Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest train station in the world. And this video brings it to life with haunting beauty. Using a super high speed camera, photographer Adam Magyar filmed from a train as it pulled into Shinjuku Station. Playing the footage at a normal frame rate makes it look super slow due…
Back when the Vita was revealed, I remember dreaming about playing a game on my HDTV, then picking up my Vita and continuing to play the same game on the go. Of course, that’s never really panned out on the PS3—though it has with the Asian-only Vita TV. A bit of backstory: since I wrote…
Yikes! This week in Japan, photos of a puppet popped up online. The puppet appeared on a kid’s program in Japan. Online, commenters are saying its head looks “totally” like a dildo. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. The show in question is called Nihongo de Asobo (“Let’s Play in Japanese”)…
Today, Nintendo released its sales forecasts. The company’s financial year ends on March 31, and Nintendo has modified its sales predictions. In a downward direction, that is. But not all the news is bad. Initially, Nintendo forecasted 18 million 3DS handhelds sold worldwide this financial year. The revised number is now 13.5 million. That’s certainly…
Earlier today, the world’s first Kit Kat “specialty shop” opened in Tokyo. It’s called the Kit Kat Chocolatory, and you can see a photo of it right up there. As previously reported, the new Kit Kat shop offers gourmet Kit Kats. That’s it! There are three flavors currently: the “Sublime Bitter,” which is made with…
I was messing around with Google Earth last night on my phone, seeing how well it can now render 3D spaces. As you can see above, it can do New York City pretty damn well. If it weren’t for the icons, in fact, you could probably confuse that shot for a low-res photo. It didn’t…
Clash of Clans is one of the most successful video games of all time. So, as you can probably guess, it has clones. Lots of clones. Reddit user sonuvagun06 took some grabs of various App Store games. You’ll notice first that Clash of Clans’success has generated…competition. And not only is Clash of Clans getting ripped…
Given the planet’s lack of actual post-apocalyptic nuclear wastelands, you’d think it would be pretty hard to find places that looked like the setting of a Fallout game. But then, there’s always the Mojave desert and Route 66 for that. Photographer Kevin Balluff– whose work I came across while flipping through the excellent Our Modern…
Troy Galluzzi is a concept artist with indie outfit Goon Studios. Don’t click through if you hate bright, colourful things, some of which could kill you. Goon are working on Keipr, a multiplayer shooter that looks like Destiny vs Wind Waker. Which is a combo that gets me interested Oh, and a bonus: concept art…
Steam sales are universally awesome, right? Everyone gets cheap games, developers sell a ton of games, we’re all happy. Right? Well, no. Indie dev Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between, Sleep is Death) has written a blog post called “Why Rampant Sales are Bad for Players“. He argues that a “culture of sales” has led to people…
Hey, remember those real gunswe showed you last year that looked like something out of a video game? Well, the US Army is currently taking a look at the tech. Trackingpoint, the company behind the weapons, tells Motherboard that the Army currently has some of their scopes “under evaluation for assessment”. It’s not like they’ve…
Combo Time: if you play Street Fighter on PC, then you might wanna check out the Street Fighter IV combo trainer, which lets you create and test combos—and it comes with built-in functionality that will help you memorize the combos. You can read more about it here, and download it here. (Via RPS)
Sony just announced that HBO’s GO app – which gives people on-demand access to HBO shows like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire – is coming to PlayStation consoles. It’s coming to PS3 first, with the PS4 to follow. No dates, as of yet. In terms of consoles, HBO GO had been available only on…
The BioShock movie, like most video game movie projects, died in production hell. Which is probably for the best. But hey, if you’re a bathysphere-half-full type of person and are interested in what the project could have looked like, here’s some concept art. It’s by Jim Martin, and is a lot more varied and revealing…
With 11.5 million units sold, the Nintendo 3DS came in as top-selling video game system of 2013 in the United States, which is awesome, because it is awesome. Back in February, I wrote that the 3DS had swooped in out of nowhere to become the best gaming device you can buy. And thanks to a…
DayZ isn’t really a conventionally beautiful game, but it does have an austere quality that I find appealing. That quality is on full display in the latest shots from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who has been running the game in offline mode to capture the cleanest images. Call me crazy, but I’d love…
Not content to wait for Rockstar’s inevitable announcement of a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V, a group of ambitious modders are trying to transform GTA IV into Rockstar’s most recent GTA We’ve got a few shots to show you how it’s going. The idea is to convert the map of IV into that…
Attendees at Valve’s Steam Developer Days conference have been learning about virtual reality today. Seems Valve collaborated with Oculus on some of the new Crystal Cove headset’s tracking, while it’s also hoped that consumer-level VR headsets will be available within two years. There was also a VR demo from Valve that was meant to be…
Maybe you’ve watched Pixar’s Toy Story before. Have you ever watched it reenacted by kittens, though? Probably not, is my guess. But if you’re curious, you should watch this cute video by The Pet Collective—not only do we have cat versions of Woody and Buzz, but the entire thing is narrated by a precious little…
Crayons aren’t just for coloring books, people. Crayons can be art, too. Just look at the handiwork of Hoang Tran, an artist who carves out all sorts of awesome characters and figures out of Crayola crayons—like so: After a few hours of sculpting with dentistry tools, Tran ends up with a beautiful crayon figure—like this…
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