Playing Kingdom Hearts in Japanese is Just Kinda…Different

As I’ve been working my way through Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix this past week, it occurs to me just how much I dislike the Japanese cast of the games in the collection—which, given how bad English dubs can be, is pretty surprising. But it isn’t that the Japanese voice actors aren’t good, rather it’s…

BioShock Infinite: The IGN Review: The Kotaku Review

We’ve been playing BioShock Infinite, but we can’t tell you about it just yet. In order to get our early copy, we agreed to stick to the embargo set by publisher 2K Games, which is up on Monday. But we can tell you about IGN‘s exclusive review of BioShock Infinite, which went live tonight. So…

Quentin Tarantino’s Movies, If They Were Classic Paperbacks

Long have I been contemplating a QT marathon, and this illustration from Sharm Murugiah, which re-imagines the famous filmmaking foot-appreciator’s oeuvre as classic Penguin paperbacks, is gonna tip me over the edge. It’s been ages since I last watched Jackie Brown, and I only saw Inglourious Basterds the once. I recently re-watched Kill Bill Vol.…

Here’s One Big-Budget Game That Won’t Have A Gun-Toting Character On The Cover

If it’s a big-budget game, you can (cynically) count on at least one thing: a stoic-looking guy incorrectly holding a gun on the cover. It’s a trend in the same way blue-orange movie covers are a trend. Covers rarely break that mold, but according to Gamespot, Quantic Dream is doing it with Beyond: Two Souls.…

Like L.A. Noire two years ago, Beyond: Two Souls will have a special showcase at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival

Get A Load Of This Criminally Cool Red Dead Redemption Monopoly Set

There are several cool video-game themed Monopoly sets out there, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of a cooler one than this homemade Red Dead Redemption set put together by Redditor inspirermeg From the imgur description: This was a 2-week project at school, so though I’m happy with the result – I wasn’t able to…

The Most Beautiful Cartoon-Style Adventure Games

After LucasArts’ brilliant 1993 game Day of the Tentacle, cartoon-style point-and-click adventure games slowly became their own sub-genre. Although the genre has had its ups and downs, these games are still around: Think Gemini Rue or the new Broken Sword Here’s our collection of the most beautiful cartoon-style adventure games. Broken Sword II: The Smoking…

Another Serious Game Falls to Apple’s Anger-Inducing Approval Process

Proven countless times over the past several years alone, video games are a form of entertainment uniquely suited to communicating serious subjects in an interactive fashion — far more effectively than reading a book or watching a documentary. Unfortunately Apple wants nothing to do with that sort of communication, so UK developer Littleloud’s Sweatshop HD…

Sony has announced a partnership with Unity that’ll let the popular dev tools work with their platforms, including PS4.

One Last Crazy Theory About Mass Effect 3’s Ending

This is the last time that you’ll ever lose someone after this it’s you and your friends it’s you and your friends. —Stars, “The Last Song Ever Written” I have a theory about the end of Mass Effect 3. Not a serious theory, mind you. A crazy theory, the kind even I don’t take seriously,…

Kickstarter says that game campaigns have raised more than 100 million dollars combined. That’s a lotta bucks!

Next week folks will be able to sign up for Zynga.com without Facebook, as the company explores its independence

This Gears of War: Judgment easter egg won’t teach the Locust to play guitar, but it will turn them into Bucketheads.

Far Cry 3, Re-Imagined In Grand Theft Auto IV

This combination of mods for Grand Theft Auto IV makes the game look more or less like last December’s Far Cry 3, and this machinima shared by RyderPL completes, or at least continues, the illusion. It’s… well, let’s say the motion capture in Far Cry 3 is a touch above what GTA IV‘s game engine…

Magic: The Gathering Casts a Spell on Android This Summer

Wizards of the Coast has turned Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers into geek Madden, each year releasing a fresh set of cards, formulating new challenges, and unleashing them upon a card-collecting public that never stops wanting more. This year’s entry reaches a little further than 2013’s iOS, PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and…

VentureBeat breaks down the story of a woman whose tweet at a conference got a guy fired, then was fired herself

Looks like Audiosurf Air is taking a few notes from SSX judging from this trailer.

Saga #11 Is The Most Romantic Comic I Read All Week. What About You?

So you all read the latest issue of Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ awesome sci-fi family drama and thought I was going to lead with all the S-E-X that happens in there? Nope. The sequence where The Will gives the best cat in all comics the hug of life totally made me gasp when I…

The Most Dramatic Uno Trailer You’ll Ever See

Coming soon to Android, iPad and Facebook, Gameloft’s Uno & Friends will probably deliver a much more relaxing experience than the one depicted in this first trailer. There is more acting going on in this than in all three Star Wars prequels combined.

Injustice Gets a Little More Villainous by Adding Black Adam. You Can Try Him Out at PAX East.

Right now, it looks like dev studio NetherRealm is trying to account for as many of DC Comics’ heaviest hitters in Injustice as possible. They’ve just announced that Captain Marvel Shazam’s archenemy will be flying into the fray. Teth-Adam will be joined by Raven, the half-demon empath who’s been a stalwart of the Teen Titans…