Cosplayer Omi Gibson, perhaps best known for her Metal Gear work, is no one trick pony. Her repertoire includes obscure characters like Super Galdelic Hour‘s Toko and Thrill Kill‘s Belladonna, along with a willingness to cover herself in fake blood. Here, she cosplays as baseball-bat-wielding Bad Girl, a cosplay she’s donned before. This time, she…
Throughout its public relations cycle, DICE’s Battlefield 3 was shown only on PC and, later, PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 version was kept under the stairs, beaten weekly and fed fish heads and stale water. That led many to assume it was a hideous thing, but if these screenshots from the Korean version of the…
SimCity 4’s world creation suite is a wonderful thing, allowing players fine control over the hills, valleys and rivers of their virtual building plot. It’s so fine, in fact, people can try and recreate entire countries. In this case, Taiwan. OK, so it’s a small country, but at 3,902 square miles and with a population…
In the West, you know them as movie stars. They’re larger than life. Even appearing on television often seems beneath them. But in Japan, they’re more than happy to sell you crap. For years, Hollywood movie stars have made no bones about appearing in Japanese commercials. Back home, they’d never dream of compromising their images…
As previously posted, Harrison Ford is appearing in Uncharted 3‘s Japanese television commercials. The above video shows Ford playing Uncharted 3 and talking about the game. It’s the best clip of the bunch—far better than the actual commercial, which feels phony. The commercial does feature Ford speaking Japanese as well as his calligraphy. Ford wrote…
Now that it’s free to use its planned name, Scrolls, the next game from Minecraft developers Mojang, is all systems go. As is this documentary going behind the scenes of the game. Filmed by 2 Player Productions, the same guys currently working on a big Minecraft documentary, the clip above shows the first of what’s…
National treasure Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, your childhood) has popped up in an unlikely place: A Japanese television commercial for Uncharted 3 Since nobody wants to play Sega with Harrison Ford, it’s about time he had a go at something others do want to play. Since the 69-year-old is famous for playing Indiana…
Sorry to get all Jeremy Clarkson on you for a second, but after seeing this trailer for upcoming MMO Bless, that’s the first thought that popped into my head. The game, developed by Korean studio Neowiz, has teamed up with Epic to bring us one of only a few Unreal Engine 3-powered in existence, finished…
It’s an ugly thing, and one that sadly rears its head from time to time when big games are released: the practice of a publisher exerting a little too much pressure on gaming press. Of course, pressure is applied all the time! That’s the people in marketing and PR’s job, to try and make sure…
Vietnam is a war that still looms large in the American psyche, both in terms of its impact on modern history and its portrayal in popular culture. Yet for all the protests, rock n’ roll and classic films that came out of the war, good Vietnam video games are hard to find. This is mostly…
Microsoft kicked off their new global campaign this week, showcasing not a one of their products, but all of them and they managed to squeeze in a little Dance Central too! Apparently this is the company’s first every multi-product Christmas ad campaign. EXCITING!!!
It’s been damned popular for a damned long time, but Angry Birds‘ numbers don’t appear to be dwindling at all. As Mashable reports, 30 million people play the portable game each day, logging over 300 million minutes of gameplay. Each day! That’s 208,333.3 days of Angry Birds played for each day of real time (or,…
Hello late-night travelers, it’s time to do my second of many off-topic threads. I hope you are all doing well, and don’t doubt you have many things you’d like to discuss. In case you’re wanting for conversation fodder, here are some starters. The Walking Dead Premiered on Sunday, to mixed, mostly positive reviews -I thought…
Microsoft wants to make Sesame Street interactive. We’re not talking about Sesame Street video games (though they’re doing that too). They also want to make the show—filmed puppets and all—a TV show that a kid standing in front of their TV can interact with You don’t have to imagine what interactive Sesame Street would look…
We already knew that Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks will be voicing the female lead in the upcoming Need For Speed: The Run. Electronic Arts is now saying that Sean Faris, star of The Vampire Diaries, will be assuming the role of the male lead, Jack Rourke. EA’s Press Release describes Rourke as “one of the…
I’ve never totally gotten the appeal of Wii dancing games, though clearly there are a whole ton of Just Dance fans out there who disagree. This new ad for Harmonix’s just-released Dance Central 2 takes a humorous dig at Wii games, and their obsolescence in the face of full motion-tracking. Honestly, while truly compelling Kinect…
The second installment of Felicia Day’s Dragon Age: Redemption six-episode web series is live. I missed the first, but this one’s solid. Fun characters. Reverent to the video game lore without being embarrassing. If you want to watch in order, here’s the first episode Looks like we’re getting a duel in a later episode. And…
No sooner did a reader write to us that their brand-new copy of Batman: Arkham CIty came with a code-less Catwoman DLC card, then the official Arkham Twitter feed said they’re aware of the issue: “You will get to play as the sexy thief,stay tuned for update.” Batman PR had no further details for us…
The PlayStation Vita, Sony’s successor to the PSP and its answer to Nintendo’s 3DS and Apple’s ascendent game-playing iPad, will be out on February 22, just three months after it launches in Japan, in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Latin America. Sony says there are more than 100 games in development for the system,…
You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, Gamasutra’s Brandon Sheffield ran an interview with id Software’s CEO Todd Hollenshead about Rage. In the interview, Sheffield expressed some doubts about the game, and wasn’t convinced by many of Hollenshead’s answers. It was a solid piece of journalism, and as our own Stephen Totilo pointed…
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