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UncategorizedChecking Out the Sega Urine Game First Hand
All around good guy Patrick Macias, voice actress Yuu Asakawa, and the Otaku Verse Zero crew visited Sega to check out Toylet—you know that Sega game you can tinkle on Apparently, testing for this game involved Sega employees taking leaks. The team working on this game have a really good sense of humor about the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gundam Is Getting a Japanese Theme Park
On April 19, a new theme park dedicated to Mobile Suit Gundam is opening in Japan called “Gundam Front”. The small theme park will offer exhibits that allow visitors to experience the famed mecha. Located at a shopping mall in Tokyo’s Odaiba, near the site of the giant Gundam, Gundam Front takes of 2,050 square…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedWho the Hell Could Beat This iPhone Shooter?
Next month, maniac shooter DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou is coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Cave’s shooters already make my brain hurt in arcades, and I cannot comprehend playing this on a tiny iPhone screen. Even with easier modes or settings, it seriously does not compute. At all. 怒首領蜂大往生 for iPhone / iPod touch【10周年】 [YouTube]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
So Will Other Game Studios Screw You on Wii U DLC?
Nintendo is doing everything it can to make buying downloadable content on the Wii U easy as pie. Since the Kyoto-based game maker has said on numerous occasions that its DLC will add to the experience, I’m not so worried about Nintendo’s approach. It’s the other game makers that concern me. Fear not! Nintendo President…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
a2 + b2 = YOU DIE
Silent Hill‘s resident bogeyman Pyramid Head ask the class to solve for X using the Pythagorean theorem. Known as “Sankaku Atama” (“Triangle Head”) in Japan, Pyramid Head first appeared in Silent Hill 2. And now he appears in a classroom. I love this picture more than life [swing low, sweet cherry, make it awful]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Gal Gun Screens Are All Hearts and Underpants
Gal Gun, the on-rails shooter in which you fire pheromone at gals, is headed to the PlayStation 3. The game’s developer just released a slew of screenshots, which are pretty much what you’d expect: panties. The latest batch of screens show off the game’s new “Delusion Mode”, which allows players to view the female characters…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Persona Figure Has a Crazy Crotch, Part II Electric Boogaloo
Last October, a Persona 4 figure featuring Izanagi and his crazy crotch surfaced. And now there’s another one. And it comes with a friend. Oh, and a crazy crotch! Part of a “Persona 4 Twin Pack DX”, Izanagi is packaged with Slipping Hablerie, the first boss in the game’s Twisted Shopping District. While the previous…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow To Improve One of Nintendo’s Best Games? Like This.
Kotaku reader Riccardo whipped up this HD version of Mother‘s opening credits. It, like the game itself, is fantastic. If anything should get you excited about an HD Nintendo gaming system, it’s this. Designed by Shigesato Itoi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, the Japan-only Mother was originally released in 1989 on the Nintendo Famicom. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Your First Look at the Persona Porno Isn’t Sexy
Adult video star and singer Tsubomi recently uploaded this photo on her official blog, titling the post, “(To) All Otaku.” Guess that means you? Tsubomi just filmed an adult video from porn makers TMA, a studio notorious for its video game and anime inspired dirty movies. (Because if it exists, make a porn of it,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why Mario’s Creator Is Always Threatening Retirement
In Dec. 2011, a report surface claiming that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said he was retiring. Nintendo quickly commented, saying the report was a “misunderstanding” and “absolutely not true.” See, Shigeru Miyamoto is apparently always saying he’s going to retire. “During one of the interviews he accepted abroad, Mr. Miyamoto commented that he always tells…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
“Plans” for Phoenix Wright Movie’s Worldwide Release
Hitting Japanese theaters next month, the Phoenix Wright movie could get a global release. According to the movie’s director, there are plans for international versions with subs and dubs for each region. Court-Records Thanks, Robert!]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Waitress Uniform That Started It All
For a generation, Anna Miller’s was more than a coffee shop. For a generation, it inspired video games, anime, and countless cosplay. For a generation, it’s quickly becoming a memory. This week, the second to last Anna Miller’s restaurant closed its doors in Yokohama, leaving one open in Tokyo’s Takanawa Wing. This is it, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Exec Says No New Xbox In 2012
According to Xbox France’s Marketing Director Cedrick Delmas, there’ll be no new Microsoft console released in 2012 to compete with Nintendo’s Wii. “What is certain is that there will be nothing new in 2012” Delmas told Le Point. “If we had to counter Nintendo, we would have to be capable of releasing something immediately, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Oh Bury me Not, on the Lone Prairie…
Some wonderful Red Dead Redemption fan art to kick your Tuesday morning off with. If it’s not the same for you without the song, here you go And if you didn’t know it’s actually an old Johnny Cash song, well, here’s that one too Bury Me Not [Lemmyleyra, via Rockstar]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedGravediggaz: Diary Of A Madman
In 1992, four guys stopped all the other rapping and producing they were doing, got together and quietly released one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. Gravediggaz consisted, at least initially, of the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, Prince Paul, Frukwan and the sadly-deceased Poetic. The group’s 1994 album 6 Feet Deep (which, outside the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
An Argument Against Booth Babes
You don’t see them as much at E3 these days, but events like the Tokyo Game Show or Germany’s GamesCom are full of young women (and sometimes men!) wearing very little clothing while trying to sell you video games. It may excite young male readers/visitors, but for the most part, it’s an awkward and occasionally…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 - Culture
If Only Driving Games Actually Looked This Cool
The ATV series of driving games have always had their following, but there’s never been much to make the really stand out from the crowd. Which is the great thing about looking at concept art, because it’s here that you can see that, at some point in their development, the ATV games looked (or at…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedHoly Shit, Fez Might Actually be Out Soon!
Polytron’s Fez, a world-shifting indie platformer that’s been coming to Xbox Live Arcade longer than some of you have been alive, might actually be out soon. Why? It’s been rated by the ESRB. To be rated by the ESRB, it’s got to be almost completely finished, at least in terms of classifiable content. Last we…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedIn France, you Sell Resident Evil With Yoghurt and Cruise Ships
What a breath of fresh air! No fancy pre-rendered trailers, no gruff American man giving a gruff American voice-over. Just a couple of French ladies selling a zombie video game using yoghurt and a cruise liner. These clips are for Resident Evil: Revelations, which was released a few days ago and which Totilo liked very…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
LEGO Universe Just Died a Sudden, Peaceful Death
The second this story went live, at midnight EST, January 30, the lights went out on LEGO Universe, a massively-multiplayer game that should have been amazing, but in the end, was far from it. With Minecraft doing everything people wanted from a LEGO game, and this LEGO game doing little to capitalise on why people…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012