Resident Evil 6 will be out in less than two months, and apparently, the developers at Capcom want to make sure you have all the information you need to jump right into the game short of actually handing out copies of the manual. This time, new information on in-game Skills and Skill Sets has been…
Artist and fellow Texan Kyle Fewell crossed Dark Souls with Studio Ghibli for this wonderful illustration for Fangamer Versus Attract Mode. The little details are really what make this piece so special, from the little Totoro to the makkuro kurosuke. Larger image below; be sure to also check out Kyle’s site. Its Dark Souls/Studio Ghibli…
One Piece. Naruto. Dragon Ball. These are just some of the iconic manga that have graced Shonen Jump. If you’ve made it in Shonen Jump, you’ve made it in Japanese manga. One young female manga artist wanted her work serialized in Jump. Instead, she allegedly ended up with sexual harassment. According to Japanese site Tantei…
Project Discovery, the new collaboration project between Sony and Kadokawa Games to create a new game from UGC (User Generated Content) is finally underway. With luck, this could be the sort of push the Vita needs to pick up some steam in Japan. According to details in this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Project Discovery will begin…
Japan’s Sanspo is reporting that a 39 year-old Yukihiko Sakata was arrested after repeatedly striking his 3 year-old daughter in the head and around the eyes with a plastic toy. “I was getting back for losing at a video game,” the father said in a sworn statement. The child needs to be hospitalized for a…
If you needed more convincing that teaser site is for The World Ends with You, check the background music.
Years before the Apple iPad tablet ever hit stores, similar style devices popped up in sci-fi movies, manga, and anime. The latest rediscovery of a similar device was recently spotted in the 1982 manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. In a post titled “Is Nausicaä Using an iPad?”, Japanese blog Kojima Piypiyo points…
Ubisoft just registered a whole bunch of domains for “Assassin’s Creed Initiate” and “Assassin’s Creed Initiates”.
There’s this notion that “kawaii” (可愛い) or “cute” rules Japan. That’s not entirely true. Everything isn’t simply cute—and kawaii isn’t the only game in town. There’s also gurokawaii (グロカワイイ). This is the world of the grotesque and sadistic filtered through kawaii. This is the world of Momoka Kinoshita. The concept of gurokawaii has been increasingly…
While the Mario Brothers did make an official appearance on an Atari console, that was the original Mario Bros. arcade game, not a Super Mario Bros. platformer. So this footage you see up top, as good as it looks, isn’t from a real game. It’s a demo made by Atari Age forum member Sprybug, showing…
Indie developer Alex Rozgo is working on Rawbots, a game that’s all about designing and building robots then having them…do stuff. Drawing on inspiration from stuff like LEGO and Spore, the idea is that you design, program and build your own robot then mess around with it in a virtual sandbox. So you can shoot…
Zombie survival mod DayZ takes place in the nation of Chernarus, which sounds entirely made-up, but it’s only mostly made up. The geography of the map is actually lifted from a real-world location, around Povrly, in the north of the Czech Republic. Sure, there’s no ocean in the Czech Republic (only ArmA/DayZ devs Bohemia Interactive),…
Pop Culture will next year be releasing this Sagat statue, which stands an enormous 21″ tall and will set you back $365. For a statue that damn big, believe it or not $365 is a decent price! Painted by hand, and with real fabric not just for his shorts but his arm guard…wrap…things, you can…
It’s easy to forget now, but back in the 1990s, many video games had the same price on the sticker they do today, which when you account for inflation reminds you that they were super expensive But just why did games cost so much? This infographic from a 1995 issue of British magazine Super Play…
“Saaaayyyyy-gggaaahhhhh” and Lucasarts’ efforts might be the most memorable, but a ton of console games of the 1990’s had great little intro screens, not for the games themselves, but for the publishers releasing them. Sometimes they were clever, sometimes they were funny and sometimes, in the case of EA, they’ve barely changed at all. Console…
The Bayeux Tapestry might be a big deal for the French and English, but come on. It’s old, the people look rubbish and it’s not even a real tapestry! It’s embroidery, just like this epic image of all 151 original Pokémon, and if I had to choose between which one I’d hang on my wall,…
We featured the work of LEGO builder ORRANGE back in 2009, with his brilliant take on Half-Life, but a recent playthrough of the game has got him returning to the universe to take more pictures. So thanks, Half-Life 2. And thanks ORRANGE, for reminding us all that a world in which these sets and minifigs…
Chinese concept artist Yun Ling works at Volta, the same design studio that employs Ruan Jia, an artist we featured here last week Having previously worked for Electronic Arts, he’s got a great eye for both fantasy and sci-fi pieces, as you’ll see in the gallery below. You can see more of Ling’s work at…
I thought she was just a comic book character. Or, at best, there was that one lady who played her in a movie. But no, here, before my eyes, is Ramona Flowers, in the flesh, taking her hammer out for a walk, perhaps to buy some milk, or the morning paper. Ramona Flowers [Perspective is…
Final Fantasy Dimensions, a formerly Japan-only mobile entry in the series, will be out on iOS on August 31
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