Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Doc Seuss has a plea for folks to understand sexism better to fight it better. Koda89 offers up reasons why you may not need a Wii U, PS4 or Xbox One anytime soon. And Zarynx runs down examples and opinions of music influenced by the…

Voxel Kal-El: This Minecraft Man of Steel Trailer Looks Damn Good

This blocky version of the “Ideal of Hope” Man of Steel trailer does the one thing that Minecraft recreations need to do to work: it captures the same energy of the original—in this case, the moody melodrama of the upcoming Superman movie—despite looking, well, kind of goofy.

Want To Play Xbox One Offline? Make One Out Of LEGO.

The Xbox One requires an Internet connection. This LEGO version of the Xbox One—made by YouTuber and LEGO aficionado Kooberz—does not. It might not be able to render Call of Duty dogs, but at least you can put it under your television and play pretend.

The Opening Of Game of Thrones, Done In StarCraft

There was no new episode Game of Thrones this week, but the show’s famous opening title sequence—recreated with StarCraft II units in the game’s cutscene editor—might ease the pain. We’ve seen similar attempts before, but YouTube user Tolkfan’s video perfectly mimics the animations and spins in the original intro. [Insert Game of Drones joke here.]…

Four Things To Know About That Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina Campaign DLC

It’s ok if you’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons before. You can still appreciate Borderlands 2 shoved into a fantasy-trope skin. Why? Because the whole thing is narrated by Tiny Tina with a few eye-rolly comments from Lilith or an adorably clueless remark by Brick. And chances are you’ve played some variation of a fantasy…

Yakuza on the Wii U Is an “Experiment” and Not Happening for the 3DS

Yakuza 1 & 2 HD is coming to the Wii U. But what about future Yakuza games? Are they headed to the Wii U? And how about the 3DS? So many questions! In a recent interview, Yakuza producer Toshihiro Nagoshi described the Wii U release as “an experiment” to see how many Wii U owners…

Project Diva F Looks Good On The Vita, Even Better on the PS3

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f, released last August, is one of the Vita’s best-selling games despite never being released outside of Japan. Then back in March the PS3 version of the game, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F (notice the capital “F”) was released as well. And while there are several differences in features between the…

Guns, Mercs, Tactics, Mechs, And Explosions: This Is Black Talons

Or, more eloquently, Black Talons is an upcoming real-time tactics game for the PC. A real-time XCOM in another galaxy, if you will. You take your squad from mission to mission, planet to planet, training them up in the process, with the goal of taking down the evil government in the end. Clichéd, yes—but fun-looking.

Shoot Resident Evil Zombies This Summer at Universal Studios Japan

For a limited time this summer, Resident Evil is coming to life at Universal Studios Japan. And apparently, you get to shoot zombies with the same practice guns the police and the military use. According to Famitsu, “Resident Evil The Real” is a five-to-ten minute long attraction that will be held at the park’s “Palace…

What if Evangelion had a 1970s-Style Opening Theme Song?

Ever wonder what popular anime theme songs of the 60s, 80s, 90s, and 00s would sound like if they were all made in the style of 70s robot anime like Gundam or Mazinger Z? Luckily this album has the answer: They would sound awesome. Released late last year, Japanese singer Ichiro Kageyama takes the themes…

Which Ones Are Not Real Pokémon Trainers?

Popular smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is coming to the Nintendo 3DS. The handheld version has two protagonists for 3DS owners to pick from: one male and one female. Can you spot them? And as commenters on 2ch, Japan’s largest online forum, are pointing out, the characters (below) really look like Pokémon trainers. Puzzle and…

Final Fantasy Tactics S Looks Nifty, But Looks Can Be Deceiving

The design. The music. The turn-based RPG action. This trailer tells us that Tactics S has got everything its big (ie. non-mobile) brothers do, and social features. Then again, we know how All the Bravest turned out. Best be careful. Tactics S is out now for iOS/Android in Japan, with no word of a western…

One of Japan’s Greatest Arcade Brawlers Gets a $120 Special Edition

Back in March at PAX East, Capcom announced the re-release of two of the greatest arcade brawlers of all time—Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara—in the Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara collection. In the West, this game will be available via download only, but Japan will be…

You’d Think A Horror Game Being Top-Down Would Make it Less Scary

But nope. Case in point: a terrifying new gameplay trailer for Darkwood, the procedurally generated top-down survival horror game we showed you two months back. Incidentally, there’s an Indiegogo campaign going on for the game, so if Darkwood seems like something you’d want to check out, have a look

Meet China’s Photoshop Trolls

Photoshop is a great and powerful tool. It can take ordinary pictures and make them spectacular… or make them horrible. In China, there are many people with awesome Photoshop skills, and those who don’t have any ability usually ask people for help online. Sometimes these requests go wrong. Horribly wrong. Basically, this is what’s going…

League of Legends Is Still Pissing Off Gamers in South Korea [Update]

This past April, gamers in South Korea were upset about seemingly endless League of Legends server maintenance. It’s now late May. Things, apparently, have not gotten better. Last month on April 11, Riot Games made an official apology for all the server headaches South Korean gamers are experiencing. Since then, as tipster Sang points out,…

The “Masturbation Diet” Is Not Recommended

The Subway diet. The cabbage soup diet. The junk food diet. From Atkins to the Zone, there is an array of diets to help people slim down. Have you heard of the masturbation diet? You know, the one in which you drop pounds by playing with yourself furiously According to Nikkan Spa, a 28 year-old…

200 People, Retro Multiplayer, No Internet. It’s Madness.

On the weekend, the Personal Computer Museum in Ontario, Canada held its annual “Game Night”, throwing open its doors and letting around 200 people in to get their hands on a ton of vintage video games, which can be played on their original hardware. Thing is, there’s a catch. There’s no internet allowed. Anywhere. If…

Jimmy Fallon’s Game Of Thrones Tribute Is Surprisingly Amazing

Say what you will about Jimmy Fallon’s tenure of the Late Night show, when his team decide to do a Game of Thrones parody, they go all out It was a rough Sunday night without a real Game of Thrones, but if we’re going to sit through ten minutes of homage, it could have been…

Building Sony Monsters, One Polygon At A Time

Bryan Wynia works as a senior character artist at Sony Computer Entertainment America, where he most recently worked on God Of War: Ascension. Prior to that, he was a character artist Naughty Dog, and contributed to the look of both Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3. You can see more of Bryan’s work at his personal…