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Here’s a Full Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Match for Your Viewing Pleasure

Blizzard revealed its new World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game at PAX East this morning, wrapping up the announcement with a match played in front of a live ballroom audience. Here is that match, in all its glory. It’s actually a pretty standard CCG from the looks of it, enhanced by Blizzard’s signature spit and…

Awesome, Those HD Remakes Of Final Fantasy X And X-2 Are Coming To North America

Square Enix has just announced that both Final Fantasy X and X-2 are getting the HD treatment not just in Japan, but here as well. The PS3 will receive a one-disc bundle of both games, while the Vita will receive each game separately. Here’s Square Enix: Square Enix Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive…

Blizzard Reveals Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Blizzard has just announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a free-to-play collectible card game set in the universe of Warcraft You can play as one of nine World of Warcraft classes, collect cards, and battle people online. No release date yet, but the game will be out for PC and Mac, with an iPad version coming…

Blizzard’s Got Something New To Show Us at PAX East. Let’s Watch. Update: It’s All Over

PAX East kicks off this morning in lovely scenic Boston, beginning with the big Blizzard Entertainment Presents panel from 10:00 to 10:30 Eastern. Or at least I am assuming it’s big. Perhaps I should just stick with “new” until the mystery is solved. As if the playable debut of the PlayStation 4 version of Diablo…

What the Fashionable Thief will Be Wearing Next Year

Our very own Chris Person snapped these pics of master thief Garrett’s newly redesigned threads and bow at PAX East. Cool, if a bit drab.

NSFW: Tomb Raider Glitch Makes Lara Croft Look Practically Topless

Well, this is unfortunate: a glitch discovered by a Canadian player makes it look like Lara Croft’s tank top has gone all see-through. The glitch was sent in by a person who goes by Recostar from S3DGamerZone. Here’s his account of how the bug came to light while he was playing the game in 3D…

This Impressive Custom-Built Arcade Machine Was Specially Designed For Pokémon Pinball

It took three weeks of hard work to finish this custom pinball machine, which simulates Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Pinball and the classic Pokémon Pinball, originally released on Game Boy Color. Its surface looks really smooth and clean, and the functioning tilt buttons, plus the classic Pokémon music make it all totally super effective. You can take…

No One Knew This Vita RPG Was Coming Out. Tecmo Koei is Working to Make Sure It Doesn’t Happen Again.

Fans of Japanese developer Gust’s long-lived series of alchemy-based Atelier role-playing games are a little miffed with Tecmo Koei. First the latest PlayStation 3 installment of the game — Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk — hit store shelves earlier this month to very little fanfare. Then the PlayStation Vita port of Atelier Totori: The…

The Second Half of Psycho Pass Isn’t Perfect, But it’s Still Worth a Watch

Psycho Pass is a cyberpunk police story in the same vein as Ghost in the Shell. But instead of being centered on the theme of cybernetics, Psycho Pass explores the concept of a society where your mental health is constantly scanned as a matter of public safety. Those with even the slightest case of mental…

This Ninja Music Video Is Bizarre, Wonderful, and Has a Cool Mega Man Reference

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the uber popular Japanese popstar, has a new music video out. It’s called “Ninjya Re Bang Bang”. You can watch it right up there! If you are familiar with Pamyu Pamyu’s previous music videos (like “PonPonPon”), this latest visual extravaganza is as mental as ever. It has ninja dancing and Mega Man…

Siliconera reports that Square Enix Europe has trademarked the name “Lara Croft: Reflections” in the US.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix Makes Kingdom Hearts Look Better and Play Better Than Ever Before

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix is the newest in a long line of last generation titles being remastered for the current generation of HD consoles. Like many of these remasters, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix is a collection of several games—in this case, Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories. It also…

For These Amazing Cosplayers, The Stage Is Their Laboratory

Team C.S.L. doesn’t only feature some of the best cosplayers in South Korea, but the entire world. The cosplay collective has represented its country at the World Cosplay Summit (think: “Cosplay Olympics”) several times. And for good reason. Team C.S.L. is great. “C.S.L.” stands for “Cosplay Stage Laboratory”. What makes this collective so interesting is…

Chinese internet company Tencent now owns 48.8 percent of Epic Games. [GI]

Why Mini-Skirts Could Become Illegal in South Korea

In the 1970s, the dictatorship controlling South Korea stipulated the length of women’s skirts. Now, due to a new law, some in South Korea worry that those days are returning. Last year, a law was passed in South Korea regarding, among other things, indecent exposure. Today, it goes into effect. According to website Korea Bang,…

Double Fine and Capy’s New Game is a Blast from the Past

This is Capy Fine Racing GP, from Psychonauts and The Cave developers Double Fine, and the people behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Capybara Games. It will be released at PAX East, on floppy disks. Yes, floppy disks. “The game will be released on the 3.5″ floppies that come inside the Capy and Double Fine…

The Creepiest Fruit China Has To Offer

Apparently spotted at a Sam’s Club supermarket in Beijing, these pears have been shaped so that they resemble babies. Because that’s so not creepy. The image of the pears first popped up on a Chinese social networking site. According to MIC, a journalist followed up, but couldn’t find the pears. The supermarket staff supposedly said…

Japan’s Cute and Nerdy Stone Statues Will Delight You

Stone statues play a prevalent role in Japanese life. You see them at Buddhist Temples and Shinto Shrines, and you also see them in front of houses and businesses or in gardens as decoration. Ditto at cemeteries. Japanese stonemasons are called “sekizaiya-san” (石材屋さん) or “sekizaiten” (石材店). They primarily focus on carving grave stones. The vast…

Playing Kingdom Hearts in Japanese is Just Kinda…Different

As I’ve been working my way through Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix this past week, it occurs to me just how much I dislike the Japanese cast of the games in the collection—which, given how bad English dubs can be, is pretty surprising. But it isn’t that the Japanese voice actors aren’t good, rather it’s…