The Metal Gear Solid 4 trophy and install patches hit Japan on August 6.

Square Enix said it plans on supporting Dragon Quest X with new content for the next ten years.

Man Makes His Own Batcycle from Random Junk

Don’t you just love the amazing things people can make? One gentleman constructed his own working Batcycle from, what looks like, fitness machines and other bits and bobs. The result is absolutely heroic. Someone Made A Batcycle With Spare Parts And Exercise Equipment [Beijing Cream]

Do You Like This Pokémon Reimagining? Would You Buy This Stuff?

Japanese illustrator Momo Okada is everywhere of late. She’s done collaborations with Hello Kitty—and now, her take on Pokémon is getting its own line of products called “Poké Momo” for the Pokémon Centers in Japan. Okada’s illustrations look like “yura kyara”, which are the local mascots created to promote cities, towns, and rural villages in…

Diablo III‘s “Plunging” Popularity in Korea is All Relative

Diablo III‘s release was eagerly anticipated in South Korea. The country has always been a strong Blizzard bastion. But several months after its release, the game’s popularity is now on the slide in South Korea. Or is it? One of the country’s most authoritative online game ranking sites, GameNote, revealed that Diablo III has plunged…

The Controversy Surrounding the Launch of This Year’s Biggest Wii Game

It finally happened. For years, Japan has been waiting for the latest Dragon Quest game, and yesterday, it launched. Anxious gamers lined up in droves to purchase the title. In Shibuya, there was a special countdown event at retailer Tsutaya for the game. The first person in line appeared on stage and received his purchased…

id’s John Carmack Gets a Reminder on How Mario Used to Kick Our Ass

Here’s a short, cute clip from id boss John Carmack’s keynote address at this year’s QuakeCon, in which the brutality of Super Mario Bros. 3 is compared to the more pedestrian Mario games of today. Why do I bring it up? Well, Carmack and his old colleague John Romero once took Super Mario Bros. 3…

The Mass Effect 3 Ending I Wanted, But Never Got

It may have been extended, but the “new” Mass Effect 3 endings still didn’t give me the closure I needed. I didn’t want touching moments and galactic melodrama. I wanted rainbows Sass Effect [Tumblr]

The Game That’s Been Downloaded 100 Million Times (and Isn’t Angry Birds)

Proving that iOS games can steamroll their way to world domination without having any fat red birds in them, Temple Run – a game about little else but running – has crossed the 100,000,000 download mark. For a game that I used to call “Canabalt for less awesome people”, that’s one hell of an achievement.…

Just Cause 2 Supports Multiplayer? Holy Exploding Crap.

Sandbox action game Just Cause 2 was a blast to play solo, but sadly shipped without any kind of multiplayer. No matter. Fans of the game’s PC edition have whipped up a version that lets a reported 600 people play it at once. On the same island. The results are predictably…insane. Note that this is…

Welcome Back, Rise of the Triad, You’ve Been Missed

Perhaps the strangest news of the day, if not much longer, is that cult 90’s shooter Rise of the Triad is getting a remake Considering a whole generation of gamers has now grown up likely not having played the thing, they’re probably wondering, what’s all the fuss about? Here’s what all the fuss is about.…

The Horror of Broken Old Nintendo Games

Old video games may have a certain charm to them when they’re working, but what about when they’re not? When they’re crashing and bugging out all over the place, no matter how many times you shake them or blow in the cartridge slot? Glitchee’s site is a wonderful catalogue of just such episodes, mostly of…

Conan O’Brien Plays Skyrim as “Mr. Buttons”

As you may have guessed by now, comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is fairly rubbish at video games. Mostly because he neither plays nor really even likes games. But then, that’s exactly what makes his “reviews” so good.

World of WarCraft Movie Gets a New Writer, Not so Dead After All

It was only two weeks ago that the World of Warcraft movie, fresh off its big-time director leaving the project, looked set to join the scrapheap of failed video game adaptations Today? It sounds like there’s some serious push behind the movie, because not only has a new writer been announced, but Activision boss Bobby…

The Stunning Concept Art of Sebastien Larroudé (Deus Ex, Tron, etc)

Sebastien Larroudé is one of my favourite concept artists working today. Formerly a senior concept artist at Eidos, where he worked on Thief 4 and Deus Ex (we actually featured some of his DE:HR work previously here), Larroudé – aka Rainart – now heads up Steambot Studios, a collection of brilliant artists that includes the…

See The Giant GameStop Factory in Texas Where Your Used Games & Consoles End up

Around 80% of trade-ins that take place in a GameStop store are re-sold in the same location. Those that aren’t, though, are moved on to this enormous factory and processing facility in Texas. If a game is traded in and the disc is looking a little worse for wear, it’s sent here for cleaning (with…

This Man Built a Working Computer From Fallout. It’s Pretty Damn Great.

This elaborate custom PC was built for display at this year’s QuakeCon. You can take your pick as to what’s most amazing about the project: the fact it works, the fact it looks identical to a terminal from Fallout, or the fact the entire thing cost under $60. The PC’s exterior is hand-made, while the…

The Ultimate Batman Action Figure is This 18-Inch Dark Knight

When you spend over $400 on an action figure – that’s right, this is a posable figure, not a statue – you expect a certain level of “wow”. I’m not sure this Batman figure delivers $400 worth of wow, but it sure does come close. Standing an enormous 18 inches tall, the Hot Toys figure…

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Will Get In First During PlayStation All-Stars‘ Public Beta This Fall

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will get a public beta this fall, following a private beta that, over the weekend, was said to reveal eight more characters from the game’s roster and what appeared to be all of its stages. SuperBot Entertainment, the game’s developer, acknowledged the leak in a post today on the PlayStation blog,…

Finally, Someone Mashed Up The Theme Music To Game Of Thrones And Skyrim

The themes to Skyrim and Game of Thrones have a lot in common—they’re both driving, building melodies with a kind of “Nordic Triplet” groove going on. Sure, they’re in different keys, but that’s never stopped enthusiastic mashup artists in the past, so why should it now? GeekRemixed has put together this mashup by Fatboy Roberts,…