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Get Married With Giant Gundam!
The most romantic day of your life. A next chapter. A new family. What better way to mark that occasion than with a giant mecha? Japanese wedding planner T&G are, well, planning a wedding ceremony for one lucky couple this Tuesday. The soon-to-be-wed couple were selected from 548 entries last month. A 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) RX-78…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Hero, Game & Watch Edition
As seen on on Hobby Blog.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Retailers Making Peanuts Off PS3 Slim
A Japanese retailer claims to its shop will only be making ¥700 (US$7.40) on each PS3 Slim sold. The reason for this, it seems, is buying the consoles from Sony and then selling the console at sticker price. We don’t have any data other than this and do not know how the PS3 Slim compares…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSP Minis Documents Leaked: Sony Learning From Apple’s Mistakes
Pocket Gamer have got their hands on some developer documents for Sony’s PSP Minis program, which reveal that – in one key area at least – lessons have been learned from the way Apple have done business on the iPhone. While Apple’s App Store has been lauded for its variety and scope, it’s often criticised…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Asking Dragon Quest Creator A Rude Question For Laughs
Yuji Horii has a spectacular comb-over. Something not lost on comedy program G-Tech when it had the Dragon Quest creator on to discuss DQIX. You ready for the what the Japanese internet is called an “unbelievable” question? G-Tech asked Horii, “Do you know what the bald-headed dance is?” To which the game designer replied, “I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tatsunoko vs Capcom Gets Four New Characters
Capcom’s Wii fighter Tatsunoko vs Capcom will, when it reaches Western shores, make the journey with some new content previously unseen in the Japanese edition. Like what? Like, maybe, online multiplayer. Along with four new characters. Yup. Four. Two from Capcom, two from Tatsunoko. There’s no word on who they’ll be, but you’re free to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bullet Hell Developer Is Considering Your Requests
Cave, known for fantastic, frantic shooters like Muchi Muchi Pork and DoDonPachi, has posted an email account where folks can, among other things, send requests for games they want on home consoles. Keep in mind, that Cave is asking Japanese users to send in Japanese emails for which games they want on Japanese Xbox 360s.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Persona 3 Portable Opening Looks Like This
This fall, Japanese game maker Atlus is churning out a PSP port of its popular PlayStation 2 role-playing-game Persona 3. The PSP version, dubbed Persona 3 Portable, will feature a female lead character.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
BioShock Movie Gets A New Director
Last we’d heard, the BioShock movie had been put on hold while studio execs looked for a cheaper place to film, along with a new director. Looks like they’ve found the latter. According to SlashFilm, Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will replace Gore Verbinski in the director’s chair (though Verbinski will remain as a “producer”). Never…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Our favorite Kotakuday? Ban Monday. While we don’t have any problem banning on regular days, we turn up the Ban Hammer sensitivity to MAXIMUM on Ban Monday. Here’s how it’s works: Send us the commenter page to tipsATkotakuDOTcom for anyone who should get the axe, err, hammer. You can put in your request at tipsATkotakuDOTcom.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Walk Through Gamescom
There’s something very unique about Gamescom among all of the video game trade shows around the world. It has a lot more heart, a lot more audience participation than anything I’ve ever seen before. I shot this video to show what I mean. In it I walked from the very back of Hall 9, the…
By Brian Crecente Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Papers, Please
To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 -
UncategorizedA Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle
This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Inglourious Mad Catz
As seen on Nineballninja’s Twitpic.
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Molyneux: Hate Mail Changed Fable II DLC
I guess this rates a spoiler alert, nearly a year after the fact. But the dilemma presented at the end of Fable II so outraged some players that they took to writing good old-fashioned hate mail to Peter Molyneux. In an interview on the choices the Fable series forces its player to make, Molyneux said…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Video of Kurt Cobain, Matt Bellamy in Guitar Hero 5
Two videos out in the wild show Guitar Hero 5 gameplay and two rockers as whom you may perform – well, in the Quicktime events anyway. Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Kurt Cobain of … does he need further identification? These vids were uploaded to DailyMotion by user SchnackAttack. Here is Cobain, performing, what else,…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Inmates and the Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum, delayed from a summer release and yet still stoked by an excellent demo, is this week’s AAA console drop. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box arrives on DS tomorrow, and NBA 2K10: Draft Combine hits XBLA Wednesday. This week’s count: 10 for the DS, six for the PC, five for the 360…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009