Yup, This Is Street Fighter’s Biggest Fan

Um. Literally? …yeah, sorry about that. But pun aside, this fan’s usage of Street Fighter characters is genius, no? Even Blanka could playfully be said to be fulfilling a role: he’s powering the fan while E. Honda does his hundred hand slap and Ken does his hurricane kick . Clever job, BL1TZEN. Now all this…

Here’s a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a “Nightly” version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?

Getting Caught Up In WoW Almost Cost Man of Steel Star His Role

Despite the jokes about telling our parents that NO we can’t pause the friggin’ game to take out the trash, the truth is, the inability to pause a live game is a real problem. Real enough that even Man of Steel’s star, Henry Cavill, has grappled with it. Actually, he almost didn’t get the role…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s

The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…

Sega: The Aliens False Advertising Lawsuit Is “Without Merit” [UPDATE]

A class action lawsuit claiming that Aliens: Colonial Marines used false advertising is happening. Today, SEGA—publisher behind the title—has responded with a comment. “SEGA cannot comment on specifics of ongoing litigation, but we are confident that the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend it vigorously,” SEGA told Kotaku. The plaintiff seeks damages for…

X-COM Makers’ Mobile Monster Mash Conquers Hearts And Wallets Alike

There’s quite a lot of extra content available for purchase in Haunted Hollow, the spooky new iOS strategy board game from Firaxis, creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Between new creatures to add to your arsenal and special item unlocks, you could spend upwards of $17 on the free-to-play game, but that’d be stupid — the…

The Ass Nintendo Doesn’t Want You To See

There’s new Fire Emblem DLC out today. The Summer Scramble pack. It adds a beach map to the game as well as “many conversations between the parent characters who normally do not support each other in the main game”. Yet it also takes one thing away. When the pack was released in Japan, it featured…

This is awe-inspiring: what happens when players are hell-bent on finding a secret which may not even exist? Eurogamer has a piece on Shadow of the Colossus and players who hoped they could find its ‘last big secret’. Definitely worth a read.

Breaking Down The Absurd Anatomy of a Video Game Scare Piece

Yesterday, Katie Couric did an hour-long exposé on the dangers of violent, addictive video games. While at times it attempted to be sympathetic and contained actual moments of pathos, it was essentially a maudlin, fear-mongering and clichéd piece of television meant to provide easy answers and scapegoats to very real, complicated problems. Here’s the whole…

Why Hasn’t Nintendo Turned The Wii U Into A ‘Nintendo Paradise’?

The Wii U is struggling because it has so few games. Nintendo has a massive library of amazing classic games. How have they not put two and two together yet? Last week, Nintendo finally launched the Wii U’s Virtual Console, which allows you to download and buy classic games so you can play them with…

You Can Keep A Game of Tetris Going Forever. Here’s How.

Provided some tips—like those from tetrisconcept—you can keep a game of Tetris going forever. All you need is a Tetris game that randomly generates piece sequences, a hold feature, and at least 3 piece previews. Not all Tetris games work like that, though ‘good’ ones are supposed to (apparently). You might need to check if…

That Tiny Tina Borderlands 2 DLC Will Release on June 25

Today Gearbox acknowledged the next piece of downloadable content coming to Borderlands 2 is indeed named Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep. It’s coming out on June 25, either for $9.99 (aka 800 Microsoft points) or for free as part of the Season Pass purchase. The game centers on narrator Tiny Tina, the rambunctious little…

The God of Schemes Acts Natural in The Elder Scrolls Online

Daedric Prince Molag Bal, is the Cobra Commander of Tamriel, always trying to enslave the souls of the world to his will, always going about it the wrong way. He’s the god of schemes, after all — not the god of carefully crafted plans. For instance, there’s an ancient prophecy in the Elder Scrolls that…

I loved Comics Alliance, the AOL nerd-culture site that was just shuttered this week. Over at The Beat, Heidi MacDonald has a great write-up about why the site mattered, what might be next for its former staffers and what its closing might portend for other similar outlets.

Occupy Movement-Style Superheroes Are in My Favorite Panel This Week

The Movement #1 – I was skeptical about The Movement at first back when DC comics announced it as part of a pair of new series focused on the fractious class and political divides in modern-day America. These could be comics that felt horribly out of touch if the execution stumbled. The first issue’s out…

Two Meme Creators Are Suing The People Who Made Scribblenauts

Oh man. The guy who created Keyboard Cat (Charles Schmidt) and the guy who created Nyan Cat (Christopher Orlando Torres) are suing Warner Bros. and 5th Cell for using the two cat memes in their game Scribblenauts This complaint comes a little bit late: Scribblenauts came out in 2009. But hey, trademark lawyers are gonna…

The Moneysaver: Call Of Duty: Ghosts Deals, Plus Blade Runner

I’ve seen prices you people wouldn’t believe. [laughs] Circuit Cities on fire across the country. I watched people kill for $3 waffle irons on Black Friday. All those discounts will expire, like [cough] tears in rain. Time to save. The ghosts are real. Call of Duty: Ghosts is officially the next installment in the biggest…

This Is The Prettiest Game On iTunes, But Looks Aren’t Everything

I stare at the glorious handcrafted world of Blitz Games’ Paper Titans for hours, lazily rotating each colorfully cobbled-together stage. I would gladly take a large stack of proto-form Titans, popping them out of their paper prisons and folding them to life with a flick of my finger. This striking setting cries out for interaction…

Borderlands 2 Writer Leaks Name Of New DLC

Whoops! Looks like the next piece of downloadable content for Borderlands 2 is called “Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep.” Borderlands writer Anthony Burch tweeted this picture, which has since been deleted (but not before the folks at Stealthy Box got a screengrab). There in the background is a poster that sure looks like the…

Bento Makes A Case For Why You Should Play With Your Food

Bento makes for an adorable lunch—many of us knew that already. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that bento also makes for adorable stop motion animation. YouTuber Mari Miyazawa has a channel full of bento. Some of it features tutorials, and some of it is what she calls “Bento Theater.” Here are a few more of…