Most Reviewers Agree You Should Avoid Aliens: Colonial Marines Like The Plague

Not that they all agree, oh no. To call Aliens: Colonial Marines divisive would be an understatement. Reactions have ranged from disgust and feelings of betrayal, to indifference, and sometimes even awe and affection. A lot of them think that there’s more polish to Colonial Marines’ multiplayer than its singleplayer, but how does that affect…

Latest Dead or Alive 5 Patch Brings Enhanced Boob Control

Just because Team Ninja, the developers behind Dead or Alive, are all out of fucks to give about releasing hyper-sexualized games, that doesn’t mean they’re not updating Dead or Alive 5. The latest update sneaks in, wait for it, a breast jiggling Easter Egg. Shocking! Spotted by GameFAQS, patch 1.03A for the PS3 version gives…

L-l-look at you, hacker. System Shock 2 is finally coming to GOG (countdown at the top!). [via RPS] UPDATE: It’s out!

The Craziest Testosterone-Filled Japanese Video Game Characters

When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn’t the only thing they’re good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don’t even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them.…

Ys and The Legend of the Heroes developer Falcom is opening a new smartphone and tablets studio.

Asians Taking a Test To Tell Asians Apart

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.…

Yes, The PlayStation’s Startup Music Is Still Orgasmic

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…

Two Dudes Making a Little Girl Wait To Play an Arcade Game That’s… for Little Girls

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…

Blame Japan’s Perverted Superhero for This Panty Insanity

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…

Lineage Cosplay Needs Fancy Outfits and Giant Swords

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…

America’s Newest Jet Fighter Targets Bad Guys Like A Video Game

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…

This Scottish Far Cry 3 Video Review Is The Funniest Thing Ever (If You Can Understand It)

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…

‘Til Death Do You (And Your Action Figures) Part

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…

Dead Space Monsters Aren’t So Scary When They’re Sitting On Your Coffee Table

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,…

Tiny Lord Of The Rings Cosplay Is Very, Very Precious

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…

Insane Rider Brings Trials’ Bike-Riding Madness To Life

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…

The New Aliens Game Feels Like A Bad Theme Park Ride. Here’s An Awesome Aliens Theme Park Ride.

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…

I Would Play The C64 Version Of The Walking Dead Until The End Of Days

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.…

Why The Empire’s Most “Spectacular Military Fiasco” Was The Battle Of Hoth

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…

Maybe Aliens: Colonial Marines Would Have Been Better As A Musical

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,…