Air Hockey With Minecraft Blockiness Is Pretty Chill

With a little bit of experimenting, someone just found out that if you stack minecarts in Minecraft, you can create an endlessly sliding object that never actually stops. Build an ice rink around it, invite some friends and you got yourself your own hockey game. Sethbling built a rink for two players, but this would…

South Korea’s Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Are Unexpectedly Sad

Yu-Gi-Oh! is fun. The trading card game from Konami is fun, too. So why is Korea’s version an out-of-the-blue bummer? Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest forum, one member uploaded photos of a Korean Yu-Gi-Oh! pack. Let’s have a look. Here’s the pack (obviously). Okay. Alright. Business as usual, until… You get to the missing child…

Cosplayers Have Business Cards, Too, You Know

In Japan (and most of Asia), business cards are a big deal. You need business cards! There’s even a correct way to exchange them. So no wonder many Japanese cosplayers have business cards, too. Cosplayers having business cards is not new—and it’s not limited to Japan by any stretch. I’ve met plenty of Western cosplayers…

That New Zone of Enders Was Canned…for Now

Back in 2012, game creator Hideo Kojima unveiled a new Zone of the Enders project titled “Enders Project”. And now in 2013, the project is currently suspended. On a recent episode of Hideo Kojima’s online radio show, the game creator talked about Z.O.E. and the Enders Project. While discussing the difficulty of bringing Zone of…

Googlehas hired industry legend Noah Falstein (Sinistar, Fate of Atlantis) to be its “Chief Game Designer”. And won’t say why. Google Glass games? First-party Android development? Bigger/better search engine tie ins?

The Internet Reacts Stupidly/Hilariously To GTAV’s New Trailers

Continuing the trend begun last year, the internet has followed Rockstar’s release of three new Grand Theft Auto V trailers with a collection of some of the worst – and by that virtue the best – comments from YouTube. Collected on the Tumblr linked below, they are like diamonds, shining through the mud. Grand Theft…

Having Helped Build Halo 4, He’s Now Building Worlds At Valve

I like to think of Paul Pepera’s art as the realisation of childhood dreams. Rendering what we imagined our LEGO constructions to be in our heads, not as they actually looked, all clunky and basic and sharp. Now an artist at Valve, Pepera has also worked at places like 343 Studios, id Software and Timegate,…

Iron Man As Assassin’s Creed (And Dragonball, And…Daft Punk)

Aussie artist BossLogic has done these insane mashups of Iron Man, turning Tony Stark’s mechanical alter ego into an Iron Assassin, Iron Mega Man, an Iron Saiyan (hey, that sounds awesome) and even Iron Punk. Oh, and also Iron Gundam, Iron Magneto, Iron Wolverine, Iron Superman, Iron Predator… You can see more of his amazing…

Nobody Wants The Next Xbox To Be “Another Way Of Looking At Facebook”

Speaking with Edge, former Lionhead boss and Microsoft exec Peter Molyneux wins some brownie points for his hopes on what the next Xbox will offer. Peter Molyneux on the next Xbox: “I don’t want another way of looking at Facebook” [Edge] To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Dev In Trouble, Owe Pizza Restaurant Money

Timegate studios, the co-developers of the awful Aliens: Colonial Marines, are in serious financial trouble. Filing for bankruptcy protection in a Texas court, they owe a lot of people a lot of money. Some of the people on their list include Epic Games (for the Unreal Engine), online service Agora Games and a video game…

Wow, Rome’s Most (Allegedly) Debauched Ruler Looks Just Like Joffrey

On the left, the Emperor Caligula, one of the most famous – and notorious – rulers of ancient Rome. On the right, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s a cute likeness if the physical likeness is all you see. But Caligula has long held a reputation – one that,…

Yup, This Is Street Fighter’s Biggest Fan

Um. Literally? …yeah, sorry about that. But pun aside, this fan’s usage of Street Fighter characters is genius, no? Even Blanka could playfully be said to be fulfilling a role: he’s powering the fan while E. Honda does his hundred hand slap and Ken does his hurricane kick . Clever job, BL1TZEN. Now all this…

Here’s a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a “Nightly” version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?

Getting Caught Up In WoW Almost Cost Man of Steel Star His Role

Despite the jokes about telling our parents that NO we can’t pause the friggin’ game to take out the trash, the truth is, the inability to pause a live game is a real problem. Real enough that even Man of Steel’s star, Henry Cavill, has grappled with it. Actually, he almost didn’t get the role…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s

The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…

Sega: The Aliens False Advertising Lawsuit Is “Without Merit” [UPDATE]

A class action lawsuit claiming that Aliens: Colonial Marines used false advertising is happening. Today, SEGA—publisher behind the title—has responded with a comment. “SEGA cannot comment on specifics of ongoing litigation, but we are confident that the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend it vigorously,” SEGA told Kotaku. The plaintiff seeks damages for…

X-COM Makers’ Mobile Monster Mash Conquers Hearts And Wallets Alike

There’s quite a lot of extra content available for purchase in Haunted Hollow, the spooky new iOS strategy board game from Firaxis, creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Between new creatures to add to your arsenal and special item unlocks, you could spend upwards of $17 on the free-to-play game, but that’d be stupid — the…

The Ass Nintendo Doesn’t Want You To See

There’s new Fire Emblem DLC out today. The Summer Scramble pack. It adds a beach map to the game as well as “many conversations between the parent characters who normally do not support each other in the main game”. Yet it also takes one thing away. When the pack was released in Japan, it featured…

This is awe-inspiring: what happens when players are hell-bent on finding a secret which may not even exist? Eurogamer has a piece on Shadow of the Colossus and players who hoped they could find its ‘last big secret’. Definitely worth a read.

Breaking Down The Absurd Anatomy of a Video Game Scare Piece

Yesterday, Katie Couric did an hour-long exposé on the dangers of violent, addictive video games. While at times it attempted to be sympathetic and contained actual moments of pathos, it was essentially a maudlin, fear-mongering and clichéd piece of television meant to provide easy answers and scapegoats to very real, complicated problems. Here’s the whole…