The Twin Famicom is an interesting game console. Produced by Sharp, it was Nintendo's Famicom console and Disk System melded into a single console. While it looked nice enough, there is a way to make it look better: Lots and lots of gloss.

Outside of Japan, the word "hentai" is used to refer to a certain type of Japanese anime, manga, or video games. It's a genre. In Japan, it's not.

Remember Bases Loaded? And Wii role-playing game Ougon no Kizuna (above)? Or that Japanese truck driving game? The company known for those titles, Jaleco, seems to have fallen off the map.

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.…

Well, this is bizarre. Amazon has announced Kindle Worlds, which it calls a "place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games".

It's not the first time we've seen an artist combine the two sci-fi universes, but it is the best time.

Last December, reader Michelle decided to take a swing at building her own replica gravity gun from Half-Life 2. It's done now, and it looks fantastic.

You saw the news yesterday. The Xbox One was everywhere, and everyone talked a lot about it. But when a new console hits, often we'll latch onto the biggest, shiniest new baubles. Now though, having slept on it, let's dig into the real nerd porn. It's worth a look.