Following a month or two of rumors, Square Enix has confirmed that it will re-release Final Fantasy VII for PC. With achievements. And cloud saves (not to be confused with Cloud saves). And… a character booster, which it seems will allow you to pay real money to boost your characters’ stats. (“Find yourself stuck on…
Popular Capcom video game Sengoku Basara is being turned into a Japanese TV drama called Sengoku Basara Moonlight Party. The show stars Gackt and hunky dudes like Kento Hayashi, Hide Tokuyama, and Kouhei Takeda—all wearing silly costumes. These outfits would not be silly in a Sengoku Basara video game. But this isn’t a video game.…
It’s the Independence Day holiday here in the United States. Consider yourself free to talk about the games you’re playing, loving and hating, don’t you? Then, head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY forum at…
Man, if only the upcoming 3DS game based on Adventure Time was some kind of side-scrolling platformer that blends the show’s unique art style with pixel graphics and…oh. That’s exactly what it is. Very good, very good. These tiny shots can be found in this month’s Nintendo Power magazine, and while there’s only two of…
Back in 2007, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto talked about his regrets over the ill-fated Super Mario Bros. movie. According to Miyamoto: “The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. video games were. And in that…
As a kid, I can still remember getting that gold NES Legend of Zelda cartridge and popping in the game for the first time. It was the start of Link’s journey—and the start of mine. I’m willing to bet, I wasn’t alone. Link is not only one of Nintendo’s most iconic characters; he’s also one…
Sony recently bought Gaikai, an online cloud gaming service. The purchase might do more than offer a window into the PlayStation 4. It’s also a sign of things to come for Sony’s non-gaming products. Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Andrew House told The Wall Street Journal (via Eurogamer) that using Gaikai tech in Sony products other…
Yurina Kumai towers over other Japanese popstars—literally. At 176cm, she’s by far the tallest member of her group, Berryz Kobo. Sure, that’s “only” 5 feet 9 inches (some now wonder if she’s actually taller), but your typical Japanese pop star is much, much shorter. The discrepancy becomes evident when Kumai stands next to her contemporaries—or…
Being a female pro gamer is not easy in South Korea. In that male dominated world, Seo Ji-Soo (aka ToSsGirl) was a pioneer. She was also the country’s last active female pro-gamer. “Was”, because as of this month, ToSsGirL will retire. Known as “The Female Lim Yo-Hwan“, Seo decided to become a pro-gamer after seeing…
Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, is 52 years old. I would say he looks really good for 52 (he does), if he hadn’t looked the same for, oh, the past thousand years. Every year that Araki’s photo is released, people online in Japan enjoy comparing it to his photos for the…
Fancy costumes! Naked people! Doing it! That’s the pitch, and in Japan, adult video makers try to appeal to otaku (geeks) with flicks featuring porn stars dressed up as video game characters. Sounds like sexy time, right? Eh… In visual mediums—whether that be video games, movies, or whatever—the background is extremely important. It can make…
In the above video, an orchestra plays a Kirby medley. It’s glorious, and it will be featured on the music CD that comes with the upcoming Kirby’s Dream Collection compilation. Kirby’s Dream Collection – Medley Recording Feature [YouTube]
Outside Seoul, the city of Suwon recently opened a public park and museum dedicated to toilets. Makes sense, as the city has been a toilet pioneer in South Korea. As YouTube user KRTVtv pointed out, Korea’s public toilets were “ramshackle and disgusting” before the 1980s. In Korea, it’s being called the “world’s first toilet theme…
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This trailer is still a little too YEAH AMERICA for my tastes, especially given the series’ normally restrained take on matters historical, but then, this was put together for the Fourth of July. Hopefully the actual game plays more like history, and not like a bad Mel Gibson movie.
Not the restaurants, Chuck himself. See for yourself. If this was looking for me to write something about how it looks like a b-side Dreamworks character from 1998, well, mission accomplished. An AP report describes the redesign as making Chuck appear “as a hip, electric-guitar-playing rock star”. Making things even more unsavoury is the news…
It’s been over a year since Duke Nukem Forever was released, and to commemorate (commiserate?) the whole experience, Sideshow is next year bringing out this 16″ statue of the Duke. Selling for USD$300, he’s certainly not cheap, and given the reception to the last game in the franchise, may seem entirely unwarranted. But then, there’s…
We live in a time where even a new Total War game gets a live-action trailer, complete with sexy bits (the ring-kissing is not a sexy bit), stabbings and sexy stabbings. A Total War game. Because nothing says “command tens of thousands of men on the field of battle in a game of epic strategy”…
…well, yeah. You can’t unsee it And I thought fast zombies were bad. Fast squirrel zombies with headcrabs on their chins that screamed as they crawled down post-apocalyptic trees would be about the worst thing ever Animal pictures of the week: 8 June 2012 [The Telegraph, thanks John!]
Over the years French artist Morgan Yon has worked on games such as Heavy Rain and Zombi U, and movies like Prince of Persia and GI Joe. His work is incredible. We featured some of it a while back, back when Heavy Rain was in the news, but that was then (when we only showed…
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