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Beware Parents! Your Child Could Get into The Animes.
Via Tumblr Yaoi Fight, here are some signs that your child might be under the influence of the substance commonly known as “The Animes”: •making an account on deviantART.com – While it appears innocent, this website is actually a black market for different types of “The Animes.” It contains the highest concentration of animes abusers…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 -
Kotaku EastIn Taiwan, the Weather News Is Fit for an Apocolyptic Future and Huge Mecha
Rain has been hitting Taiwan hard. As Taiwanese people check the weather, they might notice something familiar: that 3D rainfall map sure looks like something out of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The font and the interface resemble Evangelion style computer graphics in what *looks* to be a clever, viral Eva cross promotion with Taiwan’s Next Media…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
Why Nintendo Almost Dumped the Wii U’s Biggest Feature
Each Nintendo hardware has its thing: For the Wii, it’s motion controls; for the 3DS, it’s 3D; and for the Wii U, it’s a tablet-like controller. Dubbed the Wii U GamePad, that controller was almost killed off. “Sometime during that final discussion we almost gave up on the idea of the additional screen,” Iwata recently…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Latest Idolm@ster Product Offers (Virtual) Conversations With Virtual Idols
The Idolm@ster series is well renowned for its cute virtual idols and ability to suck money out of fans’ wallets with pricy DLC and slot machine-like tactics. Next up, snack wafers that let you make literal phone calls to your favorite virtual idols. The Idolm@aster Wafers 2 are small, plain, rectangular chocolate sandwich wafer snacks,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
And Japanese Police’s Underage Hacker Crackdown Continues
Yesterday, news broke that Japanese police took an 11 year-old girl into protective custody for violating the country’s computer laws. Today, it’s a 16 year-old. Allegedly, the teenager is a self-styled hacker who illegally accessed another individual’s online game server and also wrote three gamers’ IDs and passwords on an internet forum. For that, Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 -
Kotaku EastEarth Defense Force Has All the Giant Bugs the PlayStation Vita Can Handle
Earth Defense Force 3: Portable is bringing its giant bugs to the PS Vita for huge insect shooting fun with four player online co-op. The game will be out this fall in Japan. Have a look.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 -
Kotaku EastIron Man? Nope, She’s Iron Girl, and She’ll Kick Your Face In
In Iron Girl, our metal heroine fights a group of outlaws known as the “Crazy Dogs” and could be the “Iron Savoir” foretold by the prophets. Adult film actress Kirara Asuka stars as Iron Girl. The flick also features Rina Akiyama from Kamen Rider Den-O. She might be familiar to Metal Gear Solid 3 players…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
“Kirb” Your Enthusiasm With These 6 Classic Kirby Games In One
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Kirby first appeared on the Nintendo Gameboy. I still remember the first time I saw that cute pink (Well, sort of cream-colored with black outlines on the Gameboy) innocent-looking little marshmallow suck a bird down his gullet and swallow it whole. Since then, the Kirby series…
By Toshi Nakamura Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
Broken Telephone Pole? No Biggie, We’ve Got Tape.
In the city of Guilin, China’s state-own telecommunication company, China Telecom, has a novel way to fix a snapped telephone pole: tape. According to reports out of China, city bureaucrats and China Telecom could not agree over how much should be spent to fix the pole. As a temporary measure, China Telecom wrapped the broken…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 -
Kotaku EastFrom Teeny Game Machines to Plastic Monsters, Have a Look at The Tokyo Toy Show!
The International Tokyo Toy Show roars through, well, Tokyo this week. Sister site Kotaku Japan got a sneak peek at some of what visitors can expect—whether that be miniature game machine capsule toys, Ultraman transformers, Monster Hunter toys, Nanoblock, or even cosplay outfits—and more. There was also a successful StickBomb Guinness Book World Record attempt,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 - Kotaku East
See How the Amazing Final Fantasy Tech Demo Stands Up to Pre-Rendered Graphics
Square Enix, the folks behind Final Fantasy, are working on a new game engine. And hot damn, it looks fantastic Recently, Square Enix showed a real time demo of the tech in action. In the above gallery, you can see how a pre-rendered version stacks up with a real-time version. This shows just how stunning…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 -
Kotaku EastHow Nintendo Created a Sex Symbol
Dressed in smart business attire and glasses, she takes her seat behind a desk. She’s here to explain a turn-based strategy game. Yet, online forums are buzzing in Japan that she is “way too erotic”. She is Cepko Culd, Japanese gaming’s newest sex symbol. With Culdcept for 3DS, Nintendo is bringing Omiya Soft’s classic fantasy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
You’ve Probably Never Seen These Smash Bros. Challengers Before
You can modify the Wii’s Smash Bros. to play differently, sure, but you can also mod it to look differently, using existing models as templates to introduce a whole range of new characters to the game. Samba Di Amigo? He’s there. Woody and Buzz from Toy Story? They’re there. Carl from Up? Yup. There’s even…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Can Now Control (Some of) Your Xbox 360 From a Phone
Microsoft released an update to its Xbox Live iPhone app yesterday that adds some basic remote functionality, letting you launch games and navigate menus from your iPhone. For some reason that good stuff is iPhone-only; the iPad version didn’t get it, and the new Android edition doesn’t have it either. [Microsoft]
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
When LEGO Becomes Political Art
We normally associate LEGO with childish things. Playful things. Which is exactly why artist Mike Doyle used it to craft this powerful piece on Iraq. A staunch opponent of America’s actions in the country, Doyle has taken material normally used for stuff like giant robots and turned it into a work that, while the politics…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Now This is One Badass Metal Gear Figure
I liked the last Metal Gear figures Play Arts released, but I like the looks of this one a lot more. Metal Gear Solid 2’s Solidus Snake is the next character from the series to get the action figure treatment from Square Enix’s toy division, and he’s a beauty. You’d think those arms would be…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 -
CultureThis One’s For Fans of Blizzard’s Cinematic Trailers
David Luong is an artist who, aside from helping out on a number of big-budget Hollywood movies, has also been involved with several Blizzard titles, including Diablo III, World of Warcraft and StarCraft II While he’s done visual FX work as a compositor on some of Blizzard’s best cinematic trailers, he also does matte paintings,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Handhelds Given a Very Sexy Sega Makeoever
It doesn’t matter that Sega hasn’t made hardware for over a decade. Let’s pretend that, in addition to teaming up for Olympics sporting games, the company also partners with Nintendo to make handheld game consoles. These customised pieces show a 3DS and DSi with a very Sega makeoever, both given the livery of a Mega…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Two Best Twitter Accounts Around (For Video Games)
Use Twitter? You just might! You may, if you’re one of the clever ones, be following sites like this, or people like this Those two are OK, I guess, but they’re far from my favourite. Especially when it comes to video games. Instead, that honour is shared between two accounts. Two very different accounts. I…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2012