YouTube user blankchip18 used ten pounds of Gummy Bears to make a stop motion tribute to Tetris, Breakout, Pac-Man and more. Gaming Goes Gummi [GameInformer]
At the Taipei Game Show earlier this year, event areas had girls on stage dancing to pop tunes. But that’s not where the real action was. Taiwanese otage (dancing idol otaku) turned out a blistering performance of “Megu Megu Fire Endless Night”. Watch what they do 2 minutes in. Something tells me these guys practiced.…
Who better to spend a C++ study break with than Pikachu Cthulhu. Cthulhu Pikachu [SadAndUseless]
In the years that Kotaku’s been on the internet, the site’s done a wide array of things. One thing it’s never done is save an entire Japanese fishing village. Late last week, an Associated Press wire story regaled readers with the story of a small village, called Fudai, in northeastern Japan that survived the tsunami.…
“I was all bloody,” Keiji Inafune said recently. The game developer, best known for titles like Dead Rising and Mega-Man, was recalling a time before he made video games, the time he was in junior high school, growing up in one of Japan’s toughest areas and getting punched. Sitting in his brand new office with…
大丈夫だ、問題ない | JAPANESE ARCADES: Enoch from El Shaddai is coming to Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. (Photo: SEGA) When Monsters Hunt Kids In Costume, Pokemon Simply Sit & Watch Well, if it isn’t Kirin from Monster Hunter. Who says the series isn’t popular in the West. It’s popular enough for somebody to dress up as…
On May 12, a 10 year-old grade-schooler in Kochi City and her friend waere playing with her Nintendo game portable along the city’s waterway. A 23 year-old man named Akira Nakamura appeared and said, “Let me see your game machine.” According to Yomiuri Online, the girl lent her handheld and two games to the unemployed…
This June, actor Takayuki Yamada, known for the Densha Otoko movie, stars in his latest television drama, Yuusha Yoshihiko to Maou no Shiro (Hero Yoshihiko and the Devil King’s Castle). Writer-director Yuuichi Fukuda penned the original script—it doesn’t look original, though. If you’ve played a Japanese role-playing game in the past twenty years, the drama…
In Duke Nuke: Forever, a wide variety of heterosexual tropes get probed. “Sexuality is part of Duke’s personality,” game designer Randy Pitchford recently said at the BAFTAs in London. It’s part of the games, too. Pitchford and his studio Gearbox Software considered adding a “gay robot” sidekick (not pictured) to the upcoming shooter. The reason…
To promote Angry Birds, Deutsche Telekom and game developer Rovio joined forces for a video in the Spanish city of Terrassa, reports Spanish site Hasta los Juegos. There was a giant Angry Birds set-up, with explosive pigs and destructible structures. A jazz group was on hand to blast the game’s theme. According to Hasta los…
As a kid, I was always impressed with models. I was more impressed with full-blown dioramas—still am. These dioramas, though, aren’t merely impressive; they’re brain-destroying. At the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show, Star Wars and Gundam dioramas nearly stole the whole damn show. The level of detail in these miniature masterpieces is stunning. They’re like those…
Out of all of Capcom’s fan service characters, Morrigan Aensland from Darkstalkers is one of the most fan servicey. So is this cosplay. At the recent Cosholic cosplay event, cosplayer Morichi (site NSFW) wasn’t satisfied with merely doing a Morrigan cosplay. Instead, she did a “Morrigan Capcom Companion” cosplay, based on a series of figurines…
The PSN’s service is being restored in North America, Europe, Australia and Latin America. In Japan, it’s not. Governmental bureaucrats at the Ministry of Economy’s Media and Content Industry department won’t allow Sony to resume its PSN service until the electronics giant gives more information on new security measures. “We met with Sony on May…
TODAY, TOMORROW? | SAN RAFAEL, CA: This week, Toyota said the high yen is hurting its ability to make cars in Japan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan | Getty) Nerd Gold for Your Shelves At the recent Treasure Festa figure event in Japan, collectibles were on show and for sale. Some were one-off, while others are upcoming…
The Dreamcast isn’t dead. It’s resting. The Sega console keeps getting new games thanks to homebrew developers like Redspotgames and NG:DEV.TEAM who continue to support the Dreamcast, years after Sega gave up. According to these devs, the best part about developing Dreamcast titles is that you don’t have to worry about getting a license for…
Releasing on May 17, Christmas-themed nightmare shmup Deathsmiles IIX is U.S. bound. The upgraded version of the arcade favorite features new stages and will hit Xbox 360’s Games on Demand for US$29.99. According to the game’s publisher, the game isn’t localized into English and player’s can’t use Microsoft Points (credit card only).
Senritsu no Stratos is an upcoming PSP game that looks familiar. Developed by Nude Maker and published by Konami, the game is being designed by Hifumi Kono, who did Infinite Space for Sega. The debut trailer kind of looks like famed anime Neon Genesis Evangelion
The easiest Bowser cosplay? This backpack. That’s it. Dubbed the “Reptillian Mad Pax Backpack”, this leather and mesh backpack is priced at US$59.99. It also comes in pink. REPTILIAN MAD PAX BACKPACK [Perpetual Kid via Gigazine]
At the recent Treasure Festa figure event in Japan, collectibles were on show and for sale. Some were one-off, while others are upcoming production models. All were awesome. On display were figures from role-playing game Persona 3, Konami shooter Otomedius, visual novel Fate/stay night, Sega’s Shinning Wind, shooter Xevious, sci-fi opus Neon Genesis Evangelion, role-playing…
Virtual idol Miku Hatsune held amazing concerts in Japan that were put together by Sega (and some crappy ones by another company). Sega’s bringing her to this year’s Anime Expo for her North American debut concert. Vroom! [ANN]
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