Rayman Legends is headed to the Wii U, a new leaked trailer reveals. It’s bringing legendary settings, new playable characters, touch screen controls and NFC (near field communication). The trailer shows off the four-person multiplayer as well as its swiped-based touch controls. The clip shows three on Wii-Remotes, and one player using the new Wii…
Suda51 (Goichi Suda) is one of Japan’s most famous game directors. In the West, this is due to his cult classic PS2/GameCube title, Killer7, or his best-selling Wii series, No More Heroes. In Japan, however, he first became famous for another game entirely: Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special on the Super Famicom. Back in 1994,…
For years now, there have been rumblings about the eBox, or its other moniker, the iSec. Yet, the console was pushed back, and then it seemed to vanish completely. Well, it’s back and slated to come out soon. Real soon. Now called CT510, this is the Chinese game console the Lenovo backed and co-invested in—the…
When I first played Diabolical Pitch, it was at the Tokyo Game Show 2011. There at the Microsoft booth, I played this Kinect title in two-player coop mode with a beautiful Japanese booth babe. I had a lot of fun. It was only when I played the game at home alone this last week that…
Internet person Arkøv created this wonderful Akira diorama, complete with concrete rubble, Tetsuo, a flowing cape, Kaneda, and a laser cannon. Pew. Pew. The diorama is somewhat abstract, smartly sidestepping mini-fig representations to bring Akira to life. I am…impressed. In 1988, Akira was turned into a feature film anime by Katsuhiro Otomo, who created the…
Earlier this week, a 20-something woman was accused of stealing an iPhone from another customer at an apparel shop in China’s Yongkang City. The customer, who had set the phone down on a table, noticed it was missing, and then Mob mentality kicked in and people began cutting the thief’s clothes and hair. Her shirt…
They were called the “Five Guys”. Fitting, because there were five of them. They weren’t just buddies. They were apparently criminals, who went on a crime spree that resulted in burglary and arson. And they were nerds. The Five Guys wanted money, but apparently, not for drugs or booze. They wanted money so they could…
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Parappa the Rapper slings a jab. Kratos takes it in the gut. Said jab leads into a slick combination – a flurry of one-twos that culminates in a tremendous uppercut, sending the God of War soaring impossibly into the sky. Seconds later, Parappa hops onto a skateboard. He runs over a Fat Princess who, just…
Sony has tonight confirmed the worst-kept secret of 2012; namely, that it will be releasing a first-party PS3 fighting game, and that it’ll actually be called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale In addition to first-party characters, the game will feature mascots from third-party outfits as well. It’s due on the PS3 this holiday season. You can…
Give this compilation video a few minutes to warm up and get past the credits. Or, if you’re impatient, skip to 1:21. From then on in, these guys aren’t even playing Grand Theft Auto any more. They’re playing something else Fan-Made “GTAIV Epic Stunts” Video (Vol. 5) Is Full of Win [Rockstar]
You’ll like what you get. Especially if you’ve ever wanted to see what your APM is outside of an actual StarCraft game! GG, Google. GG. [Google, thanks everyone!]
Portal 2’s creation suite is coming to the PC and Mac this May. To celebrate, here’s a trailer, starring JK “Cave Johnson” Simmons himself.
Artist Kinman Chan has done a lot of work in the movie business, lending his talents to animated films like Mars Needs Moms and A Christmas Carol. He’s also, though, been an artist in the video game industry, where he’s worked for companies like Rockstar and Sony, on games such as Resistance and Red Dead…
There are years between the time we last see Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III and the first time we see him in Episode IV. Enough for him to transform from a strapping young Scottish man into an elderly English Academy Award winner. If you’ve ever wondered what he looked like in that time,…
It’s Freddie Wong. And OK, he’s cheating by making a movie out of it, but if he wants to go to all the trouble, he gets to reap all the kudos.
The upcoming, and very lovely-looking Dragon’s Crown, has two websites, one for Japan, one for the US. Both are almost identical in design except for one thing: character art. On the Japanese site, you can see nice, big pieces of art for each of the game’s playable characters. On the US site, though, two of…
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, video game publishers and their cohorts in the marketing world thought it would be a good idea to use rap in their commercials. It was not. This clip takes us on a tour of some of the worst, and while some are stretching the definition of hip-hop, others are entirely…
Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece on Sony’s Net Yaroze, a kit which allowed PS1 users to make their own video games. Well, anyone who was interested in the subject, please check out this enormous feature over on Gamasutra, which even has in-depth interviews from the men behind it. [Gamasutra]
After I posted those amazing old Zelda images from Nintendo Power the other day, I got an email from reader Yannick, who just so happens to run a blog that collects all kinds of awesome old Nintendo Power artwork by Katsuya Terada. Double Dragon, Contra, there’s all kinds of old NES games Terada has brought…
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