The Wii U isn’t getting Mass Effect 3‘s forthcoming Omega DLC.

One Game Account, Two Gamers

In China, video game property is starting to become legal property. What that means is, player accounts and virtual assets are starting to become real business and this change in the law is starting to affect some players in a negative way. Earlier this year, Wang, 24, purchased a gaming account from a friend of…

Few Anime Get as Pretentious as This

When the latest Neon Genesis Evangelion flick hit theaters this weekend in Japan, the next Evangelion film was revealed. And at first look, its title appears annoyingly pretentious. It is. But it’s also interesting. The teaser webpage this appears on has the world “final” in the URL. The text says, “Next time, a new Evangelion…

Sega is teasing its latest, unannounced game with this site. Full reveal later in the week.

When Balloon Art Goes Very Wrong and Very Phallic

The Tetsuwan Dash is a long running Japanese series that features boy band (and former Xbox 360 spokesmen) Tokio. On the show, the group tries to pull off a variety of feats, like building a foam house or seeing who can last longest on the least amount of money—stuff like that. This weekend’s show had…

How Does Mercedes Benz Promote Cars in Japan? Why with Anime, That’s How.

To help launch the all new A-Class in Japan, Mercedes Benz is releasing an animated short in which the car chases after a noodle truck. One of the country’s biggest studios, Production I. G, carries out the animation duties, while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame does the character designs. Miyuki Sawashiro lends her…

Japan’s Pervert Superhero Might Be Getting His Own Movie

This weekend, when folks settled into dark theaters across Japan to watch the new Evangelion anime, they were, as with most movies, bombarded with previews. Sandwiched betweem the ten or so trailers, was a short, 15-second clip that probably made the audience’s collective mouth drop. Most people probably didn’t know what the hell they were…

What Do Crummy Gamers Have in Common? The Japanese Internet Discusses.

Some gamers are very good at video games. Some are just awful. And that’s okay! Still, there must be common traits of crummy gamers, and that’s what a recent thread of Japan’s largest bulletin board, 2ch, tried to pin down. The name of the thread was “Common Traits of Zero Gaming Aptitude”, and the forum…

The Most Delicious JRPG Enemy There Ever Was

In Japan, Morinaga Milk Caramel has delighted sweet tooths for over a hundred years. Dragon Quest has delighted gamers for decades. And now, both come together in this yummy fan creation. Twitter user Cencho recreated DQ enemy Golem using the soft candy. Below is an image after the Golem has been defeated—and devoured. Since Golem…

Buy Your Own Floating Portal Core (That Actually Floats)

Now that the world has moved on from making giant sharks float around by the magic of fancy air, we can move onto more interesting things like Portal personality cores. Thinkgeek are selling two variants of the item you see above, Wheatley or Space, for $20 each. Sadly, they’re not remote-controlled. They’re basically glorified balloons.…

A Young Mother Battles, Adorably, Against Video Game Addiction

GLUED is a short film released earlier this year by a team of students at Bezalel Academy of the Arts. It’s all about the problems a mother faces trying to deal with her young son, who is so addicted to video games it’s insane. The film, which took ten months to create, was the first…

Play the Halo Theme Song And This Impressive Master Chief Stained-Glass Window is Even Cooler

Seventy hours. Two hundred pieces of glass. 250 feet of copper. An estimated one million colours. That’s the work that went into this Halo stained-glass window, and it was totally worth it. Not sure if the medium was intentional given the religious overtones of the series’ theme song, but that’s exactly why this works. 70…

Comparing Batman: Arkham City on Wii U, Xbox 360 & PS3

Seeing as many of the third-party launch games on Wii U are already out on the PS3 and/or 360, those games are going to have to do one of two things. Or maybe even both of them. Those games are going to need to make real good use of the Wii U controller, and they’re…

Here’s Some Real Screenshots & Video From Assassin’s Creed III on PC. Is it Worth the Wait?

I’m playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on PC right now, actually (as a refresher), and even a year on I’m shocked by how much better it looks than the console versions. Even though I shouldn’t be. The cleaner models are nice, sure, but it’s the draw distance that really sets the PC version apart. So I’ve…

When Skyrim Meets Furries, Emotions Are Mixed

I’m not a fan of furries. I just… the concept itself doesn’t concern me. It’s more the execution. All those big eyes, and weird proportions. Too weird. It’s slightly less weird, though, when you combine it with some awesome Skyrim armour. Then look at it in a gallery where it’s joined by Mega Man, Link,…

Why Didn’t You Buy a Wii U?

Did you get a Wii U over the weekend? Good for you! You go enjoy that. This question is for those, like me, who did not. I’m curious as to why you didn’t go line up and get one at launch. Are you waiting for more games? Better games? A price-drop? Different colours? Or have…

What The Wii U Looks Like Naked

PC Perspective, the same guys who tore a couple of Wii U consoles up on launch night, did so while taking some very nice pictures at the same time. So if you’re sick of all these glossy press shots showing the outside of the Wii U, here are some glossy shots (and video) showing what…

This Might Be The Most Incredible Suit Of Halo Armour Ever Created

This suit. Wow. When you try and create a replica of Kat’s suit of armour from Halo: Reach, you have some choices to make. One is to half arse it, another is to give up. Another is to spend 10 months creating the most incredible suit of armour we’ve ever seen. LilTyrant from the 405th…

Don’t Lose/Break Your Wii U, Because Your Nintendo Network Account is Tied to it

In the past six years I’ve been through four Xbox 360 consoles and three PlayStation 3s. Which has been a pain, but each and every time I’ve been able to simply transfer my existing system account to the new console through the magic of the internet. You’d think that would be something Nintendo could manage…

Some Wii U Features Load Fast. Others Do Not.

The Wii U’s best trick is its lightning fast swap of the graphics on your TV and the graphics on the Wii U GamePad. The Wii U’s worst trick is the absurdly slow loading time users have to sit through when accessing the machine’s system menu or any of the applications in it. I shot…