Sega’s Joypolis amusement center is rolling out Sonic Athletics. It’s a treadmill-based arcade game that allows up to eight players to race in the 100-meter dash or the 110-meter hurdles, reports Siliconera. There’s also a long jump, too, but you don’t exactly jump on the treadmill. Instead, you simply press a “jump” button.

Larry Page Shows Bill Gates How It’s Done in South Korea

Last week, Bill Gates caused a brouhaha in South Korea because of the way he shook hands with President Geun Hye Park. In the wake of that, Google co-founder Larry Page schooled Gates on Korean manners. Page was in South Korea late last week to visit Samsung’s OLED factory for about an hour and have…

Woman Almost Dies After 40 Hour Gaming Session

Traveler’s Thrombosis, or deep vein thrombosis is an affliction that is often associated with flying. However in China, it appears that it is more commonly associated with video gaming than it is with air travel, especially now that after a young woman developed the condition after a 4o hour gaming session. The People’s Daily reports…

A new Dead or Alive 5 project is “coming soon” to the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Yosuke Hayashi, Team Ninja’s leader, recently announced that the “newest work” (最新作) for Dead or Alive 5 was “currently in development” and showed a very brief trailer. It sounds like a stand-alone title, so it might be a…

How to Make Piccolo from Dragon Ball Look “Ordinary”

Piccolo is a character in Dragon Ball. He’s green! But what if he wasn’t green? And didn’t look like a bad guy, but a bald guy? On 2ch, Japan’s largest online forum, drawings of Piccolo with light-colored skin were posted, with the uploader apologizing in jest. (You can use these Piccolo images as masks, if…

Japan’s Leader Appeals to Geeks with a Military Tank

Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ticked off people in South Korea and China. This weekend, he hung out with nerds and got in a tank. NicoNico Douga, Japan’s popular video channel, hosted a big meet up this past Saturday and Sunday, celebrating the country’s internet and geek culture. It seemed like an unlikely…

3D builder/magician Psychobob – you’ve seen his stuff before – is selling these Portal-themed drinks coasters, so your companion coffee cup has somewhere to rest its weary butt.

Art Dealer Is Selling The World’s Most Expensive Screenshots

Art dealers Cook & Decker have teamed up with Irrational Games to sell some very large and very expensive prints, each displaying art from BioShock Infinite. Interestingly, the art isn’t taken from the game’s wonderful concept works. They’re screenshots, though the word does them a slight disservice. These are prints based on the super hi-res…

The Game In This Trailer Does Not Exist

The “game” in this trailer, Delirium, isn’t actually a game. You can’t play it, and you probably never will play it. So why is there a trailer? It’s the work of three students – Edgard Ortega, Connor McCampbell and Gudjon Larusson – whose senior thesis project involved constructing a mock video game trailer. The onus…

This Is The World’s Most Fabulous Halo Action Figure

It’s large, detailed and expensive as only a threeA figure could be, but then, Halo is a series that’s long deserved this kind of top-shelf action figure. Though “action figure” kind of sells this thing short. Recreating Halo Reach’s Carter down to the tiniest detail (look at those fingers), this thing will cost $220 when…

Arkham City’s Batman Actor Won’t Be Back For The Next Game

Kevin Conroy, who has voiced Batman in all kinds of stuff, from the classic 90s animated series to Rocksteady’s last two masterpiece video games, will not be reprising his role in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins. Unlike the drama surrounding another long-time fan favourite voice actor, though, at least in this case it makes sense.…

Who Said There Was No Future In Starfighter Video Games?

For a genre that was once dominant in the mid-90s, with classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander, the space combat simulator is by 2013 on its knees. Sure, indies and mods try their best to keep things ticking, but one Kickstarter project aside, it’s been a very long time since a developer with serious resources/money…

If BioShock Infinite Was An…Anime

The architecture and setting is about as far removed from Japanese animation as you could get, but that only makes these anime-styled images by doubleleaf all the cooler. We’ve featured doubleleaf’s art here before, and with good reason: it’s not only great art but is often hilarious as well. Not in this case, sure, but…

Meet The New King Of Metal Gear Cosplay

I’ve seen some fantastic Metal Gear cosplay in my time, but boy, I’ve never seen something that, from head to toe, looks this good. Like, look at the wear and tear on his shirt. The facial expression. The make-up. The hair. It is Snake, incarnate. It’s so good, in fact, you should check out the…

Minecraft Creator’s Latest Game Is Now Out (And Free)

While fans wait to play ox10c, the next big release from Minecraft creator Marcus Persson, he quietly unveiled a free Unity game over the weekend It’s called Drop, and if you ever wanted to play Super Hexagon but with typing, well, this is your game. Drop [Site]

What A DDOS Attack On A Website/Game Actually Looks Like

A favourite tool of hackers and other forms of online troublemaker, the DDOS – Distributed Denial of Service – attack is something we see a lot of in video games, whether it be people trying to take down a company’s website or even, in some cases, crash the games themselves. But just how does a…

The Only Thing That Can Make Futurama Better Is Some Team Fortress 2

In memory of Futurama, which last week was killed off for a second time, here’s a Team Fortress 2 video that recreates the show’s classic Robot Hell song & dance routine I like to think that, in developing and releasing the Source Filmmaker tools, Valve had this exact thing in mind. GentleBot Hell [SFM] [YouTube,…

As soon as the Oculus Rift came out, you knew it was going to happen. This guy (Cymatic Bruce) is running a Virtual Boy emulator on the headset, playing Insane Mouse Mansion

Some might call it a used 3DS or DSi. Nintendo, however, is selling “authentic refurbished” models of the handheld—with a warranty—on its U.S. online store. Take that, GameStop! [via Siliconera]

EA Sports Also Hurts After a Rough Week of Painful Cuts

Theoretically, sports should be one of the safer gigs in video games today. These are series that come out every year, they’re usually reliable sellers, the publishers have sunk a lot of money into a license, and often they’re the only ones holding it. It isn’t like taking a risk on a new concept that…