News

Fallout-Themed Geiger Counter Monitors Japan’s Radiation

A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built a Fallout-themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter.


March 18, 2011
News

Japan Disaster Coverage Invaded By Rampaging Pokémon

With the recent release of Pokémon Black and White, those mischievous pocket monsters are popping up all over the place, including some places they probably shouldn’t, like all over British free daily newspaper Metro’s coverage of the disaster in Japan.


March 16, 2011
News

IGN Australia Helps Raise Money For Japan

Kotaku AU

We may not like the news team at IGN, but goddammit we respect them. Actually, we also really like them too, because they’re all swell guys – and this new initiative confirms it. This Friday from 9am until 9am Saturday March 19 (AEST), IGN Australia are playing 24 Japanese games in 24 hours in order to raise funds for those suffering at the hands of one of the biggest natural disasters in recent history. You can donate here.


March 14, 2011
In Real Life

Power Concerns After Japan Quake Take Down Final Fantasy Servers

At 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST, servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI will be taken offline for at least one week as Square-Enix cooperates with a Japanese power company’s request to conserve power while it restores services severely damaged by Thursday’s monster earthquake.


March 12, 2011
Nintendo

Nintendo’s Just Fine, Thanks For Asking

Nintendo’s Japanese headquarters are in Kyoto, some 300 miles from the devastation of yesterday’s tsunami. Still, many have asked if the 8.9 magnitude earthquake caused any damage. Nintendo tweets: “Thanks for your concern! During the earthquake no one at Nintendo in Japan was injured and there was no apparent structural damage.”