Awesome Solitaire has an…awesome trailer. No, really. This trailer is amazingly awesome. Promise! Awesome Solitaire was released earlier this month in the iTunes App Store. Never forget this trailer. Never.
This is South Korean pop outfit Girls’ Generation. The ladies are not 8-bit. But what if they were? Here is the group’s number one single smash hit “Gee” done up in chiptune stylings. In 2009, the song became nothing short of a national phenomenon. “Gee” also pops up in South Korean StarCraft slang and takes…
Kinect Immerses You In Advertising Like Never Before Comment by: mindsale Nominated by: Kobun So with Kinect, I can test-drive Chevrolet cars standing up, without the ability to brake, and with the car constantly gaining momentum? Sounds more like test-driving a Toyota. Religious Games Maker Rakes $200K In Half a Year Comment by: Walking Eye!…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft This morning I had to go to the regional immigration bureau to get my passport fixed up. I got a new U.S. passport a few weeks ago, and I needed to transfer my permanent resident visa from my old passport to my new. Also, I needed to pick up re-entry permits…
Once upon a time, game designer Tim Schafer called Activision honcho Robert Kotick “a total prick”. (“Once upon a time” being this past July). Then, Schafer said his remark was an “accident”. The “total…” exec has retorted. Schafer’s game Brütal Legend, which starred funny man Jack Black, was going to be published by Vivendi Games.…
Cosplayer HezaChan, who appeared in a Kotaku feature on cosplaying, was spotted by Scott Popular Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
Metroid: Other M has a game-freezing bug. In Japan, Nintendo has a fix. It involves sending things on a truck. The bug has been causing players to get stuck in the Section 3 section of the game. Stuck as stuck and not able to get out. It’s a game-breaking bug. Some players are unable to…
The big screen version of crime series Kane & Lynch keeps losing director after director. According to the Los Angeles Times, the flick has — you guessed it — lost its latest director. According to sources close to the project, Patrick Alessandrin of District 13: Ultimatum fame was going to helm the project, but has…
Jake Adelstein, author of the non-fiction underworld yarn Tokyo Vice, got several gangsters to review Sega’s crime game Yakuza 3. But how? According to the original story, Adelstein appeared at “a shady real estate office in Tokyo” with cigarettes and whiskey “to teach these gangsters how to handle a PlayStation controller”. That wasn’t the only…
Online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV has several collector’s editions. Included in the Japanese version is a Final Fantasy XIV drinking cup. Don’t expect to drink much from it. You can’t. According to the box that the cup comes in: Do not fill the product with the following materials as they may cause damage: Items…
Sengoku Basara is a huge smash in Japan. It has spawned a stage play, a televised anime, a manga and even a licensed theme park attraction. That’s not all. Next year, the anime is getting a feature film version as the final episode of the TV anime’s second season revealed that a movie version is…
This week, Nintendo is slated to make the Nintendo 3DS’s release date public. German newspaper Bild claims to have the jump on the goods. According to Bild, the Nintendo 3DS will go on sale in Japan on November 11. It will then “probably” go on sale in Europe in spring 2011 and is priced at…
In 1978, arcade shooter Space Invaders was so popular that it caused a national coin shortage in Japan. But it’s not 1978. It’s 2010. Early in Space Invaders Infinity Gene, there is a quote from Charles Darwin that really sets the mood for the entire game. Space Invaders IG isn’t just Space Invaders updated, it’s…
Enslaved has Hollywood talent like actress Lindsay Shaw. The game was written by Alex Garland of 28 Days Later and The Beach fame. And its developers originally pitched Enslaved as a feature film. The idea was for Enslaved to be a computer-generated flick. As website Destructoid points out, it would have been rendered in real…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Stars It’s called “All Free” and is calorie-free, alcohol-free and sugar-free. It’s not too bad. Like, it’s drinkable! It’s been so popular in Japan that sales were actually suspended. Oh, All-Free isn’t totally free. One can is something like US$1.50. What you missed last night Sony Blocks Fake Controllers, Warns…
Best known for Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard has joined a corporate initiative to help improve literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (the STEM fields). The initiative is called Change the Equation and was launched by President Obama last week. It is a non-profit organization that joins CEOs and teachers…
Fake PlayStation 3 controllers might be cheap, but that doesn’t change them from being totally phony. Sony is doing what it can to render counterfeit PS3 controllers utterly useless. On Sony’s consumer alerts page, the company states that counterfeit PS3 controllers have been “discovered in the market”. The page reads: “SCEA advises consumers to be…
And it is apparently called “Wii Remote Plus”. The box art for upcoming Wii title FlingSmash seems to be bundled with a new Wii Remote. The box notes, “Bonus Wii Remote Plus Inside!” The game is compatible with Wii MotionPlus, the motion add-on peripheral for the Wii Remote. The Wii MotionPlus was released in 2009…
Takashi Okamura starred in one of the greatest Japanese ads Nintendo Co., Ltd. has ever created. The ad appeared back in late 2005 and early 2006 as part of Nintendo’s “Hot Mario” campaign. It starred Osaka comedians Okamura as Mario and his comedy partner Hiroyuki Yabe as Luigi. While the vast majority of Japanese commercials…
If you have played any of Hideo Kojima’s games, you have probably noticed the “A Hideo Kojima Game” title card. Other game designers have started using this type of crediting. The MGS creator, however, contests that he actually means it. According to Kojima, he began using the title by his own accord. While Kojima points…
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