Bloodborne Servers Offline For Several Days Due To Mysterious ‘Emergency Maintenance’

While playing Bloodborne last night, the game booted me to the title screen, citing server maintenance. It was annoying, but fortunately, I wasn’t in the middle of a battle. You can play offline, but From Software’s announced online modes will be down for “a few days.” There may be a very good reason for that.…

Disney Releases The Coolest Star Wars Infinity Figures In The Most Annoying Way Possible

Disney harnessed the light side of the Force to create six variant Disney Infinity Star Wars figures with Lightsabers that actually light up. Then they tapped into the dark side to make each of the six exclusive to a different retailer. Using the same sort of portal-based wizardry that makes Light Core Skylanders figures flare…

Koei Tecmo Finally Responds to Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Controversy

It’s been nearly two weeks since a single Facebook comment on the official Dead or Alive page sent people into a tizzy over whether Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 wasn’t coming to the West because of “issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female[s].” Now, publisher Koei Tecmo has responded.…

Our Favorite Games from November

Game releases slow down as we near the end of the year—this is evident if you look at how short this list is compared to last month’s. Although that could also be attributed to the release of Fallout 4. In any case, there were still plenty of games we liked, such as… Call of Duty:…

GTA V Mod Adds 4K Textures, Game Looks Utterly Ridiculous

Earlier this year, Martin Bergman was working on a GTA V graphics mod that looked positively unreal. It’s still not out—he’s been keeping busy with Battlefront—but another modder (Josh Romito) has stepped in and done pretty much the same thing. Only his mod is available right now. Via Mixed Digital, the mod—called The Pinnacle of…

Portal 2 Wheatley Replica Comes Complete With Movement And Sound

It’s probably the perfect item to scare off guests from the living room. Modder Evie Bee built a replica of Portal 2’s AI companion that moves and sounds just as annoying as the original one. Her project is well documented with WIP pics over here (via Hackaday). Pretty cool how the LEDs that light the…

World of Warcraft Hotfix Makes Shipyard Missions Less Painful

One of the big features of WoW’s patch 6.2 was the Garrison Shipyard, a place where we can send our crew on various daily missions and build up our fleet. It was supposed to be one of the many activities people can do till the next expansion drops. But because of weak rewards, no one’s…

This must be an alternate Sonic whose MO is to make enemies keel over from his cuteness. He was doodled by kawacy, who otherwise specializes in anime-style art—his gallery is right here, if you want to check him out, and below’s a timelapse video depicting the painting process. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

This Could Be Japan’s Best Ramen Restaurant

It might even be the best on Earth, if you believe the Michelin restaurant guide, which awarded a single star to Tokyo ramen establishment Tsuta. This is a world’s first. This is a big deal—especially if you are into ramen. The announcement made the evening news in Japan. No other ramen restaurant anywhere in the…

Japanese-Style Star Wars Art Shown at Buddhist Temple 

One of Kyoto’s most famous temples Kiyomizu-dera is a must see if you visit Japan. But if you’re in Japan this December, you can check out something rather unique at this World Heritage site: Star Wars art. Like the Mario and Luigi painting unveiled earlier this year, this is a Rimpa-style Force Awakens screen painting…

Scrappy Jedi Have Seen Better Days

French artist Tonton Revolver works at CodinGame, a site that tries to teach people programming skills by having them play video games. You can see more of Tonton’s stuff at his 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…

Well, That’s One Way To Use A Steam Controller

Want a truly immersive first-person shooting experience? Want it to feel like your body is really in a video game? Try attaching a Steam controller to your head. This creative proto-VR solution comes to us by way of Plasma Quark. He’s set the Steam controller’s gyroscopic controls to always-on and attached it to his headphones.…

Tick Tock Isle, a “cute game about a guy who fixes clocks” that we first saw in 2012, is now out! It’s $3 on Steam