The creators of the new Infamous game didn’t hesitate to put their other big series, Sly Cooper, and its characters into the game as tiny easter eggs—among other funny things you might miss. They’re all around the city as graffiti. Both pics via r/infamous Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

The Metal Gear Solid Cast As Cartoon Characters

Pixar-style Metal Gear characters by Matt Synowicz. He is currently available for commissions.

Racism Forces Soccer Team To Play in an Empty Stadium

Earlier this month, a banner reading “Japanese Only” hung inside Saitama Stadium 2002. The incident led to the Urawa Red Diamonds soccer team being punished: This weekend, the team was forced to play in an empty stadium. And yes, the team is being punished for the actions of insensitive fans. AFP reports that the Urawa…

Johnny Santos flickin’ like only Gambit can.

Cowboy Bebop on the PS2 is a Bad 3D Brawler, But a Decent Episode

Over the past few weeks I have looked at both the series and movie of popular classic anime Cowboy Bebop. And as the PlayStation 2 game Cowboy Bebop: The Serenade of Reminiscence never left Japan, I just knew I had to play it as well. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty terrible game—though its cutscenes make for…

Japan Is Making an Anime Girl Vacuum Bot

Um, thanks? I guess? This is Cocorobo-chan. It’s an anime girl vacuum cleaner you can talk to. The original Cocorobo launched a few years back, and it might look like a Roomba clone, but it’s way smarter, featuring speech recognition software and the ability to utter a few phrases. From Sharp’s Cloud Labs, the idea…

Log Horizon Makes You Really Think About Being Trapped in an MMO

Log Horizon is one of the fall season’s best anime. It’s not particularly action-filled, but it takes its sci-fi premise and runs with it—addressing the logical implications of being trapped in an MMO world The second half of the series steps it up a notch and adds war, international politics, and magic to the mix.…

More Chinese Transformers Made from Trash

Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and other Transformers have risen from junked parts in Jinan, China According to People’s Daily (via Beijing Cream), “repairmen” took about twenty days to make all these sculptures. The largest Transformer weighs five tons and is 15 meters tall. The images below are courtesy of Iqilu.com: These aren’t the first Transformer statues…

Cigarettes Are Not Cool: The Anime

To stop Japanese teens from smoking, Okayama Prefecture released an anti-smoking anime. It’s over seven minutes long and features crap animation. Titled “Tabako wa Dasai” (たばこはダサい) or “Cigarettes Are Lame,” the anime was created with the cooperation of a professor in Okayama Prefectural University’s design department. According to The Sanyo Shimbun, this is part of…

Cop Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Another Cop’s Video Game Handheld

According to Nikkei, 21 year-old police officer Ryo Yamashita allegedly took 75,000 yen ($733) and a game portable from another officer’s room in a police dormitory in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Apparently, the theft took place place while Yamashita was off duty and his colleague was on duty… fighting crime. Nikkei did not clarify what type…

Mapper Flawlessly Recreates Scene from Assassin’s Creed Unity Trailer

This is the result of, according to the creator, a “little over the weekend project.” I’d love to see what he could do with a whole game Upon seeing the new teaser trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity—specifically, the ballroom shown in the first few seconds—freelance artist Christian Hecht immediately wanted to imagine what the whole…