The only PSP color left, it seems, is "Piano Black." The Japanese PlayStation site shows that that the other colors will no longer be released in the country. No word yet about outside Japan.
StoryBundle, the outfit created by former Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, is back with a new bundle of video game-themed writings. Have a look!
Popular Japanese manga Bleach is going on a five-week hiatus so its creator Tite Kubo can recharge. He'll need his full energy, because once the manga resumes in September, it will begin its "final act", with Kubo giving, what sounds like, the last story arch his all.
Looks like that "New Title" Namco Bandai has been counting down to is for the 3DS.
John Szczepaniak's Kickstarter to tell the untold stories of Japanese game development is just a few yards away from the finish line. Here's hoping he pulls it off.
Gamasutra's got a fascinating article about how the developers behind Japanese games like Paladin's Quest create worlds and characters. Go check it out.
"We do not want to make a dark and hopeless world. We are not doing Blade Runner." Here's CD Projekt RED on Cyberpunk 2077 over at IGN. Though the developers haven't shown anything particularly concrete, gameplay-wise, the title still sounds intriguing so far.
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This might seem obvious to some, but it's still kind of sad: as people grow older, they tend to care about video games less according to Facebook data. Do you think this will happen to you?
Check out Sacrilege. It's about going clubbing and formulating a "fuckplan"—the idea is to get laid. You'll find possibly familiar figures: the one that wants you but you feel nothing for, the one everyone knows is in love with you, and so on. It's a Twine game that captures desire well—enough that it's one of the best…
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Looks like your town in Animal Crossing: New Leaf offers sweet places to shop—which, sure, is neat, but not as important as finding out that K.K. Slider's club is called Club LOL and not Club 101. Curious name for a club, that.
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Well that didn't take long. Here's Daft Punk's single Get Lucky, done in the style of a retro video game by YouTuber Floating Point. For comparison's sake, here's the original song.
Are you unemployed or under-employed, yet still buying and playing video games? We want to hear your stories. How do you clear space in your budget for an expensive hobby? Have you ever spent money on a video game that you really shouldn't have? What have you done to help pay for your gaming habits? Send an e-mail to …
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According to the BioShock Wiki, April 19th, 1874 is Booker DeWitt's birthday. Today is April 19th. So, let's celebrate! This obviously calls for tiaras and sparkles, if you ask me.
New Nintendo Direct coming Wednesday at 10am Eastern. "Focused on the latest information on 3DS," Nintendo says.
Harebrained Schemes has announced that Shadowrun Returns, the 2D cyberpunk turn-based RPG funded a year ago through Kickstarter, will be coming out in June.
Shinichi Watanabe, director of the quirky and hilarious anime Excel Saga, is currently recovering from a heart attack at a hospital. (Tip courtesy of tipster Sang.)
VP of development Rod Fergusson, who has previously left Epic to help with the finishing touches on BioShock Infinite, is departing Irrational Games. "Now with the game shipped successfully, I've done what I set out to do here and now I'm looking forward to the next chapter in my life and career," he told Polygon.
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Why is Luigi green? "...because of memory limitations, the second character had to be identical to the first character in appearance," says Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. "And so we looked at that and said, 'Well even if we have the same character, we could potentially change the color of the character.' But again we…
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Here's the newest trailer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which comes out for 3DS on June 9. It's... relaxing.
A while back, we talked briefly about the ambitious Grimlands, a post-apocalyptic free to play MMORPG-shooter in the vein of Fallout. Well, it has found its way to Kickstarter. The Poland-based team is asking for a whopping $650,000 to finalize the game.