Hot Pants and Panda Heads: Welcome’s to China’s Mists of Pandaria Inferno

In World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, there’s a new race of panda people called Pandaren. Last week in Beijing, there was a flash mob of thirty ladies dressed as Pandaren, reports Xinhuanet. That apparently means hot pants and panda hats. Yes, this was a stunt to promote the expansion pack, with the…

Don’t Be Surprised by a Kingdom Hearts 2 HD Remake

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix announced a high definition remake of the first Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It’s called Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX. In the upcoming leaked issue of Famitsu, Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura was apparently asked whether or not there…

Level-5’s international American branch just launched a website with a spinning black box. Oh. Okay.

Dancing Prison Inmates Do Their Best Gangnam Style

The inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in The Philippines first captured the internet’s imagination a few years back by doing dance routines. There was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, and the Haruhi dance from the Haruhi Suzumiya anime. This time, they’re back, burning up YouTube with their take on “Gangnam Style”. There’s been criticism…

Chinese WoW Players Are Sick of Lies

Think you have it rough? Try being a World of Warcraft player in China. You have to deal with Western gamers who think all Chinese gamers are gold farmers as well as unfair stereotypes at home. And that’s not all of it! Chinese gamers are taking to micro blogging site Sina Weibo to vent about…

Guild Wars Comes Alive with Fancy Outfits

Guild Wars—especially Guild Wars 2—is beautiful. The world is lush and lovely. And the gear? The gear looks great. The lack of subscription fee might pull players in, but the gameplay and general pizazz keeps them around to save Tyria. And of the more dedicated players, some show their fandom by dressing up. That’s what…

Here’s What Indie PC Smash Terraria Looks Like On Console

As we know, Terraria, a game that on PC went from “huh a side-scrolling Minecraft” to “holy crap it’s sold over a million copies” at the speed of light, is coming to consoles Here’s what it looks like. So, yeah, exactly the same! Terraria Teaser Trailer [HD] [Machinima]

Turn Your Home Into a Russian Nightmare With Tetris Furniture

Tetris-inspired furniture may not be new, but in this case, it’s never looked better. Brazilian industrial designer Diego Silvério, along with his pal Helder Filipov, have come up with this surprisingly presentable concept for Tetris furniture that works throughout the house, from the living room to the bedroom. I’m not sure that kitchen one looks…

Alone With The Crunch: How a Video Game Pushed One Man To The Brink

The crunch: it’s a phenomenon most developers are familiar with. But what happens when you are deep in the crunch without a team to back you up? How does that change things? How do you survive? Dean Dodrill, the creator of Dust: An Elysian Tail, was only one man—how did he manage with little to…

If Fez’s Creator Made Portable Gaming Systems…

A while back, Fez developers Polytron released a shirt featuring a not-real gaming handheld called the Polytron Portable Pro. It’s now been upgraded to two newer, more contemporary ideas for a not-real handheld. Apparently inspired by Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 synthesizer+, but looking just as much like a Speak-and-Spell, I’d buy one in a heartbeat. No…

The Place Where Guild Wars and Prometheus Meet

Montana native Richard “Flaptraps” Anderson is an artist with a decade’s worth of experience in the fields of video games, motion pictures and advertising. Having spent eight years at Guild Wars developers NCSoft, he’s since moved on to work with the very talented people at Framestore, and recently helped out on the creative side on…

Fifteen Seconds of Empire Strikes Back, Turned Into an Old Video Game

Remember Star Wars Uncut? That brilliant project where artists all over the world could submit their own interpretations of fifteen seconds’ worth of Star Wars, then have it all cut into the one insane movie? Well it’s back. With Empire Strikes Back Uncut And just like last time, it looks like it’s going to feature…

PC Strategy Gets a Shot in the Asteroid With Blackspace

Upcoming indie PC title Blackspace is a strategy game. Sort of. There’s combat, and destruction, and you even build bases, but watch the video above and you’ll see it feels different You’re controlling a single unit, the “Lander”, making it appear more like RTS hybrid games like Airmech or Herzog Zwei than a straight-up strategy…

Website Tears the Hideous New PlayStation 3 to Pieces

The more I look at the new model of the PS3, the more I hate it. It looks like a budget console, only without the budget price, and goes against Sony’s recent good run of making improvements to hardware with later revisions. So it’s with delight that I settled in to watch tech site iFixit…

What Do You Know, Looking At Kittens Will Make You Better At Your Job

Every time I’m out of town, Tina takes over the off-topic to post some kitten-related thing or another. What do you know, those posts, and the kitten videos contained therein, actually make you more focused and better at your job As reported by Forbes, a new Japanese study has found that looking at cute baby…

Nintendo 3DS XL Coming Out in Black in Japan with Monster Hunter Bundle

On November 1, Nintendo is releasing a black color Nintendo 3DS XL for ¥18,900. The color will also be available as part of a limited edition Monster Hunter pack, Nintendo announced today via YouTube The bundle will include the same black Nintendo 3DS XL, but come with a download version of Monster Hunter Tri G…

Japan Gets Custom Mario, Animal Crossing Handhelds, And They’re Beautiful

Nintendo just announced two new versions of the 3DS XL handheld, both currently slated for release in Japan only. Which is deeply upsetting, because they’re amazing First up, this custom Animal Crossing 3DS XL, which will ship with the game when it’s released in Japan on November 8. Next, this New Super Mario Bros. 2…

You Can Explore Mass Effect‘s Citadel To Your Heart’s Content In This Painstaking Minecraft Build

Players re-create all kinds of amazing things in Minecraft, from the vistas of Game of Thrones to the bright world of Adventure Time King’s Landing really was impressive, but my heart belongs to this painstaking reconstruction of the Citadel Presidium, from the Mass Effect series. The eventual scale of it boggles the mind: the creator…

To Quick-Save Or Not To Quick-Save?

Everyone loves a good quick-save. You know, a one-button press that lets you save your progress mid-level in case you screw up. So fast, so easy, so reassuring! You’ve frozen a moment in time, and with the touch of a button, you can return to that moment whenever you’d like. In a lot of games,…

Serious Racism Allegations Levelled at Video Game Developer [Update]

San Francisco studio Kixeye is at the centre of some pretty serious allegations of institutional racism, after a person claiming to be an employee wrote a lengthy blog post [Update – since removed] outlining repeated acts of discrimination against he and other black colleagues. Writing as Qu33riousity, the apparent employee – who says he is…