There’s a New Mod For the Original Deus Ex, and It Looks Awesome

Modder Fastgamerr brings us Deus Ex: Nihilum, a total conversion mod for the first Deus Ex, Ion Storm’s landmark FPS/RPG from 2000. Oh, look. Deus Ex just popped up on my desktop. Fancy that. The mod, as DSOGaming points out, has been in development for almost ten years. It features a 7-13 hour single-player campaign…

Woman Shows How To Kick Ass at Work

This is Nao Nagasawa. She’s here to unleash fists of fury. And do so at the office, apparently! With Wong Kar-Wai’s Grandmaster coming out in Japan, website Movie Enter! thought it would be a good idea for Nao Nagasawa to show off how Chinese martial arts can be used in your daily life—whether that’s dealing…

Devil’s Third Isn’t Coming Out Soon

It’s been nearly 3 years since Devil’s Third was announced. From Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Ninja Gaiden and Jiggly Ninja Girls Galore – I mean – Dead or Alive, and his studio, Valhalla Game Studios, the apparently hyper-violent action shooter has had a rocky time getting made. So where is it now? Japanese gaming magazine…

Rain’s Story Trailer Makes My Heart Hurt. In a Good Way.

Adorable, but melancholy and dreary. For the sake of my sanity, I really hope those two get a happy ending. Rain, Sony Japan’s platforming adventure, comes to the PlayStation Network this fall.

When Japanese Twitter Users Don’t Know Why They Drew Pictures

For the past few months, there’s been a cool Twitter hashtag circulating among the Japanese language Twitterverse. The tag is #なぜ描いたかわからないイラスト晒せ (Naze Kaita ka Wakaranai Irasuto Sarase), which translates to “Exposé of Illustrations I Don’t Know Why I Drew”. The hashtag is rather interesting because people continue to add to it, keeping things fresh and…

The Wii U Premium Set Is Now in White

One of the ways you could differentiate the Wii U Basic and the Wii U Premium bundles was their colors. Not any more. Until now, Nintendo has made the Wii U Premium Set available only in black (the Basic Set was white). But on July 13 in Japan, Nintendo is releasing the 32 GB Premium…

Hong Kong Starbucks Used “Toilet Water” To Make Coffee

In Hong Kong, Starbucks patrons are upset and for good reason: the coffee chain’s Central Hong Kong branch has used “toilet water” to brew coffee since it opened two years ago. According to Apple Daily, a staffer would push a cart into a men’s restroom in a nearby parking garage, fill it will water, and…

KOTOR Is Coming To The iPad

Hey guys. Classic Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic is out on the iPad this week. Expect more coverage from us in the morning.

Even If You Hate Angry Birds, You Gotta Admit These Toys Are Great

Hasbro will be selling this bulk pack of Angry Birds action figures as a Comic-Con exclusive. On 364 days of the year, I would rather drink poison than buy Angry Birds action figures, but boy, roping vintage Star Wars packaging into the mix sure does change things. While they’re technically individual figures, they’ll be sold…

Zombie Game Commercial Banned For Showing Suicide

Get a good look at that clip up top, Australians, because you won’t be seeing it on your TV screens ever again. Following complaints from members of the public, Australia’s Advertising Standards Board has banned the advertisement for Dead Island: Riptide, mostly on the grounds that it uses “images which are strongly suggestive of suicide”.…

Hey, The Oculus Rift Can Be Used For Movies, Too

Let’s not pretend the Oculus Rift is just for games, people! There are a ton of other uses for the pioneering virtual reality headset. Like this one, which lets you virtually watch a movie. At the cinema. Which isn’t as stupid as it sounds. The easy way out would just be to play a movie…

There Are Tributes, Then There’s This Ghostbusters Minecraft Tribute

I know, I’m as over the “something made out of Minecraft” videos as you probably are, but this one’s a little different. It’s a Ghostbusters rollercoaster ride. Just…watch it. Railbusters – A Minecraft Roller Coaster [YouTube, via Kotaku AU]

When A Spartan Meets A Wildling

Jan Ditlev Christensen is a Danish concept artist who works at IO Interactive, the developers behind games like the Hitman series. Prior to that, he worked at Deadline, where he worked on games like the Watchmen prequel and the cancelled Faith & A .45 You can see more of Jan’s work at his personal site…

Remake Of 1995 Game Remakes 1995 Box Art

There are “remakes” of classic old games that throw out what’s often the most nostalgic part: the box art. Then there is Rise of the Triad. The 2013 remake of the cult PC shooter from 1995 might be making radical changes to the game itself, but it’s stayed faithful to the iconic cover art, copying…

Finally, Some Hardware Gameplay Footage. And It Looks Great.

Hardware: Shipbreakers, a strategy game being made by some of the guys behind the Homeworld series, has looked very gorgeous for a very long time. Problem is, in all that time, we’d never actually seen any gameplay footage. Time to fix that, with this surprisingly candid and lengthy footage of the game in action. You…

Hey, the first episode of Tiny Barbarian DX is out! Get it here

The Real Gun That Thinks It’s A Video Game Gun

This is a real commercial for a real piece of hardware. It’s for TrackingPoint, a company that makes laser-guided rifles. The clip above is billed as a “3D Video game-style teaser”. You’d think the idea of sci-fi rifles turning real combat into a video game would be the craziest thing about it, but nope. For…

Voltron Stars Made (More) Real

Maybe because it had a relatively strong lead female character, maybe because it had some hunky dudes, maybe because everyone just likes lions, I’m not sure, but when I was growing up, Voltron was one of the few series the girls in my class liked almost as much as the boys. We’re all being catered…

Warhammer Quest, for iOS, is out today. By all accounts, it’s fantastic.

Acapella Can’t Make The Metal Gear Solid Theme Kick Any Less Ass

Not all music can survive the a cappella treatment, let alone the “Geekapella” treatment. Goofy dudes (Max and Sam) singing geeky music, sort of in tune and sort of out of tune… a lesser theme song might lose some of its dramatic heft. Not Metal Gear Solid No, when the heroic theme entered at 2:22,…