Peanuts Hotel Opening In Japan This Summer

Considering how Japan already has Snoopy themed teahouses, a Peanuts cafe and a Peanuts museum, a Peanuts hotel was inevitable. Located in Kobe, the hotel’s concept is “It’s nice to have a home where your guests feel comfortable.” That quote is from a Peanuts comic strip quote when a flock of birds takes a temporary…

Let’s Talk About Japan And Sickness Masks 

First time visitors notice them right away: Sickness masks. People in Japan wear them for numerous reasons, including to prevent illness. Some even don them because they think the masks make them more attractive. According to Otakomu, Japanese TV recently did a segment on how foreigners think it’s odd that masks are so widely worn…

Japanese Reaction To Israel Serving Its Prime Minister A Shoe With Chocolate

During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent trip to Israel, he and his wife Akie dined with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Desert was chocolate served in what appeared to be shoes. They were not real shoes, but metal ones created by British product designer Tom Dixon Studio. Israeli celebrity chef…

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The Chefs Of Iron

Alexandre Diboine is a freelance artist from France who worked on Revolting Rhymes, an animated short that was nominated for an Oscar this year You can see more of Alexandre’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

Darwin’s Choice, a card game where you build your own animals and have to guide them through millions of years of evolution, is now up on Kickstarter. I’ve actually played a bit of it and it’s great fun. Plus the hand-painted art is gorgeous

Now DOTA 2 Has A Battle Royale Mode

At this rate, Civilization VI will have one by the end of the year. As part of Dota 2’s International 2018 Battle Pass, players are getting access to a new game mode called The Underhollow, which will be available soon: Battle through a labyrinth filled with monsters, marvels, and many other three-player enemy squads as…

Mercy’s New Pink Skin a) Is For Charity And b) Looks Amazing

Look at this new Mercy skin. Look at it. Available for purchase from now until May 21, it’s been designed to help raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, who will receive “100% the proceeds” Blizzard makes from sales. There’s a bunch of other pink stuff on sale too, like sprays and icons, as…

Nintendo Can Do So Much Better Than Virtual Console

Virtual Console is no more, but that doesn’t mean that Switch won’t become the best place to play classic games. It’ll just be done in a different way than what Nintendo’s tried in the past. And that’s a good thing, because Virtual Console kinda sucked. Now, by “Virtual Console kinda sucked” I do not mean…

Well, Destiny 2 Definitely Made This One Gun A Lot Better

It is still too early for me to say whether or not Destiny 2’s new Warmind is the breath of fresh Martian air that the game so desperately needs. But I can confidently report that the Graviton Lance pulse rifle is now really fun to use. Graviton Lance is an exotic rifle that causes enemies…

Overwatch Pro Gets Two Reinhardt Ults In Six Seconds

HAMMER. DOWN. In case you needed any more evidence that LA Gladiators player Chan-hyung “Fissure” Baek is one of the best Overwatch tanks in the world, here he is playing Whac-A-Mole with an enemy team, then getting into an 18-wheeler and running over the Whac-A-Mole machine. Fissure approaches the other team’s frontline with his shield…

Fortnite Players Are Having Fun Trolling Thanos

Don’t let his superpowers fool you: Thanos’ arrival in Fortnite is surprisingly silly. Players are taking advantage of Thanos in the best ways, or using Thanos to spread cheer. Given that Thanos is supposed to be a homicidal villain, seeing him in Fortnite’s ridiculous world has been amazing. The main thing that makes any antics…

World Of Warcraft Player Gets Year In Prison For DDoSing Servers

In 2010, a Romanian man used denial of service attacks to overwhelm World of Warcraft’s European servers, causing them to crash. Now, eight years later, he’s gonna serve time. The man, 38 year-old Calin Mateias of Romania, was sentenced to one year in a US federal prison yesterday after being extradited last November. He was…

Breath Of The Wild Looks Rad As A Game Boy Color Game

You can already play Breath of the Wild portably on your Nintendo Switch but what if there was another option? A fan-made videotransforms the game into a gorgeous Game Boy Color version that will make you eager for a full ROM hack. The video from Nintendo Wire imagines Breath of the Wild for the Game…

The Writer Of The Weirdest Harry Potter Fanfic Has A Few Regrets

It should be clear from the very first line of “HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,” also known as “30 Hs,” that it is not fanfiction in the traditional sense. “Dobby relished his groinsaw’s roar,” the fic begins, “as he withdrew the flesh-choked blade from the astronaut’s ruined skull.” What follows is a short chapter about Harry Potter eating Ron…

Player Crushes Atari Record Using A Glitch Thought Impossible

A speedrunner using a glitch never performed on consoles has set a new record time in the Atari 2600 game Barnstorming. The glitch creates a new speedrun category for the game, whose scores were once held by the controversial video game player Todd Rogers. The 1982 game Barnstorming has various mode to play. The goal…

You Now Have Four Months To Lose All Your Switch Saves In A Freak Accident

Last night,Nintendo announced that the Switch will be getting cloud-save backups in September. That means you have four months to drop your Switch into a lake, or let your dog chew it up, or accidentally back over it with your car. Since the Switch came out in March of 2017, it has been impossible to…