In front of (almost) every single KFC in Japan, there is a life-sized Colonel Sanders statue. And for the past few springs, the Colonel Sanders in Akihabara has been covered in samurai armor to mark May 5, the Boy’s Day celebration. In late April and early May, families with sons display miniature armor in their…
Whenever a new game or demo hits, Japanese gamers love to fire up the character creator and see which celebrities they can reproduce. So when the Dragon’s Dogma demo hit, that’s exactly what they did. In the above gallery, you can see an array of celebrities—from real life ones to in-games ones. In some, the…
In puzzle game Dancing Eyes, the goal is to cut out swatches of cloth from young girls’ clothing. Namco planned to do a hi-def remake of the game, but now, it seems the Tokyo-based game company has cold feet. The upcoming issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu reveals that Namco decided to pull the plug…
Folks in China are apparently putting their iPhones under their nostrils and giving them a good old sniff. What do they smell? Pineapples. Yum. Many Chinese are saying the iPhone’s headphone jack smells like pineapple while charging. Online, thread after thread confirms the odor, with some even claiming that the iPhone emits whiffs of peach,…
In Japan, the Power Rangers are called “Super Sentai”. For decades, they have entertained kids, especially young boys. But young boys grow up and become interested in other things. Like booze. Never fear! Former Power Ranger actor Masaru Shishido is here to save the day with cheesy memorabilia and alcohol. Phew! In Tokyo’s Tachikawa, Shishido…
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Toy giant Hasbro, for reasons known only to Hasbro, do not like the fact that Aussie Martyn Yang runs a blog about Nerf Guns. What they’re doing about it will make you wonder what’s come of this world. Yang’s blog, Urban Taggers, exists to showcase Nerf Guns. People post images of guns they’ve bought, they…
“Surfing” is a strange little quirk that’s long been available in the Counter-Strike series. Those wondering if it’ll make the jump to the latest version, Counter-Strike: GO, yes, it has made the jump. Player MitchellS has ported venerable CS map surf_greatriver_remix to Global Offensive, and has made it playable for those in the beta. You…
I’m not as big on either anime or Pokémon as I used to be, but there are always exceptions. Like when Kiwi artist Tien Lee takes Pokémon and mixes it with the badass Tekkonkinkreet Two of these three images get Tekkonkinkreet’s style – a 90s manga turned into an amazing 2006 anime – down perfectly,…
Batman’s got some wonderful toys. Perhaps best of all, though, is his grappling gun, most recently (and commonly) seen in the last two Batman video games. In those games, to use it, you…equip it. Easy! In the real world, it’s a little harder. Mostly because grappling guns don’t really exist in the real world. Not…
Well, this might be the best thing I’ve seen all week. Console to Closet is a blog taking the stars of the video game world and creating fashionable outfits based on them. It isn’t cosplay. These are real clothes. It’s fashionable cosplay. Fashplay? Yes, I like that. From Samus to Lara Croft, Phoenix Wright to…
Yesterday we showed you what will surely be 2012’s worst example of box art. So it’s only fair that today we cleanse the palette with what could easily be 2012’s best. Far Cry 3, take a bow. Well, not you, WTF head-in-the-sand guy. You just sit there. Isn’t it great? Once you get past WTF…
Tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel says he was at Valve yesterday. And that while he was there, he was told that the company’s Steam platform is on its way to Linux operating systems. While further details are to come later today when he has a chance to write everything up, Larabel did at…
Look, I’m not saying it’s possible. Even in cartoon land, there are certain laws of nature that have to be abided. But if we suspended those, just for a moment, and pretended there could be an unholy union between a giant talking tapedeck and a terrorist leader, here’s your end result. Custom toy builder Airmax…
Majesco has tonight unveiled a teaser trailer for an upcoming game called NBA Baller Beats. It is…look, just watch the clip. That’s rapper Common narrating the trailer. The aim of the game is to bounce a basketball – in your living room – in time with the music, then when certain prompts appear, perform some…
Andrew Eisen, the Nintendo fan with the golden voice, has more games he’d like Nintendo of America to bring over from Japan. To help his cause, he’s channelling the spirit of the Old Spice guy. And channelling it well Sure, the likelihood of Pandora’s Tower or Project Zero ever making it to American Wiis are…
There was a Diablo III open beta over the weekend. You may have played it. Then again, you may have sat around like a bunch of other people trying to play it and being unable to because Blizzard’s servers were melting. Which sucks, seeing as its essentially a singleplayer game, but hey, welcome to 2012.…
Game Crazy, a now-defunct minor player in the US games retail space, operated for around a decade, kicking off in 1999 and winding down in 2010. Those involved with the chain, a subsidiary of Movie Gallery, will tell you its because increased competition squeezed it out of the market. They’re wrong. It’s because a generation…
Shinji Mikami, the man behind Resident Evil, is working on a brand new survival horror title. As revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu, the game is currently codenamed “Zwei”. Mikami’s new studio, Tango Gameworks, is creating the project. Zwei is slated to be very much a Mikami style survival horror game, and it is…
In the late 1980s, Nintendo’s internal development teams set out to make two games that would forever define its classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System. One was Super Mario World. The other was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Work on both games began almost simultaneously. “At Nintendo, we don’t spend a long…
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