Last week, shortly after an earthquake rocked Japan, a tweet tore up Twitter and pissed the country off. The tweet by @Reonandnene read, “Because of the earthquake, my house collapsed, and moreover, I cannot get out. I’m trapped under rubble. Please call for help.” The tweet raised the concern of a local fire department and…
It’s a parody. With edited porn imagery. Yesterday, this faux commercial appeared on Japanese video site NicoNico Douga, and since then, the clip has been spreading around Japanese cyberspace. This Wii U parody plays on the “game/gayme” pun and uses some footage from Japanese gay porn A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream (“Manatsu no Yoru no…
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Japanese erotic games do feature hardcore sex scenes, but there is an “adventure” part during which players interact with fully clothed characters. While there are exceptions, those clothes are often dorky. Very, very dorky. A recent thread on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, asked why erotic game characters wear such unfashionable threads. “It’s because people…
Just as Mario looks strange clean shaven, Yoshi looks truly odd without his round, bulbous schnoz. Then again, so does everyone. During the recent earthquake in Japan, a Yoshi figure was unfortunately damaged, which lets us see the iconic Nintendo character in a new and somewhat unsettling light. ACK! These are two photos of the…
In the West, Level-5 is perhaps best known for the Professor Layton puzzle games. In Japan, the Fukuoka-based game company is also famous for its Inazuma Eleven soccer games. Those games are at the center of a lawsuit. According to Yomiuri Online, Sega is suing Level-5 for patent infringement in the Inazuma Eleven Nintendo DS…
It’s been a long, hard year. But 2012 is coming to an end, climaxing in the end of year holidays. There’s been a plethora of game posts here on Kotaku. Some of them have been breaking, some of them have been enlightening, and some of them have not exactly been safe for work. So, let’s…
When an air combat game seems based on females painted on World War II bombers, you should know what you are getting into. Ditto for a game named Bombshells: Hell’s Belles that stars female pilots. Bombshells, geddit? But Bombshells is more than it first appears to be. In the game, you are facing off against…
Losing gracefully is hard. Winning gracefully ain’t easy, either. A 29 year-old man in Fukuoka never learned the latter, it seems. According to Sponichi Annex, the man was recently playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card battle game against an 11 year-old boy in a card shop. After the man won twice, the sixth grader got up to…
Dark Souls II has a website. It’s… dark.
While in Los Angeles for the Video Game Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima squeezed in some Hollywood meetings: One was with producer Avi Arad; the other was with filmmaker J.J. Abrams. The tweets didn’t exactly offer any details. In one, Kojima said he had a meeting with Arad about the movie. In the other,…
Japanese comedy site Megwin bought a cardboard Wii U and put it through the paces, complete with plastic throwing stars, toy swords and pellet guns. If you don’t know Japanese, click on the annotations button for English subtitles. WiiU世界最速レビュー!!体験体感超楽しい!! [Megwin@YouTube via Tiny Cartridge] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…
Just look at Jabba! He’s so cute. And George Washington. And Bismarck. All of them are just adorable with those big Japanese anime eyes. This fall, Tumblr site The Kawaii Project started getting attention online for its series of “cuted up” photos of famous (and regular) folks with giant anime eyes. Since then, the Tumblr…
There’s a teaser site up for a Theatrhythm game. Smart money says it’s a mobile port.
Longtime owners of Nintendo hardware know how the handhelds and game machines have always been built tough. In recent years, that seems less true (DS Lite hinge problems, anyone?). And even less so for Nintendo’s newest hardware, the Wii U. In Japan, a Twitter user uploaded this pic of a busted GamePad, writing that it…
PSY is sitting on top of the world. His song Gangnam Style is about to log its one billionth view, and PSY is performing in Washington D.C. in front of the President. Everything is going well for PSY, except one thing: his anti Anti-American protests. Born Park Jae-sang, the 34 year-old rapper went to college…
“Please retweet this,” @Reonandnene’s message started. “Because of the earthquake, my house collapsed, and moreover, I cannot get out. I’m trapped under rubble. Please call for help.” The tweet hit only an hour after the quake. It was retweeted over 12,000 times. And it was all a lie. Tonight, a very real earthquake did rock…
The DualShock. When you look at the original PlayStation controller, you probably see an iconic game controller. These guys see something they can press into each other’s backs. Mitsuhiro Saitou, a writer from Japanese site Daily Portal, became a pro masseur. With his newfound knowledge of pressure points, he decided to see if the original…
DS game Devil Survivor 2 is being made into an anime called Devil Survivor 2 The Animation. Such a clever title!
Dead or Alive 5 is coming to the PS Vita currently known under its working title, Dead or Alive 5 Plus. Above is the logo. Other than that, info is scant. Japanese game site Game Impress Watch wonders what does the “plus” refer to? Dead or Alive 5 Plus will be out in Japan on…
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