White Guys Creeping Out Asian Women on Dating Sites

The dating scene can be tough. It can also be awkward. And creepy. And even racist. A Tumblr site called Creepy White Guys is a collection of unsettling messages Asian women have been receiving on dating sites like OKCupid. Messages like: Docile? Submissive? Bwah? So clever! No. Actually. I hadn’t. Good thing you did! WHAT.…

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate‘s online play is region locked, it seems

Why the Sequel to Rival Schools is my Favorite Fighting Game Ever

Growing up, I had two game systems: a barely working Atari 2600 (which lived largely forgotten in our guestroom closet) and an original NES. These lasted me until 1997 when I saved up and bought a Super Nintendo—over a year after the release of both the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64. So, during my childhood,…

A Penis-Powered Controller That Looks Familiar

Upcoming erotic game Custom Maid 3D will be bundled with a very special controller. It looks like the PS Move, but with a few key differences—one of which is you put dicks in it. Dubbed Ju-C Air, the peripheral is a wireless masturbation toy that will respond and react in real time to your stroke…

Years Later, This Game Is Still a Love Letter to Berserk Fans

Berserk is a franchise (in)famous for two reasons: compelling storytelling and ultraviolence. A dark fantasy, Berserk has its origins in manga but has been adapted into an anime TV series, three anime movies (the third of which was released late last week), and two video games. The first, Sword of the Berserk: Guts Rage, was…

In Japan, This Might Be the Nerdiest Way To Fight Crime

In fall 2011, the Japanese city of Matsudo launched the first in a series of anime style posters, designed to appeal to young people and help stop crime. Since then, the character, who is named “Aya Matsumiya,” has appeared in several poster campaigns to help fight crime. There’s even a cosplayer who dresses as the…

This Pokémon X/Y Fake Amuses Japan, At Least

Blurry Japanese magazine scans are often a source of new info about eagerly anticipated games. Games like Pokémon X/Y. That is, unless the scans are totally fake. Earlier this month, what’s supposedly (apparently?) a “leaked” image from a Japanese magazine popped up on YouTube. To date, the video has been viewed over 50,000 times, and…

The Game Tank Is An Isolation Chamber For Video Games

In a bid to remove any and all distractions from your gaming, these budding engineers have come up with the Game Tank, a (relatively) small pod that cuts you off from the outside world and leaves you with nothing to focus on but the screen and controls. Right now they’ve built a single prototype unit,…

What Real Cities Would Look Like To God, If God Was Playing SimCity

IBM published this video last year, for a networking tool, not a video game. But I can’t stop watching it, as statistics and icons pop up all over real-world cities, and thinking, boy, as good as the next SimCity looks, I really hope in ten years I can play a game that looks like this

Here’s 17 Minutes Of Wii U Owners Freaking Out About Rayman Going Multiplatform

There are some who would say the decision to bring former Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends to other platforms was a smart business decision. There are other, slightly crazier people—like those in this video—who would use the word betrayal This is 17 minutes of user comments left on Rayman’s Miiverse page, showing that, well, fans…

Gabe Newell’s Knife Collection Is Terrifyingly Impressive

Noted video game composer Sam Hulick (Mass Effect) tweeted this image earlier this evening, having previously “been in his office”, asking “You want a pic of Gabe Newell’s knife collection?” Uh, yeah Try as I might, I can’t see a crowbar… Sam Hulick [Twitter]

Please, Help, I’m Relapsing And Posting More Guild Wars 2 Art

You’d think that the game being out, and out for a while now, would have stopped me lusting after the concept art behind Guild Wars 2, but nope. Not gonna happen. Not when creative director Daniel Dociu is posting fresh pieces. The artist, who you may recognise as the face of Father Grigory in Half-Life…

We Are Going To Play As The Grim Reaper. And Spread The Bubonic Plague.

Don’t get weirded out by this, but I have a bit of a thing for the ol’ black death. Its various outbreaks are some the most fascinating events in centuries, an apocalypse tale straight from the history books. It’s the best part of one of the best movies ever made. Hell, one of my favourite…

The Last Of Us Has A Series, And It Looks Pretty Good

It’s not even out yet, but Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is inspiring enough love from fans that a very slick-looking web series is about to kick off. Set in the same post-apocalyptic world as the game, it’s called What Remains, and regardless of how the acting or story turns out, boy, they’re using…

Activision Is “Somewhat Disappointed” With The Launch Of The Wii U

It seems that Activision, the biggest video game publisher in the world, wasn’t exactly thrilled with the Wii U’s launch. Why? Forget Call of Duty’s performance, it’s the console’s potential for Skylanders that has Bobby Kotick and co. worried. During the company’s latest earnings call, Kotick was asked about the future of the money-printing Skylanders…

The (Fake) Mass Effect Characters Of The Future Are An Amazing Sight

There’s currently a competition running over on CGHub, a big community of artists who (mostly) work in the entertainment industry. It’s to design a new Mass Effect character. Some of the entries are impressive, some especially so, but there are others which will absolutely blow your socks off The rules are simple: “create a character…

Cut the Rope‘s Latest Free Update is Magic

Available now in the iOS and Android versions of ZeptoLab’s candy-munching puzzle game, the Lantern Box adds 25 levels of teleporting magic to Cut the Rope in celebration of the Chinese New Year. Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Get Cut the Rope for iPad, iPhone, Android phone and Android tablet by clicking…

Watch The DICE Awards Live, Right Here [Update: Winners Announced]

The annual DICE convention brings a bunch of big-deal thinkers and video-game creators to Vegas to engage in high-minded talk about creativity and technology and innovation. There’s also lots of free food, or so I hear. There’s ALSO an awards ceremony, since events like this tend to have an awards ceremony. It’s happening tonight, actually,…

Life For A Grand Theft Auto Call Girl Kind Of Sucks

Nobody respects the sex workers in Grand Theft Auto, man. To most players they’re just an ongoing joke about what you really do in the GTA games (blow shit up and kill hookers, basically). Ever think about what it’s like for the call girl to have a psychopath John running around, though? Today, Something Awful’s…

Mad Men‘s Biggest Dork Guest Stars On You Don’t Know Jack

Part of the fun of the very fun Facebook-anchored version of You Don’t Know Jack is that because Jellyvision is constantly adding new questions and content, they can stay current. It also means, apparently, that they can have guest stars. Today, the company announced that they’ll be adding a new “Monthly Special Guest” episode featuring…