Cap Bar | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sister site Kotaku Japan checked out Capcom’s new bar. More pics here. (Photo: Kotaku Japan) Men and Women Shrink-wrapped as Japanese Art Games and game hardware came packaged. They’re sealed shut, some of them completely shrink-wrapped. and covered in clear plastic. They are sealed off from the outside world. More »…
Live Park, South Korea’s interactive theme park, allows visitors to experience the virtual world with interactive games and instillations. It’s video games brought to life or a Minority Report you can experience, minus the pre-crime arrests. The brainchild of start-up d’strict, the US$13 million theme park boasts 65 attractions and was over two-years in the…
It seemed so innocuous at first. Legendary Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo released a Woody from Toy Story figure. It included an alternate face that would become a party of internet infamy: Pervert Woody The face spawned its own online fandom in Japan—and abroad. Japanese game and anime figures were constantly assaulted and harassed by pervert…
Revealed today, the unannounced role-playing game Namco Bandai teased in Famitsu is Tokitowa The game combines JRPG elements (big eyes, blue hair) with, wait for it, third-person shooter play (think action rpg). Parts of the game will have a fixed point-of-view, while other parts won’t. The theme here is “time”, but the concept of “marriage”…
Sony launched a website honoring the best in-store Uncharted 3 displays across the country. The number one entry, a Futaba Tosho branch, featured a life-sized Sully breaking through the ceiling and holding a life-sized Nathan Drake. The other entries were good, but nothing as mind-bogglingly wonderful as the first place display. You can see the…
Game localizers and authors Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda of Yokai Attack! fame are releasing a new book: Yurei Attack! For more details, visit Alt’s blog. [AltJapan]
Earlier this week, Kotaku reported that a noodle cafe was opening in Tokyo’s otaku (geek) mecca. What makes this cafe different from the plethora of cafes dotted throughout Akihabara is that Noodol Cafe features idols pouring hot water into instant ramen. Yep. The cafe opened today in Tokyo’s Akihabara, and Japanese television was on hand…
The text is a little corny, sure, but the overall presentation was surely super effective. Diamond [California, Here We Come, via Fashionably Geek]
Games and game hardware came packaged. They’re sealed shut, some of them completely shrink-wrapped. and covered in clear plastic. They are sealed off from the outside world. But what about people? What would we look like shrink-wrapped? We’d look like this. Japanese artist Hal’s “Flesh Love” doesn’t simply examine that, but goes one step further…
Internet standard-issue clothing dispensary Threadless has struck a deal with Microsoft which will see some of the outlet’s shirts made available for its Xbox avatars. Those wondering how the shirt’s creators are thanked (seeing as Threadless is a user-created content site), they’re credited in each item’s description on Xbox.com. I’ve pinged Threadless to see if…
Eidos, the company behind Tomb Raider, killed off its real-life Lara Croft spokesgirls. They’ll “never happen again”, said Eidos. In Finland, they live on. According to Finish tabloid Iltalehti, the 2012 Miss Finland candidates were rounded up, dressed in Lara Croft-inspired gear, and taken out to the arctic circle for a few “Lara Croft themed…
Do you like playing Zynga’s Facebook games? There’s something wrong with you. Not because you enjoy them, what you do in your spare time is your business. Your problem comes in thinking they’re games. They are not games. They are specifically-engineered programs designed to take your money and compel you to advertise the product to…
Republished from Kotaku Australia You want to make a game. You don’t have a publisher. The government won’t help and your bank account is full of tumbleweed. It might be time to look beyond traditional funding options… it might be time to look to the crowd. The game Battle Command is in a position that…
SNK Playmore is once again in the hardware business. The Osaka-based game company is licensing a new (well, sort of) portable Neo-Geo gaming system. This is it. The handheld sports a 4.3 inch LCD screen, 2GB of onboard memory, and an SD card slot. There are twenty pre-loaded games, all of them old Neo-Geo classics.…
Aussie artist Barry Wazzy, who floored us with his photoshopped PokéBalls earlier in the month, is flooring us again this week with another helping. This time many of the balls are themed, so for instance we’ve got a PokéBall based on The Dark Knight, one on Harry Potter and another on Dragonball Z! wazzy88 [DeviantArt,…
Cute puzzle games, even those starring Nintendo icons, just don’t make the money they used to. So when a man’s gotta eat, he has to turn to his training… Black Market Liver Transplants [neatorama]
It’s…it’s like a dream come true. Master craftsman Ben Heck has built this custom Xbox 360 controller which contains a rather useful add-on: a hot pocket dispenser. Which I guess would work just as well for kebabs, sausage rolls, etc, depending on where you live! You’ll never have to take your hands of the controller…
The MWE Emperor 200 may be labelled a “workstation”, but don’t let that fool you. It’s being demoed using video games for a reason: this is not for work. It’s for playing video games. In the future. Note I did not say it was practical. Where you can put a desk and a chair you…
In a rather obvious attempt to court a more demanding PC gaming crowd, EA’s Origin service today announced it has signed up eleven new publishers for its online marketplace. Among them are CD Projekt, of The Witcher fame, and Paradox Interactive, of hardcore historical strategy game fame. Joining them will be Trion Worlds, Robot Entertainment,…
Tiny Tower is one of the cutest and most successful iPhone games around. So, naturally, someone is shamelessly ripping it off. Only, the company doing the ripping off isn’t some shady Chinese or Russian company. It’s social gaming powerhouse Zynga. Zynga’s new game Dream Heights isn’t a homage to NimbleBit’s game. It’s almost a clone,…
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