Final Fantasy XIV‘s Finest New Features Coming December 17

I really love the reborn Final Fantasy XIV, but it’s the sort of love that can’t be fully consummated until I can own my own in-game estate and fight a giant, crown-wearing Moogle. Thank goodness for December 17’s massive patch 2.1. It’s got everything. I suppose some players are looking forward to the advancement of…

By Day, Manga Artist. By Night, Ageless Vampire.

Manga artist Hirohiko Araki is famous for two things. One is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The other? Being an ageless vampire. Okay, okay. Araki is not an actual vampire. But he sure looks like one. The man is 53 years old! And as noted last year when he was 52, he looks really good for being…

Buy-in Beta Begins for Turn-Based Robot Football Game

I’m referring of course to indie group Mode 7’s upcoming Frozen Endzone, which can now be tried by anyone who’s willing to give the developers a vote of confidence by way of a pre-order. The game looks pretty much the same as it did at the time of its official announcement in March, only this…

Polka Dots Can Make Anything Sexy. Even Sumo.

This isn’t censorship. It’s called “mizutama kora” (水玉コラ) or “polka dot collage.” Here, it makes a fairly tame photo seem racy. Because sometimes, it’s not what you see, but what you don’t see. Are you ready to see some sexy sumo? Warning: This article might have content some readers will find disagreeable. Others might find…

If You Love Final Fantasy X-2, You’ll Love Lightning Returns

When people ask me what Lightning Returns is like, I always respond that it’s a lot like Final Fantasy X-2. A lot of people seem to take this as an insult to Lightning Returns. It’s not. While I feel like I am in the minority, I loved FFX-2 and much of what made it so…

Daisenryaku Perfect: Ruler of the Battlefield, delayed like eight times, has another release date: February 6, 2014. The previously announced Xbox 360 version of the game, however, appears to have vanished from the game’s official site. I eagerly await the next delay!

The Bayonetta Movie is Even More Over-the-Top than the Game

As I watched Bayonetta: Bloody Fate, the new anime film based on PS3 and 360 title Bayonetta, two thoughts kept running through my head: “This is the most 90s anime I have seen in a decade,” and “this is even more over-the-top than the game was!” Good – An Amazing Game-to-Film Adaptation Too often, when…

The Walking Dead’s second season begins on December 17, according to its newly-opened Steam store page. Take a look if you’d like to pre-order the Season Pass.

New Domo-kun Figure Looks Like a Turd

Domo-kun is originally a mascot for Japanese public broadcast company NHK. In the stop-motion anime he appears in, Domo-kun doesn’t quite look like a turd. This upcoming figurine? Total turd. Maybe it’s all the points of articulation that give this shiny brown Domo-kun a very poo-like appearance? Or the lack of soft fur? Here’s what…

The World’s Thinnest Condoms Are The Pinnacle Of Japanese Engineering

I would say these condoms are razor thin, but it seems they are thinner than that. As CondomSizes.org explains, the average thickness of human hair is 0.06 millimeters. At 0.01 millimeters, these Japanese condoms are the thinnest in the world According to website ZakZak, it took Sagami Rubber Industries over ten years to realize these…

There Is A Magazine Called Sneaky Bastards

At the start of the year, we covereda Kickstarter for a campaign aimed at producing a magazine all about stealth games. It was called, awesomely, Sneaky Bastards. Well, good news: the first issue is now printed, and headed off to people’s mailboxes. And it looks awesome. I’ve been flicking through a pdf copy of the…

Cool Indie Game Has A Name I’m Only Going To Type Once

Continue?9876543210 is a new game from Jason Oda, the guy who made that awesome Zelda/Skrillex mashup earlier in the year. He describes it as an “artsy, philosophical action game”, and it’s out on iOS, PC (it’s just been Greenlit) and Mac. It looks…pretty neat. Imagine if Wreck-It-Ralph was 100x bleaker. And had a pixel art…

An RPG/Shooter/Puzzle Game. With Nazis & Drag Queen Flirting.

Dead Century is something…different. Set in the 1930s, with Nazi Germany on the rise and interested in all things occult, you control “a small team of archaeologists as they try to stay one step ahead of Third Reich scientists in piecing together an ancient mystery from the dawn of human civilization.” It’s a bit of…

Skyrim Statue Does Not Cure Disease

Gaming Heads will next year be releasing a replica of the Shrine of Talos, giant statues found in the Elder Scrolls games. These aren’t tiny little desktop ornaments; they stand around a foot tall, or 14 inches. Only 1100 will be made across two versions ($180 for a standard, $200 for collector’s), with each detailed…

See Where Some Of Your Humble Bundle Money Actually Goes

Yeah, people mostly jump on Humble Bundles because they get a ton of great games for insanely cheap prices. But I like to think that the fact the bundles donate money to charity also plays a part in their success, giving gamers the chance to see their money go somewhere useful, instead of simply drifting…