In the afternoon of March 31, a shooting broke out at game center in Osaka. According to Jiji Press (via The Tokyo Reporter), a former high-level yakuza was grazed in the left part of his chest. He was taken to a local hospital, and he is expected to recover. The wounded man was apparently a…
Sony is releasing a new DualShock 3 color for Japan: Metallic Gray. It’s out June 20, which is when The Last of Us launches in Japan. Supplies are limited. [SCEJA]
ACE Team’s fairly insane first-person brawler Zeno Clash II is releasing on Steam on April 30.
On Sony Japan’s Facebook page, the above image was posted late last month (I added the text). Along with the photo, Sony Japan wrote, “In the near future, maybe a scene like this will become normal?” (近い将来、こんな光景が普通になるかも？) I sure hope not! There are over 700 comments on this photo. People are writing things like, “This…
Just as the latest season of Game of Thrones is starting, a Chinese liquor company figured out a way to recut and rework the show’s opening credits. Jian Nan, a brand of baijiu, substituted the names in the Game of Thrones credits with a quick look at Chinese history. Westeros locations, like King’s Landing and…
Perhaps hoping to follow in the footsteps of the now-finished (and completely excellent) webcomic Concerned, The Adventures Of Hercule Cubbage is a new work of Half-Life 2 fan-fiction that tells the story of a different hero of the human resistance. That different hero is the son of Odessa Cubbage, the man with Half-Life 2’s most…
Atlus has announced that Shin Megami Tensei IV, for the Nintendo 3DS, will be making its way to the United States in the Summer. It’s due out in Japan next month. Believe it or not, it’s been ten years since the last numbered Shin Megami Tensei game, 2003’s Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. To tide you…
Taking to the streets of Israel, filmmaker Eran Amir recorded over 300 people singing a single note. In isolation, they were just singing a single note. Who cares. All put together, they make beautiful, beautiful music. The Human Piano! [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]
In 2005-06, the Xbox 360 and PS3 were cutting-edge pieces of consumer electronics, finely tuned to deliver a premium gaming performance with the very latest technology inside. As is the way with technology, though, as components mature they get smaller and cheaper, so it’s not too bit a surprise to hear Nvidia saying the next…
Australian artist Alex Drummond has worked with many of the biggest names in not just video games, but entertainment and business. Clients and employers like Marvel, THQ, Universal, Mazda, Fantasy Flight, Games Workshop and Rare. You can see more of his work at Alex’s personal site ——— Fine Art is a celebration of the work…
Illustrator Caldwell Tanner has drawn up a series of pictures for College Humor, imagining what the house sigils from Game of Thrones would look like were those houses websites, instead of ancient warring families. They are funny not because they’re silly, but because they’re so damn true 12 Game of Thrones House Sigils for the…
Every single object in this trailer for Suda51’s Killer is Dead reflects light. It’s like the world is draped in cling-wrap. And I mean that in a good way. As someone who loved Killer7’s distinctive art style, this looks amazing. Like the world of action figures came to life, and started shouting in Japanese.
I wish this wasn’t being published on April 1. I wish I was writing this on any other day of the year, when this could possibly be a real thing that I could actually play. Draw Something: Kim Jong-Un [YouTube]
The rough 1974 draft of George Lucas’ original script for Star Wars – complete with early concept art – is being turned into a comic series
A site called Spineless Classics sells large posters of classic novels printed on a single page. You can get stuff like Harry Potter, Hamlet and even the Bible, but it’s The Hobbit that’s caught my eye. Love the forced alignment leaving space for the title and Smaug. Spineless Classics [Store, via Geekologie]
Hugo Dorison knows that big, over-the-ear headphones are where it’s at. Not only do over-the-ear headphones look cooler than in-ear headphones*, but you can take up art projects like these video game headphones with them, too. Watch Dorison’s video above to see what I mean. *Yes, yes, audiophiles. Looks aren’t everything, I know.
It’s got to be a coincidence. It simply can’t be real… right? But… what if it is? (Warning: Extreme BioShock Infinite Story Spoilers Follow. For Real.) That’s more or less what I thought when I first saw this easter egg from the first BioShock, which seems to possibly, maybe, just maaaaaybe demonstrate a hilariously unlikely…
Here is something that I wasn’t expecting to read on Thought Catalog: why Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z is better than Goku. The author, Alfred MacDonald, makes a compelling argument: “real people have anger, drive, ambitions — real people are selfish, if not embarrassing.” Vegeta seems like more of a real person, and put that…
An ESRB listing has appeared online for Best of Playstation Network Vol. 1, a compilation – presumably shipping on Blu-Ray – of some under-appreciated classics from Sony’s downloadable service. The pack includes four games: multiplayer combat title Fat Princess, post-apocalyptic animal game Tokyo Jungle, wonderful music creator/platformer Sound Shapes and When Vikings Attack. Smart collection!…
The 2013 Game Developers Conference is over. The chatter of the show floor has faded, the bathroom lines have evaporated, and the various stacked hangovers have worn off. The week still feels like something of a blur, but squint your eyes just so, filter out the noise and the music and the glowing laptop monitors,…
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