George Hotz hacked Sony’s PS3, and then told everyone how to do it. That pissed Sony off, and the company is taking him to court. Rival Microsoft is ready to play nice, though. With a gift. Hotz, who also cracked the iPhone, blogged that he’s keen to get a Windows Phone 7. And Brandon Watson,…
A much larger take on the Nintendo DSi XL. As seen on Famitsu.com at a recent event in Kyoto.
With the 3DS pre-orders underway in Japan, peripheral makers are wasting no time releasing things for the handheld. 3DS covers, anyone?
Hey, Nintendo: this whole 3DS launch thing may be the talk of the town this week, but when you peel back the hype of a new handheld what’s left beneath isn’t all high fives and back slaps. No, beneath the new things and smell of fresh plastic there are gripes. And here are my biggest…
In 1987, game designer Hideo Kojima turned out Metal Gear. That game, however, originally had a big “rejected” rubber stamp on it. Kojima today revealed photos of an early version of the game’s design document. Metal Gear, it seems, was originally called “Metal Gear (Intruder).” This version of the game never went into production —…
We’ve already shown you upcoming role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2’s debut trailer, but that was in Japanese. Here it is in English, which should be much more useful to most of you.
Thank you, Kai Norman, for this incredible costume, which well and truly brings those badass Rangers of Fallout’s New California Republic to life. The armour is hand-cut out of foam, the mask is assembled out of pieces of plastic and even the coat was sewn together. Handy work. Then again, in the dark, desolate deserts…
Japanese gamers lined up early this morning to place pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS. I didn’t. I didn’t leave the house until after many stores were already selling out. Yet, I had no problems getting my pre-order. So what’s my trick? Photos from this morning showed long lines in Tokyo’s Akihabara and Shinjuku. According to…
You may have heard whispers of a Pikmin game being revealed for the 3DS. Those whispers are wrong. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along!
Ansel Hsiao is both a big Star Wars fan and a talented 3D artist. Put them together and we get 3D models of Star Wars ships that are so detailed you could use them at a Corellian shipyard. He concentrates on a selection of Imperial Ships (and one lesser-known Imperial Walker), so there are no…
As we’ve explored previously, video games — especially the classics — deserve better box art than they’re getting. Wonder what we want instead? This is the kind of stuff we want. These retro-inspired pieces by Boris Lechaftois are another take on 2010’s “video games as old books” thing, but in this case there’s no books…
You like fantasy, right? You like strategy gaming, right? You like questing with other humans over the internet, right? This is Dawn of Fantasy, an upcoming MMORTS by Reverie World Studios. That’s a massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. It’s a mouthful, but it basically means you will be able to — in theory, at least…
Custom action figures, like these Punch-Out!! ones or this Bayonetta one, are one-off, hand-crafted pieces that sometimes end up on online auction sites. If you live in Japan and make these figures, best keep them to yourself. Or risk getting arrested. Earlier this week, Niigata Prefecture arrested Keiichi Itoh, 35, and Jun Fujita, 36 for…
Elder Scrolls fans, don’t sweat it: you’ll be able to use mods in the upcoming Skyrim, as developers Bethesda will be releasing a “Creation Kit”.
Singer, songwriter, actor and video game character. Claiming he was a vampire, Gackt used to say he was born in the year 1540, leaving the eternal question: Is he bonkers? No, he’s not. Rather, he’s one of Japan’s most interesting (and colorful) personalities. Songwriter, fashion model, actor, novelist, restaurateur, screenwriter and psychic, Gackt’s done it…
Seems like that innocent little Xbox 360 update yesterday wasn’t just to restore the option to boot the console straight to a disc. It also contained secret pirate-fighting juice. Now that it’s been mentioned, it did seem a little strange that the update came out of nowhere. And for such a tiny fix clocked in…
The numbers, Mason, are 59Fifty, the fitted New Era cap style for two models of Black Ops lids, $2 from each sale goes to the Army Wounded Warriors program. They’re $45. Seen via Strictly Fitteds.
Capcom’s upcoming Asura’s Wrath was one of the big surprises out of last year’s Tokyo Game Show. So surprising, in fact, the world has been shocked into forgetting all about it ever since. Yet here it is, four months later, returning in a flurry of fisticuffs and religious symbolism. It should be noted that it’s…
The Internet is awash in a sea of new screenshots and videos for new, third-party 3DS games. So we’ve dropped as many of the new ones we could find right here for your easy perusal. Currently the list includes games like Pro Evo 2011, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball 3D, Super Street Fighter IV 3D,…
Black Hulk Blue Balls Flaming Ice is a study in contradiction. The Fist of Khonshu in the DC Universe?
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