Notorious Chinese Hacker Caught After Extorting Game Company

Last Thursday, a notorious Chinese hacker was arrested in Qingdao, Shangdong province. The hacker, a 24-year-old surnamed Zhang, has been plaguing many Chinese internet companies over the last year. iFeng.com reports that Zhang was arrested in an internet cafe in Qingdao, doing the very thing that made him a criminal: using other people’s money to…

Former Popstar Now Plays Video Games Up to 30 Hours Straight (Apparently!)

Once upon a time, Maki Goto was a huge mainstream popstar in Japan. She was also a huge gamer and even appeared in Monster Hunter commercials in 2011. Now, supposedly, she’s just a huge gamer. Goto’s private life had been rocky in recent years with its share of tragedies and at the end of 2011,…

When Cosplay Gets Wild and Wonderful

This weekend, the winter Wonder Festival barreled through Tokyo. The twice a year event is primarily for figurines, but hey, where there are nerds, there are cosplaying nerds. Here’s a sample of some of the cosplay on hand, with photos from Gigazine, Akiba Blog, Otaku.com, and Asagawo Blog. Some of the most interesting cosplay were…

When asked about a Killer Is Dead Vita version, game maker Goichi Suda said, “The Vita… Let’s wait and see for now.”

The Arrest of Japan’s Most Wanted Troll Leads to Cute Cat Pic

Well, they caught him. Apparently. After turning an anime director’s computer into a Trojan Horse for menacing messages, after threatening to blow up Nintendo, and after sending a Japanese cops on a wild goose cat chase, the man believed to be the country’s most wanted (and dangerous) troll is in police custody. The suspect is…

These Dragon Age Characters Aren’t Real, But They Damn Well Should Be

I showed you the Mass Effect entries in CGHub’s big BioWare competition last week, so today, it’s only fair that Dragon Age gets its turn. Perhaps because of its less iconic visual design, perhaps because people got all cold on the series after 2, but there aren’t as many entries as there were for Mass…

Luke McMillan has played over 3500 shmups. His genre history is good reading

A Gaming Room For Which The Word “Room” Doesn’t Really Do It Justice

Reddit user ScienceBrah has a personal trainer, and that personal trainer’s name is James. I tell you this only because James has one of the most kick-ass gaming rooms I’ve ever seen. There are so many games—organised properly, thank the Maker—down there he could hand out plastic cards and call it a game library my…

For $25,000, You Can have Your Own Giant RoboCop Killing Machine

This is, as close as we can get in 2013 anyway, a real version of RoboCop’s famous ED-209. It’s reportedly an actual Hollywood prop, built for RoboCop 2, and stands ten-feet tall It won’t move or shoot executives in the face, but then, it’s “only” $25,000, available via an eBay auction. A real executive face-shooter…

RAGE’s Mod Tools Are Daunting, But Might Result In Awesome “New” Games

Having been promised for an age, id Software finally made good last week on a pledge to release a modding tool kit for its ambitious, if slightly wonky 2011 shooter RAGE And what a set of tools it is. If you were hoping for a friendly system full of handy tips and giant buttons, sorry.…

An Almost Perfect Week Of Video Game Cosplay

It’s easy to cosplay as Mario. Put on a fake moustache and some overalls. It’s hard, very hard, to cosplay as Mario and do it well. Today, though, we’re seeing the best damn Mario cosplay I’ve ever seen. And one of the best Lara Croft cosplays I’ve ever seen. Which would have been enough for…

Blonde Twins Playing Walking Dead Music On Harps While Standing Outside An Empty House

At first, I was all, “Why do they keep moving their heads like that? It looks stupid”. Then I realised, they’re so into this they’re looking for walkers. Can’t play more than a few strums without checking their surrounds for trouble. That’s how you stay alive, people. Stay alive and find the time to play…

I Never Thought I’d See An N64 Controller As Beautiful As This One

Funny-looking and with a propensity for their joysticks to break just by looking at them, I think the N64 controller is—and I realise this is a relative award—Nintendo’s worst ever controller. Oh. Except this one, by Zoki64. This one’s wonderful. Painted in a retro style and with a fabulous glossy finish, it looks so hot…

God of War: Ascension got a live-action close-up during the Super Bowl. If you’re curious, here’s how it was made.

Journey‘s soundtrack was up for a Grammy tonight, but it didn’t win. All other nominees in its category were films.

The Legend of Zelda is a New York Times Bestseller. No, Really.

Barely a week into its western release, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Shouldn’t that designation come with an exclamation point or two? Fine! Here!! See for yourself here, it’s topping the “Hardcover Advice & Misc.” category, though that doesn’t mean it’s a strategy guide or a…

For Madden‘s Director, an Eye for the Game Comes from an NFL Sideline

“Everybody assumes I go to the Super Bowl every year,” Mike Young says, but he didn’t this year. Friends figure it’s just a perk of his job. Young is the creative director for Madden NFL, and has worked on the franchise for six years now, and the past 10 at EA Sports. As the Super…

Halo 2‘s PC multiplayer is shutting down on Friday so, yeah, there’s an Internet petition to stop that.

The Week in Games: Keep Our Honor Clean

PC, PS3 and 360 gamers are proud to wear the title Aliens: Colonial Marines this week. The turn-based gangster strategy game Omerta also looks to carry out its own Valentine’s Day Massacre on PC and Xbox 360. Today • Brain Age: Concentration Training (3DS) Tuesday • Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC, PS3, 360) • Omerta: City…

If you’re a Mac gamer a) EA’s Origin is now available for Mac OS and b) you’re a Mac gamer? Really?