I do not own an iPad. If I did, I’d probably cover it with Portal decals like this. It’s not just that I don’t own an iPad, these Reddit user created decals are not yet for sale. Shame! It’s the best use of the Apple logo that I’ve seen in a while. Portal-themed iPad Decals…
Nintendo’s pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference was in Japanese. Now, weeks later, Nintendo of America has subtitled the bit in which Shigeru Miyamoto talks up The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Miyamoto’s Presentation [Edge] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…
During a round of Call of Duty: Black Ops, 46-year-old Mark Bradford (pictured) was snuffed out during an online match by a 13-year-old player. Instead of respawning and trying to avenge himself in-game, Bradford went to the boy’s house and choked him. “I’d been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and baiting…
One Piece: Kaizoku Musou is an upcoming collaboration between Namco Bandai and Koei Temco. It’s the Musou hack-and-slash series, but with a One Piece spin. In years past, Koei and Namco Bandai collaborated to create Gundam Musou, a Gundam meets hack-and-slash Dynasty Warriors style game. The quality for the embedded trailer above isn’t so hot.…
If you buy the expensive collector’s edition of the new Elder Scrolls game, you’ll get a 200-page art book full of designs and sketches showing how a video game world was born. If you’re cheap and just want to see some of the art, well, you’d better look here then. There are four excerpts from…
When Italian TV wants to go all out and make an awesome commercial, it goes all out In this clip for Fox Italy’s retro channel, The A-Team meets Pac-Man, Wonder Woman meets Mario and by the time it’s done basically every iconic video game and TV show from the 70s and 80s has bashed heads,…
Biting Elbows, an “indie punk rock” band from Moscow, are obviously big fans of DICE’s Mirror’s Edge, because this video to their track The Stampede is a three-minute love letter to the game. It starts a little slow, and beyond the first-person stuff doesn’t give much away early on, but the first time you see…
Nielsen, the American market research people, has a list of the top twenty games that are the most anticipated titles of 2011’s holiday season. According to this consumer tracking survey, the top twenty games consist of titles going on sale between August and November for the PS3, Xbox 360, and the Wii. Nielsen interviewed 5,000…
Of all the niches in video gaming, there are few I find more fascinating than players of the arcade version of Big Buck Hunter Why? Because I normally associate it with smoky saloons, men who have killed things and the stench of spilled bourbon, three things that normally (at least together) don’t go with video…
In Geek Girls, adult video game actresses talk about their favorite games. After that, they do other things “I’m into it because I don’t know how not to be,” said Misti Dawn, one of the film’s stars, in an official statement (via Banana Syrup Company). “Gaming was engraved in me at a young age. I…
Remember that Darksiders statue that was first unveiled all the way back in July 2010? It’s finally finished and ready to ship. In Q4 2011. For fans of the game (rich fans, at least), it looks to be worth the wait, both War and his trusty steed Ruin looking great, especially with all those badass…
The PS Vita is getting an array of memory card sizes. They range from a 4GB Memory Card (¥2,200 or US$29) to 32GB Memory Card (¥9,500 or $124). With that in mind, will Sony be restricting download size? Initially, yes. According to Sony, 3G downloads will be restricted to 20MB a pop, but that could…
I love it when games are inspired by games that are nothing like them. Take sports games, and how they’re up to their eyeballs in RPG mechanics like character creation and levelling. Or driving games. Gran Turismo 5 is inspired by elevator music, for example, while it seems Forza 4 —according to Turn 10 creative…
Ninety-nine percent of buses are boring. But there’s always one one percent of them too cool for school. This bus is one of those. Wrapped in Fate/zero, this Tokushima City bus is for upcoming nerd event Asobi Machi. Fate/zero is a light novel that’s the result of a collaboration between Type Moon and game developer…
Club Nintendo goodies, rewards offered by the company for serious and long-serving fans, aren’t usually that great (outside Japan, at least). But these Nintendo handheld cards, celebrating 31 years of portable goodness, they’re great Available for 300 coins, there are 12 in the set, each individual piece measuring around 6×4 inches. They even come with…
Maid cafes are a dime a dozen in Tokyo geek mecca Akihabara. They’re totally normal. Cafe t.t.t. might be in Akihabara, but it’s zip codes are way from normal. Cafe t.t.t. is a kigurumi cafe. Literally, “Kigurumi” is a mash of the Japanese word “kiru” (“to wear”) and “nuigurumi” (“plush toy”). In kigurumi cosplay, people—often…
LEGO builder extraordinare PLUM B has built this life-sized replica of a Gears of War Lancer rifle that doesn’t just look the part, it shoots the part as well. In the video above, you can see that you can slide magazines in. Then cock the rifle. Then actually shoot at stuff. And when the Locusts…
Valve boss Gabe Newell has, like many of us these past few months, taken EA’s new Origin service for a spin. Hearing his thoughts on the thing are interesting, though, because he runs the company that runs Origin’s dominant competitor. “I think it does some things well” Newell told PC Gamer. “I think there are…
Freshly added to the game (well, its beta), here’s the Juggernaut from Valve’s upcoming DotA 2 He looks like one of the guys outta From Dust. If they grew a pair instead of just standing around begging for help all the time. What, you need me to do everything? Make a sword and do it…
Today’s Total Recall won’t be about video game history. It’s about dealing with what happens when video game history is dredged back to the present and coated in bright pink lipstick. EA’s Syndicate is but the latest in an ever-growing list of games that are reboots of old franchises. And they’re reboots in the strictest…
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