This Man Likes the Vita So Much, He Practically Remade His Game For It

As of July 23rd, Square Enix has released its popular RPG, Chaos Rings, to the PlayStation Mobile section of the PlayStation Store, where it can be downloaded and played on smartphones, tablets, and the PS Vita. When asked why he decided to release the formerly smartphone-only game on PS Mobile, producer Takehiro Ando’s answer was…

The Original Sequel to Prince of Persia Returns After A 20-Year Break

We heard a few months back that the 1993 platformer Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, sequel to the very first PoP game from ’89, would get a mobile remake. That remake is out now. Apart from getting a massive visual upgrade (graphics technology-wise, at least), the now fully-3D Shadow and the…

Square Enix Has Its Eye on China. Yeah, Just Like Everyone Else.

Yoichi Wada, the guy at Square Enix who gets to sit in the “Chairman of the Board” chair is in China for the “China Digital Entertainment Expo” (also known as “ChinaJoy”), China’s biggest game show. Wada gave a speech about the Free to Play model of games at the pre-Expo developer/publisher conference, during which he…

Yep, Deadly Premonition Is Coming to Steam. Along With 13 Other Games

Rather impressively, it only took six days for the community to put Deadly Premonition on Steam. That’s pretty quick. Of course, SWERY’s quirky horror game isn’t the only title we’ll get to play on Steam thanks to Greenlight. There’s 13 more games (and two software titles) to look at, so let’s dive right in! A…

The Varying Degrees of Anger Online in Japan

You mad? Really ticked off? Effing pissed? There’s a difference, you know. Online for the past few months, there have been humorous degrees of being angry in Japan. The meme was originally based on the Japanese “gal” subculture slang for angry, “oko” (おこ). The internet then spun off that slang into one angry meme that…

It’s Kind of Like Call of Duty, But with Chinese Nationalism

This is Glorious Mission Online. An upcoming update for the online first-person shooter allows players to defend the Senkaku Islands (aka “Diaoyu Islands” in China) from Japan. The ownership of these islands is a hotly contested issue in Asia, with Japan scrambling fighter jets yesterday after Chinese vessels approached the islands. As South China Morning…

There’s a Cigarette Smoking Turtle in China

If you’ve ever wondered how addictive cigarettes are, look no further than this turtle. Various Chinese TV news programs are reporting that a man in Changchun owns a turtle that smokes ten cigs a day. The turtle even makes chirping noises when it wants smokes or walks over to its owner when he’s puffing away.…

A Game Where You’re In Jail. Suspected Of Murder. Oh, And Pregnant.

It’s always nice to play an adventure game that’s not set in a fantasy kingdom, gritty sci-fi future or cartoon world. Though, actually, I’m not sure “nice” is the right word to use when it comes to 9 Months In. An indie point-and-click adventure game, you play a woman who is both incarcerated and pregnant.…

It’s Never Dangerous To Go Alone When Zelda Stars Tony Stark

Snapped at PAX Australia last weekend. I wonder if it would be any less annoying if it was J.A.R.V.I.S. banging on at you to “please listen”. Best cosplay at PAX AUS. [Reddit, via Fashionably Geek]

Now that the Mad Max game is going to have an Australian-accented star, who’s it going to be? One man has alreadyput his hand up: Mel Gibson’s brother (and professional voice actor) Donal. Who like Mel isn’t actually Australian, but having spent time here growing up can do the accent pretty damn well.

Using Oculus Rift To Control A Drone. A Real Drone.

How meta. It’s designed to let you enter virtual reality, but the Oculus Rift can also be used to control things in the real world. Like drones. This is the first flight of Oculus FPV, a scheme put together by Intuitive Aerial that lets you use the headset to get a birds-eye view of stuff…

EA Honestly Believes SimCity Has Been A “Success”

SimCity had one of the most catastrophic launches in video game history. Even after the server problems went away, fans slowly found out the game was a city-building mirage, with many key features and mechanics simply not working. Somehow, at EA, this qualifies as a “success”. Speaking with VentureBeat, EA Games’ Frank Gibeau said: In…

Oh, It’s Nothing, Just A Life-Sized Tie Fighter Replica

The last we saw of Darth Vader’s prototype Tie Advanced fighter, it was spinning off into space while the first Death Star exploded into sparks and high fives. Plus, that was just a model (or a piece of CG). So really, it’s only now that some crazy Germans have built a life-sized version of the…

News Reporter Draws Penis On Live TV

This is a host on Michigan’s ABC 12 describing a construction zone and how it’s going to impact traffic. That’s what she’s talking about, anyway. Her fingers tell a different story. It’s clearly an accident, drawn as the rest of her fingers drag behind her index as she points on the touchscreen, but hey. Don’t…

Tali’s “Official” Face, A Cyborg Shepard And Other BioWare Sketches

OK. This is awesome. Matt Rhodes, one of the best concept artists in the business, has opened up the vaults and shared some of his work on the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series from before you’d seen a screenshot. Suffice to say, things are different When I say the images are from the earliest…

Super-Cute Robot Performs Adorable Parkour

Meet RHex. He’s super cute, and he’s also pretty good at parkour! At least, for a tiny, adorable robot. Rhex is a project by Aaron Johnson and Daniel Koditschek, the former a grad student and the latter a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. RHex is a robot designed…

Into Cube World? Then check out this cool article at Kill Screen about voxel technology and voxel pioneer Ken Silverman.

This Hellish Law Firm Logo Sure Looks Familiar…

Guacamelee! already has its share of great video-game references and in-jokes. But this one, from the game’s new Diablo’s Domain DLC, takes the cake. Looks familiar, no? Also: “Devil’s Advocates?” So, where’s Keanu? Well played, Drinkbox. We’ll have more on the DLC, which Chris reports is “hard as hell,” in the near future.

This Smash Bros. Fan Fiction Has 3.5 Million Words… So Far

To put that number into context: most of the longest novels ever only have a little over a million words in them. And this fan-fiction has nearly three times as many words as that. Yeah. It’s kind of unreal. Maybe you’ve heard of it? It’s been around since 2008, after all. If not, it’s called…

If you’ve been enjoying our (read: my) recent trip down memory lane with the excellent No One Lives Forever spy games, be sure to check out this cool article at The Jace Hall Showabout how the game almost didn’t get made, complete with a new Q&A with creative director Craig Hubbard.