Kinected | CHIBA, JAPAN: Konami showed off its new coin-operated Kinect game today. (Photo: Richard Eisenbeis | Kotaku) This is China’s iPad. The One Apple Is Getting Sued Over. Apple’s iPads are disappearing from Chinese stores shelves. The reason is that a Chinese company called Proview is contesting the use of the iPad moniker. More »…
Upcoming Nintendo 3DS role-playing game for girls Girls RPG Cindere Life featured a hostess-type heroine with heroine with comically huge eyes. “Featured” because at some point, the game’s developer changed them. The new character design still features a big-eyed lady, but nowhere near as large as previously. Girls RPG is being developed by Level-5, the…
Over the past two weeks in Russia, six kids have committed suicide. They apparently came from good homes. They did well in school. So why did they kill themselves? Child psychologist Olga Makhovskaya thinks she knows: Japanese anime. “Of course anime by itself cannot be the cause of teenage suicides,” said Makhovskaya. “But it is…
At its heart, Gravity Rush is a steam-punk superhero adventure. Of course, Kat isn’t exactly the ideal heroine, despite her obviously pure intentions. Perhaps she just needs to take a moment and look up the term “collateral damage.” Gravity Rush was released on Feb. 9, 2012 in Japan on the PlayStation Vita. EU and NA…
Earlier this week, my mother-in-law visited our place to give my boys and me some Valentine’s Day chocolate. When she was leaving with my father-in-law, she slipped and fell. She broke her back. My mother-in-law is now in the hospital and will be for a good bit to come. She also suffered from internal bleeding.…
With Tekken Unlimited Tag Tournament 2 (temp title), Tekken Tag 2 is coming to Japanese arcades. Besides tag team, it also allows players to play one character vs. one character—which defeats the purpose of tag, no? Here is the game’s trailer, unveiled earlier today at the AOU arcade show in Chiba, Japan. Be sure to…
Today, AOU (All Nippon Amusement Machine Operators’ Union) kicked off its annual show AOU Expo in Chiba, Japan. Kotaku East’s Richard Eisenbeis and Toshi Nakamura were on hand to check out the day’s festivities. Here’s a look at what they saw. The show featured new games, such as a Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus…
I wonder how Sir Isaac Newton would feel if he were to play a game inspired by his own legend where real-world gravity physics have been crafted into an interactive playground. Well, if that game were Gravity Rush, I’m sure he’d be amazed—and not just by the existence of a glowing interactive box in his…
With The Last Story getting its European release next week, let’s take a few minutes to talk about its action-packed battle system. Fighting With a Tilt of the Stick The Last Story has no dedicated attack button. Rather, after running into range of a target, all you have to do is push the thumbstick in…
You might not know how to Chun-Li. You might not know how to Final Fantasy or SoulCalibur. Chinese photographer Mengjie Luan sure does. His work is showcases games like Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Street Fighter IV, and Dynasty Warriors, among others. The photos are dramatic and colorful. The 29 year-old has an eye for dramatic…
Apple’s iPads are disappearing from Chinese stores shelves. The reason is that a Chinese company called Proview is contesting the use of the iPad moniker. Proview originally trademarked the term “iPad” for a computer. This is Proview’s iPad. It looks nothing like Apple’s. That doesn’t matter. Proview’s iPad is short for “Internet Personal Access Device”.…
Whether it’s a Japanese video game or a comic convention, he’s bound to pop up. He even appeared on fan-made Valentine’s Day chocolate. He is the Yaranaika Guy, and he’s keen to know if you’d like to screw. So, would you? The Yaranaika Guy is manga character Takakazu Abe from 1987 gay manga Kuso Miso…
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A new set of downloadable content for Gears of War 3, Forces of Nature, will be out on March 27. It includes three new character skins, three new maps, two old maps, seven weapon skins and Gears of War 2’s Guardian Mode. Forces of Nature will cost 800 MSP. [GameTrailers]
Actually, calling it an action figure does it a bit of a disservice. The term “action figure” conjures all sorts of images, mostly of very small men. This custom Strider from the Half-Life universe is not very small at all. Not only does it look awesome, but its builder, nomadamusic, says it was almost entirely…
You’ve seen Dragonborn helmets made out of yarn. You’ve seen Dragonborn helmets made out of bacon. Both were awesome, but hardly practical. Now, this real Dragonborn helmet, you could crack some skulls with this. This replica helmet is actually about as authentic as you could hope for, as the seller claims it was cast from…
Ben Mauro is a concept artist from New Zealand who has recently worked on The Hobbit. The new Superman movie, Man of Steel. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium. Even the upcoming Star Wars TV show, Underworld He’s also done video game work with Insomniac Games on both Ratchet & Clank and Resistance, as well as helping out…
Valve’s $100 Valentine’s Day gag was actually taken up by a lot of people, who figured the money was well spent since it gave them a chance to broadcast a message to the entire Team Fortress 2 community. What resulted, then, were not actual engagements, but people making Half-Life 3 jokes for the whole world…
Artist OMOCAT takes Zelda and dials the cuteness up as far as it can go without making you puke. Even the Zelda stuff that’s already cute, doesn’t matter, it gets cuter Those with a high tolerance for sweetness head through the gallery above. If you make it out alive, OMOCAT’s got plenty of other awesome…
Drew Karpyshyn, who’s been a writer at BioWare for over a decade now, will be walking away from the games business to focus on his novels. In that decade, Karpyshyn contributed to some of the best-written video games of all time, including Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, the first two Mass Effect games…
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