The Legend of Zelda games have been rendered in 2D and 3D. Is one better than the other? The 2D Zelda games include the original Legend of Zelda as well as those Capcom-developed Zelda games on the Game Boy and the Game Boy Advance. With The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the games were…
There has been concern in Japan that only gianormous American living rooms are suitable for Microsoft’s upcoming motion control peripheral Natal. No need for concern, says Microsoft. According to website Techflash, “To be precise, you’ll want to clear an area extending at least 4 meters (a little more than 13 feet) away from the television.”…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: They’re Not Kidding When They Say XL Fatty tuna? It’s expensive! The other day when we were at a family friend’s house, this recipe for phony fatty tuna was discussed: You take chilled avocado and slice it into bite-sized pieces. Then, put soy sauce in a separate dish. (Be sure…
Do you know? Do you? According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, there have been over 30 million Nintendo DS consoles sold in Japan between December 2, 2004 and March 21, 2010. The top three selling Nintendo DS titles are New Super Mario Bros. (5,767,262 copies), Pokémon Diamond Pearl (5,766,571 copies) and Animal Crossing: Wild World (5,133,862…
Sega’s Yakuza gangster game series is not in 8-bit. But if it was, what would it look like? Site 8Bit Maniacs is offering cellphone wallpaper as well as other Yakuza cell phone content. 8-bit yakuza crooks are kinda cute!
Beverage Mountain Dew has been doing the game collaboration for years — like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft. Who’s next? Upcoming PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker appears to be the latest game doin’ the dew tie-up thing. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima posted the following images on his Twitter account. Peace Walker…
More often than not, when politicians utter “video game” in a sentence, it is usually in a pejorative fashion. Here is one occasion when it wasn’t. The United States does not have high speed rail like, say, Japan does. So when U.S. law makers were discussing how advanced Japanese rail is, they did not hesitate…
Whether it be the DS Lite or the DSi, Nintendo has released a spate of Nintendo DS hardware spin-offs in the last few years. The Nintendo 3DS is not a spin-off. It’s worth pointing out, you know. Nintendo released its Game And Watch series of handhelds in the early 1980s. Following that, the company released…
At E3, Nintendo will be introducing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS. In an official release, Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be “enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses”. It is not yet known how the 3D effects will work, but it is possible that it could work like…
Bleach follows Ichigo Kurosaki, a dude with a sword fighting evil spirits. He has powers of the Soul Reaper (think Grim Reaper). Bleach debuted as a manga in 2001 and has since been adapted into an anime. Hollywood has optioned Bleach for a feature film. Warner Bros. is developing the project, which will be produced…
Not the device itself. The Natal peripheral is a small, slender add-on. But Microsoft has apparently told a group of journalists, including Techflash.com, that some space is required to use the motion controls. To quote Techflash: To be precise, you’ll want to clear an area extending at least 4 meters (a little more than 13…
Nintendo DSi XL Delivery Comes With a Five-Foot Surprise Comment by: Nobuyuki Nominated by: Slatz_Grobnik Look at that sandwich. All that lettuce and tomato, not a single jalapeno or slice of salami. I’ve been eating sandwiches for 20 years and now Nintendo is pumping out this crap to appeal to people who used to ignore…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Today isn’t Sunday, but yesterday was. So let’s a music video together! What you missed last night Nintendo And McDonalds: A Short History Brazilian Kratos Has Magnificently Painted Man Boobs Get Inside The Real-Life Yakuza Mario Creator Has Never Called Video Games “Art” Swiss Government Cracking Down On Violent Game Sales
Girls in stockings. Girls in wigs. Girls in frilly dresses. Over the weekend, the cosplaying hoard took to the streets of Osaka’s Den-Den Town in the annual Nipponbashi Street Festival. The main drag, Sakai-suji, was closed to traffic so cosplayers and people with cameras could mill about, pose and snap photos. It was, for a…
Peter Molyneux, the game designer behind the Fable franchise, was invited on the set of Hollywood motion picture Avatar. He didn’t quite “get it”. “I went on the set of Avatar three times and thought, ‘Good grief, he’s got the same problem I have,'” Molyneux told the Times. “All I saw the first time was…
The king of fast-food. The biggest Japanese video game company. Nintendo and McDonald’s have been in cahoots for years The recent news that McDonald’s is using the Nintendo DS to quickly train new part-time employees is just the latest in a long, long line of Nintendo-McDonald’s tie-ups. This collaboration helps McDonald’s cuts training time in…
Ready to slice you up! After being erected this past summer in Tokyo’s Odaiba, the life-sized Gundam statue is returning. With an beam saber. The huge 18-meter statue will be once again erected in the city of Shizuoka this July – specifically, the east exit of Japan Rail Higashi-Shizuoka Station. The beam saber even lights…
To mark the official launch of God of War III, Brazil did it in style — complete with Kratos cosplay. What sells this dress-up of the God of War III protagonist isn’t just the bald head or the muscles, but the fantastic make-up job. Bravo! Midnight Kratos @ SP: Eu fui! [Hadouken]
Launched in June 2009, The Misato Katsuragi News Project had Neon Gensis Evangelion character Misato read the news. As Kotaku posted previously, the news program runs on software that collects news from real-life news (politics, the economy, sports and, yes, the anime industry). A Cellius voice synthesis engine is used to have Misato read said…
Are video games art? Or are they entertainment? Let’s see what Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Last week, Miyamoto was in London to receive a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship at the GAME British Academy Video Games Award, reports the Associated Press. “It’s a great…
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