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Omnivores Rule - Kotaku
Soar through an alien world as a flying android. Dominate the environment with thunderous shouts —or surrender to the strange rhythms of wildlife. This planet does not obey humans. And maybe, neither should you.
Bladesmith Shop Simulator
Run your own bladesmith shop! Forge legendary blades by hand, heat, hammer, and grind weapons, stock shelves, sell to adventurers, hire heroes as staff, and expand your store. Compete with other players in bladesmith competitions and prove yourself as a master bladesmith!
Ghost Battalion - Kotaku
Game About Finding A Needle In A 5-Million-Piece Haystack Is Either Serene Or Stressful Depending On Who You Ask
Anime Practical Joke Goes Over The Line And Incites Mass Flaming
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Who here remembers Candid Camera? (Kids, ask your parents.) Whether you've heard of the actual TV show or not, the legacy of Candid Camera lives on in present day reality TV and movies. The concept is simple: Play a practical joke on someone and catch it on film.
So, How's That Japanese Manga on Steve Jobs?
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. The new Ashton Kutcher movie based on the biography of Steve Jobs, Jobs is headed to theaters tomorrow. Sadly, Japan won't be getting the movie until November. But, in the meantime, Japan has a new manga about the black turtleneck-wearing genius.
Once Again, Even More Japanese Developers Weigh In on the PS4
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Continuing with their series on the PS4, this week, Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu published the second half of their two-part developer interview, with several more Japanese developers sharing their thoughts on Sony's new console. Once again, the standard 3 questions were posed: 1.
You Can Adjust "Bounce" in the New Dead or Alive
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. For their upcoming fighting game, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, the developers at Tecmo Koei have created a new engine to bring their characters to life.
I May Have Misjudged Freedom Wars
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. My good friend Martin has a saying whenever we talk about upcoming movies: "Trailers lie." Rarely will what we see in a trailer accurately encapsulate what the actual finished movie or game will be like. A trailer is designed specifically to garner interest, and not necessarily to truthfully describe what it's selling.
Kingdom Hearts 3D Is Noob Friendly
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Gearing up for the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, this week, part deux of Tetsuya Nomura's interview was featured in Weekly Famitsu. Nomura discussed the latest in the Kingdom Hearts series (and added some more very vague references to Final Fantasy Versus XIII).
Suda 51 Is Turning This Gorgeous Anime Movie into an Action Game
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Coming to theaters in Japan on July 25th is the anime movie, Short Peace. The movie consists of four short movies by various directors – a couple of which (Hinoyoujin and Farewell to Arms) are from Akira creator, Katsuhiro Otomo. Now, a fifth part of the project has been announced... As a video game.
The Most Memorable PlayStation Games for Japanese Devs
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Developers play games too. They also have their likes and dislikes. 107 Japanese devs were asked what their most memorable game was out of two decades' worth of the PlayStation library. Here's the top 6.
Rain Would Probably Have Been Damn Hard as a Stealth Action Game
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. To me, Sony's upcoming rainy day adventure, Rain, feels like a spiritual successor to the PlayStation 2 classic Ico – the visuals, the atmosphere, playing the part of a child lost in a (mostly) empty world much larger than himself… So much so, that I almost expect Fumito Ueda's name to show up in the end credits.
What Jurassic Park Did for the Original PlayStation
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Over 20 years ago (1 day counts as "over," right?) Sony released the original PlayStation console and changed the face of gaming. Thanks in part to Jurassic Park. This week's Weekly Famitsu, was dedicated in large part to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sony's console.
Guild 01 Sequel, Guild 02, Features Ant-Sized Tanks And Monsters Every Friday
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Guild 01, the collection of 4 different games by 4 different directors from Level-5 for the 3DS, which will be hitting the stores in Japan on the 31st of this month, already has a sequel in the works. Guild 02 does not have a release date yet, but already it's looking to be as outlandish as its predecessor.
Namco Bandai Ready to Meld Games and Anime with New "Hybrid Discs"
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. This week in Weekly Famitsu, Namco Bandai Games CEO, Shin Unozawa sat down to discuss the company's 2011 performance, and some plans for the future. Despite a shaky start last year, Namco Bandai managed to pull in massive sales totaling ¥440 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
Sega on Why Phantasy Star Online 2 Is Free To Play
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. In March, Sega announced that their upcoming MMORPG, Phantasy Star Online 2 will be smart phone compatible and free to play. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Phantasy Star series producer, Satoshi Sakai, talked about Sega's somewhat ballsy decision.
Phoenix Wright Is Back For Ace Attorney 5, But Where's His Usual Cohort?
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Phoenix Wright is coming back to the courtroom (what ever happened to Apollo?) in the upcoming Ace Attorney 5 for the 3DS, but his trusty companion, Maya, may not be with him.
