Coca-Cola Will Sell Booze In Japan

No longer content with merely being a mixer, Coca-Cola is moving into Japan’s highly competitive canned spirits market. Besides its cola namesake (which actress Haruka Ayase is promoting in the top image), Coca-Cola Japan also sells various types of bottled Japanese tea under different brand names. The move into the country’s lucrative canned chu-hai segment…

A $750 Pokémon Plushie You Will Want To Ride

That’s actually what it’s called in Japanese “Zettai ni Noritai Rapurasu” (絶対にのりたいラプラス) or “A Lapras You’ll Definitely Want To Ride.” While not one-to-one scale (that would be enormous!), this large-sized plush toy from Bandai has a width of over six and a half feet and a height of nearly four feet. It costs 79,400 yen…

You Cannot Separate Dragon Ball‘s Voices From Masako Nozawa

At 81 years of age, Masako Nozawa has been voice acting since the 1960s but is perhaps best known for her Dragon Ball work. She does the Japanese voices of Goku, Gohan and Goten. But how much of her regular voice finds its way into these characters? A lot, apparently! The Japanese TV clip below…

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Rough Landing

Daniel Rizea is a concept artist who has worked on everything from Independence Day 2 to White House Down to Crysis 3 to Ryse You can see more of Daniel’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

Tally ho and what-not! We’re checking out The Order 1886 live now on Twitch. Was is really as bad as people say or can we find a silver lining?

Behold, Japan’s Antique Gaming Chairs

Today, the term “gaming chairs” is synonymous with those gaudy padded monstrosities you see in the background of a Twitch video. But in the late 80s/early 90s, a Japanese company had a much simpler idea. These are Iron Craft’s efforts, which consisted of taking a rather uncomfortable-looking stool and sticking a controller at the front…

All The Witcher’s Witches

This mass cosplay shoot was put together by the very talented Milligan Vick, and features ten members of The Lodge of Sorceresses. You could argue it’s not quite everyone, since Yenn isn’t there, but a) it’s not like she was a willing participant and b) I think we’ve had enough amazing Yenn cosplay already, thanks,…

Final Fantasy XV Is Great In First Person, Unless You’re Fighting

Final Fantasy XV’s Royal Edition update introduces a new first-person mode to the game, allowing players to witness the world of Eos from Noctis’ point of view. Just don’t try fighting with it turned on unless you’ve got a strong stomach. Pressing down the L3 and R3 buttons on the controller (or the N key…

Black Ops III‘s Surprise DLC Is Beautiful

Black Ops III is still receiving new content, and coming back to Treyarch’s 2015 title is a lot of fun. An update on March 5 has added a snowy variant of the Redwood map and the addition of the popular Infected game mode, which became available to play on March 6. I’ve been pretty devoted…

Secret Little Haven Is A Game That Captures The Feel Of Late 90’s AOL

Capturing the feeling of early AOL chats can be difficult, while crafting an engrossing LGBT narrative can be ever harder. Secret Little Haven nails both, transporting players to the earlier days of the internet and telling a story that is both empathetic and believable. It’s intriguing and a great choice for this week’s indie pick.…

Rainbow Six: Siege’s New Zombie Update Is So Good, Players Are Coming Back In Droves

When Rainbow Six: Siege first launched in 2015 I had no idea that it would eventually ask me to fight alien zombies in New Mexico. But here we are, three years later, with a beefy free update that adds a great new game mode, as well as more weapons, characters, skins and balance tweaks. Operation…

The Sims’ Insane Trait Sucks

Starting with The Sims 3, sims have traits to help shape their personalities. Sims can be Romantics, more prone to flirting, or they can be Evil and want to have mean interactions with other sims. In both The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, you can also have sims that are Insane. I hate this…

Top Game Creators Remember Their Earliest Gaming Memories

What’s your first gaming memory? Is it your dad’s Atari 2600? Struggling to figure out how to use the controller on your older sister’s Nintendo 64? Or just staring and watching your grandma play Windows Solitaire? We can all remember an early experience with seeing a video game, maybe the very first time we ever…

Devil May Cry HD Collection Has Some Issues On PC

The first game in the Devil May Cry HD Collection is out early for Amazon Prime subscribers via Twitch. Unfortunately, it’s arrived with some minor issues, including a bug that makes the game run like it’s got an unofficial, never before seen turbo mode. The new version of the original Devil May Cry, which originally…

Widespread Bug Causes Oculus Rifts To Stop Working [Update]

Virtual reality has gone dark for Oculus Rift users across the globe today, as what seems to be an expired security certificate in the Oculus Runtime service has temporarily rendered their headsets inoperable. Where were you the day the Oculus Rifts died? Reports of failing Oculus Rift headsets are everywhere this morning, from Twitterto Reddit…