When Square Enix is making heroines, it might start with the character’s back story or her role in the story. For example, in Final Fantasy XIII, the initial concept for protagonist Lightning was a “strong woman”. FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama tells Japanese game mag Famitsu, “it was personality-based instead of plot-driven.” Then Toriyama says the…
Between 2006 and 2010, a prison guard in Chiba Prison chatted with prisoners about things he should not have. He talked to them about video games and comic books. But that isn’t all. Disciplinary actions were taken against the officer on March 29. The 31-year-old former corrections officer said he thought the idle chatter would…
Crystal Graziano, who we last saw cosplaying as Valkyria Chronicles villain Selvaria Bles, is back again as…Selvaria Bles. Only this time, in a bikini. While this sounds absurd, swimsuits actually feature in the war drama, so Crystal has a perfectly good excuse for swanning around the recent Anime Conji 2011 in…this. Valkyria Chronicles was originally…
In many ways, Mass Effect is what it is because its developers made a successful Star Wars game. So it’s about time we go to see the franchises square off. Artist Edrice Waliyar has done these two images, depicting some of the stars of the respective series taking each other on. In one pic, the…
William “Robotwo” G from Sweden reimagines Half-Life as a Master System game. There’s shades of Batman: Caped Crusader here. Which is a very good thing.
Screw warranties! Real men (and women) don’t need them. They are fearless when it comes to taking apart the 3DS with their bare hands. Putting it back together? Eh… That’s hard Here, a disassembled 3DS is reassembled with nothing more than tweezers and a screwdriver. Oh, a pair of hands, too. It’s a bit like…
If the actual Left 4 Dead is a little too frantic for your tastes, why not try this “choose your own adventure” version of the game by web comedy troupe Game Station. It’s nice and slow, giving you ample time to consider your choices, then decide on what seems the most logical course of action.…
WolfPupTK, the dude in the suit, is on a mission to raise awareness for the American Red Cross. And to do that he’s making videos, like this: Here he’s playing In the Groove on expert. In his fursuit. “The American Red Cross is a wonderful organization that is constantly helping others and saving lives,” writes…
“Minna no Theater Wii” (Everybody’s Wii Theater) is a streaming Wii service that launched in Japan in early 2009. And later this year, it will end. The service allowed Wii owners to rent movies like Inception or anime like Astro Boy with Wii Points. Fujisoft, the Kanagawa-based IT company behind Minna no Theater Wii, today…
Sadly, indie developer Joakim Sandberg seems to be going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment. So he’s released an in-progress version of a game he’s been working on, called The Iconoclasts. And it’s great. Great for what it is, anyway, which is a glorified demo of sorts of a vibrant 2D…
At a recent charity event in Tokyo, No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda said he’s up for making another NMH “someday”. Obviously, he’s got his plate full at the moment with action title Shadows of the Damned. [via Famitsu]
In Akiba’s Trip, the PSP game in which an otaku dude strips “vampires”, a black machine appears in-game. It looks like an Xbox 360. In fact, that’s what I thought it was. That assumption, however, is totally wrong. Players can use a wide variety of otaku-flavored items as weapons in Akiba’s Trip. For example, plastic…
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Penny Arcade’s “spin-off” works, but the recent Lookouts comic series (or at least attempt) was awesome. So it’s even more awesome to hear that the fantasy world is getting its own “hybrid role playing and board game experience”. Here’s the synopsis from the game’s creators, Cryptozoic Entertainment: The…
Mega Man Universe was supposed to be out this year on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. It won’t be. Capcom, the game’s developer, is shutting the title down and ceasing development. Mega Man Universe has been canned. In an official release, Capcom says the game is being canned for “various circumstances”. It is…
Even though she’s performed in concerts, Miku Hatsune is an entirely virtual creation. Pin-up model Risa Yoshiki, however, appears to be real! In the latest issue of Japanese tabloid Weekly Playboy, both idols, 2D and 3D, come together. Here’s how the promotional video for the photoshoot explains it: Beyond the limits of science, she came.…
For those of you still excited at the prospect of playing Fable III on the PC after its long delays and, well, complete lack of cohesion, here are its system specs
Ultima IV, an oldie-but-goodie role-playing game from one of the PC’s most revered franchises, has been available for free since 1997. And nobody gave a hoot. Then, yesterday, EA suddenly gives a hoot. A number of sites hosting free (or flash) copies of the game – first released in 1985 – have been ordered by…
The whole world watched as an explosion took the roof off Fukushima 1. The situation is far from resolved. Thankfully, the crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant now appears to be stabilizing. Deactivating the reactors, however, could take decades. For game developer Alexey Menshikov, it brought back memories of something close to Kiev, where…
Patrice Désilets, the former creative director behind the Assassin’s Creed series who left Ubisoft for rivals THQ last year, was not alone in making the move. He brought others with him. So many that THQ has had to go get a court order. Désilets left Ubisoft in May and announced his new role at THQ…
“I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us…”. As seen on deliri0us
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