Escape From China’s Mystery Rooms!

Have you ever wanted to be locked in a hotel room? Or even trapped inside a murder scene? Well fear not: your odd, twisted fantasies have sort of been realised in Beijing’s newest craze, the mystery room escape! Mystery room escapes in Beijing are akin to a smaller-sized fun houses. Basically it’s a locked room…

Apparently, The World’s Most Realistic FPS Will Be Free To Play

For eight years, a group of modders have been working on reworking DICE’s Battlefield 2 into a much more realistic and much larger-scale multiplayer shooter. In August, their journey came to an end, and the 1.0 version of their mod, Project Reality, was released. Now, the same group is working on a full game. The…

Westerners Want PS Vita TV More than Sony Thought

That PS Vita TV sure is a neat little device, huh? The device is hitting Japan this November and will be released elsewhere in Asia next January. But what about the West? In a recent roundtable Kotaku attended at Sony’s Tokyo headquarters, Masayasu Ito said, “Western gamers want [the PS Vita TV] more than we…

Stupid Man Took Out a $7,000 Loan for In-Game Items

In South Korea, there’s a show called Hello Counselor. On it, the celebrity panel talks with folks dealing with issues, which are often unusual. A segment on a recent episode introduced a couple dealing with game addiction. On the show, a 22 year-old woman (above) wanted to know how her husband could overcome his problems…

You Will Want These Tokyo Game Show Toys

Maybe you won’t want all of them. But I’m pretty sure there’s something in here for everyone. Have a look and judge for yourself. These photos were recently taken at the Tokyo Game Show merchandise section. There are items currently on sale in Japan as well as some upcoming goodies. Perhaps you might want them…

iOS 7’s Newest App? Japanese Pornography

Apple’s new iOS is more than a big leap in interface, it’s also pretty. And in Japan, people are making it erotic. Warning: This post has man butt. While Western porn shows everything, Japanese pornography does not. Instead, pixels or blurred mosaics cover private parts (read more as to why here). Online in Japan, people…

Journey Cartoon Sums Up Most People’s Journey Experience

Sure, at times it can feel magical, especially on that first playthrough, but after a while, the fact you can’t communicate with anything more than a pulse can get on your nerves. Especially if the person you’re playing with is a troll/moron. Journey [Balbod]

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You Can Fly Like Superman In Grand Theft Auto V

Some cheats for Grand Theft Auto V are about stuff like makin’ money. They justifiably disable the ability for that save to rack up achievements. Others, though, just want you to be free This one looks more like something you’d see as a mod for the PC version, but since that inevitability is likely 6-12…

80’s Movie Cosplay Is The Best Kind Of Cosplay

While video game cosplay is the primary focus of this feature, I sometimes let my attention wander a little and include stuff from other mediums if I think it’s good enough. And Weird Science cosplay is definitely good enough. Also good enough? Hungarian cosplayer Enji Night, who has managed to make it here twice in…

You Can Play Your Original SNES Online, Don’t You Know

This is SNESoIP, an open-source project put together by a pair of Germans that lets you play original SNES games, using original SNES hardware, over the internet. You could technically do this back in the day using stuff like XBAND, but it was terrible. This, despite it’s been in development for only a few weeks,…

Art That Will Punch Your Eyeballs In Their Stupid Eyeball Faces

British artist Dan Morison has worked in advertising, music video and film, with clients ranging from Xbox to Nike to Guinness. I could paint my entire house in murals of this stuff. Then maybe my neighbour’s place. You can see more of Dan’s work at his personal site (thanks Super Punch!) To see the larger…

Cats Can Also Unlock An iPhone 5S

It’s not just human nipples that can enjoy the safety and security of the new iPhone’s “fingerprint” scanners. Cats can now also sleep easy knowing their contacts and messages are accessible only to those with matching pawprints. The clip above shows Techcrunch putting the phone through its paces with a…cat. They report that while it’s…

Spelunky Was On The Emmys Tonight

Television’s night of nights is also Spelunky’s night of nights, it seems, with the brutal platformer making a surprise appearance during the awards show. The Colbert Report won for Best Writing In A Variety Series, and when they cut to one of those writers, Rob Dubbin (who also writes about games sometimes) he was…playing Spelunky.…

Hey, Aeris Is Back (Well, Her Clothes Are) In The New Final Fantasy

Did you know Square Enix likes catering to its existing fanbase? Witness this preorder bonus for Japanese customers buying a certain strategy guide for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It gives star Lightning an Aeris outfit. Presumably as-new, with no holes or stains. No word yet on how, or if, it’ll be made available for…

Mentally Challenged Man Beaten For His GTA V (Happy Ending Follows)

Rohan Dawkins (above, left), from Delray Beach, Florida, is a student at a local ACCESS program for adults with intellectual disabilities. Having saved up money from his weekend job at a Home Depot he, like millions of other people around the world, was able to buy a copy of Grand Theft Auto V last week.…

Cosplayer Cops Legal Threat From…Carpet Company

Even though there’s a growing business around the wares they create and parade, cosplayers rarely run into legal problems from the people who own the copyrights to the characters they’re dressed up as. Which only makes this legal problem all the more absurd. Seeing as cosplay is in essence a form of homage, and in…

Though Albert Penello, Microsoft’s director of product planning, did say you could run a PlayStation 4’s video out feed through an Xbox 360, it’s not optimal when it comes to actually playing PS4 games with the 360 as a pass-through. “HDMI latency is fine for video feeds, but not great interactive,” he said on NeoGAF.

Towing Cop Cars, Stabbing Sharks and Other GTA Myths Put to the Test

YouTube’s DefendTheHouse put out a Mythbusters-style video for Black Ops 2 earlier this year, and now returns with some sage advice for managing Grand Theft Auto V‘s bigtime threats—from sharks to police choppers. My favorite protip is lighting a gasoline trail with your turbocharged sedan’s backfire. It’s such a passive-aggressive way to blow up a…

In a Sports Video Game, There Are No Second Acts

Trailing four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, it was apparent the Yankees were already thinking about room service. Koji Uehara, the Boston relief pitcher, barely needed the free-swinging help to extend his personal equivalent of a perfect game from 11 innings to 12 on just nine pitches. The 37 straight batters Uehara…