5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall

We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…

Found by Redditor Hulk_Pants in Egypt, this GTA V bootleg has everything on its cover (even Patrick Brown’s art and the helicopter on the top left side!). According to him, it is GTA: San Andreas for the Playstation 2, with modded Trevor, Franklin and Michael skins. That’s just too much effort for a bad knockoff!…

Your Complete Fall 2013 Anime Guide

As we continue through October, we have come to the end of the summer season and are beginning the fall one. But with 49 new anime in the pipeline, how do you know which ones to watch? Check out the trailers and brief blurbs about each to see which of them catches your interest. [*Note:…

Some of the best gaming stories from our overnight shift: Civilization‘s Crazy Ten-Year Game Is STILL GOING What Some Male Gamers Want Female Soldiers To Look Like Fine Art: Why You Should Always Wear Helmets In Battle The League Of Legends World Champs Looked Incredible

The PlayStation 5 Probably Won’t Be a Console, Says Tekken Producer

This fall, the PlayStation 4 will finally be released. Enjoy that physical media playing game console thingy! As one game producer says, it could be the last of its kind for PlayStation. In a recent interview in Famitsu, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada of Namco Bandai talked a bit about the future of the PlayStation, its…

North Korea Still Sucks at Photoshop [Update]

Can someone please help the North Korean government out? The propaganda ministers stink at Photoshop. Please get them to sign up for a class at their local community college. Or maybe Dennis Rodman can help. As frightening as North Korea can seem, honestly, the country’s inability to master the art of Photoshop should leave doubts…

I Am in Love With This Game’s Colorful, Vivid Backgrounds

I admit, I am one of those who is constantly annoyed that, constrained only by the limits of our imagination, we continually produce “realistic” looking games that have a color palette dominated by browns, grays, and blacks. So I am ecstatic whenever a game like Arcadias no Ikusahime comes along. The backgrounds are beautifully rendered…

Don’t Become a Thing, Freaky Furby Make Up

For years, big anime-style eyes have been popular in Japan. Now, one Japanese fashion mag is introducing “doll style make up.” Please don’t catch on. Please. The make-up is designed to make your eyes look like a plastic doll’s. The image, via Twitter user @yun___yu, is from Popteen, which is one of Japan’s most popular…

If You Like Space Operas, You’ll Love Yamato 2199

In 1974, before Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Gundam, and Macross, there was Space Battleship Yamato (or Starblazers as it was known in the U.S.). Now nearly four decades later the series has returned with the reboot Space Battleship Yamato 2199—a reboot that easily makes for the best space opera in more than half a decade.…

Don’t Hold Your Breath For Nintendo Games On iOS (Or Android)

When recently asked if Nintendo was planning on putting out titles on smartphones, company honcho Satoru Iwata replied, “Nobody knows the distant future. Or if I’ll be president. However, what I can say is, ‘At present, no.'”

Dragon Quest is coming to smartphones in a big way. Square Enix is bringing Dragon Quest I to Dragon Quest VIII to iOS and Android. Look forward for the onslaught to start this winter when Dragon Quest I is re-released in Japan. Subsequent sequels to follow. No word about a Western release.

I Dare Hollywood to Pull Off a Stunt Like This

These days movies are all about CG graphics. They’re closer to video games than good-old fashioned analog film. So we’ll leave it to real life to accidentally dazzle us with amazing stunts. This black box video was taken in a South Korean parking lot. It starts slow, but please, stick with it. 서커스를 하시는 김여사…

Japan Discovers The Secret Of Unlimited Chocolate

Remove one piece of chocolate from a chocolate bar. Swap two other pieces, and voilà, you have what sure seems like an endless supply of chocolate. Of course, it’s not. The above GIF, created from this video by YouTube user Mariano Tomatis, shows how the trick appears to result in the same-sized chocolate bar. However,…

If Pokémon Had Been A Western Cartoon…

First airing in Japan in the 1990s, Pokémon is a very, well, Japanese cartoon. Let’s imagine for a second, though, that it had been released in the 1990s in the United States. Instead of King of the Hill. Or inside King of the Hill. Pretty sure I wouldn’t need another show on TV. Poké-King-of-the-Mon-Hill [YouTube]

Smug Lady Mocks Robot, Will Surely Be The Death Of Us All

The guys who made the terrifying Amnesia are making a new game, a game with robots in it. We know little about it, but it does not look like things will be going well Why? Because this is the kind of video you see as evidence, after the robot repairs itself and someone else finds…

Some Of The Most Beautiful LEGO In The World

Beautiful LEGO is a new book by Mike Doyle that, well, you can probably guess what it’s about. Doyle has interviewed some of the world’s best LEGO builders for the book, and its 260 pages are packed with all kinds of different works, from intricate buildings to pop culture homages to original designs. For the…

I For One Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

Last week, the guys at BLR (with help from some WETA artists) released one of the most incredible pieces of sci-fi animation this planet has ever seen. Keloid. Let’s bask in the afterglow, then, with some art from the guys who designed the killer robots. While some of the design was handled in-house, two WETA…

Two Companies Go To War Over A Neo Geo Handheld

On the weekend, SNK issued a press release saying that the Neo Geo X handheld – a re-release of the company’s famous home console – was done for. Only a few days later, the company licensing the handheld from SNK says nope, we’ll keep selling it. In case you couldn’t tell from the original SNK…

GTA: Australia Has The Same Old GTA Problems

Weird animation issues? Check. Crazy civilians? Check. Australians buying drugs and…wait a minute. Only once has the GTA series left American shores. I can’t see it happening again, and if it did, it won’t come to Australia. But a man can dream. And so can these guys. The Thing About GTA V… [Max & Sam]

Just How Much Crap Can A Video Game Character Carry?

The short answer is “too much”. The long answer is: over 800 pounds for a Grand Theft Auto character, and when it comes to Minecraft, holy shit. If you didn’t know that you could carry 25% of the total gold ever mined by the human species on your back, well, now you know. How Much…