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,…

This Game Looks Like A 1930’s Black and White Cartoon

This isn’t old-school Mickey Mouse—no, it’s Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, a puzzle-heavy adventure game with a fantastic art-style. Look at this animation. It’s so pretty. The premise, according to the Steam Greenlight page: In Toonville, Fleish the Fox is the star in vogue, featured in all the shorts recorded at this city where…

The fine folks at Lore In A Minute have tackled the seminal puzzle game Myst, which you may recall actually features some remarkably convoluted backstory. I keep meaning to replay this game…

What Are Your Used Game Habits Like?

There’s been a lot of talk of used games lately. But for all the theorizing and opinion-lobbing about the impact used games may or may not have on the video game industry, it can be tough to tell just how much of a part they play in our readers’ lives. So tonight, I’m gonna turn…

This Must Be The Coolest Game Boy Mask There Is

To be fair, there aren’t a ton of Game Boy masks out there. A Game Boy isn’t exactly something people like to wear on their face. Even so, this badass cyberpunk Game Boy mask is something else. According to Tiny Cartridge, it’s a part of Tsuyoshi Morita’s Game Boy inspired collection, Thunderbox. If that sounds…

StarLicker. They Named This Intriguing Game StarLicker

New York City-based independent developers Heartonomy are bringing a unique sort of multiplayer strategy game to iOS this summer, and for some odd reason they named it StarLicker, which really negates the need for any explanation of gameplay. Okay fine, it’s a game where you and another player alternate setting up attack patterns and defending…

NatureBox Healthy Snack Delivery: The Snacktaku Review

In response to my readers’ desperate cries for healthy things to eat while playing video games, three weeks ago I reviewed theofferings of Graze.com, a UK-based natural food delivery service that’s slowly moving into U.S. territory with their tiny boxes of natural foods. Well that was it. Now I’m on the radar of every healthy…