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Have Sex, Rent PS3 For Free!
Ah, love hotels. Those by-the-hour Japanese establishments built soley for sex. When couples are feeling randy, they head on over to places like Shibuya’s Casa Di Due. It’s one of the most colorful rest stops in the area’s love hotel mecca. Not only can customers rent costumes to entertain themselves, but PLAYSTATION 3s. Apparently all…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2007 - Uncategorized
You Got PS3 In My 360!
So Microsoft is advertising on the back of PSM magazine, encroaching on enemy territory, as it were. Well that’s nothing compared to what is set to greet fans who purchase EA’s European UEFA Champions League Event football game for the Xbox 360 once it hits stores. Turns out one of the event’s major sponsors has…
Michael Fahey Published January 31, 2007 - Uncategorized
Gates: Xbox is a PC
The most surprising part of today’s conversation with Bill Gates was when he not only fessed up to the Xbox being a glorified computer, something Microsoft has been denying since 1.0 launched, but said that Microsoft wouldn’t have gotten into gaming if it was only ever going to be about the gaming. “The reason we…
By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2007 - Uncategorized
Wii Pisses People Off
Nintendo’s Wii is leaving a lot of Revolution fans with a burning sensation. The photoshops are flowing like an awkwardly named Japanese game console after a suitcase of beer. From game forums like GAF, Penny Arcade and Quarter to Three to CNN, MTV, ABC and other proper demonstrations of three letters strung together, people don’t…
By Brian Crecente Published April 27, 2006 - Uncategorized
Brian Ashcraft Bio
Brian Ashcraft is a journalist based in Japan. He is the Senior Contributing Editor for video game site Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku in 2005, Ashcraft worked for Quentin Tarantino’s now defunct film distribution company, Rolling Thunder Pictures, where he assisted on The New York Times best-seller What It Is… What It Was!, a look…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 15, 2005