After an extended period of iOS exclusivity, Square Enix’s mobile RPG Chaos Rings is now available for Android devices

Human Hands Can Actually Touch This Mass Effect 2 Sniper Rifle

Prop builder Zander Brandt specialises in turning video game guns into real-world playthings. Wonderful playthings. And his latest work is no exception. It’s an M-97 Viper sniper rifle from Mass Effect 2, and what I like about it—like most of Zander’s work—is how well-crafted it is. He builds practically the entire thing out of wood,…

You’re One…Ugly Predator Pumpkin (Amazing, Too)

I was planning on getting a pumpkin, carving out a face. Maybe something fancy, I thought. Show what I can do, you know? Then I saw this, and now I think, hey, why bother? It wins every pumpkin carving contest until the end of time. This is the mind meltingly wonderful work of the wizards…

Thank Two Lovely Programmers for the HD Kingdom Hearts Remix

In the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura apparently talked up the forthcoming HD Kingdom Hearts collection, Kingdom Hearts: HD 1.5 ReMIX. There are some interesting details. According to Nomura, Square Enix decided to do the HD version of Kingdom Hearts prior to the HD version of Final Fantasy X (which seems to…

Tetsuya Nomura Wants You To Wait a Little Longer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII Info

Didn’t see Final Fantasy Versus XIII at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, did we? Nope! Well, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura is here to say the game is still being worked on. “We’re continuing work on Versus,” Nomura apparently said in an upcoming issue of Famitsu “Because all staff is hard at work on the game,”…

Will You Be Friends with Utada Hikaru? She Wants To Play Animal Crossing.

By day, Utada Hikaru is one of Japan’s biggest popstars. By night, she is, too. But recently, she’s been taking time off from her music career. In her downtime, she’s probably focusing on her other career: Kickass Nintendo gamer. And the next game Utada has in her sights is Animal Crossing: Jump Out on the…

GoG launches a pay-what-you-want Divinity series bundle with an advertised value of $32.

White Dudes and Asian Ladies Are a Thing in Television Commercials, It Seems!

A white dude brings his Asian-American girlfriend to a poker party. A white dude hits the town with his Asian girlfriend. A white solider talks to his pregnant Asian wife as she undergoes a sonogram. This white dude-Asian lady combo seems to be a thing of late in Western advertising—a familiar ad trope, if you…

When Mother Nature Lashes Out at Nerdy Cars

Recently, a typhoon rampaged through Japan, leaving destruction in its wake. Destruction like this in Naha City, Okinawa: a nerd mobile flipped on its roof. That looks to be a Suzuki Swift—but it’s hard to tell. I’ve never seen one upside down and covered with Clannad stickers. A first! 台風１７号：北部で４２００世帯に避難勧告 [沖縄タイムス] Kotaku East is your…

Final Fantasy XIV Wants To Be the Standard for MMORPG Console Gaming

Square Enix is busy readying the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV. The Tokyo-based game company isn’t just working on making sure the PS3 version is up to snuff, but it’s also aiming for it to become the standard for MMORPGs on home consoles. In the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Square Enix seems to have…

In Taiwan, There Are Pole-Dancing Strippers…for the Dead

“This is hard work but I need to make a living,” 18-year-old En En told AP. She earned the equivalent of US$100, but picked up some tips after letting men cop a feel. En En wasn’t just pole dancing at a strip club. She was dancing to appease the dead at a religious ceremony in…

In the latest issue of Famitsu, Shuhei Yoshida apparently said that there are lots of unannounced PS Vita titles. Noted!

What Bayonetta Loves More than the Wii U. For Instance, She Loves Her Fancy Outfit.

Bayonetta is one of the most iconic, memorable characters to appear this console generation. Whether it’s her glasses or her bodysuit, she’s iconic! No wonder cosplayers love dressing up as her. And since her debut in 2009, that’s exactly what cosplayers have done: Bayonetta often shows up on game and geek events throughout Japan, with…

Hey Readers! There’s a new indie Story Bundle as well as a Humble eBook Bundle. Both support charity and are DRM free.

This Poor Old Xbox Has Seen Better Days

Part of a nice gallery of Instagram photos over on Attract Mode, this pic shows one of two possible uses for an old Xbox machine in 2012. The other being, of course, an Xbox Media Centre. But that’s way less fun. A PICTURE OF FLAT SHADED POLYGONS, ON A FUZZY ARCADE MONITOR, WITH AN IPHONE…

This Halloween, C-3PO and R2-D2 Are Dressing up as Pokémon (or Mario)

Artist Andrea Gerstmann has some ideas for Star Wars‘ most famous droids. In particular, what they can wear this Halloween. It’s a little cosplayception, what with them being characters within characters, but I like it. I can hear them arguing over them already. “What makes you think there are Princesses over there?” “Beep Beep” etc…

Last One to the Giant Desert Truck Gas Station is a Rotten Egg

Jan Urschel is a concept artist currently employed at Lucasarts’ Singapore studio, where he’s working on 1313, the first big Star Wars game in years that isn’t set before the classic trilogy. Or, at least, too far before it. While you won’t find any art from that game here – it’s still under lock and…

The Most Terrifying Video Game Focus-Testing Imaginable

Given how they can often result in fence-sitting games that specialise in AAA blandness, gamers are right to be wary of focus testing groups. These girls, though, should have been wary for a very different reason. “I’m watching you, girls”. So creepy

This Guy Built Traffic Lights to Tell Him When His Pals Were on Xbox Live

Obviously feeling that the Xbox 360’s notification system wasn’t good enough, Kiwi Andrew F. went and built himself something a little more elaborate: this set of traffic lights. Basically an Arduino hooked up to the internet, it pings Microsoft’s servers every five minutes to see if Andrew’s friends are online. If nobody is online, the…

Ninja Gaiden Cosplay to Slice Your Eyeballs Wide Open

Snapped at DragonCon 2012 by Elysiam Entertainment, this is a human looking as close to Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa as a human could ever possible look. Amazing. ZomG Dragoncon 2012 Friday! [Elysiam Entertainment, via Cosplay Blog]