Most of Early 2013’s Biggest Games Seem to Be Skipping Wii U

After a Wii U launch that was full of ports of big games from big game companies, it appears that the winter and spring will see the Wii U missing out on most of the major games coming to its rival consoles. Over the last couple of days, we’ve been checking in on the Wii…

Popcap Reveals Its Hidden Agenda for Facebook

In a small town where everybody has a secret, a rift between two powerful families threatens to tear apart bonds formed through history, business and blood. PopCap’s upcoming hidden object mystery for Facebook bears the mark of many classic tales of drama and suspense. It also bears bears. Anthropomorphic animals populate Hidden Agenda, due out…

Looks Like Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Is Coming To iOS Today

There’s a listing for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy up on the New Zealand iTunes Store, which almost certainly means that the rhythm game will be out in North America later today. Theatrhythm is a tap-tap-tap game in the style of Elite Beat Agents or Guitar Hero in which you strum your fingers across the screen to…

Funcom’s MMO The Secret World No Longer Requires Subscriptions

The Secret World seemed like a promising evolution of the MMO formula when it came out this summer. But publisher Funcom has hit a series of stumbles that have left many wondering how they were going to move forward. One crucial step was revealed today with the announcement that subscriptions are no longer required. New…

Changing Its Testimony, Gears of War: Judgment Remains True to Its Story

I’m no lawyer, but I’ve watched enough TV to think I know how to coach a witness. Mostly, shut up. Answer the question and don’t say any more than you have to. Don’t volunteer anything. It’ll only make things harder for you later. Cpl. Damon Baird—pardon me, Lt. Damon Baird—never learned that lesson. That forms…

His Name Was John Davidson. He Lived And Died In Garbage City.

John Davidson is dead broke. Yesterday he arrived in Garbage City. Jobless, circling the block in his car—his last worldly possession—desperately, desperately looking for any kind of work. He has no other options. He’s hit rock bottom. Why else would John be in Garbage City? John Davidson’s story: it’s transient. For just a few short…

Is It Sad I Want An Android Tablet Clearly Designed for Tweens?

Coming later this month from Fuhu Inc., the company behind the wildly popular Nabi line of kids’ learning tablets, the Nabi XD is a 10.1 inch Tegra 3 powered Android tablet with near field communication technology and a style so distinctive I don’t really care that it’s aimed at tweenyboppers. Is a little color too…

Don’t Let a Cyborg Interrupt Your PlayStation Game

The latest PlayStation ad is trumpeting this holiday season as a “good chance” to pick up PlayStation games and hardware. Retro super hero Kikaider pops up to remind a family of just that. This is actually a Japanese pun as the character’s name “Kikaider” (キカイダー) carries the nuance of “machine” (機会 or “kikai”). Here, Sony…

Level-5 Smacks Sega Down Over Lawsuit

Sega is suing the crap out of Level-5. Best known for the Professor Layton puzzle games, Level-5 isn’t taking this one lying down. As previously posted, Sega is claiming patent infringement in Level-5’s Inazuma Eleven soccer role-playing games and suing for the equivalent of US$11 million. Sega is contesting that Inazuma Eleven‘s touch interface that…

This Woman Is Totally Baffled by her Wii U’s Loading Times

Meet Megumi. She got a Wii U, and she thinks the Wii U’s operating system is “too slow”. To show how slow it is, Megumi presses the settings icon and then runs a stop watch. It takes nearly 17 seconds. And then, she presses back to the Wii U main menu and clocks that loading…

Iron Man, Captain America and More as Beautiful Paper Sculptures

This is not origami. This is something else. This is paper sculpture. And it’s lovely. Born in South Korea, Cheong-ah Hwang grew up in her parents’ printing shop. “I had all sorts of paper available all the time,” wrote Cheong-ah on her Etsy page. “Playing with paper was the most fun thing to do.” After…

This Isn’t Starfox Wii U, But It Sure Looks Good

Reader Ignacio Guajardo, a student at Ringling College of Art & Design, and his 3D artist cohorts (Garrett Stevens, Jati Darmawan, and Clayton Chod) recently created this environment trailer to see what Starfox on the Wii U could look like. Maybe something like this? Even if it doesn’t, nice work! Starfox Inspired Environment [IgnacioGadster@YouTube]

Chinese Company Is Giving a “Doomsday Vacation” to Employees

On December 21, the world will end. So said the Mayans, apparently, and how can the Mayans be wrong? And while NASA and other rational heads believe that the world will chug on post December 21, one Chinese company, Chengdu Higgses Internet Technology Company, isn’t taking any chances. In fact, it’s doing one better: giving…

Fist of The North Star Gets Its Own Condoms

Ready those “F*cks of the North Star” jokes, because the iconic manga is now helping people practice safe sex. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, Fist of the North Star debuted as a manga in the early 1980s and was turned into an anime in 1987. Recently, Koei has been developing new Fist…

As previously discussed, Square Enix counted down to Star Galaxy, a browser game.

These G.I. Joe Cosplayers Are Real Internet Heroes

Like most children of the 1980s, I grew up with G.I. Joe. And while I thought the Real American Hero troops were cool and all, Cobra was so much cooler. Yes, yes, the outfits were originally fascist inspired, sure, but as the 1980s series progressed, Cobra got increasingly ridiculous. And by ridiculous, I mean wonderful.…

You Can Buy Luke Skywalker’s Actual Lightsaber (Or Indiana Jones’ Gun)

Theres a big auction going down in Hollywood this weekend for a range of official props, photos and film from classic films like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien, Indiana Jones and Star Trek. Called Drama: Action: Romance, the lot spans over half a century of blockbuster films, but it’s more recent (and nerdy)…

That’s One Heck Of An M. Bison You’ve Got There

The sadly-departed Raul Julia played M. Bison in the terrible big-screen adaptation of Street Fighter. Let’s imagine, though, that instead of Julia, it was another Latin film star in the role. Like, say, Danny Trejo. Bison by Limjaegil [Jaegil Lim @ CGHub, via Blue Dog’s Eyes]

Giant Team Fortress Statue Sadly Does Not Include Tiny Jar Of Piss

Gaming Heads has been working away on a line of enormous Team Fortress 2 statues for literally years now, and are only now moving onto their fourth one. But that’s OK. When they turn out as nice as they have, it’s worth the wait. The latest is my second-favourite Australian in the TF2 universe, a…

StarCraft’s Unofficial Animated Series Is A Little Lighter In Tone

You know the internet’s a big place when there’s a terrific StarCraft animated series being made and you had no idea about it. So, sorry Carbot. I should have been watching these ages ago. They’re short, cute and to the point. Everything you want from a YouTube video. If you dig StarCraft and haven’t already…