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Naruto Live-Action Movie In The Works From Shang-Chi Director
23.2.2024
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’s co-writer and director Destin Daniel Cretton is making the leap from comics to manga with a live-action adaptation of Naruto. One of the most popular anime and manga properties of the last several decades, Naruto has lived many lives as a comic book...
I Can’t Stop Playing This Titanfall-F.E.A.R.-Killzone-Doom-Like
25.8.2023
Folx, I’m falling in love. If you ever wanted to combine the gloom of the original Killzone with gameplay from Titanfall and F.E.A.R. as well as Doom and its neo-retro children—and toss in some immaculate vibes from 1995’s Ghost in the Shell for good measure—then let me tell you about Sprawl.Read...
Play This Excellent Cyberpunk Action-RPG Before It Leaves Game Pass
27.7.2023
Game Pass is losing a big one this month. 2021’s The Ascent, a gritty top-down action-RPG about investigating the mysterious disappearance of a megacorporation in a futuristic dystopia, is finally leaving Microsoft’s Netflix-like subscription service at the end of July. You should give it a...
A Live-Action One Punch Man Movie Is In Development
14.6.2022
One Punch Man, originally a manga series and more recently an anime and video game (oh and a very clean pair of shoes), is about to make the jump to another media with the announcement that a live-action movie adaptation is in development at Sony.Read more
The Cyberpunk Genre Is Broken, And The Creator Of Citizen Sleeper Agrees
20.5.2022
Cyberpunk. When you think of the word, you likely conjure up images of a futuristic cityscape awash in neon lights, amalgams of Western-Japanese architecture, and a cybernetic hero equipped with a samurai sword—or a “AAA” game still trying to get its bearings. But what often gets lost in the glitz...
Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review
30.3.2022
Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem’s ending fails to deliver a satisfying...
Friendship Ended With Cyberpunk, Now ANNO: Mutationem Is New Best Friend
8.10.2021
During the Steam Next Fest, a week-long event featuring demos and previews for upcoming games, one game called out to me from the crowd: the cyberpunk role-playing game ANNO: Mutationem. The trailer alone felt specifically designed to lure me in, with its rhythmic soundtrack, its neon-drenched...
Netflix's Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Intro Is Good
25.9.2021
I’m still not sure how I feel about this upcoming Netflix adaptation of the classic Cowboy Bebop series, but thanks in large part to the show’s classic “Tank!” theme song, the intro is a banger at least.Read more
The Japanese Internet Reacts To Netflix's Kate
13.9.2021
Have you seen Kate yet? Folks in Japan have, and they have opinions. Let’s have a look!The Netflix original debuted last Friday. Set in Japan and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, it tells the story of a deadly assassin out for revenge. Internationally, the reviews for Kate have been not great!...
Metal Gear's Japanese Voice Actor Gets New Role As Daisuke Jigen from Lupin III
7.9.2021
For the past five decades, Lupin’s loyal, cool-as-cool sidekick Daisuke Jigen has been voiced by Kiyoshi Kobayashi. The 88-year-old voice actor announced that he is finally stepping down. Read more
Howdy Major
7.9.2021
Adam Middleton is an artist at Weta in New Zealand who has worked on stuff like Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell and Pacific Rim.Read more
The Ascent Makes Good On Cyberpunk 2077's Promise
29.7.2021
Every now and again, a game comes along that simply blows you away.Read more
Netflix Cowboy Bebop's Existence Now Justified By New Yoko Kanno Music
8.6.2021
On Tuesday, Netflix announced that Yoko Kanno, the musical genius behind Cowboy Bebop’s soundtrack, will be producing original tunes for the Netflix live-action adaptation of the hit anime series.Read more
Yasuke Is A Full-Circle Moment For Black Anime Fans
6.5.2021
Watching the first episode of Yasuke, Netflix’s new fantastical animated show about the life of a Black samurai, I started to cry. I remembered how it felt to be a 16-year-old girl watching anime in the nighttime darkness of my living room. Watching Yasuke, with its titular Black character kicking...
Drink Up This Ghost In The Shell Japanese Booze
16.4.2021
Joining the likes of other geeky sake comes a line of Ghost in the Shell-themed stuff. Kanpai!Read more
Classic Half-Life 2 Mod Neotokyo Gets A Singleplayer Spinoff
6.4.2021
Neotokyo is an absolute PC gaming classic, a (somehow) free mod for Half-Life 2 that remains one of the prettiest and coolest multiplayer shooters on the planet. And now, 12 years after its first release, it has a singleplayer experience for fans to play through.Read more
Watch The First Episode Of Mamoru Oshii's New Anime Right Here
18.12.2020
Mamoru Oshii is famous for influential anime feature films like Patlabor 2: The Movie and Ghost in the Shell. Prior to that, he made a name for himself directing the Urusei Yatsura TV series in the early 1980s. He’s now returned to TV anime with Vlad Love.Read more
Ghost In The Shell Director Mamoru Oshii On This Year's Biggest Anime Hit
14.12.2020
When people look back at 2020, for all its awfulness, one bright spot will stick out in Japan: the runaway success of Demon Slayer.Read more