We’ve heard in the past about crackdowns on street sales of modded Nintendo hardware and games, but this story is slightly different. Back in April, Tokyo-based Chinese national Ichimin Sho posted an advertisement on a Japanese e-commerce site selling “ultimate save data” for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In reality, this ultimate ...
Demand for bitten apple logo objects makes them part of the the interests of criminals around the world. And although sooner or later the authorities find out, there are always those who decide to keep trying some kind of scam. The most recent case occurred in India, where two subjects attempted to smuggle 80 iPhone ...
Ash’s Pikachu was picked up by authorities in the wake of this week’s latest iteration of the Pokémon anime. The crime in question? According to a recap of the episode by, electricity was stolen from various apartment buildings in Vermillion City Kotaku. Here’s what happened: On the night of the crime, according to police, a ...
picture:: Playstation Kotaku EastThe East is your piece of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Turn on every morning from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Ikuko Tokuoka, a 41-year-old unemployed woman in Shiga, Japan, was arrested for fraud after allegedly sending two bottles of water to ...
Screenshot:: Mihoyo Kotaku EastThe East is your piece of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Turn on every morning from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. According to ChinaOne of the largest news portals in China, a man was recently arrested at Mihoyo headquarters in Shanghai. It ...
The functionalities of Apple Watch they have been useful even in situations they may not even have been intended for. Now, to the countless stories in which it has “saved”, in different ways, its users, there is another in which the device was responsible for the capture of a criminal. This time in Brazil. The ...
In Yokohama, a 25-year-old man was late to rent his rent for 160,000 yen ($ 1,490). Deputies were unable to contact the resident and asked police to intervene. When the police arrived, he lied to them because they were not making any money from selling the game. In accordance with Livedoor and Turn on Yokohama, ...
Police fix the restaurant employee disguised as a stormtrooper. (Image source: Youtube – Freedom Media Canada) A stormtrooper was arrested in Canada. Of course not a real one, because it only exists in a galaxy far, far away. Instead, a disguised restaurant employee arranged for a police operation because she was supposed to advertise in ...
A restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada last week thought it would be fun to stand out work dressed as a Stormtrooper priest to celebrate star Wars Date May 4. Instead, the woman in the dress finally found the officers and a nose was put on her nose before being arrested. as LNN report, the incident happened ...
Kotaku EastThe East is your share of Asia's online culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and other countries. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am In what looks like a story from a different era, Nintendo switchch is drawing long lines for South Koreans. Like the South Korean website ...
