Ys and The Legend of the Heroes developer Falcom is opening a new smartphone and tablets studio.
Who looks Japanese? Can you distinguish between Korean and Chinese people? Website AllLookSame.com tests people’s facial recognition ability. This week, the website’s test has been appearing on numerous popular Japanese blogs, such as Rocket News. How are people in Asia doing with recognizing people from other nationalities? The “average” score is seven out of 18.…
Remember when the original PlayStation came out? Better yet, remember how incredibly amazing the system’s start up music was? Holy smoke, that was good—and it’s even amazing all these years later. With Sony getting ready to announce the future of the PlayStation on February 20, now is as good a time as any to look…
At most arcades in Japan, there’s a section for kids. The kiddy games are often card (or plastic puck) based. There are kiddy arcade games aimed at little boys and ones aimed at little girls. Sounds like these two clowns didn’t get the message. This photo was snapped at a Sega arcade in Japan. Two…
Hentai Kamen, “the abnormal super hero”, is getting his own movie. The flick was teased last fall, and a live-action film called HK is slated for an April release in Japan. This post has content some readers might find unsuitable. Hentai Kamen is a manga that followed a mankini-wearing hero who got superpowers from wearing…
In Asia, especially South Korea, the Lineage games are quite popular. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t fans in the West. That doesn’t mean that at all. In fact, some of Lineage‘s biggest fans in the West love showing their appreciation of the massive multiplayer online role-playing game the best way they know how: by…
Let’s say you’re piloting one of the United States Air Force’s shiny new F-35 fighters. Suddenly, below you, hostile tanks and rockets start firing. Not necessarily at you, just at something nearby. Almost instantly—and this footage was captured from a live test, so it works—the F-35’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS) picks up the fire, determines…
I am in tears. I’m shedding actual tears here. Actual tears of laughter. Bear in mind that I’m Scottish and this is how I speak when I go home and I don’t have to worry about people understanding what I say. Underneath this genuinely incisive review is some of the best Scottish patter I’ve heard…
I got away with a lot at my wedding. Lord of the Rings music in church, Autobot cufflinks, a Han-and-Leia-topped cake. She’s a good wife, my wife. But even she would have probably drawn the line at this. Sadly. Ben and Mimi’s wedding saw Ben and his mates ditch their boutonnières (you know, flowers on…
Titan Books has got together with Electronic Arts to release an art book that celebrates the work not just of the team behind the recently-released Dead Space 3, but of the entire series. The Art of Dead Space, a 300-page, hardcover book, has art from the entire franchise. So not just the three main games,…
These adorable little Spanish kids have been captured by some far less-adorable adults. I don’t know what Spanish is for “looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys“, but maybe it’d be less creepy in this instance than it is in English. It’s Carnival in Spain and all the schools have family costume parties… This…
If you thought the kind of artificial, hair-tearing stunts found in the Trials series were the only way you’d see dirtbike tricks like that, well, Aussie rider Robbie Maddison would like a word. In this clip, put together by DC Shoes, he rides around an old airbase pulling off stuff that should only really be…
Gary Goddard has just about the coolest job in the universe. He gets to design theme park rides. Over the decades his work has appeared all over the world, in places like Universal Studios, but not everything he put to paper made it to construction. Like his idea for a ride based on Aliens Seems…
Telltale’s Mark Darin, just for kicks, has taken 2012 adventure series The Walking Dead (which he helped write) and thrown it back a few decades, imagining it as a Commodore 64 title. He’s pretty much nailed it. From the resolution to the colour palette. I’m now a little bummed out I can’t actually play this.…
It’s one thing to pick apart plot holes in a film, but to do so while at the same time cross-examining the military strategy of fictional protagonists? That’s about as far up my alley as you can get without things getting adults-only. Wired’s military column, Danger Room, has written a fantastic piece putting Darth Vader’s…
No, really. Check out this hilarious video by grizzl360 that showcases the incredibly deadly, ultra fearsome alien threat in Aliens: Colonial Marines. I think the The Hello! Ma Baby song makes a strong case for why the AI in the game would have been better suited for a musical, don’t you? Now the question is,…
The folks behind Disney’s next big move in the gaming space know what you’re thinking. They know that you’re already comparing Disney Infinity to the Skylanders games. After all, their upcoming title is a video game/collectible toy hybrid where figurines of Disney movie characters come to life and romp around in a video game, just…
“Every soldier needed an escape.” Steven Beynon, a cavalry scout in the Army, said that starkly to me in an interview—but many of us know exactly what he’s talking about. It’s the relief that comes when we kick off our shoes after a long day, grab a controller, and then forget about the world. Just…
I beat Dead Space 1 I nearly beat Dead Space 2, but I got so frustrated with one section near the end in which I was trapped in a room with regenerating Necromorphs that I shelved it. (This was after the amazing “needle/eye” bit.) I come from a long history of loving sci fi, in…
Careful downloading things listed as free on the PlayStation store, Plus members. There’s a charging glitch right now.
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