Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and drinker of virgin blood. Now this *other* guy looks 47 years old. As seen on はちま起稿
Guillermo Del Toro, the director behind Cronos and the big screen version of Hellboy, has walked from the Hobbit movie. He has plans! Video game plans. “One of the things we’re announcing in the next few weeks is a big deal with a big company,” the filmmaker tells MTV. “We’re going to do games that…
Single-player story? Who needs that! Downloadable title Blacklight: Tango Down has multiplayer. But can the game hold its own with the retail heavyweights? Blacklight: Tango Down is set in near-future Eastern bloc state, where two factions face off: the Order and Blacklight. The controls will be familiar to anyone who has played a Call of…
To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: This Plant Is Your Role Model I cleaned the house this morning. By afternoon, it was a disaster zone. I cleaned it this afternoon. By this evening, it looked like a tornado ran through it. It’s now after 10pm here, and I give up! What you missed last night Colbert…
Thousands apparently lined up, but it was the first guy in line who cried after waiting in line over 24 hours. As seen on Geekbot
A British high court has ruled against R4 companies Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan. It is now illegal to import, advertise and sell R4 cartridges in the United Kingdom. The R4 emulator carts are used to pirate Nintendo DS games. According to website Develop, the court set a legal precedent by ruling the carts…
Sony’s PlayStation Portable has a lot of features: The ability to play games, to run movies, access the internet and more. Does it have beautiful women telling you what time it is? It will soon. Bijin-Tokei, “Beautiful Woman Clock”, is making the leap to the PSP. The clock was previously released on the iPhone —…
The BP oil spill has been plugged. The containment cap looks remarkably similar to a design submitted by an anonymous plumber. Who’s this plumber? Stephen Colbert knows. Click to view Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Note: This video may not be viewable in all regions. Colbert Nation [Colbert Nation Thanks, Austin!]
In June 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into Tokyo’s crowded geek district Akihabara, killing seven and injuring ten more innocent pedestrians. The Japanese media tried to make a connection between either anime or role-playing games. Even writing a notebook full of English was viewed with suspicion. At the time, Kato told police, “I…
This Resident Evil: Afterlife poster is all 3D-y. As seen on Bloody Disgusting
This time it isn’t an employee falling off a roof or out of a window. This time, it’s pesticide. Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, is responsible for assembling the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Wii, the iPhone and more. After 250 workers at the company’s Chennai, India plant were hospitalized, Foxconn had no…
Bandai Namco has brought its 1/1 scale Gundam statue back to life. It previously overlooked Tokyo’s Odaiba, but has now been resurrected near the Gundam figure factory in Shizuoka, Japan. All this plastic mecha talk makes my tummy rumble! Not only is there a 1/1 scale Gundam in Shizuoka, there is also a take-away stall…
Why compare your console to the competition when you can compare it to vegetables? The latest Japanese PS3 commercial does just that, putting the PS3 in a “talk” with green onions. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, the oddly humorous ad shows all the things the PS3 can do as well as the variety of dishes…
To: Totilo From: Bash RE: A Comic-Con Cosplay Too Soon? Mrs. Bashcraft and Mini-Bash went to the top of Pikes Peak yesterday. I cleaned the house, made breakfast, lunch and dinner and worked. 🙁 What you missed last night You May Like, The Next PlayStation 3 Firmware Update Starcraft 2’s Installation Tells A Story How…
Blizzard, the studio behind StarCraft and World of Warcraft, was planning on rolling out a compulsary “Real ID” system, requiring gamers to use their real first and last names on Blizzard’s forums. Gamers went bananas, and Blizzard ended up scrapping the requirement. How did Blizzard think the whole thing went down? It was good feedback.…
The first StarCraft game was released in March 1998. That was twelve years ago. So much has changed. So have I. And the smart money says so have you. In 1998, I was a student at Cornell. I hadn’t really used email before college, and I didn’t use online sources for any of my papers.…
Some of you have purchased StarCraft II. Some might have been in the beta. Some might not. But to those who have picked up the game and began playing it, what do you think? Hit us up in the comments.
Nintendo has registered several trademarks in Japan, including the titles 3D Challenge, 3D Paddleball or 3D Hopper. Those could be actual games (mini-games?) or they could be tech demos for the upcoming 3D-glasses-free Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo also registered CrossPass, CrossPass Mode, CrossPass Network, and CrossPass Connection, which sound as though they are related to the…
Capcom, fresh off months of sluggish sales, is keen to make more video games. More video games might mean more sales! According to an article on Nikkei.com, Capcom is speeding up the development cycle on its games from 4 years to 1 ~ 2 years faster. The company currently releases about 2 name Capcom franchise…
It’s an umbrella that looks like a sword. Or maybe it’s a sword that looks like an umbrella. The umbrella, which is over 3-feet long, is modeled after the sword carried by the heroine Saber of the “Fate/stay night” visual novel. Yours for ¥10,000, or US$114. The official release is this August. Saber’s Excalibur Umbrella…
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