In Japan, Hatsune Miku Will Have Much to Teach You in School
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. First she was a singer, then she went on to be a dancer, a holographic performer, and even the star of her own game series. Now Hatsune Miku is branching out to her new career as... a teacher's assistant?
Your Rival in Keiji Inafune's Next Game is Basically Mega Man
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. In Azure Striker Gunvolt, you play the role of the electricity manipulating Gunvolt. If you thought that with Keiji Inafune as producer, Gunvolt would be just another enemy power-stealing Mega Man clone, worry not – That's your rival character.
Here Are Some Of The New Voluptuous Ninjas Coming To The PS Vita
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. The boob ninjas are back. With Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus coming to the PS Vita next February, developer Marvelous AQL has released a new trailer as well as images and profiles for 5 of its jiggly new ninja girls. Click through the gallery to see the titular new characters.
Japanese Arcade Owner Is So Sad about Japanese Arcades
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Video arcades are a dwindling business in Japan. Since the peak of the market in 2006, the number of arcades and scale of individual arcades has been dropping steadily. Kiyoshi Kameyama, the owner of the Amnet Gotannda arcade described the current video arcade climate in an interview with website Online Player EX.
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Had a Terrible Experience With MMOs
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. This week in his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer and director Naoki Yoshida recounted his earliest experiences with massively multiplayer online gaming. Shortly after entering the game business, Yoshida began to hear rumblings about a new online experience called Ultima Online.
DMC: Devil May Cry Features A Not-So-Sexy Version Of A Famous Demon
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. The DMC: Devil May Cry trailer from E3 showed a hack-and-slash action game set in a dark world where demons/devils control society through media and products. In the game, the main character, Dante, joins forces with an Anonymous-like group called The Order to fight against the demonic rulers.
Here, Try Out the Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies Demo For Yourself
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. But you may want to brush up on your Japanese before you do. Capcom has released a playable online demo of Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies to whet the appetites of Japanese fans looking forward to the July 25th release.
According to its Director, Kingdom Hearts 3 Was Revealed a Little Early
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Kingdom Hearts fans were overjoyed to the teaser announcement of Kingdom Hearts 3 at E3 on Monday. Tired of the wait? Ready to party? Well, don't too hyped up – the wait isn't over just yet.
If You Have Zero Twitter Followers, You Die in This Manga
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. How many Twitter followers do you have? How many Facebook friends do you have? How many would be willing to die for you? Welcome to the world of Real Account – A world where all social networking services have been unified under a single, universal, all-encompassing, and deadly service.
The PS4's Developer-Friendliness Explained: More Games in Less Time
It's nearly 2 months until the official release of the PlayStation 4, Sony's upcoming big black box of dreams and wonders. Sony has focused on creating a high-spec machine that not only offers a plethora of nifty features on the user side, but was designed specifically to be easy to develop for on the creator side. Speaking with Weekly Famitsu, Sony top man Shuhei Yoshida and Lead System Architect Mark Cerny discussed the next-gen console and its features.
Why Monster Hunter Is So Popular In Japan (And Struggles Everywhere Else)
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. The Monster Hunter series wasn't always the "monster" (heh heh) hit it is currently. Originally released for the PS2, the first game, Monster Hunter, and its sequel, Monster Hunter G, sold less than a million copies each.
Comiket's Not Just About Comics. It's Also About Awesome Cosplay
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Comic Market, aka Comiket is a bi-annual 3-day indie manga event. But it's not just about manga. As the biggest and most famous indie manga event in Japan, cosplayers come out in droves. And this year's winter Comiket 85 was no different.
Things Sound Grim for the Lupin Movie
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Lupin the Third is one of Japan's most iconic manga/anime characters, loved by millions. His second live-action movie adaptation opens on Saturday, and one of the first reviews for it is brutal.
Choose Your Resident Evil 6 Skills Wisely
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Resident Evil 6 will be out in less than two months, and apparently, the developers at Capcom want to make sure you have all the information you need to jump right into the game short of actually handing out copies of the manual. This time, new information on in-game Skills and Skill Sets has been revealed. Let's have a look.
Today I Played Taiko no Tatsujin With Virtual Gangsters
The Yakuza series of games have always been serious, testosterone-filled stories about hard men kicking each other's asses, broken up sporadically by mini-games, activities, and general fooling around. The latest game, Yakuza 5, is no different. As previously reported, Namco Bandai's Taiko no Tatsujin appears as a fully playable game within the Yakuza 5 game. So what's it like, playing a video game within a video game, a la Inception?
What Color Vita Would You Like? Japan Wants...
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Ever since the days of the Game Boy Pocket, color variant models of game consoles have become the norm.
When Manga Legends Collaborate You Get More Than Just an Awesome Manga
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. They say great minds think alike, but sometimes it's more entertaining when they don't. Akira Toriyama: Creator of the world-famous Dragonball and long-time character designer for the Dragon Quest series.
