Monogatari Second Season is Entertaining But Has its Ups and Downs

I love the Monogatari franchise, I think it is one of the most entertainingly-written and well-directed anime of the past few years. However, in some parts of Monogatari Second Season, the storytelling wears a bit thin. As Monogatari Second Season is a collection of largely unrelated character follow-up stories of the cast explored in Bakemonogatari,…

First Look at the Sly Cooper Movie [UPDATE: Trailer Available]

Yes, there is a Sly Cooper movie on the way, apparently. It’s coming out in 2016*. And it will feature the return of Sly’s nemesis, Clockwerk. The movie will be penned and directed by Kevin Munroe, the guy behind 2007’s TMNT, with the animation being handled by Rainmaker and Blockade Entertainment, who are also currently…

China Is Getting a Brand New Video Game Console

Chinese television company TCL Corp is ready to throw its hat into the home console arena. But is the Chinese government ready? The company, which is based is in Guangdong, said it plans to release its first home console in China later this year. China Daily reports that the company said it will release a…

Watch Kirby Suck Like He Has Never Sucked Before

The coolest thing about Kirby has always been his ability to suck in his enemies and absorb their powers. And the newest game in the series, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, definitely has plenty of that. In Triple Deluxe Kirby now has five new copy abilities: sniper, beetle, circus, bell, and, my personal favorite, hypernova. And that’s…

Here’s a closer look at the Shadowrun RPG’s upcoming expansion, Dragonfall, courtesy of a new trailer. The Kickstarter update also mentions two other things: first, the expansion’s release date has been pushed back to February 27, and second, the much-anticipated Quicksave patch is already live for the original game.

Buying Japanese Arcade Cabinets Isn’t for the Weak, Feeble or Cheap

Perhaps you have dreams of owning your own Japanese arcade game cabinet. Heck, maybe you already do. But if you are in the market for one (especially a Konami music game cabinet), just know what you are getting yourself into. Recently, Japanese Twitter user Ronzu uploaded photos of setting up a Beatmania IIDX 21: Spada…

The Colbert Report Was Ripped Off By a Chinese TV Show

A Chinese show called The Banquet is being accused of ripping off The Colbert Report‘s opening. For good reason! As The Atlantic pointed out late last week, the show is called The Banquet and broadcasts on Ningxia Satellite TV, so it’s more of a local production. However, The Colbert Report does have a sizeable following…

Beautiful Video Game Sword Becomes Beautiful Real Sword

This is Sophita’s Omega Sword from Soulcalibur IV. In the flesh. It’s made not from polygons, but resin and styrene. Buily by Harrison Krix, from Volpin Props, it’s incredibly lightweight, and from his build log looks to have been as hard to construct as a real sword. Sophitia’s Omega Sword, Soul Calibur IV [Volpin Props]

Finally, Civilization Gets The Best Playable People On Earth

You British and Americans and Germans and Japanese and Greeks and…Babylonians have had it pretty good when it comes to Civilization games. You get to play as your own people. But what aboutme? Australia has never been in the game. And don’t give me that crap about being a country and not a Civilization. If…

​The Perfect Place for a Horror Game? Pennsylvania, Says Google

We live on the internet nowadays. And there’s some thinking that suggests you can get a peek into the psyche of large groups of people by parsing what people search Google for. A new map based on this idea shows that a lot of people want to know why Philadelphia is so haunted. Sounds like…

Titanfall is going to have a beta on both Xbox One and PC. Bet you never saw that coming.

Full Metal Blacksmith: Tony Swatton is back, this time forging Elric’s Spear from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. And after he’s done making it, as is customary, he uses the weapon to break some stuff. Ah, catharsis.

​One Next-Gen Voice Command I Can Do Without

I can understand why game developers working on next-gen games might be psyched to play around with voice commands. They represent an interesting and relatively new way to let players interact with games. But there’s at least one next-gen voice command I can happily do without. Every Xbox One owner (and every PS4 owner with…

Imagine Pikmin, But With Greek Philosophers

What happens when you take the all-stars of Ancient Greek philosophy, mythological heroes and throw them into a pixel-art version of Pikmin? Okhlos, that’s what. In the video above, I play a bit of a very early preview build of a charming-as-heck indie game Okhlos by Coffee Powered Machine. It plays a bit like Overlord,…