A feature tucked away in Nintendo’s upcoming portable game console tracks the musical zeitgeist of 3DS owners. Owners of the 3DS can turn on a StreetPass feature in the Nintendo 3DS Sounds application that will allow the system to broadcast what your favorite five songs are to other participating 3DS owners you pass on a…
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SNAPSHOT | OSAKA, JAPAN: Kids are out for spring break, and school starts in April in Japan. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Duke Nukem Forever Delayed The game was supposed to be out this May, but won’t be. It’s been delayed. Again. Nintendo Gives With One 3DS Update, Will Take Away With Another This…
Instructables user dd1714d created this 1.86 meter paper craft of No More Heroes protagonist Travis Touchdown from a 3D model he created himself. More pictures and instructions in the link below. Yes, instructions. If you have the time (and paper), you can conceivably build your own. Life Size Paper Travis Touchdown [Instructables via Tiny Cartridge]
This morning North American owners of early 3DS systems awoke to find that Nintendo was delivering their first free 3D video to the system. But the company warns they may delete, without warning, in a later update. The small system update includes a 3D music video of OK Go’s White Knuckles, viewable in 3D or…
The Tohoku earthquake and ensuing tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan, leaving many dead or homeless. Those who survived are taking shelter in refuges set up in school gyms and community centers. Certainly, many displaced victims feel that they are lucky to be alive as they adjust to the aftermath. But, of course, many kids miss gaming.…
The game was supposed to be out this May, but won’t be. It’s been delayed. Again. “I’m very sorry for the added delay. We’ve all been working extremely hard and are very eager to deliver the game to you,” said Gearbox Software honcho Randy Pitchford in an official statement. “I’ve been thinking of these lyrics…
Valve, the studio behind Team Fortress 2, is releasing three hats for purchase: The “Humanitarian’s Hachimaki” ($7.99), the “Benefactor’s Kanmuri” ($19.99) and the “Magnanimous Monarch” ($99.99). They will be available until April 6. All proceeds, says Valve, goes to Japan relief fund the Red Cross created, so feel good when you shell out for the…
I understand that role-playing video games owe their existence to role-playing tabletop games, and as a result, share many of their predecessor’s customs and traditions. After all, if tabletop games need to simulate action via numeric values, then it was natural for the first video game RPGs to do the same. But, uh, why are…
Capcom has released three new screenshots overnight, giving us our first look at the upcoming HD re-releases of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil Code: Veronica for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
I’ve got one copy of Resident Evil 4. This person has, ahem, over thirty. [via へちま速報@ゲーハー板]
Pica Pic is currently hosting a collection of “ports” of classic handheld game units from the 1980s and 1990s. Some were made by Nintendo. Go play now before lawyers get involved.
Darth Revan, the “star” of classic role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic, has been immortalised in polystone. It’d be cooler if it was carbonite, but that stuff doesn’t do fine details as well. Standing 6 1/2-inches tall, this half-bust has the guy masked and holding two lightsabers, the colours of which you can swap…
Leo Kei Angelos loves Dragon Age. But he doesn’t have buckets of cash to squander on an expensive movie tribute. Nor does he have actress Felicia Day. He does have snow, though. Fake blood, too. “To do something epic like Dragon Age justice without a lot of money is challenging, to say the least,” Angelos…
This is Contra. Just not as you know it. It’s the hardcore 80’s shooter reimagined by William “xiabaosg” Chua, who depicts Bill and Lance as fuedal Japanese warriors. You can see more shots of the piece over on Chua’s Facebook page. Scroll a bit further down and you can see an equally-badass picture of Link…
Tiny Build Games, a small indie team, is working on a platformer called No Time To Explain. And it looks amazing. Using the same gun to both jump and shoot looks neat, sure, but I just like that voice acting. Having an art style that looks like something Dan Paladin (of Alien Hominid and Castle…
On June 8, 2008, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into a crowd in Tokyo’s geek paradise, Akihabara. He got out and began stabbing random pedestrians. In his wake, seven were left dead and ten injured. Today in a Tokyo district court, Kato was sentenced to death. The presiding judge stated that Kato was…
After over two years of hard work, Filip Johannes Felberg has completed his masterpiece: a recreation of the entire cast of Pikmin in LEGO form. When we say the entire cast, we mean it: Captain Olimar, every Pikmin, every enemy and even every type of plant found in the game can be found in Felberg’s…
In January 2010, voice actress Chiaki Takahashi blogged that she was releasing one more book of pin-up pictures and then calling it a day. She was retiring from cheese cake modeling. If recent news is to be believed, Takahashi is coming back. Known for her voice work in fighting game BlazBlue and sim The Idolmaster,…
A game that has been remade and ported to the Nintendo DS is…once again being remade and ported. This time, Final Fantasy III is headed to the iPhone, and this is what it looks like.
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