Japan Battered By Worst Typhoon In 25 Years

Today Typhoon Jebi barreled through Western Japan, hitting cities like Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka, where I live. Before the typhoon hit, the firefighters drove around the neighborhood telling people to take shelter. My kids all stayed home from school, companies were closed, and the trains stopped. (Yet, there were still people out on the streets…

Real-Life Metal Gear Solid Sneaking Game Coming To Tokyo

Starting September 12, a Metal Gear Solid-themed real-life stealth game will open in Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Just like in Metal Gear Solid, the real-life game lets players sneak into Shadow Moses, avoiding detection to destroy a Metal Gear. According to the game’s official Mystery Circus site (via SoraNews and AnimeNewsNetwork), a team of one to three…

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Street Fighter Animation Dates Back To An 80s Music Video 

Street Fighter III: Third Strike’s Elena has a small animation routine that might look familiar to old folks/Van Halen fans: it’s pretty much frame-for-frame taken from a 1985 David Lee Roth video. deafidelity noticed it while watching the vid for Just a Gigolo, in which a backup dancer makes almost the exact same moves as…

Sleepy Lil’ Town

Wayne Chan is an illustrator working in the video game business. You can see more of Wayne’s art at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional…

Beware The Worst Kart In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

The Standard ATV with Cyber Slick wheels used to be my favorite kart combination in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In my quest to find the game’s best kart, I learned that my build is not ideal. Thanks to further data analysis via the gaming blog SNSG, I now know that it’s one of the worst builds…

Samus Aran’s Gunship Should Have Had A Name

Most stories featuring ships tend to give them a name: the Millennium Falcon, the Great Fox, the USS Enterprise, the Blackbird, the Pequod. But Samus Aran’s iconic gunship doesn’t have one. Samus has a gunship in almost every Metroid game, although it has undergone several repairs and upgrades over the course of her career. Zero…

No, Master Chief’s Suit Does Not Jerk Him Off

An erroneous piece of Halo lore began with a joke by the Twitter account dril, posted on May 11, 2017: “my main issue with ‘master chief fucks cortana’ is if you read the halo novels youd know the space suit automatically jacks master chief off.” By the next day, Halo fans had begun circulating a…

Sally From Peanuts Made Me A Better Teacher

Sally, the younger sister of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, did not perform well in school. She wrote reports the morning they were due. She failed multiple exams. As an overachieving child, I attributed her poor performance to laziness. But now that I’m an educator, I understand where she was coming from. Sally had an abiding disdain…

Children Can Always Make Bayek Smile In Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Bayek’s motivation in Assassin’s Creed: Origins gets revealed early on: he seeks revenge for the death of his young son. He’s not alone among video game protagonists in wanting revenge. Samus Aran lost her parents; Joel Last-Of-Us lost his daughter; Mario Mario lost multiple girlfriends to multiple muscle-bound monsters. Somehow, though, Bayek has kept his…

After An Unlikely Tie, Fortnite Summer Skirmish Grand Finalist Got Determined By Coin Flip

Yesterday, two Fortnite players tied for the 33rd qualifying spot in today’s Summer Skirmish grand finals: The_Real_Cryohme and SSG Colton. The 33rd slot wins a minimum of $5,000 and the potential to win far more; today’s first prize winner will take home $225,000. Only 33 players could advance to the final stage, though. Epic Games…

The Week In Games: The Quest For Spider Destiny

This week we’ve got Spider-Man, Dragon Quest XI, a new Destiny 2 expansion, and a whole heap of other interesting games. I’m most interested in what’s going on with the Spider-Man game. I spent probably 200 hours of my teen life sucked into the Spider-Man 2 film tie-in game, and if this is even half…

Fans Congratulate Metal Gear Solid On 20 Years

Twenty years ago today Metal Gear Solid was first released on the PlayStation. Fans have been uploading images, art and memories to say thanks. While Metal Gear Solid was released on September 3, 1998, it was released the following month on October 20 in North America.

Your Name Creator Ripped Off By Korean Political Ad

Back in 2016, Your Name creator Makoto Shinkai directed, edited and storyboarded a short commercial for an educational service. A recent Korean political ad has been accused of ripping it off. Shinkai’s short commercial, titled “Crossroad,” was screened along with the previews during Your Name’s Japanese theatrical run. Via NicoNico News, below is a comparison…

Sony Japan Is Finally Saying Goodbye To The PS2

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s aftercare service for the PlayStation 2 in Japan is ending. While the console has been out of production since 2012, Sony Japan continued to service to the game machine, keeping it alive. Sony is now pulling the plug.  As IT Media reports, Sony Japan asked PS2 owners to fill out online forms…