Watch out captain! Cliff ahead! TheBrownCanadian was able to glitch out Assassin’s Creed IV and make it look like a Spelljammer-style space pirate game. Anti-gravity engines were not that advanced in the 1700s after all. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Buying Japan’s Most Popular Toy Was Crazy Hard

You know the routine. New popular toy comes out. It quickly vanishes from store shelves. And when it’s finally in stock, you gotta line up. That was this morning, but with a slight twist and months of waiting. After breakfast earlier today, my whole family—all five of us—piled into the car and headed over to…

Ping Pong is Less About the Sport and More About Growing Up

Ping Pong: The Animation is far from being your normal sports anime. Rather, it is an insightful coming-of-age tale of four high schoolers and how the sport shapes their lives. Good – Not Really About Ping Pong Ping Pong begins as the story of two high school freshmen, Peco and Smile. Peco is a ping…

Minecraft’s Best Floating Islands, As Chosen by the Community

Planet Minecraft’s “Head into the Clouds” contest, where players were tasked with taking an awesome and beautiful floating island and making it even more awesome and beautiful, has now concluded. Let’s take a look at the winners! The final three were chosen by both the Planet Minecraft judges and the community: after the one-month submission…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): The Anime

While attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is known in Japan, everyone in the country might not be familiar with it. So, what better way to explain than with, um, an anime. The name of this short, seven-minute anime is To Correctly Understand ADHD (ADHDの正しい理解のために or ADHD no Tadashii Rikai no Tame ni). It is in Japanese,…

Oh Hey, It’s a Dog on a Segway Going Down the Street

Sometimes you can see the darndest things from a car window. Things like this. Recently, images appeared on a Chinese social networking siteshowing a man jogging down the street, with a dog riding what looks kinda like a Segway (but might be this). The images were apparently taken in Shenzhen and then circulated on the…

Classic PC Label Sierra Coming Back From The Dead. Be Afraid.

Sierra Interactive used to be one of the great developers (and publishers) in the world of PC gaming. They’ve been dead for a while now, but this teaser website put up by Activision suggests a return (at GamesCom) is imminent. What kind of return that would be is anyone’s guess. We could get a full-blown…

The Story Behind Destiny’s Biggest Star: The Sky

Look, Destiny has some cool space wizards and fancy lighting, but as anyone who played the beta can vouch for, the main attraction of the game’s visuals was that sky It’s not that it’s realistic. It’s hyper-realistic. It’s every postcard and Western movie and motivational poster with the sky on it rolled into one. Realising…

In case there was any doubt about how great Miss Sinister is, check out this shot of her Sagat cosplay. Photo by Jason DeSomer

Steam’s Client Now Lets You Hide Games, Also Looks Better

The beta version of Valve’s desktop client for Steam just got a surprisingly useful and welcome update. The first thing you’ll notice is a slight visual overhaul, with buttons updated and colours shifted to give them more pop. More importantly, though, especially for heavy users (and those whose pile of shame nags constantly at their…