Way back in 1999, a friend of mine gave me an ancient gray brick of a Game Boy and a very used copy of Pokémon Red while we were on a middle school field trip. An eighth grader, I already knew myself to be “too old” for Pokémon. After all, I was already into games…
This week, the World Body Painting festival wrapped up in Austria. With artists from 40 different countries, the event is the World Series of body painting. While this is the 15th annual event, body painting first hit it big in the early 1990s. In 1992, body painting got mainstream exposure when Demi Moore appeared on…
This September, popular manga Hunter x Hunter is getting a new PSP game in Japan, Hunter x Hunter: Wonder Adventure. Check out the game’s trailer.
In Japanese anime, they don’t get much bigger than Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Starting this month, I mean that literally. Between July 25 and August 26, an 18.5-meter (61-foot) version of the Eva heroine will be erected along side a slide in Tokyo’s Shiodome as part of a summer event. Visitors can ride…
Okay, so the iPhone hasn’t been officially announced yet. But! But that isn’t stopping this eager retailer. According to Chinese site Sohu, this shop is getting the jump on everyone else by offering iPhone 5 pre-orders. The in-store display doesn’t show the actual iPhone 5 (it looks to be an iPod Touch, rather), but that’s…
Do you like pachinko? Do you have a 3DS? Well I’ve got some good news for you. Japanese game maker IREM will be releasing a new game on the 3DS called Pachinko Parlor 3D: The Open Sea Stories 2. For the rest of you who don’t know what pachinko is, it’s a Japanese arcade machine…
Behold, here are 13,000 Super Famicom era Japanese role-playing game characters stuffed into a single image. How many can you name? Better yet, how many can you not? The Super Famicom (aka Super Nintendo outside Japan) was home to numerous classic role-playing games, like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV, Earthbound—and more This image—full-sized version can…
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Adventure game legend Tim Schafer isn’t jut a funny dude who makes funny games. His resume could/should also include “mad yo-yo skills”, because he has mad yo-yo skills. So mad, in fact, that the YouTube video is literally called “Tim Schafer’s Mad Yo-Yo Skills”.
German craftsters Alice Zappe and Julia Lager have come up with this 8-bit umbrella, which uses sensors and speakers to detect when water hits its surface then blast out some appropriate chiptunes. The sounds are generated as the rain falls, they’re not pre-programmed, so the effect might be a little…jarring. Or awesome! User experience may…
If you’ve ever thought, hey, video game car crashes are good, but not perfect, maybe you should take a look at this physics demonstration from BeamNG, which shows cars crumpling in such a realistic manner I can hear the safety glass crashing through my speakers. A small company that specialises in “state of the art…
It’s not that recent official offerings have been bad, they’ve been pretty good, but these custom Metal Gear figures aren’t pretty good. They’re incredible. The four pieces – The Fury, The Pain, The End and Gray Fox – are the work of custom toy builder elvis1976. They’re not the work of a company that sells…
Skinned him alive, I guess! Sega and Sanrio are teaming up for for some Kitty-related goodies. First up, this Sonic x Hello Kitty plush toy, which will be available at Sega arcades and amusement centers in Japan. セガとサンリオのタッグが実現。コラボ第1弾アイテムとして「SONIC×HELLO KITTY スーパージャンボぬいぐるみ」が登場 [4Gamer]
While there were rumours earlier this year that Brothers in Arms: Furious Four, the Inglorious Basterds-esque shooter from Gearbox, had been cancelled, turns out that’s not the case. The game hasn’t been cancelled. It’s just “evolved”. “The game has evolved, I think people are going to be surprised by what they’ll see, and it’s still…
It’s Comic-Con week, which means we’re going to be hit with new toy reveals from all angles. That’s why only a day after Hot Toys took the wraps off a life-like Christian Bale figure, the Hong Kong company has shown off a Gary Oldman piece that’s even cooler. Why? Because it’s Gary Oldman. And his…
If you’re a fan of Tera, the new MMO on the block, you might want to take a look at this gallery, because it features the work of Kim Hyeong Seung, a concept artist who has worked on the game. Almost everything here is from the game, with the exception of the obvious. Like the…
There’s an art to great cosplay. The very best needs more than just a nice costume and an expensive camera. The best cosplay needs character. Swagger And this Duke Nukem has it in spades. The pose, the lean, the expression…he’s everything you ever wanted in Duke Nukem. For better or worse. [via Fashionably Geek]
Rockstar Vancouver, one of the main developers behind Max Payne 3, have been shut down. Not to worry (much): the staff are being offered jobs at Rockstar’s other Canadian studio in Toronto, which is expanding thanks to the help of regional government support. Full press release here. [Note: This story originally pegged the Vancouver team…
So today there was a pretty specific Zelda question on Jeopardy. It was not answered correctly. Scoff all you want (and I will, because “some reason”? THERE WAS A REASON!), but unless the category was “Nintendo Video Game Instruments” that’s a pretty obscure question for the average person on the street. [thanks Jake!]
A trailer for Volleyball, a sports title for the Famicom Disk System. Charming, if a little overblown.
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