Blade & Soul Has No Teens or Harems, Just Action and Vengeance

When I talk with older anime fans, the biggest complaint I hear is that everything has become nothing but moé, angsty, high school, love-harems. They claim they want exciting action shows with an adult cast and grown-up stories. To those people, I say this: “Blade & Soul is the anime for you.” Good – A…

First Real Look at Tokyo’s Giant Godzilla Statue

Later this week, a new giant Godzilla statue will be officially unveiled in Tokyo. Here is a first peek at the actual statue as it’s going up. Previously, only an artist rending of the statue was shown, but now we can see what it really looks like as the giant Godzilla is being constructed. The…

A Game About Pizza-Delivering Ninja Girls… And Bullying

In a grim, dystopian future, a lone delivery girl-slash-ninja who works for her dad’s pizza parlor must overcome her biggest enemy: a clique of rival, megacorp-allied delivery girl-slash-ninja. Ninja Pizza Girl looks like a traditional platformer on the surface, but instead of death, the heroine faces depression. Your enemies try to humiliate you by mocking…

This is the Closest You Can Get to Really Playing Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online is an anime series about 6000 players trapped in a VR MMORPG. So what could be more apt than playing a Sword Art Online game with the Oculus Rift VR headset? About a week ago, Oculus Rift had a booth at Anime Expo 2014. There you could try out an official demo…

Yokai Watch 2 has already sold over 1 million copies in Japan. Famitsu reports that in Yokai Watch 2′s first four days on sale, the 3DS game sold 1.28 million copies, surpassing the sales of the prequel, which has been out for a year. The Yokai Watch 2 sales total does not include downloads.

WoW’s Draenei Next Up For a Visual Upgrade

Blizzard’s ongoing improvements to World of Warcraft have now reached the Eredar with a new look for the Draenei. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Art director Chris Robinson says, “The original was one of the better character models in the game, so it didn’t require a ton of translation—but with higher-resolution textures and…

Blizzard is bringing Diablo III to China (though probably not as a “big pineapple”). The game will be operated by NetEase, which also provides servers for Blizzard’s other games—like Hearthstone and World of Warcraft—in Asia. (via Gamasutra)

Watch Us Play Gundam‘s Video Game Side Stories Reimagined on PS3

There have been a lot of Gundam side story games over the past few decades and many of them are now quite hard to find. Thus comes the PS3 collection Gundam Side Stories which reimagines these classic games with a modern engine. Let’s see what it looks like in action. Gundam Side Stories was released…

Cat Cafes Don’t Get Much Cuter Than This

Japan has loads of cat cafes. Loads. Many of them look the same—like coffee shops with cats or, even, like somebody’s apartment with, well, cats. But Temari no Ouchi looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli anime. Located in Tokyo’s Kichijoji, the cafe opened last year. There’s a 1,200 yen ($11.81) entrance fee on…

Solid Gold Godzilla Can Be Yours for Only $1.5 Million

Only! To mark the 60th anniversary of Godzilla and the new Hollywood flick, Tokyo jeweller Ginza Tanaka is offering this solid gold ‘Zilla. The statue is nearly ten inches tall and weighs 33 pounds. According to website Fashion Press, Ginza Tanaka is selling golden Godzilla for 150 million yen (US$1.47 million). In case you were…

If you thought Anime Expo 2014, held the other day in LA, was just for nerd stuff and cosplay, think again. It was, very secretly, also the filming location for an action movie trailer. Cosplay Los Angeles made this neat clip, filming various cosplayers over the weekend doing all kinds of TENSE and HEROIC things…

Smash Bros. In Space? Would Play.

Andrew Domachowski is an artist who has worked at places like Disney and Microsoft. He also has some ideas about Smash Bros. You can see more of Andrew’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…

Smoking Simulator Simulates Not Just Smoking, But Murderous Rampages

Smoking Simulator is, thankfully, a little more involved than the name suggests. This isn’t a simulation of the act of smoking. It’s a simulation of the act of trying not to (or to) kill everyone around you one the smokes run out. The game was made for the same Indie Game Maker contest as Purrkour,…

The Horror Of Crysis 2’s Crouching

Crysis is a first-person series. There is no third-person perspective. And we should be forever grateful for that. Why? Because this. This is what happens when you tinker with the game and see things from outside the player’s body. Because it’s an FPS, there is no head. There is also no concern given to things…

Some Folks Think A Doctor Who Character Looks Very Mass Effect

On the left, here’s a character from the new series of Doctor Who. Does he look at all familiar? Maybe he’s, ahem, calibrating your memory? British fans and media, including Eurogamer, have been quick to point out the similarities between the character and Mass Effect’s Garrus, especially since some of the show’s creators are on…

Your Dream Of Playing A Morrowind Dark Elf May Finally Come True

Dark elves are pretty sweet, you know? They’re like elves, only cooler In Skyrim, dark elves—known in The Elder Scrolls lore as the Dunmer—were relegated to a ghetto in a single city. But if you played Morrowind, you got to interact with them a whole lot more often. That’s because Morrowind the game is set…