It is also a sculpture of a sofa. It’s really a two-for-one deal if you think about it! Amane from Dream Club, the Xbox 360 hostess game, is getting her own figurine. Good for her. Listed at ¥9,240 (US$108), this 1/7-scale Amane figure (with sofa!) will be out in December. Feel free to fill out…
Voice actress Yu Kobayashi looks like an angel. Her art, however, looks like it’s from the smouldering depths of hell. Previously, Kobayashi she drew a character from the animated version of visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni, the character she voiced in Wii game Arc Rise Fantasia and the I-have-no-effing-clue for Konami’s Mankai Princess.…
Hi. How are you? I’m okay. There was this time that I wasn’t okay. I was bummed out. Perfect fodder for, you guessed it, Tell Us Dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in…
In 1996, Lara Croft burst onto the scene with the first Tomb Raider. Time hasn’t been so kind, and over the years, her popularity has dipped. But with spin-off title Guardian of Light, is she back with a vengeance? Unlike previous Tomb Raider titles, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light uses an isometric third-person…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Today We Dined In Gardens of Beer Thirty-two, man! Crazy! I remember when I was 22 and thought 32 was really old. Not sure what the plans are for my birthday. Hopefully cake is involved. What you missed last night It’s Joe vs That Marvel Bad Guy In Marvel vs…
You wouldn’t know it, but the world of competitive Pokemon card playing is a testosterone-fueled world dominated by men. Or boys. Whichever! Some are big, some are small, but the winners are typically dudes. Just look at the American Pokemon champs. They’re guys. All of two of them. At the recent Pokemon World Championship in…
At a demo event for the upcoming Yakuza spin-off, PSPs come connected at the arm to Sega’s booth companions. As seen on Game Watch Impress
A person named Carson Mauthe has done a cover of the Chrono Trigger battle theme. He has filmed a video of himself playing the guitar, the Rock Band drums and flailing around in his underwear. That being said, he did create a nice cover. Role-playing game Chrono Trigger was originally released on the Super Nintendo…
Mubi.com, the online social movie site, is coming to the PS3 this October. Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed how much it will cost to stream world class cinema on your PS3 vis Mubi.com. According to Sony Europe, a monthly subscription is €12.99 / £9.99. Individual films are €3.59 / £2.99 each. It will be available…
Well, okay then. Here you go. We’ve already posted more GT5 screens than you can shake a Prius at, but have some more. Go on. You deserve it. Gran Turismo 5 will be released this November on the PS3.
Whether it be StarCraft or Warcraft, game developer Blizzard has a look. It has style. Pizazz, if you will. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Blizzard is showing off more than 700 pieces of art from the Diablo, StarCraft and Warcraft series. This is the first time for Blizzard to hold an exhibition…
Next week, gangster game Mafia II goes on sale. You might be looking for a primer — something to get you into the mood. You might want to revisit some old favorites. Here are ten classic gangster flicks. These are not the ten best gangster flicks, but they are ten great ones. (Note: The list…
Let’s say you have a direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine. And it’s been shown that it is insecure — you can’t use it for voting anymore. What should you do with it? You’d turn it into a Pac-Man machine. Yes? A group of researchers from Princeton and the University of Michigan did just that. They…
Catherine, the upcoming hi-def role-playing game from Persona developer Atlus, features scary sheep dreams, animation from Studio 4C and, from the looks of this trailer, lots of bumping and grinding. The trailer kicks off with the male protagonist (Vincent) asking a woman if she’s heard that when people die in a dream, they die in…
Namco’s Katamari Damacy is an iconic title. People instantly recognize it. This makes Katamari perfect fodder for an art show. Yes, an art show. On September, Portland comic shop Floating World Comics is holding a Katamari Damacy-themed art show and fundraiser event for non-profit organization Join Here are some of the participating artist. More details…
iPhone game Angry Birds is in talks to make its way to the silver screen. Hey, why not? Angry Birds has been an Apple apps chart topper in sixty countries for months now, and Rovio, the Finnish developer responsible for the game, is looking to go Hollywood. “We want to go beyond games,” Rovio honcho…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Gamescom Day One Mrs. Bashcraft and I played GT4 on a controller. We were younger! More innocent! (We have “wheels” for Mario Kart, but that’s slightly different.) Now, trying to convince her that we need a super duper racing wheel. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can convince her…
Former Sony employee 58-year-old Hidehiro Kume invented a small optical pickup that is used to read and write discs in the PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation. He didn’t feel Sony recognized his contributions, so he took it to court. A lower Japanese court rejected Kume’s claim he deserved compensation, but the Japanese high court…
Upcoming Alpha Squad doesn’t look like your typical Xbox Live indie game. That’s for sure! The game features music from Stemage of Metroid Metal fame, art from Genzoman and apparently “hot chicks” that need rescuing.
In upcoming sci-fi third-person-shooter Vanquish, Russia and the United States face off. That wasn’t the original plan, though. “With Vanquish, for example, the original idea for the story was for China to invade the US, but when we started testing that with Western audiences they didn’t understand it,” Vanquish designer Shinji Mikami told Edge. “They…
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