Tonight, Nintendo unveiled the newest Pokémon games, Pokémon X/Pokémon Y. They’re completely new titles for the 3DS. One point of interest: in the core series, as long as you consider diamond, pearl and platinum color shades, these are the first Pocket Monster games that are not named after colors. The three starters look to be…
It’s not easy making friends. For some in Japan, it’s even harder. Enter “Rental Friend”. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the country’s largest newspaper, a Tokyo based firm called Client Partners offers a “Rental Friend” service—among other services—at its locations across the country. The article recounts how last summer, one lonely 25 year-old named Kouichi…
Moero Downhill Night Blaze is the latest adult visual novel in the Moero Downhill Night series of street racing-themed games. In most visual novels (“adult” or otherwise), the gameplay is little more than a few major choices set up in a choose-your-own-adventure type story. However, Moero Downhill Night Blaze moves well outside the visual novel…
But, who doesn’t want long legs? In the past few years, especially after leggy Korean popstars like Girls’ Generation (above) hit it big in Japan, long limbs have definitely been in. For those who want added proportions, there’s an easy answer: Head on over to your local Japanese video game arcade. Twitter user Tanichan101 uploaded…
For a limited time only, beloved puzzle game series Professor Layton is getting its own chocolate treats in Japan. This month, candy company Glico is rolling out “Professor Layton’s Riddle Solution Break Chocolate”. The chocolates come in two flavors: gateau chocolate or English tea sponge cake. The bite sized chocolates come with one riddle card…
Ah, Twitter. Japan loves you so. Like the rest of the world, Japan has gone gaga for the microblogging service. But surely, even the most active Twitter users can take a break while working out, right? This image shows a Japanese magazine article on “Mobile Tweeting Yoga”, with various tweet-friendly yoga exercises, like the Tree…
Pocket Monsters are supposed to be cute. That’s just the way it is. Or rather, the way it should be. But these Pokémon are anything but cute. They’re butt ugly. Bad teeth, simpleton stares, and generally surly dispositions turn some of the cutest Pocket Monsters into some of the ugliest. Even the teeth hurtingly cute…
While this looks like an expensive statue based on 2004 classic Shadow of the Colossus, it’s a little bit more than that. Well, OK, it does work as a statue, but its more practical use is that it’s an external hard drive. Reddit user foxfoxwaltz has posted an album showing the piece in all its…
When a house full of dwarves starts singing Misty Mountain, it’s perhaps the saddest moment in the new Hobbit flick. Partly because of the effect of so many little dudes singing in such deep voices. So nerd vocalist Peter Hollens—who you may remember from his Game of Thrones theme—does a good job here with just……
So design house Dark Igloo has the greatest contact page a website has ever had. Instead of an email link or, worse, an email form, they’ve got… look, just play it. And turn up the speakers. Contact [Dark Igloo, via Laughing Squid]
Normally when we learn about the people responsible for writing movies based on video games, there’s a round of muted applause. If we’re lucky. More often than no there are groans. So it’s a nice surprise to learn that the long-in-development hell Shadow of the Colossus movie project—which last year got a director—now has a…
It’s not every day we get to feature the work of an artist who, amidst pieces drawn up for video games and trading card companies, has also dabbled in the style of 19th century battlefield paintings. But we are today. So today is a good day. You’re looking at the works of Karl Kopinski, a…
This is Soda Drinker Pro. For those days that games about guns and murder are too much. You drink soda. In a gripping first-person perspective, from which you can really feel the can in your hand and really taste the fizz as you quench that thirst. The challenge comes not from the foes you will…
Second Wave, the next DLC for our 2012 game of the year XCOM, will be out very soon
Indonesian artist Machine56, who you might have seen here once or twice before, has more game-related design goodness to share, this time with a range of Borderlands pieces. Due to be released soon on Gearbox’s store, there are designs for shirts and hoodies, as well as some tantalising ideas for masks, something the artist has…
Apple’s notoriously haphazard approvals policy for App Store games continues unabated. Only a few months after a historical game about the Second World War was blocked for daring to use flags, a serious game about the current conflict in Syria has been barred for much the same reason. Pocket Tactics discovered last night that Auroch…
With the news that Sony has officially ceased production of the PlayStation 2, the biggest and perhaps most important chapter in the history of home video gaming comes to a close. It made me a little teary last night, so much so I sat down with my silver PS2 and played some old games. Looking…
I’m a sucker for Pixar short films, and from the looks of it, I’ll also be a sucker for The Blue Umbrella, the new one coming from the Toy Story-makers. This tease, posted at The Wall Street Journal, pretty much confirms it: Yep, I’m going to love this. The final video will play in front…
Continuing their series of Project Cosplay videos, Firefall developers Red 5 present this short film documenting the process by which “professional” cosplayer Crystal Graziano (note: sponsored by Red 5) transformed herself from regular human into Commander Shepard. It’s a really interesting video; you normally only see cosplay at the very end of the process, but…
I’ve played a lot of Far Cry 3. A looooot. And so I’m always looking for ways to freshen up the game for another go-round. I got about halfway through on a second playthrough, but it still didn’t seem quite different enough for me. Fortunately, PC modders have wasted no time coming up with clever…
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