Mass Effect 3‘s Omega DLC will be out on Nov. 27, will be “double”-sized and cost $15, according to a Eurogamer report

New iPhone Game About Foxconn Draws Attention to Worker Suicides

In a Permanent Save State is not meant to be particularly fun. It’s a serious game, by artist Benjamin Poynter, following the imagined stories of Foxconn employees who committed suicide The conditions for workers at the Chinese factories where iPhones, iPads, and nearly all gaming consoles are made continue to stay in the headlines, with…

Report: Blizzard Considered Putting Diablo On Game Boy

Blizzard considered making a game called Diablo Junior, ShackNews reports. Not to be confused with the Whopper Junior. Or Carl’s Jr. According to David Craddock, an author who is writing a book about Diablo creator Blizzard North, the team considered bringing Diablo to the Game Boy after the release of Diablo II “Following Diablo II‘s…

Ubisoft’s huge GoG catalogue is 60% off this weekend. There’s bound to be something in there for pretty much everyone.

Sumioni and Razor Salvation Enter the Tegra Zone

The quad-core Tegra 3 chip gets a little more love this morning with the addition of Acquire’s demon-painting action game Sumioni and turret shooter Razor Salvation from Blowfish. When last I played Sumioni is was on the PlayStation Vita, and the gesture-based ink demon magic should translate quite nicely to Tegra 3-powered Android devices. Hell,…

Guillermo Del Toro and Grant Morrison Announce Their New Comics in Battling Accents

Yesterday at New York Comic-Con, one of comics’ best writers and a true movie-making visionary told the world what their new comic-book series were about. Too bad no one could understand them. Just kidding! Every word from Grant Morrison and Guillermo Del Toro was perfectly intelligible. Exciting, even! During a press conference held at the…

It appears that Eastern European copies of Dishonored are restricted in several ways. Buyer beware.

Maybe an HD Zelda Game Could Look Like This?

Despite the depth-of-field effects, this isn’t a statue. It’s a 3D model of Link, done by games artist Chris Brincat It is now also near the very top of my wish-list as to what an HD Zelda game should look like on the Wii U. Though ideally such a game would ditch the fairy. Link…

Here’s Where Gangnam Style Didn’t Hit It Big

A pop sensation. Over four hundred million YouTube views. Number one on the charts in multiple countries. PSY and his tune “Gangnam Style” are a global sensation. But are they? There’s at least one country where the tune never really caught on: Japan. Online in Japan, stories have appeared, wondering why the country isn’t into…

After stating that Mario Wii U was “full 1080p HD”, Nintendo now says it’s just “high definition”.

Behind the Scenes of the Live-Action Ace Attorney Movie

When the Ace Attorney live-action movie was released back in February in Japan, I called it the best video game movie ever made. When it came out on Blu-ray in August, I watched it a few times, reaffirmed that it was an excellent movie, and gave it a prominent place on my video shelf. Last…

DJMax Technika Tune is a Music Game Tailor-Made For the Vita

Last generation’s PSP was a bastion of great music games with titles like Lumines and Project Diva—in addition to re-releases of classics like PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man. However, one music series has been often overlooked, despite having some of the best music games around: DJMax. Why has it been snubbed? Probably because of…

Famed for Masturbation Toys, Tenga Has a Different Product for Japanese Arcades

While Tenga made its name with its self-pleasuring aids, it’s bringing something slightly different to game centers: a pillow that, um, looks like one of its self-pleasuring aids. This 25cm “Tenga Throat Cup” cushion is dubbed as “big size” and large enough for you to stick your hand in and rest your head on. Just…

Watch As Japan’s Biggest Virtual Idol Takes Taiwan By Storm

Proving that she is an international sensation, virtual idol Hatsune Miku performed her first live show in Taiwan to sold-out crowds less than a week ago. This was part of a tour celebrating her fifth birthday that also visited Hong Kong for the first time the week before. But the most interesting thing about this…

Finally! A Cooking School for Japanese Nerds

Tokyo’s Akihabara is soon getting a geeked out cooking school. Dubbed Kitchen A La Mode, it’s a moé style cooking class, aimed at otaku. “While I’m an otaku, I like cooking,” Kitchen A La Mode’s manager told Japanese site Akiba Blog. “Even if there are otaku who cook, there are those who do not cook…

No Sensible Person Would Ever Do This

Boy, this is depressing: a 3DO and a Dreamcast box with Mr. Sega on it chucked out along with pots, pans, an old rice cooker, plastic bottles, umbrellas, and various other crap. With cords coming out of the Dreamcast box, it’s safe to assume there is a console in it. “I discovered this scene the…

Japan is making a live-action Gatchaman movie.

Nothing Says Windows 8 Quite Like Anime Schoolgirls

Microsoft and anime girls are not strangers in Japan. In fact, you could say that Microsoft and Japanese anime girls are a thing. And not a new thing at that! For Windows 7, Microsoft had an OS character—or OS-tan, as they’re called. OS-tans are anime personifications of operating systems that are created online by fans.…

Hollywood, Let’s Fix This Small Mistake in The Wolverine Movie

Hollywood movies usually get Japan wrong. There are exceptions, sure, but generally speaking, they fail miserably. It’s either hiring non-Japanese actors to play Japanese characters or doing a bad job of recreating the country. The Wolverine, which takes its titular hero to Japan, seems to be doing a solid job of avoiding those pratfalls. There…

In Preserving Old Arcade Cabinets, This Man is Doing God’s Work

Richie Knucklez is an arcade gaming legend. Not only is he the world record-holder in Space Invaders, but he also runs a fantastic business that locates, repairs and restores old arcade cabinets. He does good work, important work, so it’s only fitting that someone has gone and shot a documentary about him. The King of…