as a…
For decades, KFC has been a Japanese fast food staple. Whether it’s Christmas dinner or baseball superstitions, Japan is enamored with The Colonel. And the country is about to get a really fancy one. A new KFC is opening in Tokyo’s Shimo-Kitazawa. It’s aimed at late night customers in their 20s and 30s, and it…
Or as anime characters. Or manga characters. Or movie characters. It’s simply “costume play”, and Japanese photographer Yuji Susaki explores that in this series of photos, “Cosplay: Made in Japan”. Susaki is perhaps more known for his fashion pics, celeb portraits, or artistic nudes. For this cosplay series, Susaki roped in well-known Japanese cosplayers like…
Today, Tokyo is getting its second Gundam cafe. This one is in Odaiba, near the Fuji TV building. Out front, there’s an enormous one-to-one scale Gundam—you know, if you can’t find the cafe. Inside, you can guzzle Gundam coffee and munch on Gundam snacks. There is also a Gundam “theme park”, Gundam Front, with attractions,…
China makes, well, everything. And, as recently revealed, the next Iron Man flick is going to be made with a Chinese co-partner. The movie will be shot in China and contain “Chinese elements”—like things the Chinese government wishes to promote? Iron Man 3 Trailer: Made in China [YouTube]
Akihiro Hino, boss of game maker Level-5, is responsible for Gundam Age. And Gundam Age is a bit crap, so everyone hates it. Want to see just how unpopular it is? CoroCoro Comic is a Japanese magazine filled with manga and aimed at Japanese kids. The most popular manga take up the most real estate…
Sony’s open beta for the PlayStation Suite’s Developer Program is now up and running. Download here
The much ballyhooed Call of Duty: Elite online service will not be available in Japan. Square Enix, Call of Duty‘s publisher in Japan, revealed that a Japanese version isn’t happening due to localization issues. According to Square Enix, the game’s original publisher, Activision, worked hard to get localized versions of Elite released in different territories.…
The game is real. So says Sony’s Facebook
This isn’t your father’s Monkey Ball. Actually, maybe it is. For a limited time, Sega is offering “Adult Map” download codes for those who purchase Super Monkey Ball: Tokumori Asobi-ta! for the PS Vita. In it, you can roll all over bikini model Yukie Kawamura. In some parts, the model’s breasts protrude from the map…
Nothing quite says a home cooked meal like a droid cooked one. If you ever find yourself in Harbin, China, head over to “Summer Sky Ocean Robot”, a restaurant staffed with robot waiters and robot cooks. We don’t serve their kind here? No, they serve you! According to reports out of Asia, the restaurant has…
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James Price, an air traffic controller at Oakland airport, owns a flight simulator. Not a “buy a joystick and plug it into your computer” flight simulator. A “chop the nose of an actual giant airplane and turn it into a flight simulator” type of flight simulator. Price has, stuffed in his garage, the actual nose…
I’m hesitant to call this papercraft, since that’s a word we normally associate with little things that sit on a desk. Instead, I’m just going to call this 6’10″ model of Metroid’s Samus Aran a masterpiece. It’s made entirely of paper. Her giant helmet, her giant arms, even her giant feet, all made from paper…
And what’s more, it looks awesome, because instead of just asking players to dance to pop music or sing like a teenage girl, it’s asking you to pop, lock and boogaloo your way to awesomeness. It’s called WiiPop, and uses a combination of Wii Remotes (strapped to the player’s body) and Kinect’s camera to, well,…
Reader John wrote a love letter to his lady friend Sara. To ensure it didn’t end up straight in the bin, he turned it into an elaborate mural starring Gomez, of Fez fame. John says of the work: I’m a gamer, an art guy, and I love FEZ. Sara is my girlfriend, awesome, and loves…
We all have our gaming blindspots. Genres or series we don’t know as much, or play as much, as we would maybe like to. Even those of us paid to be around them all day can’t play everything. For years I’ve been content to let one of my biggest – DotA games – slide. I…
Artist Arnold Tsang worked on APB before it died and was unceremoniously brought back. He’s also, as Capcom fans may soon recognise, part of the Udon crew, who are unrelenting in their ability to release coffee table books full of awesome Street Fighter art. Right now, he’s working at Blizzard. And right now, we’re going…
Victoria Ariail, 27, has been arrested and charged after being caught stealing Pokémon cards from a Lexington Walmart last Thursday. And she would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for that damned wart remover. See, in addition to the cards, which must be ridiculously easy to steal, Ariail came unstuck because security…
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