Ancient Japan Has Never Looked Better in Minecraft

It really hasn’t. Twitter user Tachibana 11111 created this “fantasy Japanese style” village. The design is modeled after a Japanese village filled with traditional inns. Tachibana 11111 spent one year and eight months to complete this work, using a self-made custom texture pack to capture that Japanese feel. The result is truly spectacular. [All photos:…

This is what happens when you cross fanart with sugar, spice and everything nice. The Powerpuff Girls are the latest subjects of Sakimichan’s beautification process—look below for the higher-definition pic, and click here for more art from Sakimichan Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Where Is Hideo Kojima? Show Him To Me.

Have you seen this man? His name is Hideo Kojima and he makes video games. And since March 19 he seems to have vanished. Of course, he hasn’t vanished from the internet. There have been various stories about Hideo Kojima and how his production company seems to have vanished. Then, there was, in my opinion,…

Tokyo Hamburger Restaurant Covered in Anime 

No, no. Not every burger restaurant in Japan is like this. Too bad, huh? The Lotteria in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro is… different. One floor of the restaurant is reserved for anime collaborations and covered in whatever show (or game) is being promoted, whether that’s Sword Art Online, Fate stay night, or The Idolmaster Not only are…

Japanese Miniature Art Dazzles All

Tomo Tanaka is a “miniature artist.” That doesn’t mean he is of small stature. Oh no, but his art certainly is. Tanaka, who lives in Osaka, works with very small scales—such as 1/12 and 1/24 scale—and makes items for small-scale display. Tanaka creates everything from glasses to samurai swords and from cookware to meals (though,…

Designing New, Badass Female Fighting Game Characters

FIGHT! Round 1is a zine that’s getting some of the internet’s best artists together for a single purpose: “create their own original female fighting game character.” The images submitted so far are outstanding, and there’s a cool tough to the zine’s design, too; each character had to be drawn facing either left or right, so…

One Man Spent Four Years Making A Homage To The Video Game Tie Fighter

By now, you’ll have surely seen that sweet Tie Fighter clipdone in an anime style. What I don’t think is getting enough attention, though, is just how much the short owes to Lucasarts’ 1994 video game Tie Fighter. The entire project is a homage to the game. From the name (the short is also called…

Shadow Of Mordor: Just As Funny In The Real World

Shadow of Mordor is already a pretty funny video game. Still, I’m glad that hasn’t stopped Mega64 from taking it into the real world and trying for a few more laughs. Really hoping the next game has oblivious, bystander NPCs now…

The Joystick Is Back. Long Live The Joystick.

It’s a word that’s synonymous with video games, but let’s be real: outside of some niche genres the joystick has been dead and buried as a viable control method for well over a decade now. Note that this post is talking about the traditional definition of a joystick: a single stick that you grab, with…

Timed DLC Exclusivity Is Bullshit

There’s some new Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC out today, as you may have heard. It’s called “Jaws of Hakkon” and you can get it for Xbox One, PC, and… well, that’s it. Did you play Dragon Age on PlayStation 4? Sorry. No DLC for you this week. See, publishers EA and Microsoft have come to…

Twitch Plays Pokémon‘s Final Boss: Professor Oak

Holy shit. Twitch Plays Pokémon could not have ended in a more perfect way. For those of you that haven’t been following it lately, Twitch PlaysPokémon, the stream that lets thousands of people come together and control a single game of Pokemon, was holding a throwback game of Red—the game that started it all. To…