An Augmented Reality Japanese Pop Star of Your Very Own, Courtesy of Toyota

Japan’s beloved virtual pop goddess Hatsune Miku, star of her own video game series and hundreds of thousands of user-create YouTube videos, is now the voice of the 2011 Toyota Corolla, and you can hold her in the palm of your hand. Created by Crypton Future Media, Inc., Hatsune Miku is one of the world’s…

Unreal Dev Kit Adds Mac Support… So How About Some More Mac Games, Developers?

Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit, the developer side of the engine that powers Gears of War, Mass Effect, Mortal Kombat, and dozens of other titles, has a new beta release. Within is support for UDK games on Mac OS X, meaning, hopefully, more native games on Apple-made computers. Epic’s Unreal dev tools already supports Apple’s…

The Contents of Resident Evil‘s 15th Anniversary Deluxe, Japan-Only Box Set Exposed

Japanese Resident Evil fans received a very posh box set for the PlayStation 3 earlier this month, stuffing 15 years’ worth of zombie horror history—across five core Resident Evil games—in very slick packaging. See its horrors unboxed in the video above, for getting your hands on it might be a challenge. The Biohazard 15th Anniversary…

Mommy Dearest

Pregnancy: The Game – 1UP’s Matt Leone got pregnant for Tokyo Game Show. Talk about commitment. The 2011 Guide to Fall Video Games Traditionally one of the busiest times of the year for major game releases, this fall game makers seem to be focusing on an increasingly loud mantra: More » Radballs Is, Like, A Totally…

The Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Trailer Got No Game

Direct from this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show, the bullet-time heavy, completely gameplay-free trailer for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Why no gameplay? Well hell, you’ve already seen what Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 looked and played like, and you’ve seen videos of the new combatants in action. Let Capcom’s random CG department have some fun for…

Blip Japan Artist Profile: M7Kenji

Are you guys excited about the Blip Festival Tokyo? For those of you who are, we’ve got an interview with one of the artists who will be playing during the shows dates of October 22-23rd, 2011. His name is Kenji, or better known as “M7Kenji.” A mobile app designer, M7Kenji has played in two Blip…

RPGs, ‘REmakes’ and Resistance 3 Are So Hot in Japan Right Now

One PlayStation 3 title just did some serious business in Japan. Tales of Xillia, the latest in Namco’s long-running Tales of series, has already moved a half-million overseas. That’s a pretty damn good start for a PS3 game. The release of Tales of Xillia did Sony a few favors on the hardware side in Japan…

Decisions, Design, and J.C. Denton: The Deus Ex Letters Conclude

Our retrospective letter series concludes with part four. An index of all letters can be found here — From: Kirk Hamilton To: Leigh Alexander Subject: Augmented Reality Leigh, Hello! After a couple weeks’ delay, I’m finally back to write the fourth and final letter in this series. Sorry for the setback—we’ve both been caught up…

These Are the Gears of War 3 Bonuses You Have to Pay For

Gears of War 3 has day-one downloadable content. It won’t make you better at the game, but it’ll make your guns in multiplayer better-looking. Would you spend $3 or $4 to paint your Lancer, shotgun and the rest of your arsenal with flowers? You can. Yeah, these kinds of silly additions would have been free…

FIFA 12 Has the Best Bugs

FIFA 12 won’t be out until later this month. Perhaps that will be enough time for EA to fix these wonderfully hilarious bugs. The FIFA 12 demo was released on Xbox Live and for PC on Sept. 13, and it was released on the PSN on Sept. 14. The game goes on sale Sept. 27…

Rumor: Xbox as Comcast, Verizon Cable Box Imminent

Microsoft has been saying for months, for years, that they’re in talks with folks at cable companies about using the Xbox 360 as a cable box, but Digiday reports today that the company is close to signing deals with Comcast and Verizon. Citing multiple sources, digital media site Digiday reports that Microsoft is exploring a…

Driver San Francisco is the Best Game No One is Talking About

I should have been playing more Gears of War 3 Friday night. I had an early copy. But I tried Driver: San Francisco I should have been playing Gears of War 3 most of Saturday afternoon, but I felt the irrepressible urge to do something else: play more Driver: San Francisco I got some Gears…

Armored Core V Has a Release Date

The eagerly awaited Armored Core V mecha game will be out on Jan. 26 in Japan. So you’ll have to eagerly wait until then to buy it. [ファミ通]

Here’s a Guy Playing Wii on an Android Tablet with an Xbox 360 Controller

YouTube user obiwan222222, the king of making Wii games run on other devices, shows us how to play Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Android-powered Asus Transformer tablet using a bit of software trickery and a wireless Xbox 360 controller. What he’s basically doing here is using a Dolphin emulator on his PC to run…

Call of Duty Elite Beta is Go on PlayStation 3

Activision is rolling out the beta version of the Call of Duty Elite service on the PlayStation 3, allowing selected Black Ops players try out video sharing, stat tracking, custom groups, and competitive events. Sign up now!

This is a Gun for the Xbox Kinect

You don’t need controllers to use Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect. That’s the point of the thing. You don’t need a controller. You certainly don’t need an inflatable boat. But to play this winter’s Cabela’s Big Game Hunter: Hunting Party, you’re going to need a special Kinect gun. It comes bundled with the game. How does…

World of Warcraft 4.3: Dragon Soul Ushers in a New Age of Casual Raiding

The culmination of the Cataclysm saga, World of Warcraft‘s epic patch 4.3, now subtitled Dragon Soul, brings about an end to the tyranny of Deathwing, but more importantly an end of casual players not being able to experience raid content. I recently spoke to World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack, who walked me…

How Gears of War 3 Deals With Salty Language When You Don’t Wanna Hear It

We already knew you could turn on mature language and gore filters for Gears of War 3, but here’s a look at how that language censor works in action. Be warned, if you want to experience the Xbox 360 shooter completely free of lightly spoiling dialog, you might want to give this short video a…

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Angry Birds Tournament Held 32,000 Feet In the Air

The Angry Birds Asian Challenge will have gamers competing in the popular casual game aboard a Finnair flight from Finland to Singapore later this week, the airliner said today. An Angry Birds non-alcoholic beverage and fried eggs will be served at the Helsinki Airport press conference to kick off the competition. What this all about,…