As with past Pokémon games, the latest one, Pokémon X/Y, takes its visual cue from real world geography. For example, in the last big Pokémon titles, Pokémon Black/White, the in-world map was apparently modeled after New York City. This time, the game appears to be modeled after France—though, as one Kotaku reader points out, the…
In Japan, there’s the salary you get from your company. And if you are a married man, there’s the salary you get from your wife. It’s called “okozukai” (お小遣い), which is sometimes translated as “pocket money”. Think of it as a husband salary. That’s what it is. Traditionally, Japanese women control a family’s finances. Even…
But that’s okay! Because this Eevee themed 3DS XL is still really cute—and interesting looking. Joining the previously released Pikachu 3DS XL, the Eevee themed one is also limited edition and sold only via the Pokémon Center stores in Sapporo, Tohoku, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Apparently, this is the first image of the…
Despite big layoffs in other areas, publisher Electronic Arts is opening a brand new office in Los Angeles for Battlefield developers DICE, the Wall Street Journal reports. The office isn’t a development studio per se; it’s there to “help with recruiting talent” for the company’s upcoming Star Wars games, which the report says are still…
A few years back, production team Light Forge Studios worked with the band A Crowd of Small Adventures on this Fallout music video. The Light Forge guys are Fallout fans. The band’s lead singer is such a fan that this song is actually inspired by the game Fallout. So yes, it’s all very Fallout. Except…
The idea of video game-themed bars is nothing new, but there’s something about the idea of this video game-themed restaurant that I can get behind. EXP Restaurant + Bar is in Vancouver, Canada, and while it might be going a little overboard with the whole VIDEO GAMES THEME – giant screens showing gameplay is a…
Kyle McInnes made this clip for the upcoming Ottawa Games Conference. There’s a pretty good rap in there about the state of modern gaming! But let’s be honest, I just like seeing them smash SimCity to little pieces with a baseball bat. So cathartic. Make Better Games. Ottawa Game Conference – May 29 – 31st.…
Today on Fine Art we’re looking at the work of Ian Olsen, an artist at Terminal Reality, the developers of games like Bloodrayne, Ghostbusters and…Kinect Star Wars. Previously, he’s been at Sony and Retro, where he got to work on Metroid Prime 3. It’s not every day a Western artist gets to work on a…
Literally years in the making, Dniepr is a custom campaign for Left 4 Dead that yanks the game out of its American setting and drops it right in the middle of the Ukraine. Including Pripyat, which as STALKER players will know, is the place a certain nuclear reactor blew sky high a few decades back.…
As we’ve shown you, Google Glass has the potential to turn your life into a video game. This clip, a conceptual piece by design firm Playground Inc., explores how in a few years this could actually happen. Taking the device’s core functionality, they’ve imagined what apps for Google Glass could actually do in the real…
The official Game of Thrones video games were largely terrible. Lucky for us, then, that the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II is better than any official game could ever have been. Even luckier for us, that mod is about to get a whole lot better. The development team’s April Fool’s joke was…
As we’ve shown you before, the towns and farms in the DayZ world of Chernarus aren’t exactly fiction. Much of the map, from the street layout down to individual building design, is lifted from real locations in the Czech Republic. To show this off, some of the development team behind DayZ’s upcoming standalone mode have…
Guess what? Jurassic Park got some stuff wrong. No, not just the pseudoscience InGen used to resurrect dinosaurs. More fundamental stuff, like how to spell “Stegosaurus.” Leave it to the folks at CinemaSins to document all 36 mistakes they spotted. And in less than 3 minutes! Not bad. Side note: Jeff Goldblum’s hair was fairly…
The official Gran Turismo website has a (blank) product page for “Gran Turismo®6”. How interesting
No, not as in enthusiasts. Not even mechanical fans, either. We’re talking about video game themed hand fans by deviantART user SarurunKamui—like the Okami one above. Pretty fantastic, right? SarunrunKamui has a bevy of them on deviantART which you should check out, but here are some highlights. Arcanine, from Pokemon Espeon and Umbreon from Pokemon…
Nintendo Japan just unveiled a new colour of 3DS. It’s not red. It’s metallic red. It’ll be released in Japan on June 13.
The surface of the Earth may be a blasted wasteland, its music shops and symphony halls reduced to smoldering ruins. But as long as humans survive, so too will music. It’s in that spirit that I enjoy the music of Metro 2033 and its equally post-apocalyptic sequel, Metro: Last Light. The games have a distinct…
Step one: get a pin-up mod, and the True Vision ENB’s filmic preset for Skyrim. Step two: have a beard (here are some good beard mods). Step three: take a picture. Reddit now has a “Skyrim Beard Porn” subreddit, and despite being somewhat new, people are showing off some ridiculous beard action. Not all of…
Agent Coulson’s putting a crack team together to “protect the the ordinary from the extraordinary.” And what do you know, they’re making a TV show about it! Give the first trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. a watch up top. Avengers-director/nerd-hero Joss Whedon is attached as executive producer, with many of his usual cohort working…
Every time I think I’d like to learn how to draw, I see an artist like 8bit Ego‘s Masood Tahir draw something and I think, “WOW, are you serious, this guy draws faster than I can think!!” Wait, what’s that you say? The video’s sped up? Oh, that explains a lot. This is nifty. While…
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