Outside this fall’s Tokyo Dream Party, pesky cosplayers were getting in front of crazy cars. Inside, booth companions got in front of booths. The nerve! Held in both Tokyo and Osaka, Dream Party is a bi-annual event for bishoujo (beautiful young girl) computer games. Dream Party booths offered all the bishoujo nerd heroin (heroines?) you…
To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a collection of art from its spiritual successor Dark Souls, out this week on the Xbox 360 and PS3. For a game that is about little but darkness, pain, brutality and despair, the art certainly gets the…
The Binary is a web-driven, text-based game in which you’re being sent back in time to make sure other people sent back in time don’t mess around with things. Sort of like the recent flick Source Code, only with less Chesty Jake, more Words on a Screen. It plays out at times like an interactive…
Real Steel, that new Hugh Jackman flick with fighting robots, is set in a near future, dominated by battling bots. More preciously, the movie is set in 2020. In one arena scene, corporate logos like Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, and, ahem, Del Taco light up a stadium. There is also a Bing logo and an Xbox…
The earthquake might have rocked Japan last March, but its effects still linger. Charity book Kizuna, a collection of short fiction by international writers, aims to help orphanages in the areas hit hardest by the quake and tsunami. [Kizuna]
Keiji Inafune, former Mega-Man producer and Dead Rising designer, is hard at work on a new title. It’s called Kaio: King of Pirates and it’s for the Nintendo 3DS. It stars a penguin pirate. Inafune will be taking director duties. King of Pirates is a mix of pirates and Sangokushi. It’s an action role-playing game,…
We’ve seen title art from modern games. And from NES games. Today, we’re hitting the ground somewhere in between with a collection of animated title screen art from the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. These images come courtesy of Title Scream, a site run by Kiwi interactive designer Cameron Askin which is looking to preserve…
An employee of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department used a city credit card to purchase a little recreation for himselfā€”namely, an Xbox 360. That’s not all the gaming recreation that the employee, Naikia Howard, indulged in: he also took a copy of Wii Sports and a Wii home from a Seattle teen center. An…
No jets on Operation Metro, the only map available in Battlefield 3’s beta? No problem. Make your own. [thanks Smi1ey!] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
The Nghiems is an indie rock band fronted by David Nghiem and his brother James. The group’s single “Dum Dum Dah Dah” is about co-op gaming. The tune’s video features a slew of stop motion photography, arcade gaming, and the members of The Nghiems. Making the video took four months and used 8,000 individual photos…
There’s a new Square Enix game on the way for the Nintendo 3DS called Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. Even going by Square’s ridiculous standards, it’s a ridiculous name. Lucky, then, it looks so damn good. Understand that this appears to be an incredibly “traditional” Japanese role-playing game, and that I’m talking about its visuals, not…
The Kansai area of Japan includes Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto. It’s famous for its food, such as okonomiyaki and beef, its companies, like Panasonic and Nintendo, and its comedians, which include about half of the people on television. Japanese comedy is synonymous with Kansai. The country’s most famous comedy agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo, started in Osaka…
Even though most of you aren’t playing the game yet, Blizzard still wants you to get to grips with the world of Diablo III. So the developer has opened a section on the game’s site where you can check out a lot of Diablo III’s early items and weapons. These are of course just the…
Let’s find out, since publishers Rockstar have today released some screens of the late-to-the-party PC edition of the face-reading hat simulator. Looks a little muddier in parts than the glorious master race will be accustomed to, but considering the nature of the game (it is quite literally a console port) that’s not too big a…
EA, the video games publisher, is taking EA, the fitness supplies company, to court. And it’s not over the name. Energy Armor, based in Florida, is instead being taken to court because of two things. The first is its logo, which is more of a “complete rip-off” of EA’s famous branding than it is an…
Star Command isn’t just another blocky sim game where you get to hire, fire and command a crew of your very own starship. It also gives you the option to render alien races extinct, something nefariously left out of such titles as Game Dev Story and Tiny Tower Goal: $20,000 Notable Reward: $100 – All…
Roaring Skies is an iOS top down multiplayer airplane shooter. The Flight Control-like shooter includes a variety of game modes ranging from two-versus-two, four-versus-four and even an attempt at something almost resembling a Defense of the Ancients mode. Goal: $8,000 Notable Reward: $499 – No shit, they will fly you over the Golden Gate Bridge…
Girl with a heart of reminds me of all those games that you found loaded on the computer in your school. This multiplayer form game may not be your first choice, but something about it keeps drawing you back after you’ve played it once. Goal: $2,000 Notable Reward: $10 – Free copy of the game…
Crystal Catacombs, simply put, looks awesome. Side-scrolling action role-playing game, randomized dungeons, chip-tune sound track and it looks pretty slick too. Out of all of this month’s Kickstarter hopefuls, Crystal Catacombs definitely gets me best in show prize. Goal: $11,000 Notable Reward: $1,000 – Actually help design and develop an entire realm for the game,…
Zombies,Run! is an augmented reality game in which you play it as you go out for your morning jog. Using your head phones and an iPhone or Android, you listen to the sounds of a world destroyed by the undead. The game has you run through this zombie wasteland picking up all sorts of things…
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