Black Ops II has grossed a billion dollars in 15 days, says Activision, one faster than Modern Warfare 3. What decline?

How Nintendo’s Newest Game Is Like Inception

Inception features dreams that are in dreams. Nintendo’s newest Wario title, Game & Wario, is kind of like that, too. Game & Wario is a collection of 16 mini games, but not a Wario Ware micro game collection that features an onslaught of bit-sized games that last seconds. Fans of the series are well aware…

Zynga Launches CoasterVille, Its Most Expressive Social Game Yet

From the Zynga studio that brought you the company’s most unique game to date, Empires & Allies, comes a theme park management game that offers players unparalleled freedom to create their happiest place on Earth. Build your own farm. Build your own city. Build your own castle. Zynga’s large stable of social games have promised…

These Potato Chips Are Designed for Lovers

This month, Japanese snack maker Koikeya is releasing potato chips that have been designed with couples in mind. The chips are heart shaped and come in two flavors: Lemon Pepper and Sugar Butter. How romantic. The Lemon Pepper chips have a “top hat” on them, so the presumption is that they are aimed at either…

Nintendo’s Panorama View app will be out next spring in Japan. According to Nintendo, the app is free.

Nintendo Is Bringing Google Street View to the Wii U

Tonight, Nintendo showed off how Google Street View will work on the Wii U. It seems like it will work pretty well, with the GamePad able to display Street View as well as maps. Between next January and March in Japan, Nintendo is offering Google Street View as a free download on the eShop. After…

Pikmin 3 on the Wii U Looks Glorious. It’ll Be Out Next Spring in Japan.

Pikmin is coming to the Wii U, and from the footage Nintendo showed today, the game is coming along very well. The HD graphics are expected to bring Pikmin to life like never before. Please be aware that while the game is HD, these internet screengrabs are not! Nintendo Direct 2012.12.5 [Ustream]

How You Can Play Game & Wario Just By Staring at the TV

Nintendo unveiled its latest party game, Game & Wario. Like other Game & Wario games, it only needs one controller. Five players can play, but four of them don’t need controllers. At all. Just good eyes. The mini-game is called “Fruits”. In it, the player with the GamePad is a thief, and picks up the…

Game & Wario Is Nintendo’s Newest Party Game

Coming in early 2013, Game & Wario is the latest entry in Nintendo’s series of Wario party games. Outfitted with 16 games, Game & Wario can support up to five players and needs only one GamePad. Nintendo Direct 2012.12.5 [Ustream]

Why Japanese Fans Are Still Nerd Raging about The Avengers

For years, anime fans have been complaining about crap dubs. It’s either the result of amateurs or celebrities who simply don’t fit the role. Now it’s Japan’s turn to nerd rage. “It’s just as everyone says, the dubbing is horrid,” wrote one individual on Amazon Japan. The Avengers didn’t exactly have a smooth rollout in…

Uh Oh, PlayStation Games Failed to Hit the Million Award in Japan

Sales figures are typically pretty boring! Except for when, they’re interesting. And by interesting, I mean telling. Recently, Sony held the PlayStation Awards in Japan. This is a publicity stunt—and usually a dull one at that—in which Sony gives awards to those domestic studios which sell a certain number of units, such as over a…

The 3DS got a firmware update to improve “overall system stability”, plus minor adjustments to improve the experience.

One Way for Cats To Be Cuter: Make Them Smaller

A Japanese model builder showed off this set of 1/35 scale cats on FG Site. If you build models in that scale, you might be familiar with 1/35 animals that can populate, for example, World War II backdrops, etc. Made from metal, these were sculpted by a pro model maker named Solo and do a…

You Won’t Believe How Dry Nintendo’s January Is

Last month and this month, Nintendo is busy launching the Wii U. And next month? It’s busy not releasing games in Japan. The company’s January schedule, which was recently updated on December 3, is shockingly empty. Here, have a look for yourself: Yikes! That’s pretty freakin’ dry! At the very, very bottom, there’s one Wii…

Elegant Princess Leia Cosplay for a More Civilized Age

It doesn’t matter if you saw the original Star Wars movies when they first hit theaters or caught them much later. Star Wars has been capturing the minds of folks for generations, thanks in big part to memorable characters like Princess Leia. Tough, no nonsense Leia is iconic. And so are the outfits she’s donned,…

The Toughest Transformers to Actually Transform

Every day, I look at the Transformers on my toy shelf, and I think two things. First, I’m glad to be in possession of so many amazing toys. Secondly, I’m glad many of them are just sitting there, and don’t actually have to be transformed. Because transforming some of these things can be murder This…

Cat Cosplay is the New Human Cosplay

I don’t know how they got this cat to sit still long enough to get the costume on, let alone how many scratches and hisses they took as a result, but it doesn’t matter. For their heroics, we get to see a cat dressed as…a catbus My Cat is a Bus [sweet ipomoea, via neatorama]

Halo 4 is a Lot of Things, But Beautiful? Sure, Why Not

A.J. Trahan is an artist we’ve featured here before, at least partially, for his work on Epic Mickey. But the stuff we’re going to look at today is a little grander in scale. Trahan was one of the 117,342 artists who worked on Halo 4, but in addition to his contributions to Microsoft’s latest blockbuster,…

What a Hylian Shield Looks Like in the Real World

Taking the fragile wooden medium of many of the series’ crappy first shields and mixing it with the design of later, badass Hylian shields, Brazilian craftsman Paulo Vinícius D. Horstma has made this beautiful piece of replica Zelda gear. I don’t use the term “craftsman” lightly; Horstma has done some incredible work here, with many…

Dishonored’s Star Can Do Everything (Except Pour a Beer)

Corvo, the star of Dishonored, is a deft man with a blade. He can leap, and sneak, like a cat. Dude even has magic powers. You’d think, then, he could do anything and everything, but no. This clip, showing him trying to pour a pint, is heart-breaking. Won’t someone just pour it for him? Corvo…