In the new book Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential, our very own Kotaku Senior Contributing Editor Brian Ashcraft and co-author Shoko Ueda explore how Japanese schoolgirls have changed Japanese society. Featuring interviews with numerous celebrities, pundits and students, the book traces their impact of Japanese schoolgirls on movies, music, magazines, fine art, anime, manga, fashion, technology, and…
Will the Pokemon dating advice ever stop? We can’t recommend this technique, because we don’t know how it turned out. [Via Twitter, Thanks Xris]
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To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: This Plant Is Your Role Model I cleaned the house this morning. By afternoon, it was a disaster zone. I cleaned it this afternoon. By this evening, it looked like a tornado ran through it. It’s now after 10pm here, and I give up! What you missed last night Colbert…
Thousands apparently lined up, but it was the first guy in line who cried after waiting in line over 24 hours. As seen on Geekbot
A British high court has ruled against R4 companies Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan. It is now illegal to import, advertise and sell R4 cartridges in the United Kingdom. The R4 emulator carts are used to pirate Nintendo DS games. According to website Develop, the court set a legal precedent by ruling the carts…
While we toil away on an actual Starcraft II review – which I won’t be writing – let’s pass the time with some quick, dirty singleplayer impressions. Which I will be writing. So, yes, this isn’t a review. Don’t go asking why I’m not talking about this, or that, or why I said this and…
At first glance, I thought this was a statue. Maybe, if I was lucky, some constructive Warhammer 40K cosplay. Turns out, no, it’s something even better: a bipedal PC case mod. Yes, inside the belly of this Dreadnought is not the mind of a fallen hero, but a personal computer. Which, yes, is useful, but…
Sony’s PlayStation Portable has a lot of features: The ability to play games, to run movies, access the internet and more. Does it have beautiful women telling you what time it is? It will soon. Bijin-Tokei, “Beautiful Woman Clock”, is making the leap to the PSP. The clock was previously released on the iPhone —…
Starcraft II may be a work of fiction, but that doesn’t mean everything in Starcraft II is fantasy, with scientists sounding off on the plausibility of many of the game’s key biological and technological cornerstones. Speaking with GamePro, scientists from UCLA, University of Illinois, George Mason University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and…
The BP oil spill has been plugged. The containment cap looks remarkably similar to a design submitted by an anonymous plumber. Who’s this plumber? Stephen Colbert knows. Click to view Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Note: This video may not be viewable in all regions. Colbert Nation [Colbert Nation Thanks, Austin!]
Ten seconds into this trailer for upcoming DS title Fractured Soul, it doesn’t look like much. Then the action pans back, and you see both screens, and suddenly things get interesting. A hybrid platformer/shooter from Australian studio Endgame, Fractured Soul takes the light/dark mechanic found in so many games and makes it a little more…
In June 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into Tokyo’s crowded geek district Akihabara, killing seven and injuring ten more innocent pedestrians. The Japanese media tried to make a connection between either anime or role-playing games. Even writing a notebook full of English was viewed with suspicion. At the time, Kato told police, “I…
The guys at Dinohoodies build custom hoodies. Dinosaur hoodies. To your specifications. And some people’s specifications are “screw dinosaurs, make mine a Murloc”. Based in London, Dinohoodies’ Charlotte and Paul have made at least three hoodies based on World of Warcraft’s most famous lizards, and they’re really something else. Not content with simply printing Murloc…
This Resident Evil: Afterlife poster is all 3D-y. As seen on Bloody Disgusting
Street Fighter and Tekken, together across two games. Sounds like a dream (or a nightmare!), but it’s real. So real, in fact, we’ve got ten more screens from the game to share. Capcom’s version of the game looks as you’d expect; like a Tekken-themed expansion pack for Street Fighter IV. If that’s something you feel…
This time it isn’t an employee falling off a roof or out of a window. This time, it’s pesticide. Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, is responsible for assembling the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Wii, the iPhone and more. After 250 workers at the company’s Chennai, India plant were hospitalized, Foxconn had no…
To go with Team Fortress 2’s Heavy, due out later this year, collectible company Gamingheads will be relasing another Valve-inspired statue. Only this one’s a zombie. It’s Left 4 Dead 2’s formidable Tank, and while you can’t make much out in this frustratingly blurry teaser shot, what you can see looks suitably detailed (and decomposed).…
Bandai Namco has brought its 1/1 scale Gundam statue back to life. It previously overlooked Tokyo’s Odaiba, but has now been resurrected near the Gundam figure factory in Shizuoka, Japan. All this plastic mecha talk makes my tummy rumble! Not only is there a 1/1 scale Gundam in Shizuoka, there is also a take-away stall…
At Comic-Con, a trailer was shown for the upcoming TV adaptation of the brilliant comic series The Walking Dead. Nearly every scene shown is lifted directly from the comics. Except for one, though it still looks familiar. You’ll see it come at around 4:10 into the clip. It’s from early in the comic series, when…
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