Skylanders: Swap Force Finally Gets The Toys Needed To Finish The Game

This morning Toys’R’Us locations across the U.S. start selling Rubble Rouser and Stink Bomb, the two Skylanders toys needed to 100% complete levels in a game released three months ago. What? First, a little background for those who’ve not played Skylanders: Swap Force, the latest entry in Activision’s incredibly lucrative marriage of toys and video…

Making weapon replicas, or building armor sets from Skyrim, or any other Elder Scrolls game is one thing, but creating a whole shelf of Elder Scrolls potions, scrolls and books is some next level stuff. Here’s Faasnu’s shelf, featuring tons of potions and even the Mysterium Xarxes from TES IV: Oblivion Below is the full…

Real-Time Face Substitution Will Hide You In The Scariest Way Possible

Audun Mathias Øygard’s creative experiment uses real-time facial recognition to hide your face in a webcam feed with different masks. That could be handy if you want to scare your friends with a real-time Nicolas Cage imiatation (don’t forget to use it with a proper soundboard) or just confuse them while playing online. If you…

Is This New Anime Trolling South Korea and China?

This week, Soni Ani Super Sonico The Animation began broadcasting in Japan. The series features Super Sonico, the mascot character for Tokyo-based game developer Nitroplus. And one short, subtle sequence is raising eyebrows among some online in neighboring South Korea. Here are stills of the sequence in question, courtesy of South Korean site MLBPark: Did…

The Wall Street Journal has a smart analysis of China’s nebulous lifting of the console ban—namely, what it means, and why game makers shouldn’t get excited just yet. The takeaway? The latest announcement apparently adds little to what Kotaku already reported last fall.

Another Penis-Shaped Building Erected in China

And it’s not the first phallic-looking Chinese building in recent memory, either. Remember the golden one in Beijing? The latest effort is also the tallest penis building in the city of Jinan. The structure is going up in the city center, where it towers over all. Have a look at photos (courtesy of CNR.cn) from…

Japan Getting Sweet Assassin’s Creed Bundle

In March, Japan is getting a fancy Assassin’s Creed bundle that collects all things Connor and Aveline. Called the Assassin’s Creed Connor Saga, it includes the PS3 version of Assassin’s Creed III, all that game’s DLC, the HD remake of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation for the PS3, both games’ soundtracks and a revised edition of the…

Some Of The Best Counter-Strike Kills You’ll Ever See

This is HLTV.org’s list of the top ten “frag highlights” of 2013. Some are amazing individual kills, others rampages that’ll make you sad that you’re not as good at video games as these guys are. HLTV.org’s Top 10 Frag Highlights of 2013 [HLTV.org, via Daily Dot]

3DS Region Locking Can Be Disabled, With A Little Work

Some 3DS community members have found a way to get around the handheld’s nefarious region-locking. Well done, all involved. The hex patch used requires some custom installations on your handheld, but once complete it’ll allow your 3DS to play retail games from any region. Note that this isn’t a piracy exploit, as it won’t let…

​Quite Possibly The Greatest Thing Kenny G Has Ever Done

Kenny G may be the bane of self-respecting music fans everywhere, but you can’t say the man doesn’t have a sense of humor about himself. In this new video from Funny or Die, Mr. Kenneth Gorelick becomes comedian John Daly’s imaginary friend. You guys know I can’t resist some good sax humor, so I had…

You Can’t Pause A Car Accident

Accidents tend to happen because there’s no time to react, or because someone makes a mistake. Either way, once things are in motion, that’s that. You can’t pause an accident if you’re in the middle of one. But if you could pause an accident as it was happening, like in this anti-speeding ad by NZTransportAgency?…