Turn 10’s latest racing sim’s turned heads with its finely tuned racing action and fetishistic attention to the details that drive automotive enthusiasts crazy. The game launched with hundreds of cars available to play with but Microsoft’s just announced that they’ll be adding 10 new rides to the titles next week. The November Speed Pack…
Mage Gauntlet is the sort of game that should have Nintendo rethinking their policies on bringing their wonderful, vibrant catalog of games to mobile devices. This 90s-flavored, action role-playing game isn’t just a small snack, in the metaphor of filling entertainment, it is a full three-course meal. One can’t help but be reminded of The…
Nintendo’s been rolling out re-releases and concerts in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series. But the Zelda mystique’s spread far and wide and one of the places it’s wound up was in an officially licensed manga series. The Legend of Zelda comics were serialized in Japan starting in 1998 but…
No Rain | HONG KONG: Cosplayers gathered at the 2005 Hong Kong Comics Festival. (Photo: Kin Cheung | AP) Capcom Wouldn’t be Capcom Without Akiman’s Amazing Art Japanese artist Akira Yasuda, better known by his pen name Akiman, is a legend in the video game art world, being responsible for more classic images, posters, box…
Artist João Victor G. Costa took Warcraft and added old-school color graphics. The result is beautiful minimalism. According to Costa, “I know the black ’emptiness’ suck, but it’s for the sake of the gameplay, really.” Introduced in 1981, the Color Graphics Adapter was IBM’s first graphics card. Decades later, graphics cards have advanced, producing more…
Perhaps! That’s exactly what one Japanese netizen tried to do: Create Dante from Devil May Cry using Dark Souls‘ avatar editor. The result doesn’t look like a walking Dante clone, but it sure as heck looks better than that emo guy in DmC: Devil May Cry デビルメイクライのダンテを作ってみた[はちま] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of…
Paying homage to a favourite game of his, artist Dave Payne has created this stunning recreation of the white-washed city featured in 2008’s Mirror’s Edge It’s not a photo, nor is it a screenshot of the game at full settings; it’s a 3D image, created in 3DS Max, Maxwell Render and Photoshop. As proof of…
Reader G.W. Smith points us towards this adorable little Portal headpiece, which can help the ladies (or long-haired gentlemen!) look like the villainous GlaDOS is sticking out of their scalp. The ornament was made by Luke Walker. What I like about it is how weird it is. It’s not just turning an existing thing like…
Japanese artist Akira Yasuda, better known by his pen name Akiman, is a legend in the video game art world, being responsible for more classic images, posters, box covers and characters than we’ve got space to share. So we’ll keep things brief, and just focus on some of his more memorable works. Akiman worked at…
Continuing its series of short horror movies based on video games entirely lacking in horror, G4 has run The Birds of Anger, an Angry Birds flick that has more in common with Alfred Hitchcock than green pigs. While The Hunt was interesting in its treatment of the source material, this one is just great fun…
In Japanese, it’s called “endaka” (円高), or “high-valued yen”. And it’s wreaking havoc on so much of the country. If you are living in Japan, getting paid in yen and then converting that into another currency, or if you are importing goods from outside the country, the strong yen is gravy. If you, like me…
According to a report in Xbox World magazine, Just Cause developers Avalanche will next year release a third game in the hit swarthy harpoon simulator series. I know. You’re probably as shocked as I am. A popular video game franchise getting a sequel! Unheard of. Just Cause is just the kind of series that needs…
Japan is making an Ace Attorney movie. Takashi Miike is directing, and actor Hiroki Narimiya is starring as Phoenix Wright. This is what he looks like as Phoenix Wright. The movie was filmed near Kyoto and is slated for an early 2012 release in Japan. This isn’t the first adaptation of Phoenix Wright. The all-female…
Yesterday, Japan’s Nikkei estimated that over the past six months Nintendo has lost ¥100 billion. Today, Nintendo revealed its official figures, and…they’re not quite that bad. The company instead has posted a loss of ¥70 billion. Here’s to silver linings!
For a while now, Sony and Ericsson have teamed up to run a mobile phone company. That company released the Xperia Play, a device we used to call the PlayStation phone. Today, Ericsson is selling up its side of the business to Sony. This means the company, once a joint venture, will become a 100%…
You might think those posters of big-eyed little anime girls are cute as a button. But according to FujiTV, nearly 80 percent of Japanese women polled give a big no thanks to dudes who cover their room with stuff like that. On the FujiTV segment, women were interviewed about whether it was okay for men…
Sometimes I get stupid email from readers. Sometimes I get nice email. And sometimes, I get email from people with questions. Reader Joel sent me one of those: A question. This is a Puckman cabinet. Before Pac-Man was called Pac-Man, it was Puckman. “Paku paku” (パクパク) is the sound in Japanese for people opening and…
There’s currently a rather clever scam fishing its way through Facebook at the moment, looking to cash in on one of the most popular video game series of all time: the humble Mario Kart You know you can’t play Nintendo games on Facebook. I know you can’t play Nintendo games on Facebook. But millions of…
Say hello to Mike Fass. You might be familiar with this guy if you watched Street Fighter: The Later Years or if you attended the Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition earlier this year. The Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition was to pick the top “bear”—or manly, hairy gay dude. Fass has worked as a rock drummer, an…
You end up spending a lot of your time in Dark Souls dying. Being stabbed, burned, crushed, bludgeoned, whatever. So this custom rig for the game, built out of a coffin, seems wonderfully apt. The coffin was built for a competition run by publishers Namco Bandai in Australia, and features a big LCD TV, surround…
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