Titanfall‘s Custom Controller is Ready for Drop in March

A limited edition Titanfall Xbox One controller (that’s it, pictured) will be available at the game’s launch this March, Microsoft said this morning. It will cost $64.99. The design is meant to evoke “a piece of military spec hardware transported from the universe of Titanfall,” said the lead artist for Respawn Entertainment, makers of the…

Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Remade Entirely in Minecraft

You won’t see anime locations being remade in Minecraft often, especially not the vivid, colorful ones from Hayao Miyazaki’s works. Maybe because it’s not an easy task to remake something that’s perfect. Yet here’s Alan Becker with his Spirited Away project, ready to show us that it can be done. One thing he did right…

Lightning Strikes the Xbox 360. The demo for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is now available for the Xbox 360, giving North American gamers their first taste of dress-up-powered threequel action.

Report: Japan To Tax Foreign Downloads Starting Next Year

Physical goods imported into Japan are taxed. And according to the Japanese media, starting in 2015, foreign downloads will be as well. Content such as digital music, e-books, apps, and games downloaded from foreign servers will levied with a consumption tax, reports Nikkei Going on info from government sources, Asahi, one of the largest papers…

“Something people forget is that we’re already the fastest-selling MMO in history, so even if sales are declining a little bit, that’s on the fastest selling MMO in history.” Colin Johanson, game director of Guild Wars 2, sharing his opinion with Eurogamer about ArenaNet’s declining sales figures.

Fried Scorpion? Osaka Restaurant Serves Up Unusual Eats

If you ever visit Osaka, be sure to try one of its most famous dishes, “kushikatsu” (串カツ). Typically, it’s fried pork on skewers. One restaurant’s menu is anything but typical. The place to go for good kushikatsu (also called “kushiage” or 串揚げ) is Shinsekai. The neighborhood is rather rundown, and it’s hardly the nice part…

Hideo Kojima Taunts Us with Ground Zeroes on the PS Vita

Boy, that Hideo Kojima! First, he torments us with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on the PS4, and now via Twitter he’s teasing the game’s Remote Play for the PS Vita. The nerve. In these stills, you can see how Ground Zeroes apparently looks when running on the Vita. Nice, it seems! I’d like…

Zombies Throw Dance Party To Celebrate 1,000,000 DayZ Survivors

Yesterday, zombie survival sim DayZ hit one million players, and the zombie population couldn’t be happier. Actually, they’re not happy at all. They’re being forced to do this—by none other than Viktor Kostik, the lead animator of DayZ, who decided to throw together a short dance video to celebrate this milestone in the game’s history.…

The guys behind Sneaky Bastards have published a “2014 Manifesto” on the stealth genre. And whether you can even call it that. If you enjoy any part of a game where you’re sneaking around, go read it

That’s Some Motley Crew You’ve Got There, Boy

Damian Audino is a concept artist who’s only just started out working in the games business. Prior to that, he’s been doing freelance work. I wish Eelboy was a thing I could read/play/watch right now. You can see more of Damian’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory…

A He-Man Brawler Based On The 80s Cartoon. Yes.

The last He-Man game was pretty good, but it was a stylised thing, looking nothing like the original 1983 series. This game, made by fans, looks exactly like the 1983 series, and is all the better for it. A group of fans got together to make a side-scrolling beat-em-up based on the original He-Man, and…

Braid Clone Is Illegal, But Also Kinda Cute

Bootleg games are nothing new, but most of the time they’re either brazen clones or inept scams. This one falls somewhere in between, and as a result has a strange charm all of its own. Braid was, despite its platforming roots, a game with a lot to say, and some novel ways to say it.…

A Video Showing Everything A Mouse Clicks On In A Single Day

Clicking on a mouse has become such a mundane task, such an embedded part of our daily lives that it’s become like breathing. We need to do it, but we never actually think about it when we do it. So it’s fascinating watching this video of an artist who took a picture every time he…

Internet Magic Tricks: Six Seconds Per Laugh

Vines may only be about six seconds long, but that’s all Zach King needs to to pull an awesome trick, illusion or silly stunt. And before you can react or wonder how he did it, boom, he hits you with another neat parlor trick. It’s pretty great! Some of these, like the Pikachu one, you…