Whether it’s the Power Rangers, Ultraman, or Kamen Rider, male Japanese superheroes have one thing in common: they are tough and masculine. These poses aren’t. Blogger BakAnki snapped pictures of the superhero figurines doing poses that are, as he explained, “girly” or “photomodel-ish”. “In all seriousness,” explained BakAnki on Figure.Fm, “it’s actually harder to do…
Last January saw the release of Katawa Shoujo, a fan-made visual novel based around the idea of dating girls with physical disabilities. When I first heard the concept of the game and then heard it was being made by a group who met on 4chan, I was sure it would be a horribly insensitive, offensive…
Ajo is a regular at Taiwanese game events, decked in dangerously skimpy garb. She’s one of Taiwan’s most famous cosplayers. For Ajo, cosplay has been more than a hobby, but a way to strive to drop 40 pounds and look like the idealized characters she adores. On her Facebook page (via Rocket News), Ajo recently…
There are more than a few Karaoke video games out there, from Karaoke Revolution to SingStar to Lips. Each of these games come with dozens of songs per disk—and some allow for more songs to be purchased as DLC. But Joysound Dive goes a step beyond these and quite literally takes the Japanese Karaoke experience…
Ace Attorney 3: Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is the third official Ace Attorney musical performed by the all female Takarazuka Revue. When I reviewed the first musical last year, I said it was a better telling of the story than the source material. When I reviewed the second musical, I lauded it for being a darker…
Wondering what Fumito Ueda is up to these days? Even after leaving Sony, Ueda has apparently continued to work on the eagerly awaited The Last Guardian, which is years in development. Sony promised the game still lives. Promised! Ueda recently surfaced in an official Sony video. But he isn’t talking about The Last Guardian. Oh,…
Wowzers! Space Pirate Captain Harlock is getting a movie, and hot dog, it looks great The sci-fi space pirate series debuted first as a manga in 1977. According to Oricon, the upcoming CG flick is due out this fall. Space Pirate Captain Harlock [MarkBartle@YouTube] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at…
Mere hours ago, Sony took the hype train straight out of the station with their tease of a big announcement coming on February 20. It seemed likely that the event, which will be live-streamed, would be a reveal of the next PlayStation console, code-named Orbis. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that “people familiar…
GoD Factory: Wingmen is, according to developers nine dots, “a competitive multiplayer game in which the goal for your team is to destroy the enemy carrier while protecting your own.” I know, these space games are making a very welcome comeback, but look at those colours. You’ll be able to design and build your own…
Perk-a-Cola—soda that grants you a much-needed perk—is a life-saver in zombie rounds of Call of Duty multiplayer. It’s also not a real drink, so a pair of fans set about changing that. Redditor Kjkemme and their zombie-handed sister have recreated all the sodas found in the game, right down to the nutrition labels. Call of…
Oleg Saakyan is a freelance concept artist who has worked for clients like social game developer Distant Orbit and board game (and increasingly video game) powerhouse Fantasy Flight Games. Expect to see him a lot more in the future, because this guy is good You can see more of Oleg’s work at his personal site…
Metal Gear, Hitman, Splinter Cell, Deus Ex… so many great stealth games to pay homage to, but what do you do if you want to pay homage to all of them in a single video? Why, you get clever like the guys behind this terrific fan video have, jumping from series to series in a…
Niche PC publishers Paradox held a big event earlier today, unveiling a range of new titles and DLC for existing ones. The one I’m most excited for is The Old Gods, a Viking expansion for my 2012 GOTY nominee Crusader Kings II In the game, until now, the Pagan and Zoroastrianism religions had been denied…
Have you ever watched a plane fly overhead and wondered what it would look like if there were dozens more of them flying at the same time? You have? Well, photographer Cy Kuckenbaker has got you covered, with this awesome montage film he made of six hours’ worth of San Diego International Airport departures condensed…
Earlier this week, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell gave a talk at University of Texas at Austin about the business and art of making video games. Today, the school has posted a full video of one of the talks. Sit back, relax, and watch one of gaming’s visionaries talk about how he does what he does,…
It’ll be years until we see what Star Trek director J.J. Abrams can do with Star Wars, but in the meantime, artist Gavin Chin has made this fake trailer, cutting the original films into a clip that’s so full of Abrams’ style—and lens flare—that you’d think it was the real thing. Star Wars Trailer by…
When you used to call the Nintendo Power Line as a kid, you’d have been excused for thinking you were talking to some kind of gaming master, a person with such an innate knowledge of the game in question they could tell you anything you needed to know. Sometimes, they might have been, but for…
Last week, while I was checking out Splinter Cell: Blacklist, I had a long, interesting talk with the game’s creative director Maxime Béland. Béland, who also worked on the first Assassin’s Creed and was creative director on Rainbow Six: Vegas and Splinter Cell: Conviction, is an interesting guy to chat with. He’s sharp, and was…
Fans of Secret of Monkey Island, the 1990 point-n-click adventure game, will undoubtedly remember the infamous “three trials” scene, in which protagonist Guybrush Threepwood proclaims to Mêlée Island’s pirate leaders that he, too, would like to be a pirate. Here’s the iconic scene, Team Fortress 2 style. And it’s extremely well done. Enjoy. [SFM] I…
Some people act as if gaming as we know it is in danger, and all of these new experimental titles—Proteus, Dear Esther, Dys4ria, Twine games, amongst others—are to blame. Usually, it’s what people designate as ‘art games.’ Sometimes, if you’re in the middle of a “but is it a game” discussion, you can almost imagine…
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