Report: Nintendo Didn’t Make the Famicom Red Because It Was Cheap

Ever wonder why the Famicom (née Family Computer) was red, gold and white? It was glorious color scheme, but the story goes that cheap plastics were responsible for the console’s iconic hue. That story, says one of the console’s main designers, is wrong. In a recent interview with Weekly Playboy, former Nintendo hardware designer Masayuki…

Tengami, the Japanese papercraft inspired game, is heading to the Wii U, NintendoLife reports.

In Japan, Ice Cream Sushi Exists

That is not wasabi. You are looking at green tea ice cream…sushi. No, really. That’s vinegared sushi rice (aka “sumeshi” or 酢飯), dried seaweed (“nori” or 海苔), and ice cream. The ice cream sushi is served “gunkan maki” (軍艦巻) or “battleship roll sushi” style. This week on Twitter via Byoukan Sunday, photos of ice cream…

Defense of the DotA Cosplay

It’s Wednesday. And Wednesday is as good a time as any for some DotA cosplay. Who doesn’t like DotA and Dota 2 cosplay? DotA or Defense of the Ancients was originally a multiplayer mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion. Subsequently, other modders added more content to DotA, creating a thriving and…

Hand-Drawn Wreck-It Ralph Test

Disney animator Eric Goldberg shows off a traditional animation test for Wreck-It Ralph that never made it in the film, reports Bleeding Cool. The character is King Candy, who did make it into the final film, of course, but in CG form. In case you missed it, here is Kotaku‘s review of Wreck-It Ralph. Eric…

BioShock Infinite: The Dreamworks Cartoon

The other day we saw what BioShock Infinite might look like as an anime. Today, let’s look at a similar treatment, albeit one that’s a bit more Western. Argentinian artist Feli Tomkinson has done these incredible mock-up posters for an animated BioShock Infinite movie, with a very Dreamworks style, and the more I look at…

Space Shooter Uses Kickstarter As Appetiser, Stuffs Face Via Website

Kickstarter has proven to be a boon for independent game development, especially if you’re an industry veteran making games publishers don’t want to bankroll anymore. Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts certainly falls into that category, with his Star Citizen game making over $2 million during its Kickstarter campaign. Which might sound like a lot of…

A Hollywood Director Has Ideas On How To Make Better Video Games

James McTeigue must be an interesting man to talk video games with, seeing as he’s had experience both directing movies (V For Vendetta) and working in the games business. So it’s nice reading this interview with him on GI.biz, where amongst talk of video game movies and video games based on movies, he offers a…

Humans Create Program That Builds Its Own Super Mario Bros. Levels

Manuel Kerssemakers, Jeppe Tuxen, Julian Togelius and Georgios Yannakakis have done something cool. They’ve created a computer program that does Nintendo’s job. Sort of. For their 2012 paper called A procedural procedural level generator generator, blogged today by Gamasutra, they built a system that’s able to randomly generate level generators that generate their own levels…

Amazing Mech Designs Hint At The Future Of Warfare (And Dogs)

Vitaly Bulgarov works at Blizzard, on the company’s world-renowned cinematics team. But we’re not here today to look at art for Blizzard games, or indeed for their fancy trailers and cutscenes. Instead, we’re looking at an amazing collection Bulgarov recently put together called the “Black Phoenix Project”. Teaming up with photographer Maria Skotnikova, the challenge…

Dragon’s Dogma Update Corrupting Files, Preventing Saves

Following complaints from users, a Capcom rep has issued a statement on the company’s forums urging people to backup their save data before downloading an update for RPG Dragon’s Dogma. Seems people have run into issues where, after downloading the update, they’ve found their save files corrupted, with the game unable to save (or load)…

Wii Owners, Nintendo REALLY Wants You To Buy A Wii U, OK?

Readers are letting us know that Nintendo has this evening taken the very direct step of sending out messages to Wii owners. Not to tell them that their system is being updated. To tell them their system is now out of date. Continuing a recent exercise in the company finally realising “holy shit we really…

A Mod That Tries To Save Duke Nukem

Poor Duke. Once an A-list star of the FPS world, his long absence during the hellish development of Duke Nukem Forever – andthe even more hellish end result of that – has tarnished his name. As regretful as his latest title was, though, there are many who still harbour a soft spot for the man…

Now Everyone Can Make Out With Assassin’s Creed III’s Connor

Action figures? Little desktop statues? Those are for coward collectors. Those who really want to make a statement – and scare off home intruders (particularly British ones) – spend over $3000 on a giant statue of Assassin’s Creed III’s Connor Kenway. Standing nearly seven feet tall, he’s available for preorder from French (I guess that…

Lawsuit Claims Aliens: Colonial Marines Used False Advertising

Looking at the demos and previews for Aliens: Colonial Marines, it’s difficult not to notice just how much better they look than the final product. Bullshots are one thing—in this case, arguably, Aliens had false advertising. Now there’s a class action lawsuit claiming exactly that according to Polygon. The plaintiff, who cites California civil and…

The puck dropped an hour ago on the Stanley Cup playoffs, and NHL 13‘s official simulation has the New York Rangers winning the whole thing, beating Chicago in six in the finals. Get your bets down now. C’mon. No way you can lose.

Destroy Your Childhood Memories of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Obliterate what you once thought of the Ninja Turtles by watching this gross, NSFW exploration of what ‘scientifically accurate Ninja Turtles’ would be like. Truly, Animation Domination High Def has a twisted mind. I had no idea real turtles were so…unpleasant. Eww. SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE NINJA TURTLES | ADHD [Animation Domination High Def]

Dream Jumpers, a Kickstarter project developed by a group of designers with experience on games like Mass Effect and Fez, looks pretty neat. They want $15,000 to make a co-op hack-n-slash for iOS, PC, Android, and Mac.

SyFy TV tie-in Defiance is running an in-game contest that’ll score the winner a guest spot on the show! Well, a guest shot as a picture of them rendered by the show’s artists. All you have to do is play better than everyone else. TV and MMO cross-media experiments are hard.

Here’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in Action For Seven Minutes

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon— the neon and fuchsia drenched stand alone expansion for Far Cry 3 — is out today for the Playstation Network. We’ll have a review of it later today, but in the meantime, here’s seven minutes of me playing the game just to give you a taste of what it’s like…