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Kingdom Hearts 3D Is Noob Friendly
Gearing up for the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, this week, part deux of Tetsuya Nomura’s interview was featured in Weekly Famitsu. Nomura discussed the latest in the Kingdom Hearts series (and added some more very vague references to Final Fantasy Versus XIII). With the latest installment to the Kingdom Hearts series,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Returns (Well, Sort Of)
Bayonetta, star of the action game…Bayonetta, is back! The character is coming as a downloadable character for the online beat ‘em up Anarchy Reigns Platinum Games, who also created Bayonetta, developed this title. The limited edition, first print run of the game comes with a download code to acquire Bayonetta. Anarchy Reigns goes on sale…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Chinese Girl in Shiny Armor Wants a Boyfriend
Sometimes you just get fed up. You think there are no good guys out there. And all you’re left doing is wearing shiny armor and holding a sign, because, well, you’re looking for a boyfriend. Because that’s supposedly what one young woman in China did. Twice. The woman’s name is not currently known, but she…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Turning LEGO Into a Kick-Ass War Game
Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack sounds like a Japanese game involving giant robots and, well, that’s not terribly far off from the truth. Only it’s not a video game, it’s a tabletop game. And instead of using plastic pieces, it uses LEGO. The thinking behind the game is that, while coming with an established ruleset…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
Giant Portal Sneakers Help You Jump From Fashion’s Greatest Heights
Artist Jared Sellers has been toiling away on a few sets of custom video game-related sneakers for around a year now. And the centrepiece of the collection are these incredible Portal kicks. What were once knee-high Converse sneakers are now street-ready Long Fall Boots, complete with Portal Gun colour schemes and strappy straps to simulate…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 - Culture
The Sexy, Sword-Swinging Art of Yusuke Kozaki
Yusuke Kozaki is a Japanese artist who, aside from work on comics and anime, has also done some stuff for the No More Heroes series of games. He’s also done character design on the latest Fire Emblem game, Awakening If you’ve played those games, or even been around their marketing, you’ll know their art is/was…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedSome Kids are Making a Battlestar Galactica Viper Flight Simulator
It’s not a game, either. That would be too easy. No, the kids are making a proper flight simulator, with hydraulic cockpit, instrument panels, the works Taking the shell of a Piper PA-28, the team hopes to build “a motion controlled flight simulator” based around Galactica’s iconic Viper fighter. For those who care, they’re aiming…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow 2011’s Most Stunning Tech Demo was Made
Like it did with The Casting, Heavy Rain creators Quantic Dream have again floored us with a tech demo, this time for Kara, the little robot who learned to love. Then got very upset when a man tries to tear her heart out. This clip shows the making of the super-impressive demo, including footage of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat Will Video Game Shooters Look Like When We’re Old?
Hopefully they, and we, look something like this. This clip is called Old Style, from the album by the same name, and it’s a music video put together by Swedish duo Rymdreglage. Who, if you remember your Swedish musical video game partnerships, also made the amazing 8-bit Trip from a few years back [thanks Roxy!]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2012 - Uncategorized
We Will Be Remembered, My Sweet… Just Don’t Ask for What.
Happy Wednesday, folks. One more OT from yours truly! That means some badass acoustic guitar somewhere below. A bloody compendium of all The Itchy & Scratchy Show shorts – I wish the video included the intro ditty before every snippet, though then I’d need more than 48 minutes’ worth of popcorn. The dramatis personæ of…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 21, 2012 - Uncategorized
Devil May Cry’s Boss has “Nothing Against Big Tits”
No, this story isn’t going where you think it’s going. It’s actually going somewhere sensible, somewhere more video game developers – and artists in particular – should go. “I’ve nothing against big tits – I’d rather have my head resting on a pair right now – but if you’re going to try and stimulate someone…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2012 - Uncategorized
Meet the Cutest Portal Toy Yet
The first fruits of the threeA x Valve toy partnership we recently told you about have already been revealed. And in true collaborative style it’s a proper crossover. This creature is part-Companion Cube from Portal, part-Square². If you don’t know what a Square² is, it’s a little guy from Ashley Wood’s World War Robot universe.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2012 - Uncategorized
Peter Molydeux Game Jam Expands to Germany, Portugal, Vegas and Beyond
What would Molydeux? In about a week and a half, we’re going to find out. That question, of course, is the name of the coming international game jam that will give game developers in locations around the world 48 hours to break into teams and come up with games based on the wacky game design…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 21, 2012 - Uncategorized
Catholic Priest Allegedly Leaves Child Porn on Kid’s Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS is about as kid-friendly a gaming environment as one can think of. A huge number of the games on it are appropriate for all audiences, and the clamshell console has enough durability to stand up to being dropped many times. What one does not expect, when getting a used DS, is to…
By Kate Cox Published March 21, 2012 - Uncategorized
Historical Park Exhibit Finds A Lot to Learn From Video Games
Video games, as a form of art and entertainment, go back about forty years. The very earliest electronic play on computers goes back a few decades earlier, but still remains firmly in the post-war 20th century. So what use could games possibly be to someone trying to re-create 1836? A history park in Indiana, Conner…
By Kate Cox Published March 21, 2012