Pokkén Tournament Even Surprised Tekken's Producer
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. The upcoming Pokémon/Tekken arcade fighting game, Pokkén Tournament caught a lot of us by surprise, but apparently we weren't the only ones.
The Evil Within Will Be More About Using Your Brain Than Your Gun
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series is making a new survival horror game, The Evil Within. You've seen the trailer, now let's see what the man behind the madness has to say about it.
Square Enix Has Its Eye on China. Yeah, Just Like Everyone Else.
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Yoichi Wada, the guy at Square Enix who gets to sit in the "Chairman of the Board" chair is in China for the "China Digital Entertainment Expo" (also known as "ChinaJoy"), China's biggest game show.
It Felt Cheap at First, But Demon Gaze Is a Solid Vita RPG
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. "What the hell is Demon Gaze?" was my first response when I heard about this new game for the PS Vita from Kadokawa Games. The game was released on January 24th in Japan under the genre of "dungeon RPG," and almost immediately sold like crazy. Well… relatively crazy.
Yokai Watch Could be the Next Pokemon
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. "Yokai Watch? WTF is that?" was my first response when I heard about the 3DS game that had Brian ransacking toy stores. Yokai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ) is pretty much a Pokemon style game from Level-5 of Professor Layton fame, where the objective is to collect cute little fairy-like monsters – called Yokai – to battle with.
This is an Overdose of Attack on Titan Manga
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. I've been reading the Attack on Titan manga for a while now, but ever since the anime came out, things have been getting out of hand.
We Asked Japanese Gamers If They're Buying the New 3DS
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Nintendo has a new 3DS coming out in Japan next month. It's called the New Nintendo 3DS. Do you want one? Have you even heard of it? Kotaku East was at Tokyo Game Show, and much like our PS4/Xbox One poll from last year, we went around asking people if they were planning on getting the New Nintendo 3DS.
Bravely Default's Surprising Japanese Idol Influences
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. For several weeks after its release, every game store I went to was sold out of Square Enix's 3DS game, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. The game has proved to be a hit in Japan, thanks in part, indirectly, according to producer Tomoya Asano, to Japan's biggest pop idol group, AKB48.
This Drakengard 3 Character is a Virgin. Apparently That Matters
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Drakengard 3 (Or as it's known in Japan, Drag-On Dragoon 3), the 10th anniversary celebration of the original Drakengard is gearing up for its release this autumn. To get fans excited, Square Enix has been steadily releasing new information on the game to keep them interested.
Smash Bros. Creator Reviews the PS4
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. As creator of tent-pole franchises like Kirby or Super Smash Bros. you might think Masahiro Sakurai is a pure bred Nintendo loyalist. So what do you think he has to say about Sony's newest console? "First off, the console looks cool." Sakurai wrote in his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu.
The Metal Gear Solid Side Mission Demo Ended With A Badass Car Jump
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. If nothing else, Hideo Kojima knows how to work a crowd. So it's only natural that he'd have something extra planned for the public day live performance of Tokyo Game Show 2013. In addition to the 12-minute Ground Zeroes demo, Kojima also treated spectators to a brief side mission demo.
You're Not Worthy of this Avengers Thor Figurine
As people may have realized from my previous few reviews of figures from Hong Kong collectible toy company Hot Toys, I have been slowly gathering the Avengers team (among other cool figures). I suppose I'll get to my reasons as to why eventually. Anyhow, I received an email shortly after my Joker 2.0 review informing me that the Avengers Thor figure I had preordered last year was in the mail, so here it is for all to see.
Two Captain America Figures are Better than One
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was one of my favorite movies from last year, so when I learned that Hong Kong collectible toy maker Hot Toys was releasing a Captain America figure from the movie, only one word came to mind: Gimme. The new figure from Hot Toys comes with not only Cap in his stealth S.T.R.I.K.E. suit – must everything be abbreviated to spell something? – but Steve Rogers in his civvies as well for double the awesome.
In Japan, The Vita Has More Upcoming Games Than Any Other Console
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Overseas, the PS Vita continues to struggle, but in Japan, things are looking better for Sony's handheld. Things have not been easy for the little portable console ever since its launch over 3 years ago. One of the biggest complaints early on after the Vita's release was the lackluster library of games.
The Lineup for This Tactical Simulation Is Insane
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Banpresto's Super Robot Wars games are famous for having a mish-mash of characters from all kinds of different mecha games and anime.
Yakuza 5 Plot Sounds Epic, But There Will Still Be Porn Stars
Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. With the announcement that Yakuza 5 will feature 5 main characters in 5 major cities across Japan, and a new game engine to upgrade the outdated look of the series, Sega has released a teaser site and revealed the back story of the new chapter. Back Story: 2010.
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