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Starhawk Lets Two Players Sign In On One PS3 for Splitscreen Mayhem
People love their splitscreen, don’t they? When a deeply desired game releases without it, the moaning and bitching goes on for days. You won’t need to grumbles about Starhawk, though. It’s been announced that the Lightbox Interactive third-person shooter will feature co-op and competitive splitscreen play, with support for dual log-in. That means you and…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
These Japanese Gaming Facts Might Surprise You. They Might Shock You. They Might Not.
This week, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers about their gaming habits and brought back some interesting results. For consoles owned, the responses were pretty much par for the course. The Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii dominate the market with nearly 50 percent of responders owning one or the other (2070 viable reader responses). A…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
One Piece‘s Creator Doesn’t Sleep Much, Sounds Totally Burnt Out [Update]
Since 1997, Eiichiro Oda has produced One Piece. According to a recent Japanese magazine article, he has zero days off. And every night, he gets around four hours of sleep on average. One Piece is the most popular manga in Japan. Initially, Oda planned to end One Piece sooner (after five years of serialization), but…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
Online Gaming Friendship Led to Sex. Then Extortion.
According to Chinese newspaper The People’s Daily, a 25 year-old married woman named QianQian met a man called Qinmou while gaming online (the paper doesn’t specify the game) last August. At first their relationship was innocuous, with Qinmou giving her in-game items and helping her. Eventually, they met and started a real-life affair. But by…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Ministry of Silly Cosplay
Sometimes cosplay is cool. Sometimes it’s sexy. Sometimes it’s just really effing strange. Like today. Here is a collection from the recent Nipponbashi Festa in Osaka’s geek district, Nipponbashi. Previously, Kotaku published photos from the event—but those were mostly either cool or attractive cosplays. These? These are downright goofy. Check out more in the links…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Famous One Piece Fan Knows Nothing…about One Piece?
In Japan, One Piece is huge. Everyone seems to love it. Pop star Mari Yaguchi also professed her adoration for the manga. In the above image, Yaguchi is saying that in one One Piece comic, she’ll cry in five different places while reading it. “It’s my favorite manga,” she once said. On this week’s episode…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
What Color Vita Would You Like? Japan Wants…
Ever since the days of the Game Boy Pocket, color variant models of game consoles have become the norm. In fact, very few consoles have only one color version (not including limited edition releases) Now with the latest new console, the PS Vita, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers what color variant they would like to…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Don’t Let Something Like a Fake Android Store Stop You from Selling iPhones
One small phone retailer in Zhuhai, China decided that it wouldn’t be enough to re-create an Android brand shop that aped the Androidland shop in Australia. No, this shop must also carry (real?) iPhones. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are rival platforms. Last summer, fake Apple Stores appeared in China. According to website TechInAsia, this…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
Other Uses for Nintendo’s Most Pointless Peripheral in Years
The official 3DS stand Nintendo is packing with Kid Icarus: Uprising and selling as a stand-alone is, simply put, pointless. Or is it? Online in Japan, someone has found other uses for it: a PS3 game stand, a PS Vita stand, and a PlayStation controller stand. Sony fanboys, take note! 3DS 『パルテナの鏡』 同梱の 「3DSスタンド」 が高機能すぎる件、PSVitaで充電しながら遊べるぞｗｗｗｗｗ…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Kotaku East
Kingdom Hearts 3D Is Noob Friendly
Gearing up for the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, this week, part deux of Tetsuya Nomura’s interview was featured in Weekly Famitsu. Nomura discussed the latest in the Kingdom Hearts series (and added some more very vague references to Final Fantasy Versus XIII). With the latest installment to the Kingdom Hearts series,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Returns (Well, Sort Of)
Bayonetta, star of the action game…Bayonetta, is back! The character is coming as a downloadable character for the online beat ‘em up Anarchy Reigns Platinum Games, who also created Bayonetta, developed this title. The limited edition, first print run of the game comes with a download code to acquire Bayonetta. Anarchy Reigns goes on sale…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Chinese Girl in Shiny Armor Wants a Boyfriend
Sometimes you just get fed up. You think there are no good guys out there. And all you’re left doing is wearing shiny armor and holding a sign, because, well, you’re looking for a boyfriend. Because that’s supposedly what one young woman in China did. Twice. The woman’s name is not currently known, but she…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Turning LEGO Into a Kick-Ass War Game
Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack sounds like a Japanese game involving giant robots and, well, that’s not terribly far off from the truth. Only it’s not a video game, it’s a tabletop game. And instead of using plastic pieces, it uses LEGO. The thinking behind the game is that, while coming with an established ruleset…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Giant Portal Sneakers Help You Jump From Fashion’s Greatest Heights
Artist Jared Sellers has been toiling away on a few sets of custom video game-related sneakers for around a year now. And the centrepiece of the collection are these incredible Portal kicks. What were once knee-high Converse sneakers are now street-ready Long Fall Boots, complete with Portal Gun colour schemes and strappy straps to simulate…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 - Culture
The Sexy, Sword-Swinging Art of Yusuke Kozaki
Yusuke Kozaki is a Japanese artist who, aside from work on comics and anime, has also done some stuff for the No More Heroes series of games. He’s also done character design on the latest Fire Emblem game, Awakening If you’ve played those games, or even been around their marketing, you’ll know their art is/was…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedSome Kids are Making a Battlestar Galactica Viper Flight Simulator
It’s not a game, either. That would be too easy. No, the kids are making a proper flight simulator, with hydraulic cockpit, instrument panels, the works Taking the shell of a Piper PA-28, the team hopes to build “a motion controlled flight simulator” based around Galactica’s iconic Viper fighter. For those who care, they’re aiming…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow 2011’s Most Stunning Tech Demo was Made
Like it did with The Casting, Heavy Rain creators Quantic Dream have again floored us with a tech demo, this time for Kara, the little robot who learned to love. Then got very upset when a man tries to tear her heart out. This clip shows the making of the super-impressive demo, including footage of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat Will Video Game Shooters Look Like When We’re Old?
Hopefully they, and we, look something like this. This clip is called Old Style, from the album by the same name, and it’s a music video put together by Swedish duo Rymdreglage. Who, if you remember your Swedish musical video game partnerships, also made the amazing 8-bit Trip from a few years back [thanks Roxy!]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012