School Apologizes for Student’s Stupid Tweets

Last week, shortly after an earthquake rocked Japan, a tweet tore up Twitter and pissed the country off. The tweet by @Reonandnene read, “Because of the earthquake, my house collapsed, and moreover, I cannot get out. I’m trapped under rubble. Please call for help.” The tweet raised the concern of a local fire department and…

The Professor Layton Movie is a Fun-Filled Adventure from Beginning to End

The puzzle-filled Professor Layton games comprise one of the Nintendo DS’s most popular franchises. Mixing brain teaser and occult mystical plot, the adventures of the gentleman archaeologist and his young apprentice are always enjoyable to play. There are currently five games in the main series, with another on the way in the coming year. There’s…

This NSFW Wii U Commercial Is Certainly Not from Nintendo

It’s a parody. With edited porn imagery. Yesterday, this faux commercial appeared on Japanese video site NicoNico Douga, and since then, the clip has been spreading around Japanese cyberspace. This Wii U parody plays on the “game/gayme” pun and uses some footage from Japanese gay porn A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream (“Manatsu no Yoru no…

Naughty Dog promises The Last of Us multiplayer won’t harm single player.

The Gameplay in Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney is an Interesting Mix of Old and New

As the title suggests, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney crosses the mystical puzzle-solving mysteries of the Professor Layton series with the courtroom logic puzzles of Ace Attorney—but not exactly in the ways you’d expect. As you play the game, you constantly switch between Layton and Ace Attorney style gameplay. The Layton side of the game…

Why Do Erotic Game Characters Wear Such Dorky Clothes?

Japanese erotic games do feature hardcore sex scenes, but there is an “adventure” part during which players interact with fully clothed characters. While there are exceptions, those clothes are often dorky. Very, very dorky. A recent thread on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, asked why erotic game characters wear such unfashionable threads. “It’s because people…

Yoshi Looks So Weird without a Nose

Just as Mario looks strange clean shaven, Yoshi looks truly odd without his round, bulbous schnoz. Then again, so does everyone. During the recent earthquake in Japan, a Yoshi figure was unfortunately damaged, which lets us see the iconic Nintendo character in a new and somewhat unsettling light. ACK! These are two photos of the…

Sega Is Suing the Crap out of Level-5

In the West, Level-5 is perhaps best known for the Professor Layton puzzle games. In Japan, the Fukuoka-based game company is also famous for its Inazuma Eleven soccer games. Those games are at the center of a lawsuit. According to Yomiuri Online, Sega is suing Level-5 for patent infringement in the Inazuma Eleven Nintendo DS…

Nike Reckons It’s Made “The First Game Powered By Your Everyday Movement”

Nike is launching some kind of reality… video game… thing in the near future. Powered by the company’s Nike+ FuelBand wristband, they’re calling it the “the first game powered by your everyday movement.” Which it isn’t, it’s far from it, but whatever. “In a world conquered by cold”, their tease says, “you’ll have to earn…

StarCraft Hoodies Are Surprisingly Wearable

Given the game, I’d have put money on any official StarCraft hoodies looking something thrown out for free at trade events, not something people would pay good for money for. Glad I didn’t put money down, because these are OK! I mean, I wouldn’t wear them out, but the way they’re designed they look exactly…

The Fastest Way To Ruin A Wii U Controller Is With These Hideous Stickers

Japanese peripheral company Hori, in their infinite widsom, have decided that the otherwise classy Wii U pad needs a little spicing up. So they’ve released a range of decals to help transform your expensive piece of consumer electronics into something that looks like a cheap Chinese knock-off. OK, maybe that’s being a little harsh. When…

Metal Gear, Phantom Pain & Fish S**t

I’m not exactly the world’s biggest Metal Gear fan, so for me, the most enjoyable thing about the reveal of The Phantom Pain (which might or might not be Metal Gear Solid 5) wasn’t the game itself, but the emergence of its “CEO”, Joakim Mogren. And an accompanying Twitter account. While it’s a fake/joke account,…

Halo 4’s Environments Can Be As Beautiful As They Are Brutal

We featured some of Thomas Scholes’ art back in August, but that was before he could show off all the work he did for Halo 4 Now he can. It’s incredible. I mean, not only is there beautiful art here, but he even made gifs of some of it You can check out more of…

One Clear Way The Wii U Kicks Microsoft And Sony’s Ass

It’s hard work seeing many ways in which Wii U games can best those found on consoles from 2005-06, at least visually, but there’s one area the Wii U is trumping Microsoft and Sony’s machines: power consumption. Despite packing a complex tablet-like controller, the Wii U draws roughly half the power of its current-gen competitors,…

Samuel L. Jackson Wants In On The New Star Wars Movies

Sure, his character Mace Windu died a rather pathetic death in Episode III, but since when has that stopped a Star Wars character from returning to the big screen? Star Wars 7: Samuel L. Jackson Says “Hell, Yeah” to Returning as Mace Windu-Even as a One-Armed Ghost! [E!, via Boing Boing]

You Can Buy Your Own Halo Warthog For $28,000 (Or Nearest Offer)

In 2009, Briton Peter Cooper and some mates started helping out on the Halo fan-flick Operation Chastity. Their contribution was this replica Warthog vehicle, which while obviously not up the standards of a more professional effort, it’s still a pretty decent-looking attempt. Cooper sadly can’t afford to keep hold of the Warthog any longer, though,…

Game Boy Swimsuits? What a World We Live In.

Black Milk, an Australian label that walks the knife’s edge between nerdy and genuinely fashionable, has released an entire line of swimsuits based on… the Game Boy. While there’s no pricing, Black Milk’s other swimsuits run to between $90-$120 AUD, which is roughly the same in USD (the exchange rate is pretty crummy right now).…

At Least 1,408 People Are Playing Black Ops II Online on the Wii U Tonight

For four consecutive Mondays, we’ve counted the number of people who are playing Black Ops II on the Wii U. We’ve wanted to, however roughly, measure the uptake of online gaming on the Wii U, using one of the most popular online series around. Over those four Mondays, the combined number of Wii U owners…

The Most Serious Fight Over Cocoa I Have Ever Seen

We don’t mess around with cocoa. Its sweet, chocolatey warmth is nothing to trifle with. Friendships, in fact, suffer over cocoa dispute. Nine out of ten historical researchers suggest that cocoa dispute may even one day result in a fully-fledged war to gain control over the cocoa market. It’s a dangerous territory to walk into.…

This Real Fallout 3 Shotgun Will Make You Yearn For An Apocalyptic Washington

Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is continuing on his never-ending quest to bring video game equipment to life. And he’s doing one hell of a job. His latest job is this Terrible Shotgun from Fallout 3, which as you can see (in these pics by Dan Almasy) is about as far from terrible as something…