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You Don’t Have to Rip Out Your Spine for an English Translation

Because the folks at PlayStation Japan kindly posted one! Here is the Soul Sacrifice presentation in English for your listening pleasure. In it, there is game imagry, Japanese game people, and flashing lights. Who doesn’t love flashing lights?

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

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This Nightmare Car Crash Looks Like a Video Game, But It’s Real and Awful

It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real—and almost very deadly. Last week, a Hyundai YF Sonata pulled out of traffic and went tearing down the street, weaving through traffic, and piling into a stopped car. Ten people were injured (the driver broke ribs, while the passenger’s vertebrae was damaged), and the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

Kotaku East

Countdown to the Next Tales Game

As previously posted, Namco is working on a new Tales role-playing game. Here is the countdown clock if you are into those. I’m not! Namco]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

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Teacher Ate SD Card after Allegedly Photographing Up a Woman’s Skirt

On May 12, a 54 year-old junior high school teacher spent the evening at anime shop, Animate, in Osaka’s geek district, Den Den Town. The teacher, Manabu Wakita, was a regular, but he wasn’t looking for DVDs or anime goods. He supposedly had something else in mind: trying to snap photos up a woman’s skirt.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

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That Sure Looks Like a Final Fantasy Logo

For the Final Fantasy role-playing games, the logos are iconic. You can spot them a mile away and immediately recognize them. Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII is no exception, which makes this kwinky-dink all the more noticeable. Level-5, which has developed several titles for Square Enix, is working on a new multi-platform game called Time…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

Kotaku East

Good Foreigners Doing Good and Bad Foreigners Doing Evil

It was a touching scene. A young American male sat outside of a McDonald’s in Nanjing, sharing a meal with a homeless lady. He had purchased two orders of French fries and poured water into her water bottle. A passerby snapped photos and uploaded them onto a Chinese social working site. Online, people praised the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

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By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

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The Game of Thrones Theme, Performed by Two Ladies With Electric Harps

Twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, fresh off their tag-team effort harping (is that even a verb?) the theme to Skyward Sword, return with their take on the intro to Game of Thrones. It’s dorky as all hell, especially since these are electric harps and they’re in costume, but hot damn, it sounds great. Like the…