Got a bunch of Wii games? Want to exercise? Go outside and run around. But if you’re interested in ponying up cash for a peripheral… The U-Move controller is a fully functioning Nunchuck controller with an on-board pedometer that displays the number of steps players make and the amount of calories burned. It requires players…
Back in 2008, Square Enix said it was working on Dragon Quest X for the Nintendo Wii. Then…silence Fastforward to 2011, and Square Enix is talking about the game. Well, kinda. “The next Dragon Quest game, Dragon Quest X, will actually be released on Wii,” Dragon Quest Yuji Hori tells Nintendo Power. “I feel that…
Over on a Fallout 3 mod and community site are images of the Fukushima nuclear plant, recreated by a 25-year-old via a Fallout 3 mod for PCs. The reaction online in Japan is varied: from impressed to disgusted and everywhere in between. Some even thought these images were from upcoming downloadable content, unaware that they…
On the night of March 30, little Shizuku Tanaka was murdered in Osaka. Her feet and hands were bound by tape, and she was stuffed in a garbage bag. The bag was tied shut, and the three year-old is now dead. Her mother, 26-year-old Yui Tanaka, later told investigators, “Shizuku was being fussy and noisy…
If you’ve ever wanted to practice jumping off walls and swinging from poles, there’s the place for you: the street. But if you’d like to do it in a relatively controlled (and safe?) environment, try Tempest Freerunning Academy. It purports to be California’s first indoor facility dedicated to freerunning and parkour. And it’s got blocks…
Forget commercials. Forget print ads. What might make a sale in Japan is more than hype. It’s the presentation, namely of the in-store variety. In-store displays play an important part in sales – not just in Japan, but pretty much everywhere. Take JB Hi-Fi, Australia’s largest home entertainment retailer, which has a policy of using…
WABBIT SEASON | OSAKA, JAPAN: Springtime is a good time to get fresh air with friends. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Mega Man Universe Is Totally Canceled Mega Man Universe was supposed to be out this year on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. It won’t be. Capcom, the game’s developer, is shutting the title down…
Well, that’s what Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono thinks. And he’s even got an analogy to explain why “Until very recently fighting games have been a niche,” Ono tells the Guardian. “In order to play you needed to understand all the rules, you had to know exactly what to do in every situation.” In turn,…
When Square Enix is making heroines, it might start with the character’s back story or her role in the story. For example, in Final Fantasy XIII, the initial concept for protagonist Lightning was a “strong woman”. FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama tells Japanese game mag Famitsu, “it was personality-based instead of plot-driven.” Then Toriyama says the…
Between 2006 and 2010, a prison guard in Chiba Prison chatted with prisoners about things he should not have. He talked to them about video games and comic books. But that isn’t all. Disciplinary actions were taken against the officer on March 29. The 31-year-old former corrections officer said he thought the idle chatter would…
Screw warranties! Real men (and women) don’t need them. They are fearless when it comes to taking apart the 3DS with their bare hands. Putting it back together? Eh… That’s hard Here, a disassembled 3DS is reassembled with nothing more than tweezers and a screwdriver. Oh, a pair of hands, too. It’s a bit like…
WolfPupTK, the dude in the suit, is on a mission to raise awareness for the American Red Cross. And to do that he’s making videos, like this: Here he’s playing In the Groove on expert. In his fursuit. “The American Red Cross is a wonderful organization that is constantly helping others and saving lives,” writes…
“Minna no Theater Wii” (Everybody’s Wii Theater) is a streaming Wii service that launched in Japan in early 2009. And later this year, it will end. The service allowed Wii owners to rent movies like Inception or anime like Astro Boy with Wii Points. Fujisoft, the Kanagawa-based IT company behind Minna no Theater Wii, today…
At a recent charity event in Tokyo, No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda said he’s up for making another NMH “someday”. Obviously, he’s got his plate full at the moment with action title Shadows of the Damned. [via Famitsu]
In Akiba’s Trip, the PSP game in which an otaku dude strips “vampires”, a black machine appears in-game. It looks like an Xbox 360. In fact, that’s what I thought it was. That assumption, however, is totally wrong. Players can use a wide variety of otaku-flavored items as weapons in Akiba’s Trip. For example, plastic…
Mega Man Universe was supposed to be out this year on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. It won’t be. Capcom, the game’s developer, is shutting the title down and ceasing development. Mega Man Universe has been canned. In an official release, Capcom says the game is being canned for “various circumstances”. It is…
Even though she’s performed in concerts, Miku Hatsune is an entirely virtual creation. Pin-up model Risa Yoshiki, however, appears to be real! In the latest issue of Japanese tabloid Weekly Playboy, both idols, 2D and 3D, come together. Here’s how the promotional video for the photoshoot explains it: Beyond the limits of science, she came.…
The whole world watched as an explosion took the roof off Fukushima 1. The situation is far from resolved. Thankfully, the crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant now appears to be stabilizing. Deactivating the reactors, however, could take decades. For game developer Alexey Menshikov, it brought back memories of something close to Kiev, where…
SNAPSHOT | OSAKA, JAPAN: These “Potetong” are actually recommended for use while gaming as well as computing. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Xbox 360’s “New Disc Format” Is A 1GB Storage Boost So, Microsoft is testing a “new disc format”. The more fanciful of you are thinking that means “Blu-Ray”. The more sensible and…
While Hollywood is working on a new Silent Hill motion picture, a group of Silent Hill fans are finishing up The Confined. Heavily inspired by Konami’s horror game series, The Confined features a character that was originally created as a haunted house character last Halloween. The film’s creator, Nathan A. Quattrini, decided to carry over…
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