These Are China’s Top Five Home-Grown Cartoons

Modern animation in China has largely been dominated by foreign imports. Anime like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece are extremely popular. However, China’s own animation industry is slowly getting better; here is a list of some of their best home-grown cartoons. Rainbow Sea [星游记] Released in 2011, Rainbow Sea is a fairly new and popular…

I Had No Clue Hedgehogs Were So Darn Cute

Blame Sonic. Or Ron Jeremy. Blame someone or something! Because, really, I didn’t know hedgehogs were this adorable. As a photographer (er, hedgehographer?), Tokyo-based Instagram userShota Tsukamoto has been documenting his cute pet Darcy. Via website DDN Japan, here are some of the most memorable pics: Sonic got it all wrong. We didn’t want a…

The folks behind Natural Selection are working on an open-world underwater building game. Subnautica will “combine elements of role playing, sandbox, exploration and cinematic games,” according to its newly-opened website-slash-blog

Forget Hunky Men, You Want to Date Buggy Men

In Japan, “otome” (maiden) games give players a slew of handsome men from which to choose. A recent game offers much more than that. Say hello to buggy men! New Japanese smartphone game Boyfriend (Fictitious) is amusing people on Twitter with its unusual dreamboats. Here, have a look (via Otaku News): These aren’t bugs, they’re…

Cutesy Side-Scrolling MMOs Are Not Supposed To Look This Good

It fits, considering the new cutesy MapleStory won’t be its typical side-scrolling self. Indeed, for MapleStory 2, they’re abandoning the now familiar side-scrolling look for the Korean-made online RPG in favor of a more traditional isometric business. Like Ragnarok Online, basically, but in full 3D. Not that the new cinematic trailer shows off any of…

If Assassin’s Creed IV Was A Disney Cartoon…

Finish that sentence however you want, though I’d recommend “…I would watch the crap out of it”. Not sure the subject matter would carry over that well for a kid’s movie, but hey, maybe Thatch’s burning beard and everyone’s wanton murder can be turned into a jolly sea shanty. AC4: Disney poster style[JessKat-art, via Gamefreaks]

Playing Battlefield 4 Inside An Armored LAN Party

Yes, this is a cheap marketing stunt. But it’s one I want to own. Or at least borrow for the weekend. EA’s Australian outpost and Origin – the PC manufacturers, not the EA online store – have built the “Battlefield 4 and Origin PC Armoured Division Tank”, a clumsy name for what’s essentially a converted…

Remember that customSuper Nintendo urinal? Its creator is selling. $499 on, where else, Craigslist

The Next Rainbow Six Game “Wasn’t Working”, So It’s Been Remade

In case you couldn’t tell between the departuresand delays, Ubisoft’s next Rainbow Six game has been in the development doghouse for years now. Something Ubisoft is only just getting around to publicly acknowledging. During an interview with IGN, Ubisoft’s Laurent Detoc has admitted that the game as first planned “wasn’t working”, and that the team…

PlayStation U.S. Boss Says He Gave Up His PS4 So Someone Could Buy One

When PlayStation’s U.S. chief says Sony isn’t rigging an artificial PS4 shortage, I give him the benefit of the doubt. When he says 12,000 PS4s sold out in half an hour on Amazon, that’s not an incredible thing to say. When he says he has no PS4 yet, telling the company to sell it instead,…

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party

The National Liberty Foundation is a Florida-based group of radical conservatives associated with the right-wing group that calls themselves the Tea Party. They use their Facebook to post lots of right-wing meme images and racist links Yesterday, they posted the above image, which looks a whole lot like an anti-immigrant cartoon. Well, it is an…

Four Have Reached Level 100 on PlayStation Network

Hakoom, one of the more prolific and visible trophy hunters in the PlayStation Network, just broke through to level 100—a rank that requires a user to win some 30,000 trophies. Three others have also breached the 99 barrier, thought to be the limit when PSN instituted trophy support back in mid-2008. Hakoom gets the publicity…