Disgaea is headed to Japanese smartphones as a card-based social game.

If You Haven’t Seen this Trailer Yet, You Are Already Dead

Here’s the latest trailer for Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2. The game is slated for the PS3, the Xbox 360, and Wii U. It’ll be out in Japan by the end of this year. 真・北斗無双 [YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from…

Hey Foreigners, You’re a Party Joke in Japan!

Back in 2008, Japanese costume company, JiG Paradise, raised eyebrows with its “Hello Gaijin-san Party Joke”. Now in 2012, that product has gotten slightly revised. The term “gaijin” (外人) is a shortened form of the official term (by “official”, I mean the term that’s used in government documents and on the evening news) “gaikokujin” (外国人).…

It’s the Pokemon MMO I’ve Always Wanted

Somehow this is the first time I’ve gotten my hands on World of Warcraft‘s version of Pokemon. This short video will give you a basic overview of what the next few months of PC gaming hold for me. You can capture them, heal them, eat them should you run out of food (probably not that…

Sony’s Headset Prototype Sure Gets Relaxing Music

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Kotaku checked out Sony’s new prototype headset. This latest trailer shows a bit of how the headsets mixes real world and video footage. If you missed our Prototype-SR impressions, check them out right here HMZ没入快感研究所「実験内容」 [Sony@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest…

Mists of Pandaria is Live in North America, and Today I Am a Panda

World of Warcraft‘s next expansion has gone live in North America, and the first thing I did was transform my Worgen into a Panda. And give him a sex change, because tails. So far things have been going rather smoothly on the Ysera server. I was disconnected once early on, but could log right back…

“Hopeless” Foxconn Workers Are Making the iPhone 5

Riots have broken out at the Foxconn factory where the iPhone 5 is being assembled. Production was suspended. Reports are that late last Sunday night, approximately 2,000 workers became enraged and began to trash the Foxconn Taiyuan campus. The incident was sparked by a security guard allegedly beating two workers. Photos show the wake of…

If Star Wars Had Been Made in the 1950’s, Alec Guinness Could Have Been a Dashing Han Solo

Canadian artist Dean Reeves has taken Star Wars back to a galaxy an even longer time ago, away from the 1970s and back a little further to film noir’s heyday of the 1950s. I would so buy these to frame and hang up and…oh, you can buy them. Awesome. GraphicLanguage [Etsy, via Super Punch]

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron‘s Multiplayer Gets Infinitely More Buggy Today

The recent introduction of the Dinobots to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron’s multiplayer seems to have been a rousing success. Now comes the time of the Insecticons. The Insecticons downloadable content hits later today, adding Shockwave’s big bad bugs to the online battle. High Moon has morphed the mechanical critters so they fit into the four…

Firefall’s Developers Accused (OK Not Really) of Giving New Recruits Something Very Nasty

There is nothing more mundane in the world of video game marketing than the bullet-point announcement. Unless the game’s developers go to the trouble of kinda realising this, and dressing the “news” up as an excuse to make a neat little video where everybody who works there gets to pretend they’re about to give the…

There’s a New Nintendo 3DS XL Color in Japan

Japan is getting a new 3DS XL color: “Blue x Black”. It will join the other available 3DS XL colors in Japan (Red x Black, Silver x Black, White, and Pink x White). Priced similarly at ¥18,900, it will go on sale October 11 in Japan. Update: Well, new for Japan—where I live. This was…

Google Has Been Watching What You Search For, Gamers

Google has published a report detailing everything it’s learned about gamers and their online search habits. As you’d expect; the company thrives off its advertising, so understanding how searches can be tied to ads is important for business! The results have been published in a paper called “Understanding the Modern Gamer”, which reveals things like…

Blowing on Cartridges Didn’t Help Them, It Hurt Them

Millions of people grew up worldwide convinced the way to get a busted Nintendo cartridge working was to blow on it. It may have worked sometimes, temporarily, but experts say you were actually doing a lot more harm than good. How? Well, as Mental_Floss writes, the common theory as to the cause (and success) of…

EA Hired a Man Just So You’d Stop Quitting

Valve is far from the only video game company hiring total outsiders to come in and help make them money. Electronic Arts has done something similar, with Forbes reporting they’ve hired Danish data analyst Jonas Lygaard, despite the fact he has absolutely zero experience in the games industry. What he did have experience in was…

This NES Zapper is Now a Real, Dangerous Laser Gun

It may have looked like something out of a more safety-conscious Star Trek episode, but Nintendo’s Zapper was about as harmless as fake plastic guns can get. Oh, except for this one. Which North Street Labs has turned into an actual laser gun that can set things on fire. It’s not an easy process –…

Good news, classic adventure game fans: Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is now in development

A Closer Look at Meet the Pyro’s Psychotic Fantasy Land

Laura Dubuk is an artist and designer employed at Valve, where her most recent public work was her contribution to the studio’s terrific Meet the Pyro trailer She’s also worked on games like Portal 2, and in this gallery you’ll see a collection of some of her best stuff, both from personal projects and from…

Looks Like Someone Has Already Hit Level 90 In World of Warcraft

Wow. That didn’t take long. World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria isn’t even out yet for most people (it unlocks in the US a few hours), but already it looks like we’ve got someone breaking through to hit the game’s new ceiling of Level 90. According to data-mining site Guildox, that someone is FS,…

There Are Two Types Of People: Those Who Love Movies Clichés, And Those Who Don’t

There really are two types of people in this world. A dichotomy, if you will. Okay, a lot of dichotomies, but dichotomies nonetheless. This amazing supercut pulls together clips from movies when a character says that “There are two types of people in this world.” Or, as Evan said when he showed me this: “There…

Japanese FemShep Statue is Surprisingly Unsexy

Kotobukiya, one of the world’s top collectible companies, has a line of pieces it calls “Bishoujo”. What that normally means for fans are statues of female characters rendered in anime style and with, um, disproportionate proportions There’s a market for that kind of thing, I’m sure, but for many it’s a little much. Which is…