I Wish I Were Good At Video Games So I Could Be Cool Like People In 90s Movies

Having Mad Skills is a huge part of the video game culture mythos. Do you remember the future promised to us in the 1990s, where every TV show had a kid just like you “going in the game,” crowned with a giant jutting VR helmet? Remember all the kids in action kneepads, waving power-gloved fingers,…

This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: I Need Your Skulls

What does it take to unseat Angry Birds from the top of the Windows Phone game charts? How about something smart, sexy and exclusive? Skulls of the Shogun‘s stylish real-time strategy cuts a wide swath through this week’s top ten list. An exclusive iOS game is just another iOS game. An exclusive Android game is…

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Seeks to Revive SG-1 As An Interactive Adventure

From the people who brought you Stargate Golf Teal’c’s Revenge, here’s a teaser trailer for Stargate SG-1: Unleashed. Calling itself an “Interactive Adventure”, the game was first revealed (sort of) last November by a pair of tweets from former Stargate: SG-1 actors Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks (via SGGamingInfo): Stargate SG-1: Unleashed is due “soon”…

Borderlands Legends is Better (and Cheaper) Than Ever Before

When making a mobile spin-off of a major console/PC game, one neat thing to include would be some equivalent of the most popular features of the franchise proper. There were no gun loot drops in Borderlands Legends for the iPhone and iPad. Now there are. Part strategy, part shooter and part action RPG, Borderlands Legends‘…

Here Are The Top 30 Games Japanese Gamers Are Looking Forward To In 2013

2013 is only 1/12th over. With 11 months left and new console news on the horizon, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers what games they were looking forward to for this year. Here’s a list of the top 30 anticipated upcoming games for 2013 (note: All publishers and release dates are for Japanese release versions): 30…

Nothing Says Valentine’s Day Like a Circuit Board. Made of Chocolate.

How romantic! Japanese computer peripheral maker I-O Data is teaming up with a confectionery maker named Maple House for a special campaign in which three lucky individuals will get chocolate that’s shaped like a memory circuit board. Because additional memory looks delicious. The boards are incredibly detailed and realistic—so much so that I-O Data is…

Sweeping landscapes. Floating ruins, trees and lava falls. February 12. Sega’s teasing something, but what? Any ideas?

I Hope This New PS Vita Game Has Enough Originality To Stand On Its Own

Toukiden is the new PS Vita game from Tecmo Koei. Originally announced as an entirely new title from the Omega-Force development team (of Dynasty Warriors fame), the game trailer showed a female warrior hacking up and killing a giant creature in a very medieval Japan sort of setting. Well, according to information released to Weekly…

The PS4 Hype Train Destroys the Internet With Animated GIFs

Last week, the internet went mental. Sony announced it would be holding an event later this month in New York City—an event to unveil the PlayStation 4, apparently. The hype train pulled into the station, and every Sony diehard in sight hopped on. In the wake of “Oh shit, cannot wait” and the “Is this…

Soul Sacrifice Can Turn You Into One Ugly Mofo

As previously reported, in Soul Sacrifice, players will find themselves making a lot of different choices as they progress through the story of a sacrificial lamb fighting through an evil sorcerer’s past in the form of a living book to gain the power to fight for his/her freedom. Japan’s gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has revealed…

The Coolest 2D Video Game on Earth Is Hong Kong

After visiting a friend in Hong Kong, Swedish photographer Christian Åslund thought the streets below looked like the best video game he had never played. The result is this tribute to 2D gaming. According to website Hong Wrong, to make the landscape appear flat, Åslund shot from above, using a telephoto lens. Often while laying…

Fifty-five percent of Chinese computers are infected with malware. Yikes!

Japanese Xbox Users Made a Miiverse Clone. Yep, It’s Covered in Dicks.

Dicks, why does it always have to be dicks? Before the Wii U’s user forum, dubbed the Miiverse, launched, I said that it would be a dick drawing inferno. Little did I know that Japanese Xbox users would launch their own Miiverse clone. But, I’ll tell you what, I sure saw the dick drawings coming.…

About that PS4 Price Rumor…

This morning, Japan’s Asahi News ran a story on the PS4. It included several things we’ve heard before, such as how the PS4 will allow you to share things with friends while playing (more here in a previous story) and that it will come with a DualShock 3 shaped controller—which Kotaku previously reported (Meanwhile, the…

Skyrim’s Theme, performed By… The Chocolate Rain Guy. What Year Is This Again?

When I rolled out of bed this morning, I never expected the world would decide to present 2009’s biggest internet sensation singing the theme song to 2011’s biggest video game in… 2013. A little late on both fronts, then, but it’s not without a certain charm. Or, it will be, once I manage to get…

RIP, The Man Who Made Yoda & Chewbacca

Legendary British special effects wizard Stuart Freeborn, who is responsible for some of science fiction’s most memorable on-screen characters, has passed away at the age of 98. Freeborn, who made the ape-men from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, will be remembered most for his contributions in the Star Wars franchise, where his puppet-building and make-up skills led…

Printer Is Coming With This Incredible Model Of Winterfell

This incredible, miniature rendition of Winterfell—as it’s seen in the opening credits to the Game of Thrones TV show—was done by Daniel Ammann. if you’ve got access to a 3D printer, or as I like to call them “boxes of dark sorcery”, he’s made the plans for the model publicly available, so you can print…

You Might Get a Surprisingly Classy Skyrim Series. If You Pay.

A group of very serious fans want to make a web series based on Skyrim. So far, so modern internet, but what’s setting the pitch for Skyrim: The Shadow Cult apart is the level of professionalism that’s going into the production. Instead of just tossing robes on a few friends and letting computer effects do…

Sometimes, Koreans Can Give Western Fantasy A Shot In The Arm

Maybe it’s because Western artists are dealing with a genre that’s so close to their own culture and history (or at least close to it), but there’s a reason the majority (though not all!) of fantasy art ends up looking the same. It tends to stick too close to the real deal. Unless it’s some…

Crytek, Long Ago, Were Working On Their Own Take On Deus Ex

Waaaay back in time, long before even the first Far Cry was released, Crytek were working on a game called Engalus. Envisaged as a first-person game with an emphasis on story and role-playing, it actually made a small public appearance in 2000 as a tech demo for Nvidia before disappearing from sight, never to be…