Original Grand Theft Auto Designer is Remaking Liberty City in 3D

One of the creators of the first Grand Theft Auto—whose top-down perspective bears little resemblance to the series since 2001—is revisiting Liberty City to re-render that map in 3D. Michael Dailly is carrying out the project in GameMaker: Studio, which is made by Dailly’s current employer, YoYo Games. USGamer reports that Dailly had to code…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: TAYfolk sure are turning out great Last-Gen Heroes/Zeroes stuff. Arguments for the quality of Alice: Madness Returns, a look at the open-world revolution and a Zelda face-off featuring games from the last wave of consoles. And you can always go join the voices talking about…

Xbox One Won’t Let You Use Your Real Name Online At Launch

Even though Microsoft appears to still be committed to the idea of letting Xbox Live users identify each other by their real names, if they so choose, that feature won’t be available when the Xbox One launches on November 22, a rep for the console confirmed to Kotaku That confirmation came after a demonstration of…

Bad Lip Reading Turns Game of Thrones Into Hilarious Nonsense

Please tell me you guys are aware of Bad Lip Reading? It’s a YouTube channel that dubs over conversations in movies and shows all with the intention of mistranslating what the characters are saying. And it’s almost always to hilariously nonsensical results. It’s been five months—five long months—since we’ve seen this silly humor on YouTube,…

Video Game Lag In Real Life Is Still Annoying

Thank you for the Vine, Neat Dude and reminding us the worst moments of online gaming. This could be any game, really. Lag has no boundaries! If it lasted a bit longer, we’d probably see one of them appear right behind the other to get a killshot. Video game lag in real life [Neat Dude,…

You won’t need to keep a computer by the Xbox One to help you play games. That’s because the console’s Snap feature will let the Machinima app automagically figure out what game you’re playing and get videos to help you win. (via MajorNelson.com)

An Entire Scottish Island Is Now An Ad For Skylanders

Know for its scenic mountain vistas and sheep farms with an economy based on fishing, tourism and whiskey-distilling, Scotland’s Isle of Skye is now the first real-world location officially twinned with a video game setting. One of the prettiest places on the planet, now a Skylanders: Swap Force marketing tool. I suppose pairing The Skylands’…

Kirby! No! What did you eat this time? Fortunately this is not a screenshot of Kirby in the new Smash Bros. game, but a nightmarish painting, made by Lal0-90 on deviantART. Kirby is unleashed, with 100% more teeth and power. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related…

League of Legends Is So Big in Korea, Even Politicians Cosplay It

It all started with a promise. If Korean team SK Telecom T1 won this year’s League of Legends World Championship, Congressman Jun Byung-hun said he would cosplay as a LoL character and post the photo proof online. Turns out, they won. And today, Rep. Jun was good to his word. This past January, South Korean…

GTA V Demolition Derbies Are Better On Skyscrapers

What’s needed for a GTA Online skyscraper battle royale, like the one above, is only a few friends (and their cars), a cargo helicopter, and the biggest building in the game. The fun, shared by YouTuber Kyoto-Moto, starts around the 3:00 mark in the video below. And yes, they fight until only one car remains:…

Kingdom Hearts III remote play on PS Vita or tablets? In an interview with Famitsu, Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura said that this sort of thing was being looked at.

The Fake Mega Evolutions of Real Animals

Think Pokémon is the only place where you can find “mega evolutions?” Ha! On 2ch, Japan’s largest forum, one member uploaded the altered picture below, saying the pooch “had become divine.” Another 2ch user immediately jumped in, calling the image a “mega evolution.” Using website PicHacks, a stream of animal pics followed. They are victims…

Manga Editor Allegedly Attacked a Taxi Driver Over $7 Fare

Tomoyuki Shima, the 46 year-old editor-in-chief of Weekly Young Jump, was arrested for an alleged threat he made to a Tokyo cab driver. According to Mainichi, at around 3:20am this morning Japan time, Shima was taking a taxi home, and when he got near his residence, he allegedly grabbed the taxi driver by the arm…

The New Monster Hunter 3DS Is No Monstrosity

To mark the release of Monster Hunter 4, Nintendo is once again releasing a special MH4 branded handheld. It’s classy looking. Priced at 19,800 yen (US$200), the Monster Hunter 4 3DS is bundled with a download version of the game and will be out November 7. Monster Hunter 4 already got special handhelds when it…

Japan Has Too Many Penguin Bars

Recently, a “penguin bar” opened in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro. It’s not the first. There are at least three others. Does Japan really need all these penguin bars?! Besides booze and food, these establishments have live penguins that swim, waddle, and eat dead fish—as penguins do (though, usually not in bars). According to MyNavi, the newest penguin…

Street Fighter Takes On Wrestling. It Gets Messy.

Street Fighter was real. At least, it was for one night earlier this year, as Oakland’s wrestling crew at Hoodslam took on Capcom’s fighter and put it in the ring. In case the embed above doesn’t start at the right spot for you, you’ll want to begin at 3:12. Because while some of the action…

Reminder: Real Pirates Were Awful

Making a pleasant change from the usual pre-release drivel, Ubisoft has teamed up with VICE to make a series of short documentaries about the golden age of piracy. So that when you’re playing Assassin’s Creed IV, you can…I don’t know, appreciate the piracy some more. Really, though, screw the game. They’re just great little clips…

A Game About Hunting Monsters, And It’s Not Made In Japan

On paper, Monster Hunter should be one of the biggest games on Earth. It’s about nothing but fighting giant monsters, then gutting them for loot. For whatever reason, though, Monster Hunter is only really big in Japan, leaving others free to steal its thunder elsewhere. Enter Canadian studio Tetrahedral Interactive, who are working on Canto,…

No, Evil Soldier Man, I Was Not Making Fun Of Your Raspy Voice

Efgeni Bischoff is a freelance 3D artist who has previously worked for companies like Crytek and Guerilla Games. In between that, he’s also worked on Halo 4. So, yeah, if you want to see gorgeous images of armoured soldier men with fancy guns, you’ve come to the right place. You can see more of Efgeni’s…