- Kotaku East
Would You Sniff this Gundam? It Smells Wonderful.
There’s been giant Gundams built in Japan from metal and screws—as well as whatever the hell China used for its knock-off. Now, it’s South Korea’s turn. This Gundam, dubbed “Surface Gundam”, was created for a Korean art exhibit, making it not only one of the best looking large Mobile Suit creations, but best smelling. お花で作られたガンダムがなんだか独特の雰囲気…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Wonderful and Seedy World of Chinese Arcades
Hot, loud, flashy, and incredibly smoky. These are some of the best ways to describe the sensation of walking into an arcade in China. And when walking in during peak hours, the lines to play the latest fighting games usually snake across cabinets. It’s interesting to see that China still has a flourishing arcade industry…
By Eric Jou Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
Let’s Try Guessing Her Hair Color
Project A14, the newest of the Alchemy-based Atelier series game was just announced by Gust. The Japanese role-playing game is to be released on the PS3 platform in June. The newest title will have a whole new world, heroine, and system along with renewed designs based on the game’s theme, which is “The promise starts.”…
By Toshitaka Tachibana Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Greatest Manga Screw-Up of 2012?
If not the greatest, this has to be one of the greatest you’ll see this year. The most recent issue of Comic Yurihime offered up a doozy of a printing error. On page 173, one of the characters of Yuru Yuri exclaimed, “These clothes are so cute,” while reading the magazine. The magazine was blank.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
I Love the Power Glove Space Suit. It’s so Bad.
Leave it to Japanese musician Verbal from hip-hop group M-Flo to take Power Glove to the next level. In the latest issue of rock and fashion mag EyesCream, Verbal talks about his forthcoming album and poses in a spiffy, custom-made Reebok astronaut outfit with dual-wielding Power Gloves, just begging for some cosmic Rad Racer action.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
Inappropriate 3DS Game Gets Inappropriate Art
Nintendo 3DS game Senran Kagura featured large breasts because the game’s creator really wanted to see boobs in 3D. With that as a starting point, you can already imagine what sort of illustrations the game can inspire. You don’t have to! A recent exhibition showed a collection of 57 Senran Kagura illustrations from 50 artists.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
Nintendo Says Japanese Newspaper Is Making Crap Up. Again.
Late last week, respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei (and seemingly Nintendo’s nemesis of late) reported that the Kyoto-based game maker would be launching the 3DS in South Korea next month. That launch would be followed by a release in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. According to the Nikkei piece (viewable here), Nintendo now looks at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 - Kotaku East
Video Games Killing Off Violent Japanese Biker Gangs?
In the past, the mainstream media’s M.O. has been: If there’s a shooting, blame video games; if kids are having problems, blame video games; if someone farts, blame video games. Like heavy metal and rap music before it, video games are an easy—and often, misunderstood—target. Yet, a recent report fingers video games (among other things)…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3 Goes Back in Time, High-Fives Contra
Just in case you ever thought Battlefield 3 would be better with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun (and music from Batman), here you go. Battlefield 3, with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun It’s amazing how, once the joke wears off, you notice it…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
When Star Wars Meets High Fashion, AT-AT Drivers Ride French Bicycles
Artist John Woo throws together two very unlikely things – high fashion and the characters of Star Wars – in his “He Wears It” series of prints and images. Don’t let the name fool you, there are ladies as well. And some characters from outside the Star Wars universe, like the T-1000. But mostly, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedBe the Humans, or the Giant Shark Monster
Omegalodon is a simple little arcade action game for the PC that gives you an easy choice: either control an enormous shark monster as it smashes through a city, or control the humans trying to stop it. Adding a little strategy to proceedings is the ability of the humans to jump in a wide range…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3’s Multiplayer Stats are Missing One
There’s the usual hours logged and enemies killed in this multiplayer stats report from BioWare, but the most interesting – percentage of players only playing in the first place because they felt they were forced to – seems to have been left out. Which may sound awfully ungrateful, but as robust as it is –…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Skyrim Tourism Board Wants you to Visit Winterhold
Not that Skyrim really needed a tourism board, since millions of people have been spending entire weeks in the place lately, but if it did, you’d hope its efforts would look this classy. These posters were done by artist Dean Walton, and if they look familiar that’s because he did a similar series for Zelda…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
UncategorizedBit.Trip Runner’s Sequel Just Keeps on Running
The ridiculously good Bit.Trip Runner has a sequel, of sorts, on the way. It’s not part of the Bit.Trip series, though, so it’s simply called Runner 2. Which about sums up what’s going on. Note that, as good as this already looks, it’s a “super sneaky peek” at pre-alpha code, which you’ll eventually realise with…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedFirst-Person Grand Theft Auto is Kicking Everyone’s Bananas
While this clip showing Grand Theft Auto from a first-person perspective is a little slower – and less explosive – than you’re probably accustomed to, it at least gets the spirit of the series less scripted moments right. Except for those hands. Not really sure what’s going on there.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedMass Effect’s Reapers are Going to F**k Every Organic Being in the Galaxy
Surprisingly, this whole “unnecessary censorship” gag hasn’t entirely worn out its welcome, as this very dramatic clip from Mass Effect 3 shows. If you’re not entirely sold on the idea, make it to 1:13. Or, better yet, Miranda.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Very Best In Cosplay: Julia Kasu
Julia Kasu, aka KasuzameYuu, is a costume builder and cosplayer from Russia. You may never have heard of her, but if you read this website, you should have seen her work from time to time Her Left 4 Dead outfits (both of which she made, while she also “played” the Witch), for example, are some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 - Uncategorized
Half-Life, Portal Toys are About to Get Even Cooler
So far, toy company NECA seems to be doing a pretty good job with a license for Valve’s catalogue of first-person shooters. But at the end of the day, NECA makes toys for the mass market, so what you’ll be getting will be fairly standard stuff. Over the weekend a potentially more exciting announcement was…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
UncategorizedHaunting Skyrim Songstress Returns With New Number
In December, Malukah performed a Skyrim song on YouTube that sent shivers across the internet. It was that good. She now returns to sing another, and this time has brought a friend, fellow internet musician Miracle of Sound Unlike the first one, which haunted your bones while you slept, this one is corny as hell.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012