This Game Brings New Meaning to the Word “Fan Service”

In the past, the Senran Kagura series of games have been brawlers exclusive to the 3DS. But the newest iteration on the PlayStation Vita makes the game play more like Dissidia: Final Fantasy than an old school brawler or its 3DS cousins. But brawler gameplay is hardly the aspect Senran Kagura is famous for. No,…

School Janitor Wins Internet with Amazing Zelda Drawings

Most janitors are satisfied with keeping things clean. This junior high school custodian might be, too, but also has a hankering to do something else: Draw incredible pictures. Spotted on a school cafeteria whiteboard, these awesome drawings depict things like Link from The Legend of Zelda. Here’s Midna and Wolf Link from Twilight Princess. These…

Why This Japanese Woman Turned into a “Plastic Surgery Cyborg”

Meet Vanilla Chamu. She greets fellow Japanese people with a “bonjour” and claims to be from the Palace of Versailles. She’s not, of course. Recently, she was introduced on Japanese TV as “Osaka’s Plastic Surgery Cyborg”. This past April, Chamu appeared on Japanese variety show Watashi no Nani ga Ikenai no? (私の何がイケないの? or “Is There…

Reader Kenneth Eaton likes Shadow of the Colossus and likes the films of Studio Ghibli. Put ’em together andyou get this, which I would watch a million times over, if only it actually existed.

Real Majora’s Mask Is Too Beautiful To Actually Wear

Artist Camille Young – who we’ve featured before here – is the master craftsperson behind this amazing 1:1 replica of Majora’s Mask from the Zelda game of the same name. It was made for the upcoming Grace & Ritual exhibition being put on by the crew at iam8bit, and which opens this Friday. Grace &…

Tasteless Americans Choose Lay’s Cheesy Garlic Bread Chips

The votes have been tallied, and the results are in — U.S. potato chip consumers are boring and disappointing. The Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” promotional contest saw folks voting for one of three user-generated flavors — Chicken and Waffles, Sriracha or cheesy garlic bread. I tasted them all, and the winner was as clear…

Of Course There Are Infomercials In The Star Wars Universe

While commercial influences in the original trilogy are non-existant, the prequel films saw fit to properly introduce the Star Wars universe to the notion of canonical enterprise. Namely, with giant advertisements and billboards. So this clip, bizarrely, isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility. Mashing together several infomercials, it gives us a rare glimpse…

Batman, 80s Ladies And…Walking Sharks

Dan LuVisi is a concept artist who has worked in motion pictures, advertising and comics. He’s also done some video game work, for companies like Collission Games and Acony, the now-closed developers of Bullet Run A reminder: Fine Art showcases not just an artist’s professional work, but their personal projects as well (like his own…

RIP, Far Cry 3’s Dr. Earnhardt

Martin Kevan, who played the crazy Dr. Earnhardt in Far Cry 3, passed away on May 1 following a brief battle with cancer. Born in 1947 in Kenya, Kevan’s family moved to England and then Canada, where he began a long and successful career in TV, theatre and books. Martin is survived by his mother…

SimCity’s Creator Calls SimCity Launch “Inexcusable”

Will Wright created SimCity. Will Wright did not work on the digital clusterfuck that was is the 2013 version of SimCity, though, so what did he think of the game? The game itself, he says it’s “good”, and that he enjoys “playing it a lot”. But in an interview with GI.biz, he talks more about…

The Coolest Nintendo Games That Never Actually Existed

It’s my favourite time of the year. The time when, like clockwork, Japanese indie gaming store Meteor holds its annual Famicase exhibition, which brings together artists from all over the world and asks them to design fake Nintendo games. The label art they design on old Famicom cartridges can be political, funny, realistic, attractive or…

This Machine Will Change Your Xbox 360 Discs For You, Captain Lazy

I use that term loosely, though, because while the day-to-day operation of it will certainly save you valuable time and effort, designing and building it must have taken some work! Built by Finn zwenkka over the Winter, the LEGO contraption uses Mindstorm kit and an Android app to control a multi-disc carousel that can spin,…

EA Buying Star Wars Might Not Be All Bad

The news that EA has locked down the rights to Star Wars games has, understandably, been met with a fair amount of backlash. Electronic Arts is far from people’s most trusted and beloved publisher of video games, and fans are worried this will somehow be bad news for the future of Star Wars video games.…

What Did You Think Of Last Night’s Game of Thrones?

I’m back after taking a week off, and happy to get to write a Monday night off-topic about two of the best episodes Game of Thrones has done to date. So here’s something interesting: The last two Sunday nights, Benioff, Weiss and company have stepped farther from the source material than ever before, and they’ve…

You Are Killing GameStop. Now GameStop Needs Your Help.

Executives in cages. Dog food on the face. Cliff Bleszinski eating noodles Mega64 can run hot and cold, but boy, when they run hot, it’s hot Mega64: SAVE GAMESTOP [YouTube]

This here Famicon skin for the Wii U’s gamepad is a beaut, no? Like Tiny Cartridge says…you can’t have a modern console unless you’re going to make it look retro. It’s the law. This particular skin can be purchased from Datel Japan at the end of July for around $20.

See How Four Players Take On A Cellist (Yep) In Cello Fortress

We’ve gotten glimpses at Cello Fortress before, but it’d be understandable if some readers still had questions about how the game works. Four players with controllers take on… an improvising cellist. Okay, that’s amazing. But how does it work? Here’s how. The cellist can choose from a number of pre-set options like “High, fast notes”…

Gawker‘s Max Read takes an excellently in-depth look at what, exactly, is going on with the accents on Game of Thrones.

If Video Games Were Drugs, DDR Would Be Ecstacy

What if video games were drugs? Then we’d all be screwed. Dorkly seems to have the answer for the closest parallels of what games would be which drugs—and they’re effin’ hilarious. Check it out. Minecraft Pokémon World of Warcraft Civilization Dance Dance Revolution Temple Run Half-Life Videogames Are Drugs [Dorkly] Image credit: Shutterstock

If Mario Had Starred In Metal Slug…

…well, it’d look something like this. This video comes to us from GameBill Studio, who combined assets from Mario and the classic Neo-Geo series Metal Slug as well as some other classic games, to come up with Super Mario Slug X. I’d play it. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or…