Evangelion VR Puts You In The Pilot’s Seat. Literally. 

Namco Bandai announced a new virtual reality experience called Evangelion VR: The Soul Seat.  According to Famitsu, the attraction will be at Namco Bandai’s VR Zone amusement center in Shinjuku this summer.  You wear the VR headset and sit in a pilot’s seat, which shakes and moves about. In the VR experience, after regular Eva…

Weekly Manga In Japan Have Seen Better Days 

Across the board, the print circulation numbers for Japan’s most popular weekly aren’t getting better. They’re getting worse. According to IT Media Business, the average number of printed copies in circulation for Weekly Shonen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン), Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ), and Weekly Shonen Sunday (週刊少年サンデー) continue to see a steady decline. Print has long been…

Solidus Snake Voice Actor John Cygan Dies

Best known for his video game and TV work, John Cygan has passed away. He was 63. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cygan had long been battling cancer. A versatile actor, Cygan appeared in television shows like Bob, co-starring with Bob Newhart, and The Commish as well as other shows like Frasier, NYPD Blue and…

Those Aren’t DS Games, They’re Windows

Surely you can see it? I know I can. Those windows look like DS game cards. Twitter user Yorunotobari spotted a shopping mall in Chiba, Japan with windows that look like Nintendo DS games. Inside the windows are advertisements for the building’s shops. They really look like DS cards. In case you forgot what those…

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An Entire Fantasy World, Sketched Over One Year

For 366 consecutive days, former Blizzard artist Even Mehl Amundsen drew a series of images sketching out the framework and characters for a fantasy universe. He’s now collecting them into a series of books. They’re called TEGN, and the first of three volumes is now up on Kickstarter, having already gone past its asking amount.…

Persona 5 Confidants, Ranked

Persona 5 is a game entirely about making friends with magic teens and well-meaning (well, mostly) adults. Yet not all friends are created equal. In Persona 5, certain important figures are known as “Confidants”, and are the characters who you’re able to become close to—or at least form strong bonds with—and who over the course…

Phantom Dust’s Remaster Out Tomorrow, Will Be Free

Phantom Dust, which we very recently named one of the best Xbox games, is re-releasing tomorrow on Xbox One and Windows 10. And it’ll be free. The property has had a tortured time at Microsoft of late, with a planned new game killed off and its studio closed A remaster of the original game was…

The Wildest Matches From Compete‘s Street Fighter Pro Challenge

This past Saturday, we opened the doors to the Gizmodo Media Group offices and welcomed any and all challengers to try their hand at beating a Street Fighter V champion. From young newcomers to surprise upstarts, and even other pros lurking in the waters, here are some of our favorite moments from an incredible night.…

The Expanse Season 2: Entertaining if uneven, reaching ever closer to greatness. What it is: The second season of SyFy’s increasingly popular sci-fi political thriller. The show is based on books by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who collectively write under the pen name James S.A. Corey. What I’ve watched: Took my time with season…

Infinite Warfare‘s DLC Maps Are Great, They Just Never Show Up

The $49.99 season pass for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare gets you four map packs with four new multiplayer maps each. What it doesn’t guarantee is that these new maps will actually come up in multiplayer matches online. In my experience so far, playing a DLC map is like finding a unicorn. You can own…

How To Trash Talk

Trash talking is divisive among gamers. If you go too far, you run the risk of sending your friend home crying and never again playing another round of Mario Party against them. Or, if you’re conflict-averse, a few unsavory words over Madden could make you think worse of your good buddy. Some stand by trash…

Topre Realforce RGB Keyboard Review: Life Beyond The Rubber Dome

If rubber dome keyboards are at the bottom of the keyboard hierarchy and mechanicals near the top, where does that leave Topre’s electrostatic capacitive switches, which combine a rubber dome and a spring? While the mechanical keyboard community launches into a massive debate, let me tell you about Topre’s Realforce RGB. Nothing sparks heated debate…

Battlegrounds, As Told By Steam Reviews

Battlegrounds is a battle royale game taking Twitch and YouTube by storm. It’s also generated some wild Steam reviews. Battlegrounds is still in early access and has a lot of optimization issues, but that doesn’t mean that Steam users can’t still see the value in it. It’s been called the best of its genre, wherein…

What Street Fighter Pros Think Of Ultra Street Fighter II For The Switch

This past weekend, Compete hosted several Street Fighter pros and commentators at our offices for a public event where fans could sign up to battle against top SFV players. Since we had this all-star roster of Street Fighter aficionados hanging out at our offices, the Compete staff pulled them aside to preview the Nintendo Switch…

Two Months In, I’ve Barely Taken My Nintendo Switch Off The Dock

The big concept behind the Nintendo Switch is that it can be enjoyed both on the TV, and in handheld mode. Instead, the Switch largely operates like any other console system in my household, and I like it that way. Oh, I’ve tried to take the Switch with me. I’ve braved the dangers of on-the-road…