- Kotaku East
Japan’s Newest RPG Hero Is Unemployed
A strong innocent youth with a thirst for adventure, a soldier with a sense of duty and honor, an outcast warrior… The heroes of the fantasy RPGs of yesteryear have always been people of strong moral fiber and a will to stand up and fight. Now, game developer e-smile in their new game Ore-ni Hatarakette…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Lollipop Chainsaw Reveals Skimpy Outfits
Upcoming action game Lollipop Chainsaw features a slew of special outfits. Let’s have a look. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 Japanese “Premium Editions” come with an array of special features—most notably outfits. The PS3 version gets “Cutie Waitress” and “Multi-Boarder Bikini” outfits. The Xbox 360 gets pink a “Sexy Rider Suit” and a “Shell…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Man Bought Fake iPhone. Man Got Angry. Man Killed Two People.
In China, fake electronics are everywhere. The whole place is packed with them. But increasingly, folks in China don’t want to own fakes. They want to own the real deal. Chinese news is reporting that a man in Henan Province desperately wanted an iPhone; he found what he thought was a real one at a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
What Japanese Game Companies Have Done for Japan Since the Quake
March 11th this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Since that time, a great deal of time effort and money has been offered for the rebuilding of the North-Eastern area of Japan from all parts of the world. Including the gaming world. Weekly Famitsu has gathered reports from numerous major…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Game Console Destruction Led to Insane Car Chase
“A man destroyed a game console and escaped by car,” the caller told cops. What started as a routine police call turned into much more, with the suspect evading thirty patrol cars. All over a broken game machine! Thirty-five year old Yoshihiro Kubota, who works as a car salesman, apparently took off after smashing a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Lupin the Third Is Ready to Steal Your Television
Anime Lupin the Third, one of the greatest things ever, is returning to television with a new series. It’s the first new Lupin anime series on TV in 27 years. Dubbed Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the anime follows the exploits of Fujiko Mine, the anime’s iconic female character. This new episodes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
How Drugs Could Kill the Japanese Internet
There are Japanese websites. There are Japanese blogs. But at the heart of the country’s internet and internet culture, one destination stands alone: 2channel. In Japan, the vast majority of game related culture and news first appears on 2channel, the country’s largest bulletin board, and then disseminates to other Japanese sites and blogs. And it’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Would a 19th Century Portal Gun Look Like?
This. Needing an accessory for her steampunk Chell costume, DeviantArt user batman-n-bananas set about building a steampunk Portal gun. The results of which are here, and which are damn impressive. Like all the best models, it’s made of the remains of many random, strange things. Like teapots, pianos, hair gel pots, antique clocks, an old…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Retailer Sends Copies of Madden Instead of Mass Effect 3. Whoops.
Sounds like “some” customers of online retailer Newegg who pre-ordered a copy of Mass Effect 3 didn’t get what they paid for. They got a game, delivered on time, only it was...Madden 12 An email sent by the outlet reads: We’re contacting you today regarding your recent purchase of the Mass Effect 3 Xbox 360…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Save Your Screen’s Universe With Awesome Mass Effect Wallpaper
Artist Ricky Linn has, in a fit of excitement over the release of Mass Effect 3, drawn these great little homages to the cast and crew of the Normandy. Given the art style and their original dimensions, I thought it was only fair to resize them into wallpapers. One for your desktop, the other three…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Culture
The Razor-Sharp Art of Johan Wahlbäck
Swedish artist Johan Wahlbäck works for SouthEnd Interactive, the guys behind last year’s delightful ilomilo. But you won’t find any art for that cute little game here. What you will find are a stack of awesome pictures of men with swords, men with bigger swords and other images associated with bludgeoning and stabbing, some of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
It Takes a Download of Trillions to Hold Sales Back (Well, Not Even That)
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says a lot of things. Some of them interesting, others regrettable. As with most humans! This, about piracy, is one of the former. I’ve always found it interesting that it’s usually independent developers, those whose livelihoods are most closely associated with the success of their games, that are always the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
New Rainbow Six Game Loses its Top Men
Usually, when a studio is developing a new game, it has top men working on it. Top. Men. But Ubisoft’s upcoming Rainbow 6: Patriots is a temporary exception, as four of its top men have reportedly been “removed” from the project. Not fired from the company, just removed from this game. Those men are Creative…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
“Beer Soaked” Homeless Guy Crashes Suda Interview, Lasts Ten Minutes
According to a report on CVG, a Game Developers Conference session with No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda (pictured) got a little strange yesterday when a homeless man (not pictured) joined Edge for an interview. “There were plenty of drinks flowing at the event so nobody took much notice that this second ‘journalist’ was heavily…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
The Tiniest Little PlayStation You Ever Did See
Sebastián Vargas has a fetish for tiny things. Tiny PlayStations, tiny Game Boys,you name it, if it’s a tiny video game console, he’s got it. These are Japanese gashapon pieces, all of them for old consoles and handhelds, all photographed wonderfully by Vargas. If you like tiny things as much as he does, check out…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Winners of the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards
Here are the winners of the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards, announced tonight at GDC 2012: Best Game Design: Portal 2 (Valve) Innovation: Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik) Best Technology: Battlefield 3 (DICE) Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capy Games/Superbrothers) Best Audio: Portal 2 (Valve) Best Downloadable Game: Bastion (Supergiant Games)…
By Owen Good Published March 7, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallAn Inspiring, Sad Interview With the Father of Video Games
If you care about the history of video games, at all, and would like to hear from one of the founding fathers of the medium (who is, remember, a total badass), then please, watch this video interview with Ralph Baer. At times it’s fascinating. Inspiring, even. There’s one point, though, where I actually teared up.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWhy Peter Molyneux Leaving Microsoft is a Very Good Thing
So, after a decade working almost exclusively with Microsoft for Xbox consoles (and occasionally the PC as well), Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux has called it quits, and will soon be joining British start-up 22 Cans (or Twenty Toucans, if you prefer). It’s a sad day for Microsoft, who bought Lionhead in 2006, but as we’re…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012
