Angry Birds Star Wars Hits Consoles in October. It’s Got Multiplayer.

Angry Birds vaulted to megahit success on smartphones. If you’ve been in a plane, train or automobile with more than two people, chances are one of them had it on their phone. But Activision’s started bringing Rovio’s successful franchise to home gaming machines last year with Angry Birds Trilogy. This year, they’re bringing Angry Birds…

The Xbox One And PlayStation 4 Face Off On The Comic-Con Show Floor

In this corner, we have Microsoft’s Xbox One, with games like Ryse: Son of Rome and Killer Instinct. In the same corner, we’ve got the PlayStation 4 with Driveclub, Knack and Octodad: Dadliest Catch. The first public hands-on for both upcoming consoles is underway. Though Microsoft has an Xbox Lounge set up up at the…

Firefly Is Getting A Video Game, But Not The One You Want

The thought of a Firefly online game is undeniably appealing: who wouldn’t want to man a ship and fight across Joss Whedon’s rich universe, meeting Browncoats and fighting off Blue Sun? Even Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski drools at the thought of an action/role-playing game based on the cult classic sci-fi series. This is…

A Skyrim Spell For Detecting Virgins

As one redditor found, in Skyrim, there’s a spell for everything—if you’re willing to branch out into mods. Here, the mod in question is Jake Washenfelder’s The Dark Brotherhood Resurrection Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us…

The Next Ace Attorney Lets You Enter Characters’ Brains

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is a week away (in Japan). With the return of Phoenix Wright and the first officially numbered game* in six years, the game is looking to be a massive love-fest of everything Ace Attorney *Note: The official game title in Japan is Gyakuten Saiban 5 (逆転裁判５). “It’s the…

After A Long Break, A Classic Shooter Returns To iOS

Now here’s a blast from the past. Courtesy of DotEmu, purveyor of updated re-releases of classic games, Irem’s 1987 side-scrolling arcade shooter R-Type is ready to be experienced all over again. There’s a bit of a story involved: an earlier version of the R-Type port actually showed up on the app store back in 2010,…

This Final Fantasy Abbreviation Might Surprise You

Everybody knows that the “proper” abbreviation for Final Fantasy is “FF”, right? Nope! Recently, a website managed by the Japan Game Users Association asked over 300 Japanese gamers from teenage to 40-something about how they abbreviate Final Fantasy. Over 70 percent (70.7 percent to be exact) shorten Final Fantasy to “FF”. However, 17 percent said…

Deadly Premonition on Steam Could Happen, With A Little Help

Rising Star Games, publisher of quirky open-world horror game Deadly Premonition, wants to make the Director’s Cut version of their game available on PC. Specifically, on Steam. That means Greenlight Rising Star promises to deliver the same content to PC as they did with their Director’s Cut version, which they released for the PS3 back…

Popular Online Game Features Battleships as Anime Girls

Honestly, it was the last game I thought I’d find myself hooked on, but Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん) or, as it’s better known online, Kan Colle (艦これ), has me seeing warships as cute anime girls… I think I need to explain myself. Released this past April by DMM.com and Kadokawa Games, Kan Colle is a free…

Via Twitter, a fan asked chronic Twitter user Hideki Kamiya if Bayonetta 2 were a hit, would he think about developing Bayonetta 3. Kamiya, who when not using Twitter makes Bayonetta, replied ambiguously, “I hope so.” On many Japanese and Western sites, that then turned into “Kamiya hopes for Bayonetta 3“. After seeing one such…

Sir, You Will Be Hunted on The 19th of August

In a new gameplay video, Jim Rossignol, one of the developers behind tweedpunk (no, we won’t stop using that word) robot-survival simulator Sir, You Are Being Hunted, revealed the date we would all be able to start sightseeing on the game’s procedurally generated, dreary, scary, pretty version of the British Isles. “We’re gonna make [a…

Porco Rosso on Blu-Ray Vs. DVD: Which is Better?

Recently, Studio Ghibli re-released its classic anime Porco Rosso on Blu-ray. Let’s see how it stacks up to the DVD release. Here’s a comparison between the DVD version (on the left) and the new Blu-ray version (on the right). Note the rosso bits. There were complaints about the My Neighbor Totoro Blu-ray being grainy, and…

Japanese Male Bras Are Back? Huh?

A few years ago, there was a story about male brassieres being popular in Japan. You know, male bras for man boobs. A manzier for moobs. Supposedly, the man bra improves posture—or makes some men feel more secure or something. And back between 2008 and 2009, there were a bunch of news stories about the…

This Drakengard 3 Character is a Virgin. Apparently That Matters

Drakengard 3 (Or as it’s known in Japan, Drag-On Dragoon 3), the 10th anniversary celebration of the original Drakengard is gearing up for its release this autumn. To get fans excited, Square Enix has been steadily releasing new information on the game to keep them interested. The latest character introduced in this week’s Weekly Famitsu…

Mirror’s Edge Makes Comeback On…German TV Commercial

NeoGAF user Rolf NB spotted this commercial yesterday, originally aired back in April for German company Web.de. And, yeah, it looks a lot like Mirror’s Edge. Sure, you could say it’s a rip-off. Or you could take the glass-half-full route and recognise that hey, the people who made the clip probably really liked Mirror’s Edge,…

A Sex Doll Factory Also Manufactures Nightmares

OK, so this is pushing my normal beat of “toys” to its most extreme (and NSFW) fringes, but come on. This was too interesting to pass up. Photographer Zackary Canepari has done a series called “Love Machines”, which is a range of fascinating, terrifying photos from the production floor of Abyss Creations, a sex doll…

Times Square Is Less Of A Hassle After Aliens Blow It Up

Dan Ghiordanescu is a concept artist who works at Travian Games, but who has previously lent his talents to projects like Crysis 2. In the gallery below, then, you’ll see a few shots from Crytek’s game, but also a lot more other works that are a little less focused on the alien destruction of New…

Well, Someone Had To Combine Minecraft And DayZ Eventually

Give people long enough in the shadow of great, inspirational games, and they won’t just look to emulate one, they’ll look to emulate a bunch of them in the one title. 7DTD (7 Days To Die) is an indie project that, well, as you can see from the clip above, it blends the survival elements…

25 Years Later, This Guy’s Childhood Game Dream Is Coming True

I had a childhood game dream. It was to make a single game that combined Dark Forces, X-Wing and Privateer. I am nothing if not ambitious, but then, I am a lot less closer to my dream than Andrew Bado is. He had a game idea 25 years ago, and ten years ago started making…

Wow, The Next Adventure Time Game Looks Awesome

Not that the last one was terrible, not by any stretch of the imagination, but the next Adventure Time game – which has the stupendous title “Adventure Time Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!” – looks hot. Basically, it looks like Diablo. Only more fun. Also: don’t skip the “dev diary” parts. They’re with…