PC

This RPG Teaches You Japanese

As a game journalist living and working in Japan, the question I’m most commonly asked is, “What game can help me learn Japanese?” The answer: Slime Forest Adventure.


January 4, 2011
Retro

What If Fallout: New Vegas Was A Japanese RPG From 1987?

Bethesda beats any potential fan-made Fallout: New Vegas demakes to the punch by creating its own for the Japanese New Vegas website. It’s all in Japanese, but old school role-playing is the universal language.


November 4, 2010

While You Were Sleeping

Kotaku AU

While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.

It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!


April 1, 2010

Three Minutes Of Final Fantasy XIV Footage And Japanese Voices

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Square Enix Japan is creating a series of video blogs called Life in Eorzea, with the first one featuring plenty of Chocobos, tiny little guys dancing and plenty of Japanese people talking.


December 31, 2009
In Real Life

A Retro Gaming Room I Could Die In

I’ve seen many a lovely retro gaming room in my lifetime, but this one from Netherlands resident donkey*kong makes me want to lay my head down on his Famicom pillow and quietly pass away.