Coca-Cola Spends 4 Years Developing a Warm Carbonated Drink For Japan

Is hot ginger ale a thing? In Japan, it apparently will be—or wants to be. Whichever. This fall, Coca-Cola Japan is rolling out cans of “hot” Canada Dry Ginger Ale. That’s right, they’ve figured out how to can warm carbonated drinks—something that took four years of research. Hot (well, warm) canned drinks are not new…

Creative Assembly’s latest PC strategy game, Total War: Rome II, is out today. Make sure to watch your back while slaughtering armies and conquering all those cities, lest you end up lying in a pool of your own blood Don’t follow the trailer’s example, folks.

The Witch and the Hundred Knight Is Fun, yet Flawed

Summoned by the swamp witch Metallica to take down her witchy foes, you take control of the Hundred Knight and hack n’ slash your way across the land. If that sounds like fun, great. It is. But that’s not to say there aren’t more than a few flaws in The Witch and the Hundred Knight…

This Loading Icon Is Terrifying as All Hell

This past weekend I picked up a copy of the new fighting game, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle. But it only took a few seconds before I was greeted with the creepiest loading icon of all time. I mean look at it! It’s a guy’s face getting ripped off layer by layer! For those who…

Diablo III is arriving on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 today. The console version of Blizzard’s hack n’ slash RPG is here, bringing with it offline/local co-op and an updated, streamlined interface. For an idea on how the game plays with a controller, check out our impressions here

Director Wants To Turn Hotline: Miami Into A Short Film

Well, it was going to happen eventually. It’s Hotline: Miami. Short, sweet, violent and exciting; the perfect recipe for a great internet flick, which is exactly what this man is trying to make—and crowdfund. The man behind the project is Saman Kesh, creator of several popular online short films, including the wonderful “Controller,” which we’ve…

Stealing $5,000 with a Drill Bit

Not a drill. A drill bit. You know, the part you must stick in an electric drill. FNN and TomoNews report that early morning on September 1, a hooded man wearing a jumpsuit and a surgical mask entered a karaoke parlor in Higashiosaka City and started waving a drill bit at the staffer who had…

Guess who is publishing Diablo III‘s Japanese language version? Square Enix! The localized version is slated to be out next year in Japan and will be released under Square Enix’s Extreme Edges banner.

China’s Embarrassing Childhood Photos

Chalk it up to growing pains, but everyone has embarrassing photos. Some people’s are just more embarrassing than others. Here’s a proud look at some of China’s delightfully awkward childhood photos. Recently on Chinese micro-blog Sina Weibo, people have been uploading their most painful pics, using a tag which translates in English as, “showing off…

Xbox Facebook Account Smokes Whatever James Franco’s Been Smoking

Zelda? Not a Microsoft franchise, as I’m sure you know. Not that that stops the official Xbox Facebook account from telling you all about it…and also James Franco. For some reason! This sort of thing isn’t quite an isolated incident—before, the Xbox UK account has posted about The Last of Us. That’s also not a…

LEGO He-Man Is A Christmas Dream Waiting To Come True

We can thank Alex Jones (Orion Pax) for this, a set of designs for He-Man LEGO so complete and professional that it’s a wonder he didn’t just sneak into my dreams and steal them. Characters, vehicles, playsets, weapons, he’s mocked them all up, from Castle Greyskull (it opens!) to Cringer, it’s all there. Head to…

Get Lucky: hey look, it’s that popular Daft Punk single, recreated in Mario Paint. Neat stuff, jeonghoon95! (Viacharmainevee)

US Hospital Offering Treatment For Internet Addiction

While it’s yet to receive official accreditation as an “official psychiatric condition”, an American hospital has nevertheless become the first in the country to offer a form of treatment for internet addition. Opening next week, the Behavioural Health Services wing of Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania will be making available a 10-day treatment program…

What The Iron Throne Should Really Look Like

The one in the show is cool, don’t get me wrong, but in the books, it’s described as being made of one thousands blades. HBO’s version is nowhere near it. This one, though, is closer to the real thing. So much so that series creator George R R Martin has given the image his blessing…

The Only Place You Won’t Find Minecraft Is On Nintendo Systems

Beginning life on the PC, Minecraft has since appeared on *deep breath* iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Mac, Linux, the Raspberry Pi (!) and, soon, the PS3, PS4, Vita and Xbox One. That’s just about every major platform and manufacturer out there. Oh, except one. Nintendo. Despite the smashing success the game has enjoyed on every…

Xbox One’s External Storage Not Ready For Launch

Good news reminder: the Xbox One supports external storage. Bad news update: the Xbox One won’t support that feature at launch. While announcing the capability at E3 back in June, consoles released in November won’t let you plug in an external drive, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb explaining in a podcast that “the team is working on…

Have You Already Played A Next-Gen Console?

Did you go to PAX? Did you wait in line to play a game on the Xbox One or PS4? Did you make it to the end and actually play one? Do you want to tell us what you thought? If you answered YES to all of the above, well…tell us what you thought. Until…

Guess You Guys REALLY Wanted A New Mega Man Game, Huh

Boy, you guys sure showed Capcom. Having consigned Mega Man to the dustbin of history, the Japanese publisher is probably kicking itself watching the Kickstarter for the series’ spiritual successor – Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 – blow past its funding goal in just 24 hours. Having asked for $900,000, the game – which is…

Deported Boy Uses Minecraft To Stay In Touch With American Friends

Rodrigo Guzman is ten. Born in Mexico, he’d lived in Berkeley, California since the age of 2, attending Jefferson Elementary, one of the best schools in the area. That was until he and his parents, en route to Mexico to renew their visas, were expelled from the country by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Stopped…

Let’s See How “HD” The Homeworld Remakes Really Are

While Blackbird go changing the letterhead of their strategy game from Hardware: Shipbreakers to Homeworld: Shipbreakers, publishers Gearbox are working on their own games in the franchise, namely the HD remakes of the two main Homeworld games. Let’s see how they’re getting along. At the studio’s PAX panel earlier today, some images were shown comparing…