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.
The Glorious PC Master Race believe themselves a superior class of gamer because of stuff like this. And really, when you see it, you can’t blame them. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood may have been released late on the PC, but there are certain benefits to be had playing it on a personal computer. Like being able…
Tomorrow, Japanese arcade gamers will get the chance to try out Evil Ryu in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. He’s like regular Ryu, only because some of his attacks are more powerful, they’re slower.
As early as 2008, there were rumblings of an ambitious UK-based Halo fan film. The following year, the film’s director, Pete Cooper, revealed he planned to raise £30,000 (US$48,000) for the picture, dubbed Halo: Operation Chastity. That’s low budget, but still five times what Robert Rodriguez needed to make El Mariachi It’s 2011, and there…
In Taiwan, an inflatable Android robot was enlisted to promote the Sony Xperia Play cell phone. But it wasn’t just any inflatable robot, it was a dancing inflatable robot. Whoever was wearing this Android outfit has a lot of energy – maybe a little too much energy. If people ever ask you if Android is…
When el8id games on his PS3, he doesn’t use a regular Bluetooth headset. He uses a military-issue helmet from the 1980s, making him look more like “Maverick” than “some guy playing a video game”. Buying the helmet for $22 from a thrift store, el8id kept some of the original wiring and components inside and replaced…
It’s about time somebody thought of the Pokémons. They’re people too! Well, not people…pocket monsters. But when you cut them, they bleed, and…well, no, they don’t do that either. They just faint a lot. Look, just stop capturing these poor creature and enslaving them, OK? It’s not right.
No, we’re not talking about Sonic The Hedgehog, in which an animal makes out with a human. We’re talking about Night Trap, a Sega CD game released in 1992 that may have been the stormiest tea cup in video game history. Developed by Digital Pictures, a studio that specialised in the full-motion-video-laden games of the…
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