This Anime Wants to Help You Work Out

I’m no strangerto working out to anime, but this is the first time I’ve actually had the anime characters work out alongside me. Last season, we looked at an anime that had cute boys whisper sweet nothings to you before bedtime. In the same vein, Anime de Training EX is a short-form anime where cute…

Tiny ‘Arcade’ Set Up in Tokyo Train Station

To show how digital payments work on arcade games, the folks at Taito set up a teeny, temporary game center at Akihabara Station in Tokyo. Digital money payments are not new at Japanese arcades. Over ten years ago, you could use mobile phones to make e-money payments to play arcade games at, for example, Sega’s…

All Aboard Japan’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Train

This all makes sense for a country that already has, not one, but two Star Wars airplanes. As part of the seemingly endless Force Awakens promotional push, the Nankai Rapi:t train service, which runs between Kansai International Airport and Osaka City’s Namba Station, is getting covered in a good helping of the Force. According to…

First Details about the New Valkyria [Update]

As Kotaku reported yesterday, there’s a new Valkyria game. We didn’t know much about the game. Now, we know a little more. First, the game’s official English title is Valkyria: Azure Revolution. Media.Vision, who did Shining Resonance and Valkyria Chronicles III, is developing. 11/20 – 5am Update: We’ve added the game’s debut trailer, which you…

Leaf Charizard Is A Fire Hazard

You might not have enough badges to control Charizard, but surely you can round up enough leaves to make one. Japanese Twitter user xxx2251 did just that. As well as quickly making a Charmander in thirty minutes. [Photo: xxx2251] Too awesome to end up in a pile of burning leaves, that’s for sure. Top image:…

PS2 Emulation Coming To The PS4

After some conjecture earlier this week surrounding the re-release of some older PS2 Star Wars games, Sony has come out and confirmed that PS2 games are coming to the PS4 courtesy of emulation. “We are working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,” Sony told Wired. “We have…

Knights Of A Rusted Future

Blake Rottinger is an artist from Sydney who has worked across games, film and industrial design. You can see more of Blake’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…

The Steam Stream Plays Hard West, Aka Wild West XCOM [Update: Finished]

An XCOM-style strategy game set in an occult Wild West? Hard West is trying to do a lot of things. Is it good, though? Let’s find out. Watch me play it right now. I have high hopes for this one, given that it combines many things I love (XCOM-like tactical gameplay, saloons, pentagrams), but that…

Fallout 4 Player Has Fantastic Bowling Form

Today on Highlight Reel we have bowling, NPCs with eye issues, Star Wars Karma, and much more! Watch the video above, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. CoD:AW – Sit trip – submitted by BloodRazer17 CoD:BO3…

Batman: Europa Is Finally Published Ten Years Late, Isn’t Half Bad

Back in 2004, DC Comics announced Batman: Europa, a miniseries with art by pencil god Jim Lee that would take the Dark Knight and the Joker out of Gotham and across the Atlantic. Years went by. Children were born that learned to walk and talk. Twitter was invented. The book never came out. Now it’s…

Clever girl. Hittin’ Switches (EF58-0000-00ED-419E ) is a pretty fun Mario Maker stage that asks you to perform some tricky maneuvers to keep moving.

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Hates That I Watch Porn

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column with a graduate degree from the Unseen University. This week, we’re untangling tricky emotional issues. One reader wants to know whether his porn habit and his girlfriend are mutually incompatible. Another wants to know how to rebuild himself as a caring, honest individual after…

Ark: Survival Evolved Mod Lets You Play As A Dinosaur

When I was young, I always hoped against hope that I would grow up to be a dinosaur. This is probably as close as I’m going to get. FinntasticGames “Play as a dino” mod is exactly what it sounds like: it lets you be a dinosaur in Ark, a game about punching trees and pooping…

Bloodborne Used To Wreck Me. Now, I’m Wrecking Bloodborne. 

Once more unto the breach, dear hunters. Bloodborne’s DLC expansion hits next week, and while I can’t talk about The Old Hunters yet, its impending arrival prompted a return to From Software’s bloody action game. Specifically, I dove into New Game Plus mode. You know what? This game’s still frickin’ amazing. New Game Plus brings…