Cosplayers have it rough. It’s not simply coming up with the outfits and posing for all those pics. It’s also the jerkwads they have to deal with. Of course, not all cosplay photographers are bad people—many are very good people. But according to Japan’s Weekly Jitsuwa, there was apparently a “tousatsu team” (盗撮チーム) or “Peeping…
Every summer there’s a new Pokemon feature film in Japan. And every Pokemon film seems to rope in a big celebrity to do voice work. In the past, Akihiro Miwa and Shoko Nakagawa lent their talents to the flicks. For the upcoming flick, popular Japanese model Rola will be voicing “Marine”, a young girl Ash…
Guild 01 is an upcoming 3DS game made by four different creators. It’s not really “one game” per se, but four games. The games include Kaiho Shojo, a shooting game from Goichi Suda. There’s also Rental Bukiya de Omasse—a game in which you are an arms dealer. Then there’s Air Porter, a airport baggage simulator.…
You are looking at some of the strangest Neon Genesis Evangelion products ever released: Evangelion branded mini toy horses. Neon Genesis Evangelion is an iconic Japanese manga and anime that launched in the mid-1990s. The Italian inflatable Rody toy is teaming up with apocalyptic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion for mini Rody horses made to look…
Cosplay is a fine hobby. Heck, if you are into cross-dressing, that’s fine—who am I to judge? But flashing people is not cool. Flashing schoolgirls is definitely not cool. And neither is flashing schoolgirls while dressed as a schoolgirl. According to Japanese media reports, a 37 year-old policeman was arrested for exposing his genitals to…
Kyoto-based figure maker Volks held its seventh “Hobby Round” show in Tokyo this weekend. At it, Volks unveiled a host of new and upcoming figurines and models. There’s the usual bishoujo (“beautiful girl”) insanity, but also Volks military vehicles and mecha. What always makes Volks so interesting is how varied its range is. Check out…
Sega. Capcom. Namco. The three game companies are collaborating on a new role-playing 3DS game called Project X Zone The game features characters from the three game makers. So Capcom is bringing Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter, Zero and X from Mega-Man, Jill and Chris from Resident Evil, and Dante from Devil May Cry…
You know “Engrish”? The incorrect and strange English that appears throughout Japan is something some English (and even Japanese) speakers enjoy laughing at. You see funny English on signs, company slogans, and, most often, t-shirts. Hahaha, right? But what about when foreigners don t-shirts with goofy Japanese? More hahaha. Japanese and English are very different.…
We got an email overnight from a reader, and the subject line was “Real life Zelda?”. I feared the worst. Some bad fan art, perhaps, or even worse, an awful fan film project. How wrong I was. If you’re just a regular human, you’ll probably laugh. Wonder why the kid doesn’t just drop the food.…
I know, there’s only 365 days in a year. We’ll get to that discrepancy in a minute. Aussie artist Campbell Whyte set out last year on a mission. He wanted to paint a small image every day of the year, each one based on a NES game. While his original aim was to paint the…
“Premium Edition” bundles often include statues or plastic weaponry. They’re a way for fans to feel closer to the game—and a way for publisher to milk extra money from said fans. And boy does Capcom love milking money! And with this bundle, Capcom is going to milk a lot of it. The upcoming Premium Edition…
Further proof that giant swords designed by Japanese artists are entirely impractical in the real world, Michael “Giant swords are kinda my thing” Craughwell has built a 1:1 replica of Dante’s Rebellion sword from the Devil May Cry series. Built entirely from steel, and weighing a whopping 33.5 pounds, it doesn’t look quite as manageable…
The worst we normally get from irate psycopaths are angry/entertaining emails. For Zynga boss Mark Pincus, though, things are a lot more serious, to the point where he needs an absurd amount of security to ensure the safety of his family. Since last year, Pincus claims that he’s been stalked by a stripper, and while…
Reddit user lurker_becomes_lurkd has turned the draw distance on World of Warcraft all the way up to eleven, and in a series of screenshots lets us look down on the world of Azeroth as though we were Gods. It’s…clearly not designed to be seen from this kind of distance (it needed some tweaks – not…
I’ve not been terribly excited by the Game of Thrones video games we’ve seen to date. I am, however, terribly excited by this single image, showing one man’s dream for a stylish 2D fighter based on the heroes of Westeros. It will never become a thing, but Dynamaito, you’ll still win my heart if you…
Here’s a new, very chatty gameplay trailer for Diablo III featuring everybody’s favourite giant-in-a-loin-cloth, the Barbarian.
This is very exciting. Nearly three years ago, I did a story on Han Solo Adventures, a fan-made project looking to bring the world the 1990s Lucasarts x Star Wars adventure game it never actually got. Given this was three years ago, I’d given the project up for dead, but no. In the last few…
Get a cup of tea, a biscuit or two and settle in for ten minutes worth of Nintendo Power Glove propaganda, courtesy of the official VHS cassette guide to the peripheral. It is something you really should watch. From the product placement to pseudo-religious tone throughout, it’s as perfect a summary of one of Nintendo’s…
Due to the overwhelming popularity of its Smash Bros. series, a lot of people give Nintendo credit for pioneering the idea of a fighting game bringing together a company’s mascots in the name of face-punching. Sega fans, though, will know that Smash Bros. was just the latest in a long line of such titles. One…
Hello, Kotaku! I just thought I’d give you a nice and lovely and heartwarming image for your Tuesday night open thread. No reason other than that. Nope. I hope you’re having a good week so far. Here, gathered from around the internet, are some things to check out and talk about. Our former boss Joel…
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