2014, you are a strange and wonderful year. Streaming right now on Twitch is Fred Durst, who 15 years ago as the frontman for Limp Bizkit was one of the most famous people on the planet. Today, however, he is a man playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, struggling with HDMI outputs and generally sounding like…
In 2011, I started to review Yakuza 4 for this very website. Countless hours later, but with the game unfinished, my PS3 died, taking my save game with it. So I never ended up reviewing it. Today, I make amends for this. Last week, I found my copy tucked away on my collection shelf and,…
Markus Hammarstedt worked as a senior animator on Wolfenstein: The New Order. So if you were ever wondering “gee, who actually animated those kinda gross bits where you stab a guy in the neck”, Markus is your guy. That’s his showreel for his work on the game. Below, you’ll find another clip, this time showcasing…
In both 2011 and 2013, the servers of Riot Games, operators of League of Legends, were compromised. It’s easy to think the attacks were the work of a group of sophisticated criminals, but really, much of the work was done by a 21 year-old Australian. UPDATE: A 2016 court ruling has determined that Duffy did…
There are millions of dollars up for grabsin this year’s big DOTA 2 tournament, The International. So when a camera crew accidentally leaked one team’s strategy for the competition, that team was understandably pissed A crew from Chinese esports company Gamefy is at the tournament, and despite lacking permission from organisers Valve to do so,…
If you thought Anime Expo 2014, held the other day in LA, was just for nerd stuff and cosplay, think again. It was, very secretly, also the filming location for an action movie trailer. Cosplay Los Angeles made this neat clip, filming various cosplayers over the weekend doing all kinds of TENSE and HEROIC things…
Andrew Domachowski is an artist who has worked at places like Disney and Microsoft. He also has some ideas about Smash Bros. You can see more of Andrew’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…
Smoking Simulator is, thankfully, a little more involved than the name suggests. This isn’t a simulation of the act of smoking. It’s a simulation of the act of trying not to (or to) kill everyone around you one the smokes run out. The game was made for the same Indie Game Maker contest as Purrkour,…
Crysis is a first-person series. There is no third-person perspective. And we should be forever grateful for that. Why? Because this. This is what happens when you tinker with the game and see things from outside the player’s body. Because it’s an FPS, there is no head. There is also no concern given to things…
On the left, here’s a character from the new series of Doctor Who. Does he look at all familiar? Maybe he’s, ahem, calibrating your memory? British fans and media, including Eurogamer, have been quick to point out the similarities between the character and Mass Effect’s Garrus, especially since some of the show’s creators are on…
A Mario Kart game came out recently, and some people at Kotaku said it’s the best ever. Others disagreed. This quickly leads to jokes about Mario Kart DS, the merits of balloons and arguments over just how close to perfection Double Dash got. To appease the great Pecking Order, then, and to settle the debate…
Photographer Andrew Cull and some friends have held a little contest to see who can take the best “portraits” of Skyrim characters. The winners are absolutely ridiculous Sure, it helps that in each shot the visuals appear to have been modded to within an inch of their lives, but whatever, they’re still great “photos”. There…
Tekken 7 got a premature announcement earliertoday. To give you a little more to chew on than just a logo, here’s the game’s debut trailer.
Get to 12:30 on this Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 EVO semifinal clip and you’ll see/hear what looks like an impending defeat for Justin Wong in his matchup against Filipino Champ. Until he pulls it out of the fire and everyone goes nuts That win put Wong in Final against Chris G, where he emerged…
Female assassins may be too hard to animate, but they are not too hard to cosplay.
Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms is an animated film based on the classic Chinese story that’s due in 2016. Its trailer makes it look like something coming out of Studio Ghibli, but somehow, the hand-animated sequences are being done by just two humans. There are more people involved in the rest of the flick…
Or, reason #18543 why it’s so great to mess around with the PC version of a video game. This is a surprisingly faithful recreation of the original Attack on Titan anime intro, swapping out characters and locations with those from Dark Souls II. And if that’s not enough, you’ll see some points where the creator…
Last week, something very sad took place over at Activision. Neversoft, the studio that created the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, officially ceased to exist. The remaining staff – whose last project had been helping out on Call of Duty: Ghosts – were officially merged with Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, bringing to an…
The 2014 Allentown Comic Con played host to a very special guest: Family Guy’s Peter Griffin (ie cosplayer Real Life Peter Griffin), in the flesh. This goes well beyond just “cosplay”. Just look at him. He’s even got the chin! But what’s making this so great is that alongside the visuals it’s also one of…
Anime Expo 2014, one of the biggest cons of the year, went down last weekend. TwistedMangaLive was there with his camera capturing some of the best cosplay on show. For reference, the Dark Souls stuff is around 0:30 into the middle of the three clips below. The Faraam Knight is harvestbuddy, the Elite Knight is…
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