Time To Cash in on the Japanese Earthquake Disaster?

When the Great East Japan Earthquake rocked the country on March 11, Japanese games with sensitive imagery were delayed. PS3 title Disaster Report 4, set during a natural disaster, was canceled. The game’s publisher even canned all Disaster Report titles. Not every Japanese game company is taking such drastic steps. According to a report out…

This LEGO Master Chief Is so Big He Has a Human Inside Him

For the past six months, Ben Caulkins has been building a Master Chief suit. Which, you know, lots of people do. So why’s Ben’s so special? Because, even though it’s full-size and entirely wearable, it’s made out of LEGO. We showed you an in-progress shot of this suit around Christmas, when it was a helmet…

Lock Up Your Dancing Daughters, Here Comes the Internet

If you’ve spent any time on Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga, you’ve seen them: young girls dancing to cutesy pop music. It’s their chance to live out their adolescent idol fantasies for viewers with adolescent idol fantasies of their own. In the video above, the girl’s mother tries to barge in, but her daughter…

There Is Still a Small Town in America That Bans Arcade Games

As incredible as it is to imagine, until a recent vote a small town in the United States of America had outlawed arcade machines. Thankfully, that vote has now been held, and…hey, wait a minute, arcade games are still banned? Yes, even harder to imagine than placing the restriction in the first place is the…

In the Next Assassin’s Creed, You Play an Old Man

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the next game in Ubisoft’s stealth action series, and it’ll be out later this year. It’s also the third game where the player takes control of Ezio Auditore, meaning, yes, by now he’s very old. According to a feature in the latest issue of Game Informer, the former smooth-talking ladies man…

Behind the Scenes of the Most Disappointing Game Movie Ever Made

Considering its budget, the popularity of the franchise and its accomplished cast, 1993’s Super Mario Bros. is—relatively—surely the most disappointing video game movie of all time. Still, train wreck that it is, we can’t help but keep on looking at it, even after all these years. And today we’re getting a real good look, with…

Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Mother’s Day

OMG Puppies | Nintendo threw a posh Mother’s Day event featuring Nintendogs + Cats in Beverly Hills, Calif. this weekend. (Photo: Chris Weeks | Getty Images) Which One Is Worse? At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s…

Stephen Colbert Joins Noble Team (Well, Not Really)

After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show. For those who might think this…

Get Your Hands on an Original NES Software Development Kit

This may look like a busted up Nintendo Entertainment System, but its seller says it’s actually an NES development kit, recovered about 10 years ago from the warehouse of a defunct Las Vegas-area developer. It’s up for bid on eBay, currently topping out at $305. The seller is, evidentely, not a video gamer, saying his…

Brought to the Brink

The long-awaited futuristic FPS Brink highlights this week of releases, promising quadrillions of unique characters – no really. If that hurts your brain, try MX vs. ATV, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean or Virtua Tennis. Tuesday Brink (360, PC, PS3)-The free-running FPS pits two factions in a battle for control of The Ark, a once-utopic…

Bin Laden’s Compound Now Available as a Counter Strike Map

Should you lack Kuma War II, which on Saturday published a free episode recreating the raid on Osama bin Laden’s final hiding spot, you may also download a free map of the Abottabad complex created with Counter Strike: Source The map’s creator says it “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage…

Sex Sells

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Top 10 Sexiest Video Game Commercials [Joystick Division] Some of these are reasonably tame. Many aren’t even actual ads. All-Stars that are include the…

Sony Ponders Reward Offer as It Insists PSN’s Security was Up-to-Date

Sony is weighing whether to offer a reward for information on the hackers behind the massive PlayStation Network outage, now in its 18th day, CNET reports. Its potential amount was not mentioned. Quoting unidentified sources, CNET said Sony is discussing the pros and cons of such a decision but has yet to get any go-ahead…

Freestyle Championship

This image is ridiculous. You might say it’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen. That would be hyperbole. I think that this is just the beginning of the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen. That is the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, a zillion-time gold medalist, demonstrating Michael Phelps: Push the Limit for Kinect. That’s right,…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Mornin’ gang. Hope all of you have said a very Happy Mother’s Day, not only to your mom, but to all who have mothered you. Once you’ve finished with the breakfast and the card and the gift and the hugs, feel free to talk about video games, confident in a job well done. Today’s TAYpic…

Sunday Comics

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Another Videogame Webcomic did not publish this week Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published May 1. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira…

AR Games in Real Life: The Winners

Last week’s ‘Shop Contest asked readers to imagine the 3DS’ AR Games as a kind of special lens through which we see the world as it really is, not as our feeble minds perceive it. What they showed us was quite disturbing, indeed. First off, plenty of folks tried a Star Wars angle. Both ARYXANDRE…

AR Games in Real Life Finalists

When Will the One-Year Career Come to an End?

It really doesn’t matter how many times My Player is an NBA All-Star, nor how durable he is on the Road to the Show, or to Glory, or to the Masters. Every one of them will suffer a career-ending injury: The release of next year’s game. More than five years into its modern concept, the…

Valve Turns to ‘Singleplayer-Plus,’ not ‘No More Singleplayer,’ Says Chief

Practically anything said institutionally by Valve, or especially by its co-founder, Gabe Newell, is parsed for any potential meaning to the unannounced, eternally awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3. So when Newell, in an all-access feature charting the development of Portal 2, said the game was “probably” the last one with any isolated single-player experience, Half-Life…