When Mario Kart hit the Wii, Nintendo released a goofy plastic steering wheel that was supposed to simulate driving. Mario Kart 7 is around the corner. Know what that means? Another goofy steering wheel. This time it isn’t from Nintendo and it’s not for the Nintendo Wii. Rather, this “Mario Kart 7 Handle” is for…
And that music, ungh! If you’ve ever wanted to see Japanese people playing Kinect in a large living room, here’s your chance. Enjoy. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
On November 2, Rockstar will release the debut trailer for the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series, according to the developer’s site With the title previously unconfirmed, the above logo is our first official glimpse of anything to do with the game, though there have been strong rumours for a while now…
The white and pink models of the Nintendo 3DS, already out or announced in other regions, will be released in Europe on November 18.
Morning, Day of the Tentacle fans! Here’s a little something readers David and Sarah Cousens (of the excellent Cool Surface) whipped up to brighten up your Tuesday. If it brightens it up too much, well, you shouldn’t have come this far. It’s Day of the Tentacle fan art we’re talking about here. It was always…
For the past 15 years, Sweden’s Yami has been cosplaying. While others might favor cool or cute characters, Yami specializes in zombies, gore, and the stuff of nightmares. In these images, she cosplays as characters and zombies from Resident Evil, RE5, Left 4 Dead, and The Walking Dead “I love to cheer my love for…
OK, so I’ve got a bit of a thing for Guild Wars 2 art. It’s a gorgeous game, shoot me. But before you do, you should check out both this concept art and, in a neat twist, some trailers made out of concept art. Horia Dociu, who worked as an artist on Half-Life 2, joined…
When you think about it, Duck Hunt is a pretty scary game. Get past the blue skies and cheery art design and that’s one evil dog lurking in the bushes. Something this horror movie based on the Nintendo classic knows only too well. The Hunt is the first of G4’s promised trilogy of short horror…
Hideo Kojima, creator of stealth series Metal Gear, and his team are approving a series of figurines based on Metal Gear Solid characters. Serious questions around the office being asked about this Meryl figure include: “Are her boobs like this? Are they big?” This is the latest prototype, and according to Kojima, the figure needs…
Some of gaming’s most cunning foes have been computers. Think GlaDOS from Portal, or Shodan from System Shock 2. At least part of what makes them so memorable is that their artificial intelligence is brought to life by a cold, calculating, female voice. Friendly artificial intelligence usually skews female as well. Anyone who’s played Deus…
Sony gave sister site Kotaku Japan a list of games that require memory cards for saves and a list of games that do not. So who decides which games need memory cards and which ones don’t? According to Sony Computer Entertainment, the game companies do. Kotaku Japan is reporting that it is up to the…
British artist Andrew “Bones” Jones is a man after my own heart. In his works paying tribute to the video games of yesteryear, you won’t find much Mario or Mega Man. You’ll find Wing Commander, Zombies Ate My Neighbours and old Amiga games. In the gallery above you’ll see some amazing digital paintings by Jones,…
There’s still some life left in the old PlayStation Portable, Sony announcing yesterday that a new bundle including a PSP-3000, 2GB memory stick, Cars 2 and FIFA 12 for $160.
By day, Keisuke Yamada is an electrician. By night, he’s a master banana artist, peeling, sculpting, and, yes, eating. While Yamada’s art might not be the most beautiful you’ll see, it is the most delicious. Earlier this year, Yamada’s banana art, which he uploaded to Japanese art site Pixiv, became an internet sensation. It was…
The PlayStation Vita has a range of onboard apps. Some of them teach you how to use the Vita. Others are simply good. The Hello Face falls in the cool camp. It does creep me out somewhat, though, but it’s still cool. In Hello Face, you try to find things in the word around you,…
This piece of fan art showed up on the Facebook page of Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson overnight. It is blocky. And strangely erotic. I know the painting it’s based on, Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is not erotic in the slightest. It’s about God giving life to man. Which is what this picture is…
This November, Sony is releasing a PlayStation-branded 3D display. The Tokyo-based electronics giant recently showed off the display, along with new 3D glasses. Websites Game Impress Watch and 4Gamer were on hand to check out the hardware and take photos of the display, the glasses, and knees. The 3D Display is priced at ¥44,980, the…
There’s an achievement you can get in Gears of War 3 that can be earned by playing a piano 2000 times. That’s a lot of button pressing, so LEGO builder Guy Himber set to work on a less strenuous solution. He built this LEGO rig that would both hold his 360 controller and press the…
It’s been a big month for PC games, and things are about to get even bigger, so if you’ve been lazy and forgotten to update your graphics card drivers, you’re going to want to fix that. Between big games having issues (RAGE) and even bigger games just being…big (Battlefield 3), both AMD and Nvidia have…
The first Battlefield game, Battlefield 1942, was released in 2002. Nearly ten years ago! Yet while it was the first game to bear the branding that lives on to this day with Battlefield 3, depending on how you look at it, it’s not really the first game in the series. That honour goes to a…
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