Well, That’s One Way to Censor Animated Nipples

Ideas of what’s socially acceptable differ from country to country. What some might think is okay, others might not. Take blue pierced animated nipples, for example. That might be cool where you live. Maybe not. Note: This story contains content some readers might find objectionable. When Japanese anime Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic was broadcast…

Everyone Gets Pokemon X and Y At The Same Time. Here’s Why.

As the release date of Pokemon X and Y approaches, this will be the first game in the official series with a (for the most part) simultaneous international release, and those involved hope that by doing so, they’ll be able to level the playing field. “Until now, the pattern has been to release games overseas…

Space Engineers Makes Crashing Spaceships Into Things Look Crazy Fun

Because clearly, the best thing to do with a freshly-built spacecraft is to crash it into an asteroid. From the makers of Miner Wars 2081 comes Space Engineers, a heavily physics-based multiplayer sandbox game about mining asteroids and engineering, building and maintaining space stations and spaceships. It is, per the developer’s words, inspired by “reality…

Colorful Penguins Have Something To Do with the PS Vita Slim

I’m not sure what, but who cares? Colorful penguins might not be slim and light, but they sure are cute! PS Vita２０００　TVCM 「登場」篇 [PlayStationJp@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points…

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Gamers Want Dead or Alive Bikinis

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters is a free-to-play version of DoA 5 Ultimate. The game has perks and items available for purchase, including the story mode of the full game and all the other characters. But it looks like what players really want are the sexy threads. One of the Dead or Alive…

Here’s How You Turn A Friend Into a Tecmo Bowl Fan… In Song

Tecmo’s football game is a true classic, but it can be difficult to get someone else to play it, especially if they’re not sports game fans. Brentalfloss is one such person—at least in his newest themes-with-lyrics video. Tecmo Bowl WITH LYRICS feat. Niko Tsakalakos! [brentalfloss@YouTube, thanks Brent!]

South Korea Is Finally Getting a Robot Theme Park

Disneyland? Meh. Universal Studios? Been there, done that. Robot Land? Now, we’re talking. For years now, there has been talk in South Korea about a robot theme park. Construction was supposed to start in 2009, but it never happened. (Heck, several years ago, I spent some time in South Korea talking to researchers about it…

Breathe or Play the Nintendo DS? A Mother’s Chilling, Final Question

According to Japan’s largest media outlets, a question about video games has ended in an unsettling murder. Note: This post contains content that some readers might find objectionable. In Tokyo, 42 year-old mother Shizu Shigeta is on trial for killing her 5 year-old son in September of last year. Asahi.com reports that her five-year old…

Why Is Ash from Pokémon Such a Loser?

The Pokémon Origins anime special offered a reminder of one thing: Ash is a pretty lousy Pokémon trainer. If only he could reach his true potential! Eh, he can’t. Note: This post contains spoilers. If you’ve followed the Pokémon anime, you’ll know that Ash (or “Satoshi” as he’s called in Japan) isn’t exactly the best…

Build A Ship, Lose The Ship, Build Another Ship, Go Shoot Some Ships

Defect SDK is a game about designing a ship, building it then going off into space to do some damage. The catch being that at some point, the perfect ship you’ve designed to beat will be turned against you when your crew defects. Forcing you to design an even more perfect ship to beat it.…

The Video Game That Began With…Pictures Of Ellen Page

It began with an idea. David Cage sits at his desk, but he can’t write. He looks for an image. He can’t remember the words he types into the search engine but, before he knows it, on his screen, a photograph of the actress Ellen Page. A funeral, a single idea and pictures of Ellen…

Cheap Robot Arm Turns Disabled Kid Into Sci-Fi Superstar

Dee Faught is 17, and suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as “brittle bone disease”. For years he’s been unable to perform even simple tasks like turning off his own lightswitch. Now, however, he’s got a degree of independence. All thanks to his badass new robot arm. A team of student engineers at Rice Universeity…

Playing As A Blind Girl Is More Colorful Than You’d Think

Beyond Eyes is a game by Sherida Halatoe, where you control a young girl who was blinded in an accident. Fearful of outside spaces, she nevertheless has to set off on an adventure when her cat goes missing. Despite being blind, she gets around by using her other senses to reveal the environment to you,…

Los Santos Is A Beautiful Place (If You Stand Still Long Enough)

Spend your time driving and everything whizzes past you in a blur. Spend your time running around and you’re likely more focused on shooting people than admiring scenery. But if you just stopped for a second and watched Grand Theft Auto V’s world pass you by, maybe you’d appreciate just how beautiful it is. A…

Pokemon Leaker Says “Heads Are Rolling” At Nintendo

A bevy of alleged Pokemon X & Y images and videos are currently floating around the web right now, but one leaker in particular caught the attention of a lot of folk on the internet…and Nintendo. The images we posted earlier today, came from Instagram user kosthedin—but by the time of publication, all pictures had…

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The Space People Of The Future Have Rad Spacesuits

The last we saw of Patryk Olejniczak, he was making Mass Effect fan art so good he won himself a job at BioWare. Today, though, we’re looking at two very different examples of his work: Game of Thrones fan art and insanely-detailed spacesuits. You can see more of Patryk’s work at his personal site and…

Slo-Mo Skateboarding + Chalk = Shredding In Style

It might be messy to pull, but if you add a whole lot of chalk dust to your skateboard before doing a trick, the resulting cloud of colors can be amazing. So while you may have seen slo-mo skateboarding videos before, thanks to the chalk effects here, I doubt they were as visually arresting or…

The power of a dinosaur suit: Hyperbole and a Half is back, and you simply must read their latest update about a four-year-old going mad with power in a dinosaur suit.Freakin’ hilarious.

No objections here: Capcom’s got a great blog post today about the localization process behind Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. “…we’ve labeled him a samurai instead of a rōnin (which are technically a subset of samurai). This deliberate choice was made because samurai are simply more easily recognizable and readily understood by a Western audience than…