Video Games Tell Stories That Live With You Forever

Many video games tell a story. But the stories we tell about games are often very, very different. The tales you tell and retell down the years (and decades) are more often than not those from around the game. Who you were, where you were, what you were doing and who you were doing it…

Nintendo Denies It’s Ending Wii U Production Anytime Soon

Respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei published a rumor this morning that the Wii U will soon be ceasing production to make way for the upcoming NX. Nintendo is now denying that report. Nikkei reports Wii U production will apparently end before the year is out. The reasons Nikkei gives are a lack of popularity compared to…

How Blade Runner Teaches Bad Japanese Table Manners

It’s something I’ve noticed. I’ve noticed it in the US, and I’ve noticed it among Westerners who visit Japan. After breaking apart chopsticks, they begin rubbing them together. There might be reasons why Westerners do this with chopsticks: maybe they are worried about splinters or maybe it’s something else. Maybe it’s Blade Runner’s fault. Early…

Tokyo Looks Best at Night

And in the rain. I’ve always liked Tokyo in the rain. Expect if I’m out walking in it. Then, it sucks. These cool photos are from Instagram user Liam Wong, who also is a graphic designer at Ubisoft. You can see how he brings an artistic flair to his Tokyo photos. Okay, okay. Tokyo also…

Mad Max: Fury Road Livens Up College Graduations

Take this as a warning: Post-graduation life is one brutal wasteland. Students at Tama Art University in Japan didn’t only dress up as Immortan Joe and War Boys, but created a Fury Road style vehicle, guitar guy all. (It’s probably for the best that it’s sans flames.) As previously reported (here, here, and uh, here),…

Ten Catchy Anime Theme Songs from Winter 2016

As the winter 2016 season comes to a close, let’s look at some of the best anime theme songs it had to offer. Anime: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Song: “Usurashi Shinjuu” Artist: Megumi Hayashibara Why I Love It: This lounge singer-style Jazz song is so unlike the vast majority of anime themes out there, I…

Waiting Game. Osaka, Japan. By Edward ‘Edo’ Ofori JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Sega said today that Yakuza 0, the newish prequel to the Japanese gangster series, will be released on PS4 in the West in “early 2017″ (it was out in Japan in 2015). If you want to know why this is exciting news, just look at this

Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, Reporting For Duty

It’s weird, for all its influence in both games and film, not that many people cosplay as characters from the Alien series. So it’s awesome seeing this ver1sa, not just because it’s OG 1979 Ripley, but because it’s so good. I like the make-up work to increase the likeness, but I love the uniform. There’s…

Skull Helmets? Are We The Baddies?

Division48 is a small Polish studio that has worked on games like The Witcher 3, Hard West and Dying Light You can see more of Division48’s work at their studio siteand at artist Grzegorz Przybyś’ page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…

EA Apologizes To Muslim UFC Fighter For Giving Him Christian Victory Celebration

EA Sports UFC 2 is a game that does its damnedest to imitate every element of the UFC broadcast experience (except for the weird part where it pretends commentator Mike Goldberg knows what he’s talking about). By and large, it works. It’s in the particulars that EA falters. Khabib Nurmagomedov is a UFC lightweight fighter…

Toy Time With Marvel Legends’ Red Skull Build-A-Figure Series

In all my years of toy collecting I’ve never managed to fully assemble one of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure sets. I’ve also never recorded a Toy Time video without a beard. First time for everything, I suppose. The six inch Marvel Legends line (the smaller Marvel Universe line has recently been rebranded under Legends as…