It started with a promise: “If the class’ test scores this month are the highest for this grade in school, I will teach in a maid’s outfit,” a teacher in China apparently told her students. According to Xinhua, the teacher stayed true to her word, showing up in a frilly maid outfit and teaching a…
PS3 firmware (4.30) is causing Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. to freeze, Sony said. An update to fix is incoming.
Tales of Xillia is a great game—perhaps the best JRPG on the PlayStation 3. It was the second best-selling PS3 game in Japan last year (ninth best-selling in Japan overall), with 660,000 copies sold. And in a country where anything over 100,000 copies sold is considered a financial success, Tales of Xillia was a run-away…
In the press image Burger King Japan released of its new “Bomb Pumpkin” burger, you can see the lettuce sitting atop ten slices of Japanese squash. In reality, however, it’s a different story. Japanese site Gigazine ordered the pumpkin behemoth burger, which didn’t appear to have any lettuce whatsoever. Oh, but there is lettuce—a solid…
Spotted in a Japanese men’s fashion magazine, this hair and make-up job is Pikachu themed. It’s also frightening. The ears look like clip-on decorations—they were supposedly made with what’s called “sukige” (すき毛), which is fake hair that’s sometimes used for more volume. These were then colored yellow and black. The look is completed with face…
What roleplaying games have that separates them from other types of games is their focus on story more than gameplay. And with this deep exploration of the story comes a game far longer than other genres. While you will spend an average of ten hours on most single-player titles, RPGs can easily last triple that…
Browser Sengoku Basara, the browser game version of Sengoku Basara, is going offline after debuting this summer.
To kick off Surface, Microsoft held big launch events in China. At the midnight event in Beijing, there were dancers, loud music, and one pissed off grandma. That’s when things got ugly. According to Sina, the noise was apparently keeping her grandchildren awake—a problem since the next day was a schoolday. So the grandma and…
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Bandai’s annual Tamashii Nations figure event steamrolls Tokyo. Do you like collectable, plastic friends? Then this might be the event for you. On display were an array of Japanese figures, ranging from super heroes to heroines, as well as robots and monsters. Websites Moeyo and Gigazine were on hand to…
The author of The Zombie Combat Manual Roger Ma is back with a new guidebook: The Vampire Combat Manual, which dispenses advice on how to battle vampires. In the excerpt below, Ma tackles misconceptions about the imagery beings—just in time for Halloween: MISCONCEPTION #1: VAMPIRES ARE METAPHYSICAL BEINGS Of all the falsehoods that exist regarding…
This isn’t a matter of having enough badges to train Charizard—you’re going to need to win a raffle to snag this limited edition 3DS XL. Between November 3 and November 26 at Pokémon Center retail shops across Japan (or via mail-in), you can enter to win the chance to buy this very special 3DS XL…
Jonatan Soderstrom, one of the duo behind the fantastic Hotline Miami, should be the last person on Earth giving advice to people pirating his games. So it’s weird/nice to see him actually being one of the first. On the game’s thread at torrent site The Pirate Bay (and spotted by PC Gamer), Soderstrom has dropped…
It’s all just so…beautiful. Where most game artists have a palette that starts at “violent” and ends at “dark”, Theo Prins’ work here has a warmth and colour to it that’s as refreshing as it is a pleasure to look at. Theo works at Guild Wars 2 developers ArenaNet, on whose site you can read…
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 months, the epic legal battle between Apple and Samsung has been one of the biggest tech stories of the year. It’s a bitter fued, with billions at stake, so it’s sad to see poor little ol’ video games dragged into the fight in…
When you blindly click “agree” on Square Enix’s online terms & conditions, you probably didn’t notice that you’re saying you agree to allow the publisher to record the way you play a game. While this sounds nefarious, it’s actually part of an operation run from an office in London—and detailed in this MCV report—whose job…
Terrifying robot watch update: in the video above, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robot called “Pet-Proto” is locked in a corridor and presented with two obstacles. The first is a step it must climb onto. The second is a gap it must inch across. It’s like a video game tutorial. Only instead of…
Just a few months after cold, unfeeling automatons came to Valve’s hit co-op shooter in Mann vs. Machine, the publisher’s unleashing waves of the undead on Team Fortress 2 According to Polygon, an update to the Team Fortress 2 website announced a two-week Scream Fortress event that will herald the return of necromancer Merasmus, who…
Just when you thought one of the world’s greatest ever video games couldn’t get more perfect, along comes modder Skelux to pile more icing on top of the cake. Super Mario 64, for 16 years a singleplayer adventure (well, DS version excepted), has been modified to include a co-op mode. You can see it in…
It’s almost Halloween, which means it’s time to break out our ironic re-cuts of famous horror films and make them seem different than they actually were! I enjoyed this recut by Film School Rejects, though, mostly because it doesn’t just use happy images; it also uses some disturbing ones. And hey, while we’re here, let’s…
Paris, you used to be the city of romance, and beauty! Then Remember Me’s brutally dystopian sci-fi future came along and ruined everything. This piece is by Paul Chadeisson, who we’ve featured on Kotaku previously. Bonus shots below. Passage parisien [Paul Chadeisson]
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