At Least Konami UK Listens To Their Fans

Konami US has been depressingly quiet about the prospects of making Suikoden more accessible to modern gamers, but at least the company’s UK branch is showing their best franchise some love. Today on the Konami UK blog there’s a big post about Suikoden, written by the folks at the Suikoden Revival Movement. Progress! It’s a…

Think Nothing About Doom Is Huggable? Think Again.

Video game statue experts Gaming Heads have stared into the mouth of evil, and it licked their face and wriggled its theoretical pseudopods gleefully, and that’s probably why these horrific Doom plushes look so damnably huggable. The Cacodemon and Pain Elemental were once the stuff of nightmares. Back in the day, when first-person perspective was…

At the top of the “Places We Weren’t Expecting To See BioShock Infinite Referenced” list, Disney Infinity. I guess they both have the whole “Infinity” thing going, but a kid-friendly imagination game seems an odd place for a recreation of the floating town filled with racists and murderers. Have fun, kids!

It’s Impossible To Find Silent Hill Scary When It’s This Glitched Out

When you purposefully corrupt game, if you’re lucky, it turns into something resembling a nightmare. An absurd nightmare full of glitches, that is, not a terrifying one. So what happens when you corrupt a survival horror game like Silent Hill? Well, judging from this video by AgonizedCandle, it stops being so dang scary. Actually, it…

More Abstract Puzzle Games Like MirrorMoon EP, Please

I love when this type of game lands on my “to play” pile. MirrorMoon EP doesn’t ask you to learn a big backstory or complicated controls, it just says “Hey, you’re in space. Click some stuff”. So that’s what I did. MirrorMoon EP is out now for personal computers, Macintosh and Linux, and is coming…

You’re Not Master Chief. You’re Not Mario. You’re Armed, Farting Poop.

Super Time Force already had a lot going for it. Crazy, run-and-gun side-scrolling action. A cleverly implemented time-manipulation mechanic. And one of the greatest promo trailers ever made. But the appeal doesn’t stop there. You can literally control a piece of crap in Super Time Force. And then fart. And then shoot that fart to…

Welcome To The Pro StarCraft II Scene

Heard about eSports and not sure what the fuss is? The people at Red Bull have recruited pro gamer Walshy to give us all a primer on competitive StarCraft II. Hey, it helps! This is just the first episode of Red Bull’s first season of a show they’re calling “This is eSports.” For some gamers,…

Keiji Inafune Says Mighty No. 9 Would Kick Mega Man’s Butt

Keiji Inafune still loves Mega Man. But, to him, there’s no question who’d win if Capcom’s robot mascot and Beck—the hero of Inafune’s new Mega Man-alike Mighty No. 9—got into a fight. “Unfortunately, Mega Man is an older robot and uses the older parts. A little bit too old school,” Inafune said. “I don’t know…

The New Call Of Duty Game Is “Not Some Lazy Type Of Port”

It’s easy to understand how someone can look at a brand new mobile game carrying the name of one of the world’s most popular video game franchises arriving completely unannounced and think “cheap cash-in”. Members of Activision’s Blast Furnace mobile studio say that’s not the case with Call of Duty: Strike Team. Following this morning’s…

What’s The Best Gaming Monitor?

Today’s topic is Best Gaming Monitor, and we’re leaving that intentionally open-ended. Your choice does not have to be a monitor with “Gaming” in the name of the product. I’m very interested to see which specs like screen size, resolution, inputs, screen type, and ease of use are most important to people, and which don’t…

Moneysaver: Logitech G600, Star Trek TNG Season 4

Before you dig in to today’s deal selection, be sure to hit up our newest Moneysaver Co-Op and vote on your favorite Gaming Monitor. We’re counting down the days to Grand Theft Auto V, and we can’t recommend enough that you pre-order to guarantee yourself a copy and skip the lines. You can pick up…

Penny Arcade Extends Olive Branch, Apologizes For Dickwolves Fallout

Four days after provoking debate about his comic strip’s most notorious joke, Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik offers a level-headed explanation of his position about the strip and the actions that followed it. He expressed many regrets. During an interview this weekend, Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik said that he thought pulling the Dickwolves merchandise from…

A Video Game About The Holocaust

Video games, as a general rule, do not cover serious tragedies, mostly because there aren’t a lot of ways to get satisfying gameplay out of something like the Holocaust. So it’s fasscinating to see the re-emergence of Imagination Is The Only Escape, a game about one of the biggest atrocities in human history. Director Luc…

If Only Modern Pokemon Games Looked Like This

Yes, Pokemon X & Y looks excellent, visually. But even so, looking at the photoshop handiwork of Justin—Bieber, it’s hard not to fantasize about an entire Pokemon game in this particular style, with backgrounds like these. I mean, it’s gorgeous! So much detail. Take a look: Granted, we don’t have to leave the sprites to…

Canadian Pikmin Stunt Looks Like a Nintendo Fever Dream Come To Life

Nintendo’s Canadian branch recently outfitted some people in Pikmin garb and jumped a pink Pikmin vehicle off a ramp, at the risk of giving children and adults nightmares. Surely I’m not the only one who feels like I’m having a fever dream while watching this? Or is this how the world looks if you do…

Take A Look Around The New Minecraft: Mass Effect Edition

Sadly, Minecraft players on the Xbox 360 don’t have access to the countless mods and texture packs available on the PC version. Well, now there’s at least one interesting pack available, for $3.99. Seems a bit steep for some new textures, skins, and a small map, but I suppose it’s better than not playing Minecraft…

Layoffs At BioShock Developer Irrational Games

Irrational Games laid off a small number of employees this week, Kotaku has learned. The studio behind BioShock Infinite, now working on two downloadable content packs for the critically-acclaimed shooter, says the layoffs won’t affect development of the DLC “in any way.” When reached by Kotaku, Irrational sent over this statement: In an effort to…

Of Course, Bayonetta Creator/Twitter Maestro Hideki Kamiya Loves Shoes

I couldn’t help myself from blurting out “Nice shoes!” when Hideki Kamiya stood up to shake my hand. Look at them. Is it any wonder why I had to give them props? The chief visionary behind The Wonderful 101 had just finished answering my questions during an interview at PAX last week when his footwear…

Another Lovely Final Fantasy Fan-Film That Will Probably Never Happen

This is a trailer for a fan-film based on Final Fantasy VI. It looks fantastic. And it will probably never be made. That may sound overly cynical, but history has not treated these sort of projects well. Just a month ago, a team of film-makers launched a Kickstarter for their Final Fantasy VII fan-film, and…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Stormborn isn’t just doing great Pokemon drawings. You should check out the Smash Bros. wish list artwork he’s been doing, too. Nach shares some great photos of Paris in a new PhoTAYgraphy Club post. And Aestevalis runs down some of the new anime series that…