When people think of Japanese fighting games, they think of Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and BlazBlue. But would it surprise you to know that one of Japan’s most popular fighting game series hasn’t made it out of Japan since the GameCube era? The Mobile Suit Gundam VS series of games can be found…
Information for three new characters for upcoming PS3 gameAtelier Ayesha ~Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk~ has been released. Let’s have a look. The teal haired girl is Odileia, an android, or an automata, that was built from alchemy. She is the librarian of the “No. 2 Library,” and aids Ayesha by granting her access…
It’s a browser game. Yeah. But it’s still a new Valkyria Chronicles game….just one for your browser. Make that, a virtual card-based Valkyria Chronicles game for your browser. It’s called Valkyria Chronicles Duel. You can watch the game’s trailer above. Remember when people used to complain about Sega making Valkyria games for portables instead of…
When you finish playing with your Steve Jobs cards, you can snuggle up in your iPhone sheets and drift off to sleep, dreaming of apps and pretty Apple hardware. Sadly, there’s not much info about this three-piece bedding set, other than it’s apparently from China and it doesn’t need OS updates. iPhone床上四件套 你买了吗 [Baidu via…
Blade & Soul is out this year in South Korea on PC, and it’s eventually making its way to consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360). The good news is that it should be getting a Western release, too. The MMORPG’s open beta kicks off this week in South Korea. To mark that event, here’s Blade &…
No stranger to re-releasing its games—especially Okami—Capcom was rumored to be working on an HD remastering of the game for the PS3. It’s not entirely implausible, and it actually makes sense. Thing is, the Japanese site that originally posted the rumor—Game Jouhou—quickly updated its post, stating that, well, the rumor’s source wasn’t clear and then…
It was unlike anything the villagers had ever seen. The young news reporter who arrived on the scene was quick to point out that the “mysterious mushroom” felt “meaty”. Meaty, sure, but that ain’t no mushroom. On June 17, Chinese investigative news program Xi’an Up Close reported about a “mysterious mushroom” discovered in the rural…
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You rarely get to choose your nickname in life. Just ask Sony Worldwide Studios vice president Scott Rohde. His nickname isn’t, as you’d maybe guess, “Scholar”. Or “Rohde Warrior”. Or “Scottie”. Or, as Australians would assume, “Rohdesy”. It’s “the Shit Umbrella”. “It’s my job to create a giant umbrella and protect the studios from that…
In recognition of just how damn great they were, BioWare and EA have struck a deal that’s transformed Indonesian artist machine56’s Mass Effect t-shirt designs into actual, official merchandise. Three of his Cerberus-inspired designs are now available on the company’s store, along with a bunch of other stuff that’s either new or is coming very…
According to a report on movie site Bloody Disgusting, the upcoming Mortal Kombat film will follow the exploits of a “lowly unlucky supermarket employee”. “With Kevin Tancharoen still attached to direct from Oren Uziel’s screenplay”, the site writes, “we’ve exclusively discovered that the live-action reboot will follow a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that…
While it’s a little cheap, even by live-action video game trailer standards, this clip for the upcoming Darksiders II is saved by one thing: the presence of the ever-wonderful James Cosmo. One of the manliest men to have ever walked the Earth, Cosmo is perhaps best known these days as Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of…
Artist Dan Blomberg has worked with just about everyone who’s anyone at the top of the concept art food chain, at least as far as video games are concerned. From studios with a history of investing heavily in their own internal talent (Eidos) to firms who do nothing but concept art (Massive Black), Blomberg has…
Zombie mod DayZ might have military sim ArmA 2 sitting atop Steam’s sale charts at the moment, but this clip serves as a reminder that the core game is a fascinating beast in its own right. While its ageing engine has its quirks, when the game is played right, and with like-minded humans, it transforms…
CONS: This clip is almost entirely narrated by one of the developers, a practice which only marketing types enjoy. You could mute it, but then you’d lose the sound effects as well. PROS: It’s over twenty minutes of Dead Space 3 footage. Just gameplay.
Companies like Sega and Namco tend to get all the credit when it comes to weird and wonderful arcade cabinets, but even all the way back in the 1970s, Atari was trying its hardest to be different. To that end, it came up with a number of prototypes for cabinets that went a little further…
The unveiling earlier today of Microsoft’s new “Surface” tablets was a strange one for me. Not because of the nature of the product, but for its name. It’s one Microsoft has been using for years, only, for an entirely different device. One that, for a while there, we thought could change the way we played…
I love cereal. I love it so much. I’ve felt that way all my life. For years and years, I’ve had cereal for breakfast, sometimes for lunch, sometimes even for dinner. It’s never not a good time for cereal. If there’s one thing people like to debate, it’s… well, it’s pizza toppings. But if there’…
I appear to be one of a rare breed of person who, on the internet at least, is proud to have enjoyed Civilization V. I thought the shift to hexes and abandonment of unit “stacking” was the best thing the series had done in years, and while it wasn’t perfect – the AI could have…
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