Last weekend, cosplayers from around the world flocked to the Wold Cosplay Summit. This is more than simply the Olympics of posing and priming in character costumes. Cosplayers perform on stage, giving the competition an air of theatrics. Held since 2003 and supported by the Japanese government, the World Cosplay Summit invites cosplayers from across…
Fed | TOKYO, JAPAN: 3DS Game idol G-Feed unit visits website 4Gamer. (Photo: 4Gamer) Don’t Blame Grand Theft Auto for the London Riots So, a London cop says something about Grand Theft Auto and suddenly a British newspaper sees fit to blame the series for the riots that have plagued the English city all week…
Well, you could be! Maybe not, though, but you might as well try. Radical Entertainment and GameStop are running a promotion with the grand prize of winning a trip for two to Vancouver and appearing in Prototype 2 Customers who pre-order the game at GameStops in the U.S. or Canada between now and September can…
Actress Milla Jovovich is starring in the fifth RE flick, Resident Evil: Retribution. Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing. The film is slated for September 2012 and will take place in Toronto and Tokyo. [Bloody Disgusting]
Nintendo’s decision to slash the 3DS’s price tag was sudden and desperate. Who cares, because from the sound of it, Japanese gamers are becoming keen. According to The Mainichi Newspaper, when the price was dropped, online reservations at Japanese retailer Bic Camera spiked. “It’s going better than we thought,” a Bic Camera spokesperson told the…
Figures often have extra hands or arms for collectors to switch out for new poses. Sometimes figures have extra hair, and alternate hairdos are exciting! Take this statue of Rinko Kobayakawa from Konami’s hit love simulator Love Plus. She comes with two different hairstyles—one is her default ‘do, and the other one, the clumpy bangs,…
The world really doesn’t. But Capcom didn’t ask the world. It looked at the Japanese sales for its wildly popular Monster Hunter games and crapped out this camera. It may sound like I hate this 3 megapixel camera. I don’t! It so ridiculous that I cannot help but like it. The camera features a Felyne,…
Nintendo made one live action movie, the Super Mario Bros. flick. It sucked. That isn’t stopping Zelda designer Eiji Aonuma from fantasizing about making an epic motion picture with everyone’s favorite green-hatted hero. In the August edition of Nintendo Power, Aonuma confessed that he was personally interested in doing a Zelda movie. “I always thought…
Bandai Namco is releasing a Gundam themed navigational app for the iPhone. Users can selected Earth Federation or Republic of Zeon interface choices and voice guidance. You or your car is represented by a Mobile Suit or battle suit. The more you use the app, the more Mobile Suits you can acquire. While using the…
Bugs happen. And since games can be patched and fixed, I personally don’t think a few aren’t that big of a deal. They can be, however, very funny. Take this one, which is what is apparently a recently discovered bug in Gran Turismo 5, a not-so-recently released game. The bug was in Super GT: Eifel…
If super group AKB48 are idols you can see live on a daily basis, then Marshmallow 3D are idols you can cop a feel from. Forget 3D boob games on the Nintendo 3DS! Later this month during a 24 hour telethon for an adult TV channel, you, me or anyone else can pay ¥1,000 (US$13)…
It ain’t easy being green, and it’s harder being a green, mucus filled piggy. Your fellow pigs want nothing to do with you. But when monsters invade your homeland, it’s up to you (and your nose) to save the day. In Gesundheit!, the goal is to lead the monsters into traps, which are monster-eating sandworms…
Destroyed | LONDON, UK: Firefighters rush to put out a burning Sony building. (Photo: BBC) If You Want to Stay Up Playing Xbox Games, Don’t Snort Ritalin A teenager from The Hutt Valley, New Zealand, was last week trying to stay up late playing his Xbox 360. Instead of doing what normal people do, and…
On September 10, Square Enix is letting 40 fans play some of FFXIII-2 before the Tokyo Game Show. Register over at Square Enix Members, and winners are picked via raffle. The catch? Registration is in Japanese. Good luck! [Square Enix]
PS3 title Catherine is saucy. It inspires saucy cosplay and fan art. And next year, the game is getting a hot figurine. Figure maker Max Factory is offering this 1/7 scale PVC figure. It is slated for release next fall. Price is not yet revealed. Catherine was released this February in Japan and this July…
According to YouTube user Khaff 3, “This is my own way to make my thanks to the creators of Portal 2 for making such a WONDERFUL videogame!” For game creators, it must be nice making games that people like—and even nicer when players make something of their own as a humble way to say thanks.…
The 3DS and its three-layer cake motif look beautiful. It’s a stunning piece of hardware, and one of Nintendo’s most interesting designs. So why not totally fuck that up? Linx Products is releasing the “Handy Grip” for the 3DS. It supposedly provides better grip for the glossy 3DS. There are even webbed handles to prevent…
At this year’s Gamescom gaming expo in Germany, EA and DICE are bringing a Mig-21 to the Battlefield 3 booth. They used a red semi-truck! Battlefield 3 is facing off with rival title Modern Warfare 3, and unless the Activision booth has, I dunno, more impressive military hardware, chalk up a Battlefield 3 win in…
As the riots in London rage on and spread to other UK cities, damage is being to buildings, homes, cars and more. A three-story Sony warehouse in North London was enveloped in flames on late Monday or early Tuesday. “There will likely be some impact on deliveries,” said Sony’s Yoko Yasukochi. “We cannot determine the…
As I…often do. Website New School Kaidan interviewed me the other day, and that interview is live on the internet. You can read it. Or not. Whichever! [New School Kaidan]
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