Wonder what the biggest selling game is in Japan at the moment? Wonder no more. The PSP game went on sale May 17 and is based on popular light novel My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute. In one week, it sold 53,175, twice the number of games as its nearest rival, Mario Party 9.…
Onechanbara Z Kagura on the Xbox 360 is a bucket of over-the-top hilarity complete with swords, chainsaws, zombies, demons, jiggle physics, the jabberwocky, vampires, bikinis, and of course, vampires in bikinis. But nothing exemplifies the core of what Onechanbara Z is better than Kagura’s collection of pre-asskicking one-liners. At the beginning of nearly every boss…
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is quite a powerhouse franchise in Japan. There have been no less than six games (selling millions of copies in Japan alone) and even a feature film. But back in 2009, Capcom and the Takarazuka Revue took the series into another medium with a musical based on this game series. The…
At the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show, there was a plethora of plastic on display. The standouts? Why, the giant mecha models were—as usual—just wonderful. In particular, the dioramas looked creative and great. The customized Gundam mobile suits were clever, too. Japanese website Asagawo Blog was on have for the event. Check out its photos in…
Are commercial breaks something gamers in the future will have to deal with? According to a newly surfaced patent, they might. The patent, discovered by webforum NeoGAF, was filed back in July 2011 under the moniker “Advertisement Scheme for use with interactive content.” This scheme will warn players that their game is about to be…
Onechanbara Z Kagura is the latest budget title in a long series of budget titles. Originally part of the Simple 2000 series (a set of over 100 games that cost less than $20 US on the PS2) it grew into a somewhat popular franchise through its cunning use of bikinis, swords, and busty women. While…
Illustrator Mao Sugiyama tweeted a simple proposition: Mao’s male genitals (penis, testicles, and scrotum) as a ¥100,000 meal. The illustrator even offered to cook them. Sugiyama is not a real chef—and admitted as much—but was offering a real plate of penis. The 22 year-old Sugiyama is also not man or a woman; the illustrator is…
There are reports out of China that tensions are flaring over Diablo III. Since the game hasn’t been officially released in Mainland China yet, some Chinese players are acquiring copies of the game and then logging onto Asian servers in other regions. This influx is apparently causing servers to lock up and give the infamous…
You need someone on the inside. Somebody who knows the score. Somebody in a maid outfit? Well, that’s exactly what you can get if you hire a Japanese maid to show you around the geekier parts of town. Between 2003 and 2004, maid cafes exploded in popularity and have since become an inseparable part of…
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You’d either click everywhere on a painting until something worked, or you’d be greeted with messages like these, done by artist Joe Alterio Jeez, rip those messages out of bright and cheery games and they’re pretty blunt. And depressing. “You can’t go any further” just makes me want to curl up in bed and not…
I’m so used to mainstream coverage of video games being this terrible, moral panic inducing mess of hyperbole – so it’s really refreshing to see a mainstream story about video games that showcases the massively positive influence games can have on our lives. MSN tells the story of Patrice Anseline, a 51 year old man…
Yeah, he’s been in some decent platformers, but I never thought much of Rayman as a character. He’s just too 90s. So it’s a little surprising seeing him paid tribute in one of the biggest and best pieces of gaming graffiti I’ve ever seen. The piece, by estaphette, can be found in Saint-Étienne in France.…
Look, it doesn’t carry the official name, but we all know upcoming Kinect title Crimson Dragon is basically a new Panzer Dragoon game. Especially after watching this clip. It also looks like it’s going to need a bigger-than-average seizure warning at the beginning, because there’s points here where I don’t know what the hell is…
Loraine Howard III doesn’t just have the best name of any artist we’ve featured here on our concept art spotlight, he also has some of the most impressive 3D work, headlined by the incredible Balrog you see up top. If next-gen pants don’t look that good I’ll be very disappointed. Loraine has previously worked with…
DayZ might be the talk of the PC gaming town at the moment, but for all its qualities at the end of the day it’s still just a mod. It’s using the engine and effects from ArmA II, which play a big part in helping the game achieve its brooding atmosphere. Thing is, ArmA II…
I love Mount & Blade. Sure, it’s a little rough around the edges, and its ugly as sin, but that’s just part of the charm. What other game lets you engage in 200-man battles with muskets and/or swords? Not enough, that’s how many. Correction: I did love Mount & Blade. Now, having seen this texture…
While that’s a subjective boast, has any other game been so terrible that copies of it were taken out into the middle of the desert and buried? No. So I’m sticking with it. ET, released in 1982, was so terrible that marketing material had to be produced helping players get through it. If what’s written…
As awful as this is, I can’t stop watching. This is Julia Stiles circa 1994, guest-starring on Ghostwriter, and introducing kids to the wonders – and perils – of the internet. Such an idealist, she was! Shame she never saw the porn, cat pictures and Facebook coming. She might have lingered a little less longingly…
Hello, Kotaku. Here again, an open thread with a focus: Last night was the Cos, tonight, it’s Buffy vs. Omar! David Simon, the man who created The Wire (aka The Official Best TV Show Ever Made), now has a blog. On that blog, he writes things. The other day, he wrote this: To be clear:…
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