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The Street Fighter IV of My Japanese Pop Culture Dreams
Japanese artist Kei Suwabe created profiles for characters that don’t exist in Street Fighter IV, but Japanese pop culture. If you are not familiar with Japanese pop culture—from kiddy shows to potato chips—some of the characters will be lost on you. There are universal favorites, however, like Colonel Sanders and Donald McDonald. (Yes, in Japan,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Nintendo Money Printing Press Is Finished. Huge Losses Expected.
Today in Osaka, Nintendo released its revised forecast for this financial year. Things are not good. “We had higher expectations for the year-end season, but failed to meet them,” Nintendo Satoru Iwata said today (via Reuters). Nintendo is facing a bigger than expected annual loss, facing competition from smartphones and battling a strong yen as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Erotic Game for Women Combats Hairy Dudes
No, Thank You!!! not only has the best name for an ero game aimed at females ever, it also has a unique feature: An “On/Off” choice for arm hair during sexy “event scenes”. So, if a lady player likes macho Maki, but hates his hairy arms, she can select a smooth armed version of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Asura’s Wrath and the Revenge of Boob Physics
A few years ago, “boob physics”—how breasts “jiggled” in video games—was actually a topic of conversation This was probably because Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki was actively promoting games (this, for example) during this period—games that featured boob physics. Boob physics are not a thing of the past—heck, there’s this example from last summer.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
This Man’s Asia Honeymoon. With a Cardboard Girl.
If you think being married to people is hard, try being married to a cardboard person. And then globetrotting around with your better half. Your better cardboard half, that is. Fabrice Requin is doing just that, trekking through Asia, making stops in Singapore, Bali, Japan, and more. Have you ever seen a man with a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Is This the Perfect Otaku Office?
My office? Nope. While it’s a mess of stuff, my desk doesn’t exactly scream otaku (though, the signed Kurt Vonnegut print above it is pretty cool!). This guy’s office, however, is otaku chic. Spotted over on DannyChoo.com, the office belongs to Dieta from Germany. Stereotypically, otaku space are packed with stuff and are dirty. This,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Report: Namco Ignored Programmer’s Mental Health. Programmer Committed Suicide.
Mr. N fell in love with Namco’s space shooter Xevious. On his job application, Mr. N wrote that from the moment he played Xevious as a junior high school student, he knew he wanted to make games. And he knew Namco was the company for him. Mr. N isn’t his real name, reported Japanese site…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
Do Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo Really Care? Do We?
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. Our iPhones and game electronics are made by hand, probably because it’s cheaper to pay a worker in China to fit, solder, and polish products than it would be to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2012 -
The Wii U Will be Out by Christmas in the US, Europe, Japan & Australia
While there’s still scope for slight delays, Nintendo has tonight eased fears of a drastically staggered release of the Wii U by confirming the new console will be out in all four major territories by Christmas. Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has told Reuters that the Wii U would be out in the US, Europe, Japan…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
Someone Turned TV’s The Office Into a Counter-Strike Map
YouTube user Blitzkrieg1981 has, after spending around 55 hours pausing and examining episodes of the hit TV show The Office, gone and replicated the entire thing as a map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike Fans of the original British series, sorry. This is the American version. Counterstrike Source The Office (TV) map [YouTube, via Reddit]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
Adolf Hitler Cuddling Dinosaurs? These Posters are Amazing.
Dino D-Day, a multiplayer first-person shooter released on PC last year, never really caught on as a game. Its premise, though – that the forces of the Second World War were able to harness the power of dinosaurs – was great. Something plainly obvious in these incredible promotional/propaganda posters. They don’t need to make sense.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
What Does Your Favourite Game Say About You? As a Person?
Sadly, it seems I missed Slacktory’s excellent “What Your Favorite Video Game (Series) Says About You” feature from a few weeks back. Sure, not every one of them is entirely accurate – or even remotely accurate – but the ones it gets right, it gets right. And even the ones it gets wrong can be…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012 -
Anti-Cheat Crusaders Blame Each Other for Battlefield 3 Hacks
Over the past week, a ton of innocent Battlefield 3 gamers have been wrongly banned from the game, the result of a hack movement protesting the use of (ahem) anti-cheat software. Of interest in the wake of the bans is who, or what, is to blame for the security lapse which allowed them to take…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 -
Deus Ex’s Sexy Pin-Up Photo Shoot (What?)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution not sexy enough for you? It was for me, (I’ve always asked for cereal boxes and cigarette smoke, Adam) but not cosplay photographer chrisfkn, apparently. WARNING: This post may be considered NSFW. I know, that sounds weird, but if you’re at home, you’ll see what I mean. He snapped this photo…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 -
Skyrim’s Quest Markers Can Now Lead You Around the Real World
Oh God. As if my Obsessive compulsive problems with Skyrim weren’t bad enough, there’s now the distinct possibility that the game’s quest markers could start turning up on the door to my garage and crapper. Etsy seller hollygreengeekcraft has turned the game’s quest icons into pixellated, real-world items, ready to be hung or slung from…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012 -
Hey, Lucas, Hands Off the Goddam Merchandise
Hello team Kotaku, and welcome to your mid-week open thread! The open thread was telling me that it missed you the last couple nights, and that it’s so glad to be back with you. It’s been a cool week so far, both in San Francisco and at Kotaku. It rained some, which was desperately needed,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2012
