Jon Fitch (above, celebrating after a win) makes his living kicking the crap out of people. As one of the world’s best mixed martial artists, he’s top drawer at what he does. But when he’s not fighting and not training, he’s thinking. About Skyrim From the sound of it, even when he’s training and kicking…
As far as I know, there has never been a Mega Man toaster. John MacInnis, a student of Industrial Design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, decided to change that and whipped up this design. “For this project we needed to pick a cartoon/video game character and create a toaster specifically for them,” writes MacInnis.…
A study commissioned by the Swiss government has found that the country’s current piracy laws, which allow downloading of stuff for “personal use”, should stay. Because they actually encourage people to buy more stuff. The study, based on both its own research and extrapolating data from a similar Dutch study from 2009, is based on…
It’s long been assumed that the Mass Effect figures, once the domain of DC Direct, were dead in the water. The first series came and went quickly, while the second never came at all. But now, they’re back. EA and Big Fish Toys have struck a deal to not only bring the first wave back…
Minecraft and LEGO. They’re joined at the hip. Both involve blocks, building and imagination. And soon, if developers Mojang have their way, there’ll be official Minecraft LEGO to consummate the relationship. It’s not, however, a foregone conclusion. Unlike properties such as Prince of Persia, Minecraft isn’t just signing a deal and seeing the money start…
At the turn of the century, From Software, the studio behind Armored Core and Dark Souls, released mecha game Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit on the original Xbox. As Wiki pointed out, people hated it when it was released in 2003. Now, almost a decade later, a 1/48 scale “A.R.K. Cloud Breaker” is being released. It…
Another good week this, not just for fans of exquisite cosplay, but fans of exquisite cosplay who may not also be fans of over-played genre staples like Final Fantasy and Zelda I mean, sure, we’ve got people dressed up as people from those series, but for those after something more original, there are cosplayers from…
In development since 2010, Halo: Out With a Whimper is a fan-made project looking to take the franchise’s frantic 3D gameplay and transfer it to the world of 2D platformers. Going a little beyond your standard demake—of which there’s been plenty of Halo offerings previously—this is going all out, promising a “story driven campaign”, “the…
A team of budding game designers have grabbed a copy of the Unreal Engine and decided, as a learning experience, to recreate the opening section of Final Fantasy VII with HD graphics. It’s also in a first-person perspective. Just in case you thought a remake of a game from the 1990s would actually retain its…
Minecraft is done. Kotaku even reviewed it! But even though it’s “done”, the game isn’t going to be ever really “finished”, with developers continuously adding to the Minecraft “platform”. If it ever does get a sequel, YouTube user nathanimator thinks it will look like this—and even made a fanfilm to show “this”. Aside from fans…
You’re at the bottom of an impossibly enormous wall. Your village is at the top. To get there you’re going to have to manipulate the blocky surface of the wall (and beat some bad guys and other random stuff). The game’s called Against the Wall. It’s for PC and Mac, and you can download a…
Brazilian artist Dudu Torres dropped us a line over the weekend to ask if we’d share his portraits of the main characters from The Legend of Zelda. They’re so wonderful we’re going to do just that. A freelance illustrator with some video game experience under his belt, Torres’ impressions of Link, Zelda and Ganon aren’t…
Spending time in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you know the game is beautiful. But did you know it was this beautiful? There are a lot of timelapse Skyrim videos, and this must be one of the best I’ve seen. This was done by Tom Harris, a professional photographer in Chicago, on a PC with…
The news that KOTOR 2 and Fallout: New Vegas devs Obsidian are working on a South Park RPG seemed…odd. It’s a franchise you wouldn’t think lends itself to the genre, and it is a property that’s not as commercially relevant as it once was. But hey, it got signed off for a reason, and that…
One Sunday about a month ago, I was driving my family to Himeji. It was a drizzly early morning on the Chugoku Expressway, and I just cleared Kobe. To my right, a trio of Lancia Delta Integrales came whizzing by. Within moments, an Aston Martin zoomed by, being tailed by an Alfa Romeo Alfasud, splashing…
This Sunday saw a whole host of cosplayers take the stage at club Nicofarre in Tokyo’s Roppongi. There were dudes with big swords and one dude in a dangerous bikini. Yes, there are NSFW images in this post. Hosted by Nico Nico Douga, the Tokyo Nico Nico Cospllection showcased cosplayers in Nicofarre’s 360-degrees LED screens,…
There will come a point, some day in the future, when the lines between card games, tabletop games, board games and video games blur so much the difference becomes irrelevant. When that happens, it’ll probably look a lot like this. This amazing video was actually a commercial for a Magic Card store, and looks pretty…
As NeoGAF discovered over the weekend, the PS Vita allows only one PlayStation Network account per portable. Whatever does that mean? In a FAQ from a Vita hands-on event with the general public, the question regarding the number of accounts per system was answered as such (translation via GAF‘s mehdi_san): “Only 1 account. If you…
Today, GamePro magazine ceases to be. Which for lovers of print is a bit of a sad moment, given the fact it’s been around since 1988 In that time it’s previewed, reviewed and wrote about a lot of games, but for me it’ll always be remembered as the only video game magazine to ever get…
For all that is good about Skyrim, there are still Elder Scrolls fans who have a special place in their hearts reserved for the relatively wacky 2002 iteration of the series, Morrowind Which is great, because Morrowind is a great game! It’s also, sadly, a little ugly these days, which is a problem for those…
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