The Official Grand Theft Auto V Box Art, In All Its Mosaic Splendor

Rockstar’s dropped the official box art for Grand Theft Auto V. It’s just like that unfinished mural, only finished. It’s another collage, but it sure beats a gruff-looking character standing next to a car holding a gun. The Grand Theft Auto series’ signature style is immediately recognizable, with the added benefit of being hard to…

This Real City Looks Like A Tiny Town For Toys

Portland, Maine is a real place. Over 60,000 people live there. Real, full-size humans. You wouldn’t know it by this video, though, which uses tilt-shift photography to create the illusion that it’s actually a tiny town for tiny toys, serviced by a tiny model railway and whose streets are lined with tiny plastic trees. Mini…

The Rock Stars In The Worst Infinity Blade Rip-Off I’ve Ever Seen

‘Tis the week of Wrestlemania and therefore the week that World Wrestling Entertainment is trying to sell its fans anything and everything. That anything and everything includes the latest terrible video game starring The Rock. Finally… we have a game called Rockpocalpyse in which the beefy Hollywood actor/WWE champion tries to save the world by…

How to Make My Little Pony Cuter: Give It a Japanese Theme Song

Today, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic finally debuted in Japan. The name of the show is My Little Pony ~Tomodachi wa Mahou~ (マイリトルポニー〜トモダチは魔法〜). That last part means, “friends are magic”. They are! The show is also getting its own theme song, “Mirai Start” (ミライスタート) or “Future Start”. Voice actress Suzuko Mimori, who also voices…

Sword Art Online‘s Third Story Arc is Excellent

Back when the anime hit its halfway point last year, I called Sword Art Online the smartest anime I had seen in years And while the second half didn’t quite live up to the promise of the first half, I found it enjoyable nonetheless. But like many anime, Sword Art Online ended at the end…

Didn’t Like Hollywood’s Dragon Ball Movie? Well, Neither Did Dragon Ball‘s Creator

Hollywood’s take on Dragon Ball sucked. Sucked badly. If you thought that, you were not alone. Dragon Ball‘s creator Akira Toriyama wasn’t thrilled either. In an interview with Asahi (via 2ch), Toriyama talked about the ill-fated Dragon Ball movie, Dragonball Evolution “At the time of the live-action Hollywood version, the script didn’t really capture the…

Impatient People Make GTA V Box Art [UPDATE]

This weekend, Kotaku posted images of a new mural going up in downtown Manhattan. The unfinished mural seems to show the yet unrevealed Grand Theft Auto V box art. Impatient people decided they couldn’t wait for the mural’s completion. So they finished it themselves. (UPDATE: The mural isn’t done, but the boxart officially is.) Kotaku‘s…

Tokyo Train Station Is Covered in Final Fantasy. And It’s Awesome.

Shinjuku Station is all about Final Fantasy V. Spotted on the Keio Line’s platform, huge V-shaped pillars were draped in FF art. The v-shaped pillars are originally part of the station’s construction. Meaning? Square Enix didn’t add them, but was clever enough to incorporate the pillars into a campaign to promote the FFV‘s iOS release.…

This is the trailer for Gaist Crusher, a new 3DS title currently in the works at Capcom. It is a multiplayer-focused “Custom Armor Action” game inspired by both Mega Man and Monster Hunter. It is also part of a cross-media project aimed primarily at school-age children; a manga and an anime tie-in, and a line…

Infinity Moment Takes Everything You Know About Sword Art Online, and Turns It on Its Head

Back when I reviewed the second half of the anime Sword Art Online, I lauded the sudden, and completely unexpected, ending of the series’ first story arc. [*Note: This article contains major spoilers on the first story arc of Sword Art Online] The characters had been told that the only way to end the VR…

Torchlight II’s modding tools have finally been released after a long, long wait. There’s a few extras, too—full Steam Workshop integration, a wiki for the editor, and some new content and bug fixes

Former Yakuza Injured in Shooting at an Osaka Game Center

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.

Sony, If This Is Your Future, Count Me Out!

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…

Game of Thrones “Copied” by a Chinese Liquor Commercial

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…

New Half-Life 2 Comic Tells The Story Of The Hero Of Humanity. The Other Hero.

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…

Shin Megami Tensei IV Is Coming To America

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…

300 People Combine Like Voltron To Form The Super Mario Bros. Theme Song

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]

Your Next Phone Could Be More Powerful Than A PS3

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…